Ikon Arts Blog

London A Cappella Festival has been getting a huge amount of press recently; the latest is from the current issue of The Singer magazine. Click the image to read. Two weeks ago Classic FM Magazine previewed the festival in their January issue - as recorded here. Read more about the festival here.

Korean-Spanish pianist Soojung Lim makes her London debut with the Tippett Quartet, one of Britain's most exciting young string quartets. The Quartet play Beethoven's joyous and moving Quartet No.1 and Korngold's Quartet No.3, which contains melodies from what the composer felt were his most successful film scores. Then with Soojung Lim, they perform the British premiere of Chopin's Second Piano Concerto in its newly edited and published string quintet version with Stephen Williams, Principal Bass of the Britten Sinfonia and English Chamber Orchestra.

Charity concert in aid of the Nightingale Project - enhancing the environment in mental health services through music and the arts.

Find out more at Southbank Centre's website.

BBC Music Magazine Editor Oliver Condy met with Russian pianist Oleg Marshev during his recent recording of Schumann's complete works for piano and orchestra, with the South Jutland Symphony Orchestra (Danacord). Read the article here (December 2009 issue).