Posted on 16 Jan 2014

I have been commissioned, with funds from the William Alwyn Foundation, to write a piece for the Britten Sinfonia for their 2014/15 season. The piece, scored for string orchestra, will be premiered in March 2015 in concerts at Cambridge's West Road Concert Hall, Norwich's Theatre Royal, and the Barbican's Milton Court Concert Hall in London. All concerts will feature Thomas...

Posted on 07 Jan 2014

My piece Codex (Homage to Serafini), performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Garry Walker, was broadcast on BBC Radio 3 this Saturday the 11th of January. The programme is the BBC's weekly contemporary music programme Hear and Now, and also features music by Ben Oliver, Aaron Holloway-Nahum and Robin Holloway, as well as interviews with all of us...

Posted on 04 Nov 2013

For the past year, I have been in residence with the BBC Symphony Orchestra as part of the Embedded scheme run by Sound and Music, and on Thursday 14 November my new 12-minute piece for the orchestra, Codex (Homage to Serafini), will receive its premiere. Garry Walker will conduct my piece at BBC's Maida Vale Studios, alongside new works written...

Posted on 13 Aug 2013

I have been commissioned by the Bangor New Music Festival to write a chamber orchestra piece for the Orchestra of the Swan conducted by their director David Curtis. The piece will celebrate the 450th anniversary of Shakespeare's birth, and will be performed during the festival on 14 March 2014 alongside a new violin concerto by Guto Puw and pieces by...

Posted on 11 Jul 2013

For the past 10 days I've been in Aldeburgh at the Contemporary Composition course, working with Oliver Knussen, Colin Matthews and Michael Gandolfi. I've been writing a short piece for 15 players entitled 'Rainbow-Shooting Cloud Contraption', after one of the inventions in Luigi Serafini's Codex Seraphinianus (the image to the right is, of course, the contraption in question). Tomorrow it'll be...

Posted on 19 Jun 2013

Ahead of the premiere of Four Perpetual Motions by members of the Philharmonia Orchestra a week on Thursday, I have written a blog post for the Royal Philharmonic Society, who commissioned the work. It's on flippancy and music – and how I attempted to write Four Perpetual Motions with some of that tone. …Flippancy, especially as expressed in art, is a kind of...