William has been elected the Hodgson Fellow in piano accompaniment at the Royal Academy of Music for the 2009-10 academic year. As part of his duties he will be organising some concerts to celebrate the respective 200th and 150th anniversaries of Robert Schumann and Hugo Wolf next year, so do watch this space for further news.

This concert is now only a week away: Máire, Nicholas and Will, who were all Britten-Pears Young Artists in 2007 at Snape Maltings where they studied the works of Strauss and Mahler, are reunited for this recital of extraordinary music by these two giants of the late-Romantic Lied. Some of their finest sets of songs are framed by duets from Des Knaben Wunderhorn. See the concerts page for full details.

William will be accompanying Nicola Hughes (Soprano, 2pm) and April Fredrick (Soprano, 2.30pm) in the 2009 Kathleen Ferrier Awards Semi-final stage at Wigmore Hall on the 22nd April.