Delighted again to lecture at the Royal Academy of Music in January 2017 in collaboration with Peter Sheppard Skaerved, John Dilworth and Neil Heyde, exploring the world of François-Antoine Habeneck and his extraordinary Stradivari of 1734.
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Delighted again to lecture at the Royal Academy of Music in January 2017 in collaboration with Peter Sheppard Skaerved, John Dilworth and Neil Heyde, exploring the world of François-Antoine Habeneck and his extraordinary Stradivari of 1734.
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