Fran Wilson
@crosseyedpianist.bsky.social
Writer, publicist & concerts manager.
Actual pianist, avid foodie, Lapsang souchong drinker, Burmese cat lover, AirBnB Superhost, proud Englishwoman
🔗https://linktr.ee/Crosseyedpianist
Actual pianist, avid foodie, Lapsang souchong drinker, Burmese cat lover, AirBnB Superhost, proud Englishwoman
🔗https://linktr.ee/Crosseyedpianist
🚨TONIGHT
6.30pm @ the RAF Church - a fun festive concert by the Central Band of the RAF and the choir of St Clement Danes - includes *world premiere* of 'A Festive Fantasia' by Thomas Jones Free tix on the door (donation suggested). A fun way to begin the pre-Christmas celebrations! 🎉🎶🎉
6.30pm @ the RAF Church - a fun festive concert by the Central Band of the RAF and the choir of St Clement Danes - includes *world premiere* of 'A Festive Fantasia' by Thomas Jones Free tix on the door (donation suggested). A fun way to begin the pre-Christmas celebrations! 🎉🎶🎉
November 27, 2025 at 8:19 AM
🚨TONIGHT
6.30pm @ the RAF Church - a fun festive concert by the Central Band of the RAF and the choir of St Clement Danes - includes *world premiere* of 'A Festive Fantasia' by Thomas Jones Free tix on the door (donation suggested). A fun way to begin the pre-Christmas celebrations! 🎉🎶🎉
6.30pm @ the RAF Church - a fun festive concert by the Central Band of the RAF and the choir of St Clement Danes - includes *world premiere* of 'A Festive Fantasia' by Thomas Jones Free tix on the door (donation suggested). A fun way to begin the pre-Christmas celebrations! 🎉🎶🎉
🎄🎶New single released today🎶🎄
‘Destination Christmas’ by Thomas Hewitt Jones
🎉A joyous, uplifting celebration of the bustle, anticipation & excitement of Christmas
With St Martin’s Voices conducted by Andrew Earis
(Artwork by yours truly)
open.spotify.com/album/2Fr3ui...
‘Destination Christmas’ by Thomas Hewitt Jones
🎉A joyous, uplifting celebration of the bustle, anticipation & excitement of Christmas
With St Martin’s Voices conducted by Andrew Earis
(Artwork by yours truly)
open.spotify.com/album/2Fr3ui...
November 27, 2025 at 8:15 AM
🎄🎶New single released today🎶🎄
‘Destination Christmas’ by Thomas Hewitt Jones
🎉A joyous, uplifting celebration of the bustle, anticipation & excitement of Christmas
With St Martin’s Voices conducted by Andrew Earis
(Artwork by yours truly)
open.spotify.com/album/2Fr3ui...
‘Destination Christmas’ by Thomas Hewitt Jones
🎉A joyous, uplifting celebration of the bustle, anticipation & excitement of Christmas
With St Martin’s Voices conducted by Andrew Earis
(Artwork by yours truly)
open.spotify.com/album/2Fr3ui...
A Musical Offering with @jameslisney.bsky.social comes to the Quay Theatre, Sudbury, Suffolk this Friday
Beethoven’s last 3 piano sonatas interspersed with works by Chopin, Bach & Shostakovich
quaysudbury.com/events/james...
Beethoven’s last 3 piano sonatas interspersed with works by Chopin, Bach & Shostakovich
quaysudbury.com/events/james...
James Lisney : A Musical Offering - Sudbury Quay Theatre
James Lisney: a musical offering November 28th at 7.30pm Tickets £20 Steinway piano supplied by Giller Piano Chopin Prelude Op 45 […]
quaysudbury.com
November 26, 2025 at 10:21 PM
A Musical Offering with @jameslisney.bsky.social comes to the Quay Theatre, Sudbury, Suffolk this Friday
Beethoven’s last 3 piano sonatas interspersed with works by Chopin, Bach & Shostakovich
quaysudbury.com/events/james...
Beethoven’s last 3 piano sonatas interspersed with works by Chopin, Bach & Shostakovich
quaysudbury.com/events/james...
