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Posted on 15 Dec 2021

The programme for the Aldeburgh Festival 2021 has been announced, and several of my works will be performed: My opera Violet, written with writer Alice Birch and directed by Jude Christian, will have its world premiere performances on the opening weekend in the Snape Maltings Hall on the 3rd & 5th of June, with the London Sinfonietta conducted by Andrew Gourlay. The fantastic...

Posted on 12 Nov 2021

The BBC Philharmonic Orchestra and Daniel Pioro, conducted by Elena Schwarz, gave a fantastic world premiere of Pleasure Garden in a concert at Manchester's Bridgewater Hall on Saturday. You can now hear the broadcast on BBC Radio 3, alongside music by Kurt Weill (Symphony No. 2) and Maurice Ravel (Ma mère de l'oye). Click the link below to hear the...

Posted on 11 Nov 2021

Daniel Pioro is performing our collaborative arrangement of Hildegard von Bingen's O Ecclesia twice in the next month. Daniel and the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra are giving the public premiere on 13 November at Leeds Town Hall, in a programme with Edmund Finnis' The Centre is Everything, and Vivaldi's Four Seasons. That'll be broadcast on BBC Radio 3 at some point soon. Then...

Posted on 18 Oct 2021

My new violin concerto for Daniel Pioro, Pleasure Garden, is being performed next week by Daniel and the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Elena Schwarz. The world premiere happens at Manchester's Bridgewater Hall on 6 November, and the orchestra will also be filming a performance, without an audience, for broadcast – more details to follow. There'll be a broadcast on...

Posted on 21 Sep 2021

Firstly, The Hermes Experiment will give the premiere of my new commission for them, I Find Planets, at London's King's Place this Sunday 26 September, alongside pieces from their second album 'SONG' on Delphian Records, and other things they've commissioned – stuff by Barbara Strozzi, Clara Schumann, Philip Venables, Laura Moody, Robin Haigh, Soosan Lolavar, Ayanna Witter-Johnson, Emily Hall, Olivia...

Posted on 31 Aug 2021

Psappha are playing Two Games and a Nocturne in a concert at Manchester's Hallé St Peters on 8 October as part of their 30th birthday celebrations, and outgoing artistic director Tim Williams' last season. The concert also features music by Adam Gorb, Philip Rousiamanis, Nina Whiteman, Bofan Ma, Michael Betteridge and Tom Harrold. They are also recording the piece for a disc released...

Posted on 19 Aug 2021

Last week I was at the beautiful Musikdorf Ernen festival in Switzerland, where I will be Composer-in-Residence for the 2022 festival. I'll be writing a new piece for horn trio (horn, violin & piano), and a number of my earlier chamber pieces will be performed. I'm very grateful to pianist and artistic director Alasdair Beatson for inviting me to...

Posted on 11 Aug 2021

The Oxford Lieder Festival have announced their 2021 programme, and I have four pieces programmed, having been the 'Albi Rosenthal Visiting Fellow in Music' at Oxford University's Bodleian Libraries. On 18 October, soprano Anna Dennis and pianist John Reid are premiering Wholesome Counsels, a new piece that sets texts I've made out of material in the Bodleian Library's John Johnson collection of 'Ephemera'...

Posted on 03 Aug 2021

I'm delighted to have been awarded a Paul Hamlyn Award for Composers for 2021, alongside 19 other composers and 20 visual artists. The 40 of us share a funding pot of £1 million, to support our work. It almost goes without saying how wonderful it is to feel supported like this after such a difficult period. Paul Hamlyn Foundation is making...