N E W S

June 2020

Michael's lunchtime recital at Wigmore Hall with Michael Collins can now be viewed again in full here.

Thanks to The Guardian for this four-star review:

"This performance got its bittersweet balance exactly right, but never forgot that there’s always a bit of twinkle in Poulenc’s musical eye" [full review]

U P C O M I N G   E V E N T S​

4 September, 2020​​

2pm Martinu Double Concerto for piano, timpani and strings with Mark McDonald (timpani) and Ulster Orchestra / Jac van Steen

broadcast live on BBC Radio 3

F E A T U R E D   R E V I E W

"…It’s an enticing piece [Bennett Piano Concerto] full of textural allure and a solo part awash with virtuoso glitz and shimmer – beautifully taken here by Michael McHale, whose limpid fingerwork is possessed of a crystalline light-catching brilliance…" [full review]

Edward Seckerson, Gramophone, June 2020

18 September, 2020​​

Recording for BBC Radio 3 of Mozart Concerto K.414 with Ulster Orchestra / Peter Whelan