Ukrainian Soprano Khrystyna Makar joins Robert for a wide ranging conversation about how music can provide an escape from daily life and a platform to rebuild a career. Khrystyna tells Robert about her musical life growing up in Ukraine and what life is like currently in Lviv. They also disucss the programme for their upcoming New Year Gala Concert in Wrexham.
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3:1 'Homecoming' with Duncan Ward
Conductor Duncan Ward joins Robert for a conversation about his musical homecoming later this season with the London Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican in London. Their conversation explores these two concerts, as well exploring what excites them about programming, their motiviations for conducting and their shared early experiences at the University of Manchester.
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2:5 A Child Lost To War
Klaus Armstrong-Braun is a tenor with NEW Voices, a vocal ensemble based in Wrexham. At the age of two he was made an orphan during World War II and via a circuitous route from Essen to Ireland, he settled in North Wales. His story is hard-hitting and eye opening. Klaus has found a musical home and family with NEW Voices and his story is a reminder how music can bring people together to find human connection that lifts the soul and heart when faced with dark times.
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2.4 Pathways to Conducting
How do you become a conductor? Join Jonathan and Robert as they talk about the myriad of pathways you can take to becoming a conductor, sharing memories of their time growing up in Wales and now presently their work for Cardiff International Academy of Conducting where Jonathan is Artistic Director.
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2.3 Conductor - Community - Connection with Mark Wigglesworth
Mark was in Manchester conducting the BBC Young Musician of the Year and both Robert and Mark found time to sit down and talk all things conducting! Psychology, personality, self development, connection and the never ending search for balance!
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