The BBC Philharmonic Orchestra and Daniel Pioro, conducted by Elena Schwarz, gave a fantastic world premiere of Pleasure Garden in a concert at Manchester's Bridgewater Hall on Saturday. You can now hear the broadcast on BBC Radio 3, alongside music by Kurt Weill (Symphony No. 2) and Maurice Ravel (Ma mère de l'oye). Click the link below to hear the...
Daniel Pioro is performing our collaborative arrangement of Hildegard von Bingen's O Ecclesia twice in the next month. Daniel and the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra are giving the public premiere on 13 November at Leeds Town Hall, in a programme with Edmund Finnis' The Centre is Everything, and Vivaldi's Four Seasons. That'll be broadcast on BBC Radio 3 at some point soon. Then...
My new violin concerto for Daniel Pioro, Pleasure Garden, is being performed next week by Daniel and the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Elena Schwarz. The world premiere happens at Manchester's Bridgewater Hall on 6 November, and the orchestra will also be filming a performance, without an audience, for broadcast – more details to follow. There'll be a broadcast on...
Firstly, The Hermes Experiment will give the premiere of my new commission for them, I Find Planets, at London's King's Place this Sunday 26 September, alongside pieces from their second album 'SONG' on Delphian Records, and other things they've commissioned – stuff by Barbara Strozzi, Clara Schumann, Philip Venables, Laura Moody, Robin Haigh, Soosan Lolavar, Ayanna Witter-Johnson, Emily Hall, Olivia...
Psappha are playing Two Games and a Nocturne in a concert at Manchester's Hallé St Peters on 8 October as part of their 30th birthday celebrations, and outgoing artistic director Tim Williams' last season. The concert also features music by Adam Gorb, Philip Rousiamanis, Nina Whiteman, Bofan Ma, Michael Betteridge and Tom Harrold. They are also recording the piece for a disc released...
Last week I was at the beautiful Musikdorf Ernen festival in Switzerland, where I will be Composer-in-Residence for the 2022 festival. I'll be writing a new piece for horn trio (horn, violin & piano), and a number of my earlier chamber pieces will be performed. I'm very grateful to pianist and artistic director Alasdair Beatson for inviting me to...
The Oxford Lieder Festival have announced their 2021 programme, and I have four pieces programmed, having been the 'Albi Rosenthal Visiting Fellow in Music' at Oxford University's Bodleian Libraries. On 18 October, soprano Anna Dennis and pianist John Reid are premiering Wholesome Counsels, a new piece that sets texts I've made out of material in the Bodleian Library's John Johnson collection of 'Ephemera'...
I'm delighted to have been awarded a Paul Hamlyn Award for Composers for 2021, alongside 19 other composers and 20 visual artists. The 40 of us share a funding pot of £1 million, to support our work. It almost goes without saying how wonderful it is to feel supported like this after such a difficult period. Paul Hamlyn Foundation is making...
I couldn't be more thrilled to be taking up the role of Composer-in-Association with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra for the next few years. I'll write three major pieces, the first of which, Pleasure Garden for violin and orchestra with Daniel Pioro as soloist, was due to be premiered last summer and should be rescheduled later this year. Aside from the three commissions, there may...