Three In A Bar

In this bonus episode of TIAB we speak to the new artistic director of Cheltenham Music Festival, Jack Bazalgette.

Jack is an inspired choice for Cheltenham - as cofounder and director of Through The …

This week, Seb and Verity welcome the brilliant and utterly charming Baroness Thangam Debbonaire - cellist, former MP, and now fully-fledged member of the House of Lords. 

With such a huge understandi…

Aaron is back already! And this time Verity is nowhere to be seen. That's right, it's Seb's first solo interview. Well, it's not an interview really, more a chat, digging further into many aspects of…

Your eyes do not deceive you - it’s two episodes in two days!

Fresh off of zencastr we wanted to whip out this chat with trumpeter Jack Jones as he has a HUGE gig this Friday (13 June ‘25) at EartH Ha…

This week, Seb and Verity are joined by trumpet sensation Aaron Akugbo. From unwittingly making it to the finals of a trumpet competition to playing the Haydn Concerto from memory and then smashing o…

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Sound the klaxon - it’s a national treasure alert!

This week we are honoured to be joined by internationally celebrated Mezzo-soprano Dame Sarah Connolly.

Dame Sarah has had an incredible career to dat…

This week’s guest is Viola player, Negroni specialist and potential pilot of the future, James Flannery.

You may well recognise James’ dulcet tones as he has previously guest hosted the podcast for an…

It’s round two of our new feature where we throw extra questions at our poor, unsuspecting guests!

This week it’s our guest from the main episode, cellist Stephanie Cummins sitting in the hot seat.

If …

In this week’s episode we chat to cellist Stephanie Cummins.

Having spent many years working as a freelance cellist in New York Stephanie relocated to London and has since been working in the West End…

Road testing our ‘Petit Trois’ bonus feature is our guest from this week’s main episode, Ian Wilson.

We throw some quick fire questions at Ian and he responds appropriately…

If you would like to send o…

We are joined for episode 132 by recorder player supremo Ian Wilson.

Ian is the principal recorder professor at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, the Head of Woodwind at Eton College and is the v…

What, another one?! Yep…it’s mid week bonus time!

In the first of our new bonus episodes we are basically road testing quickfire/emergency questions on each other to see if this hastily planned format…

Our guest for episode 131 is composer, arranger and musical director Jordan Li-Smith. On a music theatre bingo card we are looking at an impressive full house for Jordan - as a child he performed in …

We’re back again with a string of great guests to get in yer lugholes! Kicking off this season it’s trombone titan, singing sensation and all round good egg Emma Bassett.

Emma has performed and toured…

Hello dear listener! Welcome to our first episode of 2025, in which you find us having a much needed catch up in the foyer of the National Theatre. We really had not chatted for ages, so before we ge…

Welcome to a special episode recorded guerilla style at the Ivors Classical Awards 2024! You may have heard our previous two pods with Ivors Special Award winners, Roxanna Panufnik and Gavin Bryars -…

In the second of our Ivors classical awards special episodes we chat to world renowned and celebrated composer Roxanna Panufnik.

As we air this interview, Roxanna has just been presented with the Ivor…

In the first of two special episodes with esteemed and newly decorated composers, we sit down with Gavin Bryars, a composer who has led the way in innovation over a long and distinguished career. On …