Obviously like any artist I've had a lot of events cancelled. I'll keep an updated list of cancellations here – clearly anything not currently listed as cancelled is under consideration…some may be rearranged, some won't be unfortunately. Violet, my new chamber opera, was due to have its premiere at the Aldeburgh Festival in June, which is now cancelled, as is...
My set of orchestrations of Robert Schumann's Studies in Canonic Form Op. 56 will be performed a couple of times this month – a selection of movements played by Britten Sinfonia Academy at Cambridge's Fitzwilliam Museum on the 15th, and the full set by the Oxford Sinfonia on the 28th, at the University Church of St Mary the Virgin, conducted by...
The Quatuor Diotima gave the French premiere of my String Quartet on Saturday 8, as part of Paris' Festival Présences. You can now hear the broadcast on France Musique – click the link below to hear the concert. My piece begins at 3 mins 30s. The piece was written for the Arditti Quartet in 2018, for a concert in memory of...
Quatuor Diotima will give the French premiere of my String Quartet on 8 February in Paris, as part of Radio France's Festival Présences. It will be performed alongside Tristan Murail's Sogni, ombre et fumi, Oscar Bianchi's String Quartet No. 3, and Augusta Reed Thomas' octet for string quartet and percussion, Moon Chariot Rituals. The free concert is at 6pm at the Auditorium de Radio...
The programme for the Aldeburgh Festival 2020 has been announced, and several of my works will be performed: Firstly, Britten Sinfonia, conducted by Ryan Wigglesworth, will perform my string orchestra piece My Curves are not Mad in the festival's opening concert in Bury St Edmund's St Edmundsbury Cathedral. They commissioned the piece and toured it in 2015. My opera Violet, written...
Violinist Fenella Humphreys is including my Études I-IV in her 'Caprices' project, to be performed at various concerts around the UK in the coming months, and recorded for a new CD. Fenella is running a crowdfunding campaign for the recording of this album, with many rewards on offer. Find out more and donate by clicking here. She will also be playing newly commissioned pieces by Laurence...
Adam Swayne of the Riot Ensemble will give the world premiere of my new set of piano pieces, Inventions (for Heath Robinson), on 2 August. The pieces will be performed at Riot's gig at the Petworth Festival in Sussex, alongside a new ensemble piece by Terence Allbright and works by Ann Cleare, Gabriella Smith, Cassandra Miller, Paul Burnell and Klaus Huber. In advance of the concert, I...
A brief roundup of some recent performances: The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Cristian Măcelaru, performed my Codex (Homage to Serafini) at London's Cadogan Hall last month. The performance is supported by the PRS for Music Foundation's Resonate scheme, which supports repeat performances of British orchestral works – the BBC Symphony Orchestra did it in 2013. A couple of weeks before, the SOL Quartet gave a recital in Water Into Beer, literally...
As part of my post as Visiting Fellow Commoner in the Creative Arts at Trinity College Cambridge, I've curated a pair of concerts at the college in early 2019, featuring music by me alongside other interesting pieces… Firstly, the Fidelio Trio will perform on 6 February, and will perform my Piano Trio "The Chronophage", alongside Piano Trio Two by Judith Weir (a...