Music Projects

“Music — it speaks to our very soul. It has the ability to lift our spirits when we are feeling down, it can transport us around the world and through time and perhaps best of all, it’s free and available to everyone. From singing in the shower for an audience of one to an outdoor […]

Love Sings is a global community singing project that has formed a virtual choir made up of people who have a shared passion for singing. Music is something that has always brought people together, and now more than ever people need to feel that sense of connection. In partnership with two Liverpool companies, Zút Media […]

“Almost a couple of weeks in now and the reality of the lockdown is really starting to bite, quickly moving from being a novelty to the new norm. Some people are treating it like a prison sentence, albeit one where the prison is remarkably similar to your house and you have the privilege of being […]

The release of the Love Language EP this week prompted me to look back at our recent collaborative work with Hannover. Since we achieved the UNESCO City of Music designation in December 2015 we have enjoyed a hugely productive relationship with this vibrant and welcoming German city. The UNESCO music office there  is led by the […]

Here comes the sun…as the sun set on The Beatles final album, our Head of UNESCO City of Music takes a look back at the iconic Abbey Road album by The Beatles 50 years on. I was born a month after The Beatles released their first album. But even though I grew up in Liverpool […]

“In 2017 I received an email from Alice Moser, the Coordinator of Hanover’s Culture Bureau, inviting me to play a festival in her city. The idea described to me was that an artist from each European UNESCO City Of Music (a status that Liverpool and Hanover share) would travel to the city, where they would […]

Britten‘s War Requiem was performed by Hannover’s NDR Radiophilharmonie Orchestra and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra in both cities on 3rd November in Hannover’s Kuppelsaal, Germany’s largest concert hall, and on 10th November at Liverpool’s Cathedral This great bilateral project to commemorate the end of the war was an outstanding event inititated by the NDR […]