Having given the world premiere of Three Pieces that Disappear, the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra are in the studio next week with soprano Anna Dennis to record a programme I've devised, for a live Radio 3 broadcast on 28 April. The pieces are all about mirrors and...
The score for my Four Perpetual Motions for ten players is now on sale from Faber Music. I'm very grateful to the estate of László Moholy-Nagy for allowing me to use his wonderful painting Komposition A XXI on the cover. The piece was commissioned by the...
The Aldeburgh Festival is happening this month, and my new orchestral song cycle will be premiered on the 13 June by soprano Claire Booth with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra conducted by George Benjamin. For Beautiful Caged Thing, commissioned by the festival, I have extracted lines and...
From today, I am starting a residency hosted by the Britten-Pears Foundation at the former home of Imogen Holst (pictured here with Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears) in Aldeburgh, Suffolk. I will be staying in the property, located at Church Walk in the centre of...
I'm delighted to have been commissioned by Aldeburgh Music to write an orchestral song cycle for the 2015 Aldeburgh Festival, to be premiered by soprano Claire Booth with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra conducted by George Benjamin. The programme will also feature Wagner's Siegried Idyll, Benjamin's...