Love Island, Wimbledon, and never seeing your other half feature in this week’s episode.  We discuss the new music director of the RPO, a musical gift given to the New Zealand Prime Minister’s baby and a 103 year old pianist.  Our special guests this week are Simon Cox and Matt Knight from brass septet Septura. We conclude with some upcoming concerts and a rather fishy weird gig of the week story.

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra appoints Vasily Petrenko as new music director: https://www.rpo.co.uk/about/news-press/80-news/299-vasily-petrenko-looks-forward-to-becoming-the-royal-philharmonic-orchestra-s-music-director

Music and Sound Awards 2018: http://www.masawards.com/2018-finalists-composition

103 year old pianist: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/entertainment-arts-44660051/the-103-year-old-pianist

Upcoming events:

Free opera at V&A museum (20th July): https://www.vam.ac.uk/event/Bp2PWgaQ/an-evening-of-opera-seven-angels

Glyndebourne Returns Club: https://www.glyndebourne.com/tickets-and-whats-on/how-to-book/returns-club/

Glyndebourne Under 30s Scheme: https://www.glyndebourne.com/join-and-support-us/under-30s/

Septura brass septet concert (10th July): http://septura.org/events/kleptomania-in-london-4/

London Symphony Orchestra Soundhub Composers Showcase (14th July): https://lso.co.uk/whats-on/icalrepeat.detail/2018/07/14/805/-/lso-soundhub-showcase-phase-i.html