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Posted on 10 Dec 2014

I'm delighted to have been commissioned by Aldeburgh Music to write an orchestral song cycle for the 2015 Aldeburgh Festival, to be premiered by soprano Claire Booth with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra conducted by George Benjamin. The programme will also feature Wagner's Siegried Idyll, Benjamin's A Mind of Winter, Boulez's Mémoriale and Ravel's Piano Concerto, featuring festival director Pierre-Laurent Aimard...

Posted on 05 Oct 2014

I am to be a featured composer at the Soundings 2014 programme of events this October, at London's Austrian Cultural Forum. Curated by the Fidelio Trio's Mary Dullea, Soundings is a platform for contemporary music that brings together composers from the UK and Austria for four days of roundtable talks, workshops and concerts. On Thursday 30th October (7pm), my Enmîmés...

Posted on 16 Sep 2014

I'm thrilled to be signing with Faber Music as one of their House Composers. They will publish my scores from now on, including my upcoming piece for the strings of the Britten Sinfonia, and will be publishing much of my back catalogue. Pieces available from Faber will include Codex (Homage to Serafini) for symphony orchestra, Four Perpetual Motions for ten...

Posted on 09 Sep 2014

This Thursday 11 September, violinist Sarah Hill will perform a new piece of mine, entitled Sparking & Slipping, at her final Masters recital at Trinity Laban Conservatoire. The piece is a virtuosic showpiece for violin soloist, accompanied by piano, harp & percussion – the accompagnato ensemble will be comprised of pianist Hannah Ely, harpist Anne Denholm and percussionist Henry Fynn, and...

Posted on 15 Aug 2014

The London Sinfonietta have made a little portrait film of me after they commissioned Études Nos. 3 & 4 for solo violin, performed by Jonathan Morton last week. Have a look! ...

Posted on 23 Jul 2014

My new Études Nos. 3 & 4 for solo violin, commissioned by London Sinfonietta as part of their 'Sinfonietta Shorts' series, were premiered on the 23rd July at King's Place's Rotunda Room. The two new études, lasting around five minutes in total, were played wonderfully by the Sinfonietta's principal violinist Jonathan Morton to invited guests at one of the Sinfonietta's...

Posted on 11 Jun 2014

It's the 67th Aldeburgh Festival this month, and my piece Rainbow-Shooting Cloud Contraption for 15 players is being performed on Saturday 21st by the Britten-Pears Composers Ensemble, conducted by Gregory Charette. The piece was written at Aldeburgh's Contemporary Composition course last year, run by Oliver Knussen, Colin Matthews and Michael Gandolfi. The concert is at 6pm at the Britten Studio...

Posted on 30 Apr 2014

I am part of the first group of composers involved in the re-launch of Sound and Music's 'New Voices' scheme for 2014/15. The scheme sees an annual group of emerging composers selected to have their work showcased by Sound and Music and the British Music Collection. It basically serves as a platform for the composers, and as a curated selection...

Posted on 24 Apr 2014

An update about some recent education work I've been doing – alongside violinist Sarah Hill, I organised a two-day composition course for 9-14 year olds, held at Pembroke House in South London. The course was inspired by George Crumb's piece Eleven Echoes of Autumn, extracts of which we performed during the course with flautist Jenny Dyson, pianist Dasol Lee and...