Encounters with British Composers

‘Encounters with British Composers‘, a new book by Andrew Palmer, contains interviews with around 40 British composers on how they work, how they live, and what, if anything, ‘British music’ is. There’s an interview with me from about 18 months ago inside (that’s me second from the left on the bottom row of the cover), alongside interviews with many more august names.

The book is released on the 19th November, and can be purchased from publishers Boydell and Brewer.

In other news, I have completed my piece for the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, entitled Sonnet Machine. The orchestra, conducted by Andrew Gourlay, will be recording it in Manchester in early January for broadcast on BBC Radio 3 in April as incidental music to a new 15-minute radio play by Tom Wells, and they will premiere the piece at Manchester’s Bridgewater Hall, also in April. Find out more about the piece here.