Ben Crick

MIND ME LUGHOLE: A short, back and sides for Ian McMillan from baritone Oscar Castellino. Image:Karol Wyszynski

Ian McMillan gives opera a Yorkshire dialect makeover for new Bradford festival

Composer and conductor Ben Crick works on his new oratorio, A Yorkshire Nativity, in the surroundings of Malham Smithy, Malham, North Yorkshire. Behind him is blacksmith Annabelle Bradley. Picture: Lorne Campbell / Guzelian.

How 18th century carols by a Yorkshire blacksmith inspired a 'modern Nativity'

The Great Yorkshire Proms at Harewood House on September 4

Ad Feature Yorkshire Day: New orchestral work trumpets God's Own County

Ben Crick at Harewood House where the Yorkshire Symphony Orchestra will perform in September. (Picture: Gerard Binks).

The story behind the revival of the Yorkshire Symphony Orchestra after more than...

Sophia Dignam plays the Viola along with other members of the Yorkshire Symphony Orchestra at Harewood House, Leeds

Revival of Yorkshire Symphony Orchestra can give ‘cultural voice’ to region

Launch of Ice Cream the Opera with Ian McMillan, at Centenary Square, Bradford. Picture by Simon Hulme.

The opera inspired by ice cream vans premieres in Yorkshire

Festival in tune with all kinds of music lovers