The Candle is being performed on Tuesday at the RNCM, as part of Sing Ariel: The Music of Alexander Goehr. It's a joint concert between Vaganza, the University of Manchester's new music ensemble, and the RNCM's New Ensemble. Vaganza's Olivia Howie (alto), Olivia Jageurs and Naomi Lewis (harps) and Ali Vennart (viola) will perform my work, and Vaganza will also...
The University of Manchester 3rd-year recitals are this week at the Martin Harris Centre for Music and Drama. Olivia Jageurs gives the premiere of Harfenstück this Thursday June 3rd at 17:00 in a programme for harp that also covers Fauré, Bach, Berio and fellow Manchester composer Josh Spear. Then the day after on Friday 4th, Sarah Hill is playing the...
Violinist Michael Jones and an ensemble of eleven University of Manchester students recorded Acheronta Movebo on Wednesday. You can now see a video of the performance, which I was very pleased with: Of course, that video will live in the Video section, and the audio has been put in the composition's page in the Works & Audio section. I've also put...
I'm giving a talk at the University of Manchester on the 13th May about my recent undergraduate dissertation, titled 'This Is Our Music: Black Music & White America'. I'll be briefly outlining aspects of the study, which looks at the evolution of black music – from minstrelsy to free jazz via blues, bebop and rock & roll – against the...
A new work of mine, Acheronta Movebo, will be recorded at an informal concert at the University of Manchester on the 5th of May. It is essentially a mini concerto for violin and ensemble of eleven (that is, a violin concerto that's mini, not a concerto for mini violin…). It was written for violinist Michael Jones, who he will be...
The magnificent Raise Your Voice Collective will be giving the premiere of a new piece of mine, Avian Riots, for flute, clarinet and string quartet. The concert is on the 14th May at Centro Bar in Manchester, and is part of the FutureEverything Festival. Raise Your Voice are a Manchester ensemble who had their first performance in February, bringing contemporary music...
It's the third-year recitals at the University of Manchester in June, with two pieces of mine being played. Sarah Hill is playing the Two Études for Solo Violin on the 4th June alongside Ravel and Bartók, while on the 3rd June Olivia Jageurs gives the premiere of Harfenstück in a programme for harp that also covers Fauré, Bach, Berio and...
The Candle is getting two performances in the coming months - one at the York Spring Festival on the 16th of May, one at the RNCM on the 8th June at a concert celebrating the work of Alexander Goehr. Both concerts will also feature a work by University of Manchester masters student Chris Swithinbank. Both performances will see Vaganza's Olivia Howie...
Welcome to my new website. On this homepage I'll be posting news of performances, new pieces and so on, and you can use the menu above to navigate to see and hear past works and various other goodies… Any feedback would be much appreciated. Have a look round…...