Having given the world premiere of Three Pieces that Disappear, the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra are in the studio next week with soprano Anna Dennis to record a programme I've devised, for a live Radio 3 broadcast on 28 April. The pieces are all about mirrors and...
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...
My set of orchestrations of Robert Schumann's Studies in Canonic Form Op. 56 will be performed a couple of times this month – a selection of movements played by Britten Sinfonia Academy at Cambridge's Fitzwilliam Museum on the 15th, and the full set by the Oxford...
The talented young players of the Britten Sinfonia Academy are performing my new set of orchestrations of Robert Schumann's Studies in Canonic Form Op. 56, on the 12th, 13th and 14th July. I'm delighted that they're being performed alongside two of my desert island pieces – Webern's arrangement of Bach's Ricercar a...
Over this coming year, I'll be the composition mentor for the talented young composers on the Britten Sinfonia Academy's 'Composer Lab', and will also be writing a piece for the (equally talented!) academy players to perform – a set of orchestrations of keyboard works by Schumann...