The Master’s Diary April-July 2015

11 April National Youth Orchestra Concert, Royal Festival Hall
13 April Company Concert: Concordia (+ Clerk), Wigmore Hall
15 April Court & Livery Dinner (+ Clerk), Apothecaries’ Hall
16 April Lord Mayor’s Big Curry Lunch (+ Clerk), Guildhall
21 April Lunch with Judges & Aldermanic Sheriff, Old Bailey
21 April Barbers’ Company Dinner (+ Clerk), Barber-Surgeons’ Hall
22 April The Prince’s Prize (+ Clerk), GSMD
23 April Shipwrights’ Company Installation Dinner (+ Clerk), Drapers’ Hall
24 April Freemen’s Lunch (+ Clerk), Guildhall
24 April Kathleen Ferrier Competition finals, Wigmore Hall
27 April Yeomen’s Annual Party (+ Clerk), St John’s Smith Square
28 April Evensong: Friends of the Musician’s Chapel (Clerk only), St Sepulchre’s Holborn
1 May Constant & Kit Lambert Fellowship interviews (+ Clerk), Royal College of Music
5 May Royal Philharmonic Society Awards, The Brewery, Chiswell Street
6 May Livery Club event, Stone House, Lewisham
7 May Meeting with the Lord Mayor re Yarrow family history, Mansion House
8 May Latvian Embassy Europe Day reception and concert, Latvian Embassy
10 May WCOM Young Jazz Musician Award (+ Clerk), Soho Jazz Club
12 May Sons & Friends of the Clergy Festival service and Dinner (+ Clerk), St Paul’s Cathedral and Merchant Taylors’ Hall
13 May GSMD Gold Medal competition (+ Clerk), Barbican
18 May Young Artists’ Platform Concert (+ Clerk), Wigmore Hall
21 May LFMI Trustees’ Lunch (Clerk Only), Southbank Centre
22 May Outreach Visit with Yeoman James Turnbull & Liveryman John Hitchin, Oliver Goldsmith Primary School, Brent
23 May Christs’ Hospital Speech Day and presentation of Musicians’ Company Award, Horsham
27 May Fellowship of Clerks Meeting & Dinner (Clerk & Deputy Clerk), Tallow Chandlers’ Hall
28 May Royal Garden Party, Buckingham Palace
1 June Musicians’ Company Awards auditions (+ Clerk), GSMD
2 June Spectacle Makers’ Company Court Lunch (+ Clerk), Apothecaries’ Hall; Pewterers’ Company: Pewter Live reception (+ Clerk), Pewterers’ Hall
3 & 10 June Court Assistant Interviews, Company Office
4 June Meetings with NYO and Music for Youth, Somerset House; National Opera Studio Contemporary Opera Scenes, Sadler’s Wells Theatre
5-7 June Livery Masters’ Weekend, Ironbridge
9 June Plumbers’ Company 650th anniversary Evensong and reception, Temple Church and Inner Temple Hall Gardens
10 June LSO concert, Barbican
15 June 800th anniversary of Magna Carta Celebration, Runnymede
17 June City Music Foundation Concert (+ Clerk), St Edmund the Martyr
18 June Drapers’ Company Lunch (+ Clerk), Drapers’ Hall
18 June Charity Awards, Park Plaza Hotel
23 June Christ’s Hospital Reception and Concert, Middle Temple
24 June Election of Sheriffs (+ Clerk), Guildhall; Lord Mayor’s Composition Prize Premiere (Clerk only), St Bride’s Fleet Street; Midsummer Banquet (+ Clerk), Stationers’ Hall
25 June WCoM Jazz Lunchtime Live, Paternoster Square; Lunch with Judges & Sheriff (Clerk only), Old Bailey
1 July WCoM Jazz Lunchtime Live (Clerk only) Paternoster Square
2-7 July Livery Club visit to Hukvaldy, Czech Republic
7 July WCoM Jazz Lunchtime Live (Clerk Only), Paternoster Square; Innholders’ Company Masters & Clerks Dinner (Clerk only), Innholders’ Hall
8 July Company Concert: Maisie Lewis (+ Clerk), Purcell Room
10 July Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama The Cunning Little Vixen (Clerk only), Sherman Theatre, Cardiff
14 July Coopers Company Lunch, Coopers’ Hall
15 July Court & Informal Lunch (+ Clerk), Tallow Chandlers’ Hall
16 July Actuaries’ Company Installation Dinner, Vintners’ Hall
22 July Mayor of London’s Music reception (+ Clerk), City Hall
25 July Buxton Festival: Yeomen – Inner City Brass (+ Court Assistant John Nichols), Buxton
30 July Kneller Hall Graduation & Presentation of medals (+ Court Assistant Alun Hughes), Kneller Hall