The Radio Filharmonisch Orkest, conducted by Martyn Brabbins, gave the Dutch premiere of Sonnet Machine in a concert at Amsterdam's Concertgebouw on Saturday as part of the Holland Festival. You can now hear the broadcast on NPO Radio 4, alongside music by George Benjamin (Sometime Voices, Dance Figures and...
The Radio Filharmonisch Orkest will give the Dutch premiere of Sonnet Machine in a concert at Amsterdam's Concertgebouw in June as part of the Holland Festival. The concert will be conducted by Martyn Brabbins, and will focus on the music of George Benjamin (his own Sometime Voices, Dance Figures and...
Sonnet Machine is receiving its public premiere at the weekend courtesy of the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, alongside a couple of radio broadcasts on BBC Radio 3. In chronological order, then: on Friday 22nd at 9.30pm and as a part of their Shakespeare 400 celebrations, Radio 3...
The BBC Philharmonic Orchestra are in their studios in Manchester next week recording my new piece Sonnet Machine for radio broadcast, conducted by Andrew Gourlay. It will first be first heard in concert on the 23 April at Manchester's Bridgewater Hall, alongside Prokofiev's Romeo & Juliet...
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 have been commissioned by BBC Radio 3 and the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra to write music for a new radio play by Vivienne Franzmann, and to turn the music into a standalone orchestral work which will be performed by the BBC Philharmonic. Five composer/playwright pairings are...