My Gymnopediés are being given their Australian premiere by the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra conducted by David Sharp. They'll perform it twice – on the 7th and 8th March, at their Grainger Studio. Also on the programme are Toru Takemitsu's How Slow the Wind, Aaron Copland's...
I've made a new version of O Ecclesia, my reworking of a chant by Hildegard of Bingen, for Scottish folk fiddler Aidan O'Rourke and guitarist Sean Shibe. They'll be performing it at three concerts in December – 6 Dec at London's King's Place, 9 Dec at...
The Aldeburgh Festival will see the premieres of two pieces for choir and violin, for violinist Daniel Pioro and the Marian Consort – O Ecclesia, O Euchari (after Hildegard), and Hymns of Kassiana (after Kassia). Daniel and the Marians will perform them in the gorgeous...
Violinist Daniel Pioro's new album, Saint Boy, is out today on Platoon, and it features a recording of my arrangement of Hildegard of Bingen's O Ecclesia. The arrangement was originally written in 2021 for solo violin and string orchestra, but on Saint Boy is adapted for...
The beautiful Musikdorf Ernen festival in Switzerland is starting this month, and I am Composer-in-Residence for the 2022 festival. I've written two new pieces being premiered – a new horn trio and a reworking of a viol piece by Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe for five lower...
O Ecclesia is being performed by Jonathan Morton at Glasgow's Barrowland Ballroom this Thursday 21 April, with an orchestra made up from players of the Scottish Ensemble, Ensemble Resonanz & Trondheim Soloists. It's the opening night of the new festival The Bridge, which brings together the...
Daniel Pioro is performing our collaborative arrangement of Hildegard von Bingen's O Ecclesia twice in the next month. Daniel and the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra are giving the public premiere on 13 November at Leeds Town Hall, in a programme with Edmund Finnis' The Centre is Everything,...
I couldn't be more thrilled to be taking up the role of Composer-in-Association with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra for the next few years. I'll write three major pieces, the first of which, Pleasure Garden for violin and orchestra with Daniel Pioro as soloist, was due to be premiered...
I'm in the studio with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra and violinist Daniel Pioro in a couple of weeks to record a programme we've devised, for a live Radio 3 broadcast on 19 May. We've arranged various pieces of pre-orchestral music for a slightly reduced BBC...