Gershwin's Concerto in F centenary performance: Reader Offer crosseyedpianist.com/2025/11/25/g...
Gershwin’s Concerto in F centenary performance: Reader Offer
Wednesday 3 December 7pm at Coach House Pianos London Showroom, Talisman Building, New Kings Road, London SW6 4SQ 7 Star Arts proudly presents a special performance of George Gershwin’s controversi…
crosseyedpianist.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Gershwin's Concerto in F centenary performance: Reader Offer crosseyedpianist.com/2025/11/25/g...
‘Keep on keeping on and be happy along the way. The journey isn’t always easy but it should bring you happiness.’
Meet the Artist - Daniel Kidane, composer
meettheartist.online/2025/11/24/d...
Meet the Artist - Daniel Kidane, composer
meettheartist.online/2025/11/24/d...
Daniel Kidane, composer
‘Keep on keeping on and be happy along the way. The journey isn’t always easy but it should bring you happiness.’
meettheartist.online
November 24, 2025 at 10:03 PM
‘Keep on keeping on and be happy along the way. The journey isn’t always easy but it should bring you happiness.’
Meet the Artist - Daniel Kidane, composer
meettheartist.online/2025/11/24/d...
Meet the Artist - Daniel Kidane, composer
meettheartist.online/2025/11/24/d...
Reposted by Fran Wilson
Beethoven The final sonatas
Preludes by Bach/Hess, Chopin, Shostakovich
Bach Ricercar a 3 (Musical Offering)
Thanks to indieboulevard.com for this stimulating interview.
#sudbury #manchester
#chethams #stamford
Preludes by Bach/Hess, Chopin, Shostakovich
Bach Ricercar a 3 (Musical Offering)
Thanks to indieboulevard.com for this stimulating interview.
#sudbury #manchester
#chethams #stamford
November 24, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Beethoven The final sonatas
Preludes by Bach/Hess, Chopin, Shostakovich
Bach Ricercar a 3 (Musical Offering)
Thanks to indieboulevard.com for this stimulating interview.
#sudbury #manchester
#chethams #stamford
Preludes by Bach/Hess, Chopin, Shostakovich
Bach Ricercar a 3 (Musical Offering)
Thanks to indieboulevard.com for this stimulating interview.
#sudbury #manchester
#chethams #stamford
Read a long-form interview with @jameslisney.bsky.social on his current concert tour and the programme of music by Beethoven,Chopin and Shostakovich 👇🏼
‘Potsdam, 1747. An old man from Leipzig, two days on the road, sits down at Frederick the Great’s newfangled fortepiano & begins improvising on the royal theme.…’
#Interview with @jameslisney.bsky.social ahead of the start of his autumn tour next weekend
indieboulevard.com/2025/10/31/a...
#Interview with @jameslisney.bsky.social ahead of the start of his autumn tour next weekend
indieboulevard.com/2025/10/31/a...
November 24, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Read a long-form interview with @jameslisney.bsky.social on his current concert tour and the programme of music by Beethoven,Chopin and Shostakovich 👇🏼
📣 🎶 RSCM announces the launch of the Harold Smart Memorial
Composition Competition 2025. This year composers are invited to set to music the text of Psalm 100
Deadline 15 Jan 2026
Find full details/resources here www.rscm.org.uk/whats-on/har...
#Choralmusic
Composition Competition 2025. This year composers are invited to set to music the text of Psalm 100
Deadline 15 Jan 2026
Find full details/resources here www.rscm.org.uk/whats-on/har...
#Choralmusic
The Harold Smart Memorial Composition Competition | RSCM
This annual competition, run by the RSCM, was established in 1988 to encourage the composition of simple anthems.
www.rscm.org.uk
November 24, 2025 at 3:05 PM
📣 🎶 RSCM announces the launch of the Harold Smart Memorial
Composition Competition 2025. This year composers are invited to set to music the text of Psalm 100
Deadline 15 Jan 2026
Find full details/resources here www.rscm.org.uk/whats-on/har...
