Following their last workshop where they tried out Wasserflut and Needles and Butter for size, mezzo-soprano Nina Whiteman and flautist Gavin Osborn will be workshopping a new duo of mine on Thursday. Entitled 'Respiration M'Inspire', the piece focuses on timbre and the intersection of techniques and...
Some news about a different project: 52 Commercial Road – a London-based band I have played violin with many a time – have just released their second album, entitled 'A Wreck Provides An Excellent Foundation'. Check out a review of the new album here. The album...
This Friday is the performance of Acheronta Movebo by Vaganza, with Michael Jones as soloist. Vaganza are Manchester University's contemporary music ensemble, and Friday sees a celebration of the music of Helmut Lachenmann. My composition is in the lunchtime concert at Manchester's Martin Harris Centre,...
The University of Manchester chamber orchestra is performing Mozart's first and last symphonies a week tomorrow, and I have written some programme notes, which I thought I'd post up here: Symphony No. 1 In Eb K. 16 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart has come to be seen as...
This coming Tuesday, two short studies of mine will be workshopped at Manchester's Martin Harris Centre, by singer Nina Whiteman and flautist Gavin Osborn. These two performers are two thirds of the wonderful Trio Atem, and are successful composers as well. Nina will be singing...
Manchester University Music Society have kindly offered me the opportunity to write a new piece for conducted ensemble, to be premiered on the 5th February 2011 at the Martin Harris Centre for Music and Drama. The concert will also feature works by Stravinsky, Milhaud, Varèse...
Vaganza, Manchester University's new music ensemble, will perform my Acheronta Movebo on Friday 26th November at a day of concerts entitled 'Lachenmann at 75: Inward Beauty', celebrating the composer's birthday this year. Scored for violin and ensemble, the solo part was written for Mike Jones...
Back in November, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies was invited to Manchester University by the Music Society to attend a concert by Vaganza as part of the New Music North West festival. Vaganza performed my Moto Perpetuo, and Max gave a Forum afterwards, where he talked...
The Candle is being performed on Tuesday at the RNCM, as part of Sing Ariel: The Music of Alexander Goehr. It's a joint concert between Vaganza, the University of Manchester's new music ensemble, and the RNCM's New Ensemble. Vaganza's Olivia Howie (alto), Olivia Jageurs and...