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Posted on 12 Jul 2012

I'm delighted to have been awarded the Royal Philharmonic Society Composition Prize. I'll be spending some time on the Philharmonia Orchestra's Young Composers Academy, working with members of the orchestra and with Unsuk Chin, who is the director of the Philharmonia's 'Music of Today' series. The prize also involves a commission for an ensemble piece for the Philharmonia to be...

Posted on 25 Jun 2012

For the last week or so I've been resident at the St Magnus Composers Course in Orkney, where I've been receiving tuition from Alasdair Nicolson and Sally Beamish. As well as preparing a quintet for the Gemini Ensemble, I've had workshops on two short pieces – 'Wavescape' for mezzo-soprano & wineglass, workshopped on Thursday by Alison Wells, and 'Pretty Polly' for...

Posted on 17 May 2012

Next week will see premieres of two short pieces of mine. On Monday 21st, Helen Tonge of the Rivoli String Quartet and pianist Richard Whalley will premiere 'Limp' at a lunchtime recital at St. Werburgh's Church in Manchester. The concert is part of the annual Chorlton Arts Festival, and the concert also features John Casken's 'Shadowed Pieces' and music by...

Posted on 20 Mar 2012

Thursday sees the premiere of my new piece for the Lancashire Sinfonietta at the Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts' Great Hall. The orchestra is conducted by the Endellion Quartet's Andrew Watkinson who as well as conducting my piece and Mozart's 40th Symphony, will also welcome guitarist Xuefei Yang to play concertos by Bach and Rodrigo. My piece is entitled 'Solvitrambulando',...

Posted on 14 Mar 2012

My Piano Trio "The Chronophage" has won the Third Angle Ensemble's New Ideas in Music Competition. The Third Angle Ensemble, from Portland Oregon, will now premiere the work in their 26th and 27th April concerts at the Lincoln Recital Hall at Portland State University. The piece itself was written as the final piece for my Composition Masters portfolio but has...

Posted on 18 Dec 2011

Having been travelling to Milan over the last few months as part of the Niccolò Castiglioni Prize, I have now been selected for the final of the competition, and will write a chamber work for members of Trio Magritte and clarinettist Paolo Beltramini. The piece will be for clarinet, cello and piano, and will be premiered at a concert on...

Posted on 24 Nov 2011

Seven Face Pictures won a Philip Bates Prize at Birmingham Conservatoire a few weeks ago. The prize was awarded by the Philip Bates Trust after a great performance by Georgina Stalbow, Alice Purton and Agatha Yim (members of Opera Viscera) at the Conservatoire's Recital Hall. You can now hear audio of that performance (cycle through the movements with the arrow...

Posted on 28 Oct 2011

Seven Face Pictures has been selected for the final of the Philip Bates Prize for vocal composition, and will be performed by members of Opera Viscera (Georgina Stalbow, Alice Purton and Agatha Yim) at Birmingham Conservatoire's Recital Hall on the 4th November. Last year's prize saw three composers competing, including fellow University of Manchester graduate Michael Betteridge, whose competition piece...

Posted on 17 Oct 2011

On Sunday 23rd October I will conduct Opera Viscera in the sixth performance of Narcissus & Echo. We have been selected for the 'Rough For Opera' platform run by opera group Second Movement. The evening, held at London's Cockpit Theatre, sees three new works being presented, and each company will receive feedback on their work as well as a...