News

Posted on 18 Apr 2022

O Ecclesia is being performed by Jonathan Morton at Glasgow's Barrowland Ballroom this Thursday 21 April, with an orchestra made up from players of the Scottish Ensemble, Ensemble Resonanz & Trondheim Soloists. It's the opening night of the new festival The Bridge, which brings together the three ensembles for a series of concerts around Glasgow. Daniel Pioro and I made the violin...

Posted on 30 Mar 2022

Some new details on my upcoming opera, Violet, with writer Alice Birch: I couldn't be more delighted with our cast and creative team for the project – our director is Jude Christian, working with designer Rosie Elnile and costume designer Cécile Trémolières. Andrew Gourlay will act as music director, conducting the London Sinfonietta. Our cast is: Anna Dennis (Violet – soprano), Richard Burkhard (Felix – baritone),...

Posted on 18 Mar 2022

Two discs featuring my music are being released on the same day next week, on Friday 25 March: Fenella Humphreys's Caprices album is out on Rubicon Classics. She performs my Études I-IV for solo violin wonderfully, in a massive virtuosic grab-bag of an album: caprices and studies by Paganini, Bacewicz, Freya Waley-Cohen, Oliver Leith, Kreisler, Roxanna Panufnik, Laurence Osborn, Mark O’Connor, Errollyn...

Posted on 04 Feb 2022

Violinist Darragh Morgan gave the public premiere of my Études Nos. 5 & 6 as part of London Sinfonietta's Live Online event last night. You can watch the performance, and a short discussion between me and Zoë Martlew about them, above – my bit starts at 1h05m. The event also features Zoë talking to various other composers – Steve Reich,...

Posted on 15 Dec 2021

The programme for the Aldeburgh Festival 2021 has been announced, and several of my works will be performed: My opera Violet, written with writer Alice Birch and directed by Jude Christian, will have its world premiere performances on the opening weekend in the Snape Maltings Hall on the 3rd & 5th of June, with the London Sinfonietta conducted by Andrew Gourlay. The fantastic...

Posted on 12 Nov 2021

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...

Posted on 11 Nov 2021

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...

Posted on 18 Oct 2021

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...

Posted on 21 Sep 2021

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...