Friends, colleagues and artists gathered to celebrate a year of brilliant recordings, with fabulous live performances and a plethora of very worthy winners.
Here's a taste of what took place... more to come!
Premiere Award-winners Elena Urioste and Tom Poster performing Tom's arrangement of Sondheim's 'Send in the Clowns' (Photo by Johnny Millar)
'Personality of the Year' Nicky Spence performing 'Valentine Card' by Jeremy Nicholas, accompanied by Dylan Perez. (Photo by Johnny Millar)
Radio 3's Petroc Trelawny presented the Orchestral Award to conductor John Wilson - for the Sinfonia of London's recording of Dutilleux's 'Le Loup' (Photo by Johnny Millar)
Bruno Tonioli presented the 'Personality of the Year' Award to tenor Nicky Spence. (Photo by Johnny Millar)
Wigmore Hall's John Gilhooly presented the 'Recording of the Year' Award to Sony Classical's Per Hauber - who accepted it on behalf of pianist Igor Levit. (Photo by Johnny Millar)
Radio 3's Linton Stephens (centre) with Premiere Award-winners Tom Poster and Elena Urioste. (Photo by Johnny Millar)
Michael is the Reviews Editor of BBC Music Magazine. He looks after the 26 pages of recording and book reviews in the magazine each month, deciding what will be reviewed – no easy task with so much being sent in for consideration! Michael joined the team in 2018, following ten years as a freelance film music journalist and fifteen years at St George's Bristol.
Film and television music is his favourite thing, and when he’s not listening to things to be reviewed in the mag, Michael loves nothing more than to listen to the music of John Williams and James Horner – his favourite film composers. He was the Editor of MusicfromtheMovies.com and has written for the BBC Proms, BBC Concert Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Albert Hall, Hollywood in Vienna and Silva Screen Records. His favourite writing gigs so far have been programmes for each of the Doctor Who Proms, soundtrack album notes for Doctor Who – Series 4 and Torchwood – Children of Earth, plus programmes and features for live concert screenings of Jurassic Park, Gladiator, Back to the Future and Raiders of the Lost Ark.
While he never got the chance to interview the late James Horner, Michael was delighted to spend an hour on the phone with John Williams for the 2020 Christmas issue of BBC Music Magazine.
Also a presenter, Michael has hosted concerts and live events for Bristol Film Festival and St George's Bristol, plus Debbie Wiseman's ‘Music and Words from Wolf Hall’ shows at venues across the UK.
Michael has worked regularly with Debbie Wiseman over the years, writing concert programmes and scripts (for Terry Wogan and Simon Bates) and producing her 2011 album Piano Stories.
