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Posted on 13 Jun 2025

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 the Book of Lamentations – anguished in tone but largely without the religious context. Secondly,...

Posted on 02 Jun 2025

Scottish Ensemble are touring their 'Concerts for a Summer's Night' programme around six Scottish venues this June, including my Prelude (after Monsieur de Sainte Colombe). Scored for 2 violas, 2 celli and double bass, it's my reworking of a solo viol piece by St Colombe, and was commissioned for the Musikdorf Ernen when I was Composer-in-Residence there in 2022. It has...

Posted on 24 Apr 2025

The 2025 BBC Proms will see the premiere of Monologues for the Curious, my new work for tenor Allan Clayton and the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. The concert will be on the 21 July at the London's Royal Albert Hall, with John Storgårds conducting. The orchestra are also performing Mahler's Seventh Symphony, and it'll all be broadcast live on BBC Radio...

Posted on 20 Apr 2025

The ORA Singers are giving the world premiere of Souling, my first piece purely for choir. They'll perform it at Manchester's Stoller Hall on 29 April, alongside a great number of recent and ancient pieces, worked around Jonathan Dove's 'The Passing of the Year'. My piece was commissioned as a response to Byrd's Justorum Animae, and its association with the feast...

Posted on 10 Apr 2025

The Philharmonia are playing my La Follia in a concert at London's Roundhouse theatre on 16 April, in a concert featuring kora player Sona Jobarteh. La Follia is a very free arrangement/orchestration of Vivaldi's trio sonata of the same name. It was premiered by BBC Philharmonic Orchestra in 2021, and has also been performed by Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, Manchester Camerata...

Posted on 02 Mar 2025

My Gymnopediés are being given their Australian premiere by the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra conducted by David Sharp. They'll perform it twice – on the 7th and 8th March, at their Grainger Studio. Also on the programme are Toru Takemitsu's How Slow the Wind, Aaron Copland's Quiet City, and Arvo Pärt's Sequentia. The Gymnopédies were originally written for piano during lockdown 2020. I...

Posted on 15 Feb 2025

12 Ensemble are giving the UK premiere of my Prelude (after Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe) for 2 violas, 2 celli and double bass, at London's Wigmore Hall on 25 February. They're performing it alongside cellist Max Ruisi's arrangements of Bach's Komm, süsser Tod, komm selge Ruh and Brahms' String Quartet in C Min, Oliver Coates' One Without, and Britten's Lachrymae with violist Timothy Ridout. The piece reworks a...

Posted on 02 Jan 2025

My album Pieces that Disappear was released in November on NMC Recordings, and it has been featured in a number of reviews. It features four pieces, all performed by the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra – Beautiful Caged Thing and After Lassus (both with soprano Anna Dennis), Three Pieces that Disappear, and Pleasure Garden, with violinist Daniel Pioro. Buy it from NMC or stream on...

Posted on 17 Dec 2024

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 I have done with texts a number of times), and perhaps sprinkling some local Sussex...