Philip Bates Prize – 4th November

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 can be seen here. Click here for info and tickets.

In other news, my ‘Étude in Glissandi‘ will receive two performances in Romania next week, courtesy of the Vox Novus Composers Voice concert series. It was performed in that series in New York by Conway Kuo in May, and will now be performed by Daniel Mihai at the National College of Art ‘Regina Maria’, Constanta on the 1st November and the George Enescu University of Music, Bucharest on the 3rd.