My Black Shuck Lament will be premiered by tenor Allan Clayton and a string quintet from the Dunedin Consort, at the Aldeburgh Festival on 21 June: Black Shuck Lament uses two texts, cut up, re-ordered, and intermingled: firstly, a poem by me made from fragments of...

I'm writing a new work for tenor Allan Clayton and a string quintet from the Dunedin Consort, to be premiered at the Aldeburgh Festival on 21 June. I'll be taking phrases from the Book of Lamentations and making a new text out of them (as...