Three performances this month of some chamber works of mine this month: The Davidoff Trio perform my Piano Trio "The Chronophage" on 11 September as part of Musikdorf Ernen in Switzerland, the festival where I've been Composer-in-Residence this year. This will be the piece's Swiss premiere...
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...
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...
London Sinfonietta principal violinist Jonathan Morton played my Études Nos. 3 & 4 brilliantly on an online broadcast today, and we both spoke with Zoe Martlew about the pieces and various other matters… You can watch the broadcast on YouTube – Jon also plays Caroline Shaw's beautiful...
The programme for the Aldeburgh Festival 2020 has been announced, and several of my works will be performed: Firstly, Britten Sinfonia, conducted by Ryan Wigglesworth, will perform my string orchestra piece My Curves are not Mad in the festival's opening concert in Bury St Edmund's St...
Violinist Fenella Humphreys is including my Études I-IV in her 'Caprices' project, to be performed at various concerts around the UK in the coming months, and recorded for a new CD. Fenella is running a crowdfunding campaign for the recording of this album, with many rewards on offer. Find out...
A brief roundup of some recent performances: The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Cristian Măcelaru, performed my Codex (Homage to Serafini) at London's Cadogan Hall last month. The performance is supported by the PRS for Music Foundation's Resonate scheme, which supports repeat performances of British orchestral works – the BBC Symphony Orchestra did it in 2013. A...
As part of my post as Visiting Fellow Commoner in the Creative Arts at Trinity College Cambridge, I've curated a pair of concerts at the college in early 2019, featuring music by me alongside other interesting pieces… Firstly, the Fidelio Trio will perform on 6 February, and...
You can now buy the scores of my Études for solo violin (2010/2014) from the Faber Music Store. As always, I'm grateful to the peerless editorial team at Faber Music. The first two of the Études were written for Sarah Hill and first performed by her in Manchester in 2010, while...
The London Sinfonietta are 50 years old in 2018, having given their first concert on January 24 1968. They're celebrating this anniversary with a concert at the Royal Festival Hall featuring Harrison Birtwistle's The Message, Stravinsky's Octet, Ligeti's Chamber Concerto, a new work by Samantha Fernando and Hans Abrahamsen's Left, alone. The concert will...