Programme Notes

Leah has written notes and programme essays for organisations including Glyndebourne, Houston Grand Opera, the Wigmore Hall, the BBC Proms, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, the London Symphony Orchestra and Longborough Festival Opera, among others. If you would like Leah to write programme notes for your concerts, then please get in contact! She writes on a wide range of periods and genres — a representative list of composers she's recently been commissioned to write about is below.

• Sergey Akhunov
• Eleanor Alberga
• J. S. Bach
• Samuel Barber
• Christabel Baxendale
• Ethel Barns
• Bela Bartók
• Arnold Bax
• Ludwig van Beethoven
• Ernest Bloch
• Lili Boulanger
  
• Ina Boyle
  
• Johannes Brahms
• Frank Bridge
• Benjamin Britten
  
• George Butterworth
• Francesca Caccini
• Gary Carpenter
• Doreen Carwithen
• Unsuk Chin
• Rebecca Clarke
• Freya Waley-Cohen
• Aaron Copland
• Marie Dare
  
• Madeleine Dring
• Isobel Dunlop
• Antonín Dvořák
  
• Edward Elgar
• Howard Ferguson
• Gerald Finzi
• George Gershwin
  
• Ruth Gipps
• Edvard Grieg
  
• Sofia Gubaidulina
• Ivor Gurney
• Emily Hall
• Pamela Harrison
• Robert Müller-Hartmann
• Joseph Haydn
• Dave Heath
• Gavin Higgins
• Gustav Holst
• Imogen Holst
  
• Dani Howard
• Dorothy Howell
• John Ireland
• Gordon Jacob
• Margaret Jacobsohn
• Ayanna Witter-Johnson
  
• Nicola LeFanu
• Sylvia Lim
• Elisabeth Lutyens
• Elizabeth Maconchy
• Gustav Mahler
• Bohuslav Martinů
• Felix Mendelssohn
• Claudio Monteverdi
• Laura Moody
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• Efraín Oscher
• Ivy Parkin
• Hubert Parry
• Hannah Peel
• Astor Piazzolla
• Lynne Plowman
• Henry Purcell
• Sergei Rachmaninoff
  
• Maurice Ravel
  
• Edmund Rubbra
• Clara Schumann
• Caroline Shaw
• Dmitri Shostakovich
• Jean Sibelius
• Alice Mary Smith
• Ethel Smyth
• Stephen Sondheim
• Josephine Stephenson
• Igor Stravinsky
• Avril Coleridge-Taylor
• Errollyn Wallen
• William Walton
• Egon Wellesz
• Lotta Wennäkoski
• Grace Williams
• Ralph Vaughan Williams