News from Joan Pierson, artSMart regular in Cardiff, Wales, is that former Durban musician and composer Kevin Volans celebrated his 50th birthday earlier this year and this was followed by an interview on Radio 3.

A couple of weeks ago, his music for Wild Air, a ballet by the Siobahn Davies Dance Company at Sadlers Wells, was highly praised as an integral part of the beauty of the performance. The art critic of the Daily Telegraph reported that “…the music for two guitars and two cellos is charged with the languor and natural noises of the Southern hemisphere.”