#Choralmusic
Composition Competition 2025. This year composers are invited to set to music the text of Psalm 100
Deadline 15 Jan 2026
Find full details/resources here www.rscm.org.uk/whats-on/har...
#Choralmusic
🎶🎄New Carol OUT TODAY on VivumMusic- 'Child of Bethlehem' by Thomas Hewitt Jones is a lush/warm/comforting take on the Christmas story. Beautifully sung by St Martin’s Voices, conducted by Andre Earis with the Vivum Orchestra, produced by THJ.Cover a/w by yours truly
open.spotify.com/track/6G60Jn...
open.spotify.com/track/6G60Jn...
Child of Bethlehem
open.spotify.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:58 PM
🎶🎄New Carol OUT TODAY on VivumMusic- 'Child of Bethlehem' by Thomas Hewitt Jones is a lush/warm/comforting take on the Christmas story. Beautifully sung by St Martin’s Voices, conducted by Andre Earis with the Vivum Orchestra, produced by THJ.Cover a/w by yours truly
open.spotify.com/track/6G60Jn...
open.spotify.com/track/6G60Jn...
Pianist @jameslisney.bsky.social's autumn tour continues this week & next:
28 Nov, Quay Theatre, Sudbury, Suffolk
4 Dec, Stoller Hall, Manchester
5 Dec, Stamford Arts Centre, Stamford, Lincs
7 Dec, The Red Hedgehog, London
jameslisney.com/recitals.php
#Beethoven #Chopin #Shostakovich #pianomusic
28 Nov, Quay Theatre, Sudbury, Suffolk
4 Dec, Stoller Hall, Manchester
5 Dec, Stamford Arts Centre, Stamford, Lincs
7 Dec, The Red Hedgehog, London
jameslisney.com/recitals.php
#Beethoven #Chopin #Shostakovich #pianomusic
November 24, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Pianist @jameslisney.bsky.social's autumn tour continues this week & next:
28 Nov, Quay Theatre, Sudbury, Suffolk
4 Dec, Stoller Hall, Manchester
5 Dec, Stamford Arts Centre, Stamford, Lincs
7 Dec, The Red Hedgehog, London
jameslisney.com/recitals.php
#Beethoven #Chopin #Shostakovich #pianomusic
28 Nov, Quay Theatre, Sudbury, Suffolk
4 Dec, Stoller Hall, Manchester
5 Dec, Stamford Arts Centre, Stamford, Lincs
7 Dec, The Red Hedgehog, London
jameslisney.com/recitals.php
#Beethoven #Chopin #Shostakovich #pianomusic
Happy St Cecilia’s Day
November 22, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Happy St Cecilia’s Day
Good morning! RSCM Director Hugh Morris is now more than half way through his epic 25-hour organ marathon!
Here’s an excerpt of Buxtehude. Watch the RSCM YouTube livestream for more
www.rscm.org.uk/whats-on/dir...
#PlayTheOrgan #PlayTheOrganYear #handsonwithhandel
Here’s an excerpt of Buxtehude. Watch the RSCM YouTube livestream for more
www.rscm.org.uk/whats-on/dir...
#PlayTheOrgan #PlayTheOrganYear #handsonwithhandel
November 22, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Good morning! RSCM Director Hugh Morris is now more than half way through his epic 25-hour organ marathon!
Here’s an excerpt of Buxtehude. Watch the RSCM YouTube livestream for more
www.rscm.org.uk/whats-on/dir...
#PlayTheOrgan #PlayTheOrganYear #handsonwithhandel
Here’s an excerpt of Buxtehude. Watch the RSCM YouTube livestream for more
www.rscm.org.uk/whats-on/dir...
#PlayTheOrgan #PlayTheOrganYear #handsonwithhandel
Just a handful of tickets left for @jameslisney.bsky.social’s concert tonight at the stylish & convivial 1901 Arts Club in support of The Amber Trust
Or catch him tomorrow at another convivial venue, The Red Hedgehog in Highgate
www.ticketsource.co.uk/1901artsclub...
