For the last week or so I've been resident at the St Magnus Composers Course in Orkney, where I've been receiving tuition from Alasdair Nicolson and Sally Beamish. As well as preparing a quintet for the Gemini Ensemble, I've had workshops on two short pieces...
Next week will see premieres of two short pieces of mine. On Monday 21st, Helen Tonge of the Rivoli String Quartet and pianist Richard Whalley will premiere 'Limp' at a lunchtime recital at St. Werburgh's Church in Manchester. The concert is part of the annual...
Thursday sees the premiere of my new piece for the Lancashire Sinfonietta at the Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts' Great Hall. The orchestra is conducted by the Endellion Quartet's Andrew Watkinson who as well as conducting my piece and Mozart's 40th Symphony, will also...
My Piano Trio "The Chronophage" has won the Third Angle Ensemble's New Ideas in Music Competition. The Third Angle Ensemble, from Portland Oregon, will now premiere the work in their 26th and 27th April concerts at the Lincoln Recital Hall at Portland State University. The...
Having been travelling to Milan over the last few months as part of the Niccolò Castiglioni Prize, I have now been selected for the final of the competition, and will write a chamber work for members of Trio Magritte and clarinettist Paolo Beltramini. The piece...
Seven Face Pictures won a Philip Bates Prize at Birmingham Conservatoire a few weeks ago. The prize was awarded by the Philip Bates Trust after a great performance by Georgina Stalbow, Alice Purton and Agatha Yim (members of Opera Viscera) at the Conservatoire's Recital Hall....
Seven Face Pictures has been selected for the final of the Philip Bates Prize for vocal composition, and will be performed by members of Opera Viscera (Georgina Stalbow, Alice Purton and Agatha Yim) at Birmingham Conservatoire's Recital Hall on the 4th November. Last year's prize...
On Sunday 23rd October I will conduct Opera Viscera in the sixth performance of Narcissus & Echo. We have been selected for the 'Rough For Opera' platform run by opera group Second Movement. The evening, held at London's Cockpit Theatre, sees three new works...
Two upcoming events to tell you about. On Saturday pianist Andrew Wilson-Dickson will workshop a short new piece of mine at Cardiff's Canton Uniting Church, as part of the Primavera Crossing Borders day. 'Graham's Orrery' is the name of my piece, and you can read...
I have been selected as a candidate for the inaugural Niccolò Castiglioni Prize, run by the Centro Culturale San Fedele in association with the Edizioni Suvini Zerboni. I will be attending a series of weekends in Milan to receive tuition from composers including Helmut Lachenmann,...