Watch Darragh Morgan perform Études V & VI
Violinist Darragh Morgan gave the public premiere of my Études Nos. 5 & 6 as part of London Sinfonietta's Live Online event last night. You can watch the performance, and a short discussion between me and Zoë Martlew about them, above – my bit starts at 1h05m. The event also features Zoë talking to various other composers – Steve Reich,...
Violet and more at Aldeburgh Festival 2022
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...
Listen to ‘Pleasure Garden’ on BBC Radio 3
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...
Daniel Pioro ‘O Ecclesia’ with BBC Phil & RNCM, Hermes Experiment play ‘I Find Planets’
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...
‘Pleasure Garden’ – violin concerto for Daniel Pioro & BBC
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...
Hermes Experiment premiere: I Find Planets
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...