The High Point podcast - Atelier Crescendo's podcast

You may know The Hallé orchestra based in Manchester (UK), but do you know Hallé Orchestra Society? it is the huge organisation behind the orchestra.  For this episode, Steve Pickett (Education Director) and Martin Glynn (Hallé Venues Director) take you through: the history of The Hallé the structure and activities of Hallé Orchestra Society the development and move into The Hallé St Peters t...

Michelle Phillips is a super talented and multi-skilled senior lecturer at the Royal Northern College of Music (RNCM). She is also Head of Enterprise.    Is this episode, we go through many topics with Michelle including:   The history of the RNCM, the evolution of the facilities, the admission process and the education program.  Performance anxiety of musicians and how the RNC...

Jo Yee Cheung and Greta Gasser are two super stars, based in Manchester (UK), who spend a lot of their time & energy promoting music education for children, especially those who can't afford it.  In this episode, Jo tells us how she got to create the Olympias Music Foundation ( www.olympiasmusicfoundation.com ) and developped all the amazing projects that focused around learning & pra...

Welcome to High point, the podcast that talks about public places, performing arts venues, acoustics, instruments, and music in general. For the first episode, we welcome Zac Booth, of ZDB Guitars, a luthier based in Leicestershire, specialising in steel strung acoustic and electric guitars to talk about his craft and his process. The transcript is available on our website www.ateliercrescendo.ac