My Black Shuck Lament will be performed by tenor Guy Cutting and the strings of the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra directed by Zoë Beyers, at the Royal Northern College of Music on 16 October, at a concert called 'British Iconoclasts', also featuring music by Byrd, Britten,...

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...