My String Quartet No. 2 is being given its UK premiere this 6 July at Clare O'Connell's Behind the Mirror concert series in Berkhamsted. The musicians are Clare on cello, with Jonathan Morton (violin), Clio Gould (violin), and Oliver Wilson (viola). They're playing it alongside Debussy's String...

The Adelphi Quartet are giving the world premiere of my String Quartet No. 2, at Switzerland's Lucerne Festival on 10 September. Here's the programme note: Friedrich Fröbel’s ‘Gifts’ were sets of wooden educational toys for young children. Simple shapes (cubes, triangles, balls on string) could be combined...