Or catch him tomorrow at another convivial venue, The Red Hedgehog in Highgate
www.ticketsource.co.uk/1901artsclub...
www.ticketsource.co.uk
November 21, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Just a handful of tickets left for @jameslisney.bsky.social’s concert tonight at the stylish & convivial 1901 Arts Club in support of The Amber Trust
Or catch him tomorrow at another convivial venue, The Red Hedgehog in Highgate
www.ticketsource.co.uk/1901artsclub...
Or catch him tomorrow at another convivial venue, The Red Hedgehog in Highgate
www.ticketsource.co.uk/1901artsclub...
On Friday RSCM Director Hugh Morris begins an epic 25-hour organ-playing marathon.The event will be livestreamed via YouTube from Viscount Organs Bicester showroom. Here’s a selection of some of the music Hugh will play.You can sponsor Hugh to play your favourite hymn
www.rscm.org.uk/whats-on/dir...
www.rscm.org.uk/whats-on/dir...
November 19, 2025 at 8:07 AM
On Friday RSCM Director Hugh Morris begins an epic 25-hour organ-playing marathon.The event will be livestreamed via YouTube from Viscount Organs Bicester showroom. Here’s a selection of some of the music Hugh will play.You can sponsor Hugh to play your favourite hymn
www.rscm.org.uk/whats-on/dir...
www.rscm.org.uk/whats-on/dir...
Join the RSCM’s big organ play along this St. Cecilia’s Day (22 Nov) and celebrate this magnificent instrument, its repertoire and those who play it
Find out more here www.rscm.org.uk/whats-on/dir...
Find out more here www.rscm.org.uk/whats-on/dir...
November 19, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Join the RSCM’s big organ play along this St. Cecilia’s Day (22 Nov) and celebrate this magnificent instrument, its repertoire and those who play it
Find out more here www.rscm.org.uk/whats-on/dir...
Find out more here www.rscm.org.uk/whats-on/dir...
Reposted by Fran Wilson
Get 'Hands on with Handel' in the RSCM big #organ play-athon on St Cecilia’s Day (22 Nov)
Visit the RSCM dedicated webpage to download the music, event poster templates, and ideas for running your event.
And don't forget to let us know what you're doing n the day! rscm.org.uk/whats-on/direc…
Visit the RSCM dedicated webpage to download the music, event poster templates, and ideas for running your event.
And don't forget to let us know what you're doing n the day! rscm.org.uk/whats-on/direc…
October 16, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Get 'Hands on with Handel' in the RSCM big #organ play-athon on St Cecilia’s Day (22 Nov)
Visit the RSCM dedicated webpage to download the music, event poster templates, and ideas for running your event.
And don't forget to let us know what you're doing n the day! rscm.org.uk/whats-on/direc…
Visit the RSCM dedicated webpage to download the music, event poster templates, and ideas for running your event.
And don't forget to let us know what you're doing n the day! rscm.org.uk/whats-on/direc…
Reposted by Fran Wilson
‘Christmas lullaby’ by Thomas Hewitt Jones - a new release feat. the Royal School of Church Music’s Youth Choir
Sheet music available from the RSCM webshop
#newrelease #christmasmusic open.spotify.com/album/2SJX7C...
Sheet music available from the RSCM webshop
#newrelease #christmasmusic open.spotify.com/album/2SJX7C...
October 23, 2025 at 2:41 PM
‘Christmas lullaby’ by Thomas Hewitt Jones - a new release feat. the Royal School of Church Music’s Youth Choir
Sheet music available from the RSCM webshop
#newrelease #christmasmusic open.spotify.com/album/2SJX7C...
Sheet music available from the RSCM webshop
#newrelease #christmasmusic open.spotify.com/album/2SJX7C...
This is great fun
Released today to all networks on VivumMusic 'A Festive Fantasia', a really fun festive medley written by Thomas Hewitt Jones for - and performed by - the Central Band of the Royal Air Force Music and Wing Commander Richard Murray🌲⭐️🎼🎧 open.spotify.com/album/2s45Oo... open.spotify.com/album/2s45Oo...
