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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...

Posted on 10 Mar 2014

This Friday, the Bangor New Music Festival will play host to the premiere of a new piece of mine for chamber orchestra, entitled Antic Rounds. The piece will be performed by the Orchestra of the Swan, conducted by their director David Curtis, in a concert also featuring a premiere by festival director Guto Puw and pieces by Robert Saxton, Huw...

Posted on 22 Feb 2014

I have been selected for the 'Opera Creation' workshops at the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence this summer. The workshops are being run by playwright Martin Crimp, with contributions from his operatic collaborator (and my composition teacher) George Benjamin. I will take part in seminars and workshops alongside other young composers, librettists and directors, and will also attend festival operas and concerts. The...

Posted on 16 Jan 2014

I have been commissioned, with funds from the William Alwyn Foundation, to write a piece for the Britten Sinfonia for their 2014/15 season. The piece, scored for string orchestra, will be premiered in March 2015 in concerts at Cambridge's West Road Concert Hall, Norwich's Theatre Royal, and the Barbican's Milton Court Concert Hall in London. All concerts will feature Thomas...

Posted on 07 Jan 2014

My piece Codex (Homage to Serafini), performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Garry Walker, was broadcast on BBC Radio 3 this Saturday the 11th of January. The programme is the BBC's weekly contemporary music programme Hear and Now, and also features music by Ben Oliver, Aaron Holloway-Nahum and Robin Holloway, as well as interviews with all of us...

Posted on 04 Nov 2013

For the past year, I have been in residence with the BBC Symphony Orchestra as part of the Embedded scheme run by Sound and Music, and on Thursday 14 November my new 12-minute piece for the orchestra, Codex (Homage to Serafini), will receive its premiere. Garry Walker will conduct my piece at BBC's Maida Vale Studios, alongside new works written...

Posted on 13 Aug 2013

I have been commissioned by the Bangor New Music Festival to write a chamber orchestra piece for the Orchestra of the Swan conducted by their director David Curtis. The piece will celebrate the 450th anniversary of Shakespeare's birth, and will be performed during the festival on 14 March 2014 alongside a new violin concerto by Guto Puw and pieces by...