Founded in 2012 by Dr Brian Hick the site hopes to include reviews of concerts, recitals and events across the land and with a section highlighting music in 1066 Country. Here you will find professional reviews as quickly as we can get them to you - and far quicker than most published papers or magazines.
All of our reviews or criticism come from those who have a professional standing within the music and arts industry and continue to write for national and international publications. Feel secure that what you are reading is based on many years experience and expertise within the field of professional music and the arts.
Editor, Stephen Page
Stephen Page has reviewed for Lark for a number of years and is now regularly assisting with editorial work. He is a very active professional organist, pianist and singer. As well as solo work he accompanies a number of local singers and works with church and community choirs as well as a variety of other groups.
He is particularly interested in organ and church music, novelty and light piano music and electronic, experimental and other contemporary music, links between music, spirituality and wellbeing…oh, and Doctor Who!
For several years Stephen worked alongside Brian Hick, who founded this website and who handed over to him at the beginning of 2021.
Assistant Editor, Susan Elkin
Susan Elkin has been listening to, and making, classical music all her life although day jobs meant 36 years of teaching secondary English and an ongoing career as an author and journalist. Susan started violin at age 7 and plays in two amateur orchestras. She has also sung most of the mainstream choral repertoire as an alto chorus member. Quirky fact: Susan saw Igor Stravinksy, 83, conduct Firebird in the Royal Festival Hall in 1965.
REVIEWERS
William Hale has been singing in choirs of all shapes and sizes for more than thirty years, with occasional forays onto the stage. He has a large collection of vocal scores of obscure Victorian choral works, and is working on a bibliography of the English Christmas carol. He is not expecting to be able to give up his day job in the Rare Books Department of Cambridge University Library any time soon.
William Hale
Lucas Elkin is originally from Kent. He started learning the violin at the age of six, later winning a place at Kent Music School followed by a music scholarship to King’s School Rochester. His later studies have included composition, arranging and conducting, and he regularly directs choirs, orchestras and musical theatre companies in the Cambridge region. He has attended more performances of one sort or another at all levels of the musical ladder than he would care to guess at, and still somehow finds time to manage a day job running an electrical company.