A Festive Fantasia
open.spotify.com
November 19, 2025 at 7:56 AM
This is great fun
Reposted by Fran Wilson
A concert in support of The Amber Trust music charity
Friday 21 November, 1901 Arts Club ambertrust.org/event/james-...
#charityconcert
Friday 21 November, 1901 Arts Club ambertrust.org/event/james-...
#charityconcert
James Lisney (piano) - Petits Concerts XXI - Amber Trust
Amber Patron, James Lisney is performing at the 1901 Arts Club in aid of Amber. James Lisney’s musical offerings centre upon Beethoven’s three final sonatas, one of music’s great spiritual journeys, w...
ambertrust.org
November 15, 2025 at 7:57 AM
A concert in support of The Amber Trust music charity
Friday 21 November, 1901 Arts Club ambertrust.org/event/james-...
#charityconcert
Friday 21 November, 1901 Arts Club ambertrust.org/event/james-...
#charityconcert
Reposted by Fran Wilson
PianistJames Lisney’s UK tour continues on Friday 21 November with a concert at the convivial 1901 Arts Club in London (if you’ve yet to discover this delightful small venue, now is the time to do do!)
A Musical Offering with pianist @jameslisney.bsky.social
crosseyedpianist.com/2025/11/02/a...
#pianomusic #beethoven #concerts #booknow
crosseyedpianist.com/2025/11/02/a...
#pianomusic #beethoven #concerts #booknow
A Musical Offering: Celebrating the legacy of Myra Hess
For his autumn concert tour, which begins on Sunday 9 November, British pianist James Lisney places Beethoven’s late sonatas at the centre of this rich programme of masterpieces, not the least of w…
crosseyedpianist.com
November 15, 2025 at 7:59 AM
PianistJames Lisney’s UK tour continues on Friday 21 November with a concert at the convivial 1901 Arts Club in London (if you’ve yet to discover this delightful small venue, now is the time to do do!)
Great to see this from Exeter Cathedral, fully embracing the mission of the Royal School of Church Music’s Director’s Challenge & massed organ play along this coming weekend
Take part here www.rscm.org.uk/whats-on/dir...
Take part here www.rscm.org.uk/whats-on/dir...
November 19, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Great to see this from Exeter Cathedral, fully embracing the mission of the Royal School of Church Music’s Director’s Challenge & massed organ play along this coming weekend
Take part here www.rscm.org.uk/whats-on/dir...
Take part here www.rscm.org.uk/whats-on/dir...
‘Music has to be accessible to people, embedded into our culture’
meettheartist.online/2025/11/17/l...
meettheartist.online/2025/11/17/l...
Leila Josefowicz, violinist
‘Music has to be accessible to people, embedded into our culture’
meettheartist.online
November 17, 2025 at 9:21 PM
‘Music has to be accessible to people, embedded into our culture’
meettheartist.online/2025/11/17/l...
meettheartist.online/2025/11/17/l...
Reposted by Fran Wilson
🖼️🤔👓 Immediately after emerging from the Royal Opera’s ‘Makropulos Case’, I posted that “it managed to both demand focus from its audience & feel like a thrill-ride at the same time”.
Detail-seekers! Read more in my write-up for ArtMuseLondon here…
artmuselondon.com/2025/11/16/w...
Detail-seekers! Read more in my write-up for ArtMuseLondon here…
artmuselondon.com/2025/11/16/w...
“Why, I auteur…”: ‘The Makropulos Case’ (mostly), Royal Ballet & Opera, London
The latest in the Royal Opera’s Janáček cycle, this is their first production of ‘The Makropulos Case’ – and mine, too. I was excited to be seeing at last this piece that I’d read about but, …
artmuselondon.com
November 16, 2025 at 5:22 PM
🖼️🤔👓 Immediately after emerging from the Royal Opera’s ‘Makropulos Case’, I posted that “it managed to both demand focus from its audience & feel like a thrill-ride at the same time”.
Detail-seekers! Read more in my write-up for ArtMuseLondon here…
artmuselondon.com/2025/11/16/w...
Detail-seekers! Read more in my write-up for ArtMuseLondon here…
artmuselondon.com/2025/11/16/w...
