Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Founded in 1991, Psappha is proud of its place as north-west England’s only professional group dedicated to ...

Psappha - Conrad Marshall (flutes), Dov Goldberg (clarinet), Benedict Holland (violin), Jennifer Langridge (cello) and Benjamin Powell (piano), with conductor Thomas Goff - perform Steven Mackey's ...

The Manchester group’s 30th birthday tour saw fabulously assured performances of Birtwistle, Joanna Ward and Ninfea Cruttwell-Reade and the premiere of Simon Holt’s The Sower Thirty years ago ...

Psappha is 30 years old this year, and the concert exemplified their long tradition of encouraging the up-and-coming, challenging the established (Turnage became their patron in succession to Sir ...

Conor Mitchell’s Look Both Ways was the centrepiece of an evening of new music at the Cheltenham festival: a song cycle setting the love letters of Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears The ensemble ...

There was a strong focus on contemporary music in last night’s concert by Hebrides Ensemble and Psappha, in which the two groups joined together for a celebration of both their 25th anniversaries. The ...

THE Royal Northern College Of Music's mini-festival of Sir Peter Maxwell Davies' music began, with the composer present, by featuring the music theatre specialists, Psappha, in three pieces from the ...

Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents the first of two programmes featuring new music from Manchester based groups Psappha and the BBC Philharmonic.

It was my first visit to Psappha's new venue and it is the perfect place to listen to new/contemporary music. Relaxed atmosphere and excellent acoustics plus great music. all the young composers ...

SALFORD-BORN composer and (until recently) Master of the Queen’s Music, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, was 80 last month. Special events have been devoted to his music in different parts of the world, ...

Last week Gordon McPherson told The Herald that although he was not engaged by Steve Reich's recent work, he was happy to have the world premiere of his Stunt Doubles share the bill with the Scottish ...

It hardly seems three decades since Tim Williams founded the Manchester-based Psappha, its track record in terms of commissioning or premiering second to none among comparable UK ensembles in this ...