Posted on 13 Jul 2022

The beautiful Musikdorf Ernen festival in Switzerland is starting this month, and I am Composer-in-Residence for the 2022 festival. I've written two new pieces being premiered – a new horn trio and a reworking of a viol piece by Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe for five lower strings. In addition, three earlier pieces of mine will be performed: Pianist Sergey Tanin performs Inventions...

Posted on 10 Jun 2022

Violet, my opera with Alice Birch, was premiered last Friday to open the Aldeburgh Festival, directed by Jude Christian – cast, creative team and technical team did such a beautiful job, and I've been blown away by the response. Below are a few extracts from reviews, and some images of the production. Set design is by Rosie Elnile, costume by...

Posted on 24 May 2022

[gallery type="rectangular" columns="3" size="full" ids="18200,18201,18208,18207,18206,18202,18203,18221,18222,18223,18224,18225,18226,18227,18228"] Some new details on my upcoming opera, Violet, with writer Alice Birch, which is premiering at the Aldeburgh Festival on the 3 June. The wonderful cast and creative team for the project have been working hard in rehearsals in London, and have now traveled to Snape to work on the stage. Above are a few photographs from...

Posted on 18 Apr 2022

O Ecclesia is being performed by Jonathan Morton at Glasgow's Barrowland Ballroom this Thursday 21 April, with an orchestra made up from players of the Scottish Ensemble, Ensemble Resonanz & Trondheim Soloists. It's the opening night of the new festival The Bridge, which brings together the three ensembles for a series of concerts around Glasgow. Daniel Pioro and I made the violin...

Posted on 30 Mar 2022

Some new details on my upcoming opera, Violet, with writer Alice Birch: I couldn't be more delighted with our cast and creative team for the project – our director is Jude Christian, working with designer Rosie Elnile and costume designer Cécile Trémolières. Andrew Gourlay will act as music director, conducting the London Sinfonietta. Our cast is: Anna Dennis (Violet – soprano), Richard Burkhard (Felix – baritone),...

Posted on 18 Mar 2022

Two discs featuring my music are being released on the same day next week, on Friday 25 March: Fenella Humphreys's Caprices album is out on Rubicon Classics. She performs my Études I-IV for solo violin wonderfully, in a massive virtuosic grab-bag of an album: caprices and studies by Paganini, Bacewicz, Freya Waley-Cohen, Oliver Leith, Kreisler, Roxanna Panufnik, Laurence Osborn, Mark O’Connor, Errollyn...