Three performances this month of some chamber works of mine this month: The Davidoff Trio perform my Piano Trio "The Chronophage" on 11 September as part of Musikdorf Ernen in Switzerland, the festival where I've been Composer-in-Residence this year. This will be the piece's Swiss premiere...
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...
The programme for the Aldeburgh Festival 2021 has been announced, and several of my works will be performed: My opera Violet, written with writer Alice Birch and directed by Jude Christian, will have its world premiere performances on the opening weekend in the Snape Maltings Hall...
Trio Mazzolini, Chamber Music Fellows at the Royal Academy of Music, gave a great performance of my my Piano Trio "The Chronophage" at the Academy's David Josefowitz Recital Hall this week, alongside new pieces by Augusta Read Thomas and Ryan Wigglesworth, and Arensky's Trio No....
Some news, including actual performances, sometimes with an audience…: The BBC Philharmonic Orchestra (or a distanced 15-player subset of them) are recording my Rainbow-Shooting Cloud Contraption at BBC MediaCity on September 26, under the baton of John Storgårds. There's no audience, but it'll be broadcast...
Obviously like any artist I've had a lot of events cancelled. I'll keep an updated list of cancellations here – clearly anything not currently listed as cancelled is under consideration…some may be rearranged, some won't be unfortunately. Violet, my new chamber opera, was due to...
A brief roundup of some recent performances: The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Cristian Măcelaru, performed my Codex (Homage to Serafini) at London's Cadogan Hall last month. The performance is supported by the PRS for Music Foundation's Resonate scheme, which supports repeat performances of British orchestral works – the BBC Symphony Orchestra did it in 2013. A...
As part of my post as Visiting Fellow Commoner in the Creative Arts at Trinity College Cambridge, I've curated a pair of concerts at the college in early 2019, featuring music by me alongside other interesting pieces… Firstly, the Fidelio Trio will perform on 6 February, and...