Completing a lengthy call to BT to initiate new login details, the engineer asked me with great intensity whether I was satisfied with ‘the service he had provided me with today’.  He went on to […]

While few would dispute the importance of investing time within their practice to ensure dependable and secure technique will support their playing. The same could not be said for recognising the […]

I have long struggled with the word ‘perfect’ and if I am honest have had a love hate relationship with how its meaning plays in my life. Partly because as a word in the context it is so often used, […]

Perspective could be compared to the lens through which we see ourselves and the world which will be heavily influenced by so many factors. Some from external experience and some internal  workings […]

Even beyond the world of music and the arts intuition is regarded as the jewel in performance that far supersedes the value placed on a reasoned and calculated response. Yet in the grip of what might […]

There are many everyday terms which can collectively mean the same thing: to be ‘under the influence of’, ‘at the effect of’ or ‘under the spell of’. Within an […]

Many people will have experienced the emotional effects resulting from the anticipation of an impending task or event. Irrespective of whether the task or event was set by you or willingly accepted […]

There is a very fine line between optimism and a sugar-coated reality. Too much of one and not another of the other can in a multitude of different settings, tip the balance irrevocably compromising […]

Integrity is our carbon footprint through life, to realise in our thoughts, the words we speak, the actions which follow and the notes we play, each placed always with the greatest care. Striving […]

What do intonation and politics have in common in what should be their fundamental objective and of highest importance?  Not being right but being in tune. Surely that must be our moral for life. […]