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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...

Posted on 29 Sep 2011

Two upcoming events to tell you about. On Saturday pianist Andrew Wilson-Dickson will workshop a short new piece of mine at Cardiff's Canton Uniting Church, as part of the Primavera Crossing Borders day. 'Graham's Orrery' is the name of my piece, and you can read about its planetary inspiration here. Andrew will be workshopping 13 new pieces and performing a...

Posted on 21 Sep 2011

I have been selected as a candidate for the inaugural Niccolò Castiglioni Prize, run by the Centro Culturale San Fedele in association with the Edizioni Suvini Zerboni. I will be attending a series of weekends in Milan to receive tuition from composers including Helmut Lachenmann, Stefano Gervasoni, Johannes Schöllhorn and Alessandro Solbiati. Between 4 and 6 finalists will then be...

Posted on 06 Sep 2011

I have been appointed as 'Young Composer-in-Residence' for the Lancashire Sinfonietta's 2011/12 season, having won their Christopher Brooks Memorial Prize 2011. The residency will involve me working on education projects in the region, writing some chamber music, and culminating in the premiere of a commission for the full orchestra. The concert featuring my piece will be held at the Lancaster...