Canon and Toccata
A new slow, winding, passionate introduction is added to my Toccata for two violins which has a dizzy ending!
Hear it on Soundcloud
Period Pieces
Written in lockdown, these four short keyboard pieces follow an imagined baroque suite in form (Allemande, Courante, Sarabande and Gigue) but not in style: not quite old and not quite new! PDF available from me.
Hear the Gigue on Soundcloud
BoBop
Fenella Humphries included a superb performance of my ‘BoBop’ for solo violin in her lockdown concert on 5th July, together with pieces by Biber and Schubert and the premiere of ‘Caged Bird’ by Alison Berry. See it all on YouTube at
bit.ly/fenellaconcert19
(Bobop starts at about 34′)
A Winner!
Great review of the Simplicius CD in MusicWeb International!
“A varied and affecting programme of music by a rarely recorded contemporary British composer … Claudio Records has come up with a winner here. The music is involving and interesting, the performances very good and the recording outstanding …. makes a good case for saying more Hawkins please”
http://johnhawkinsmusic.co.uk/simplicius-music-for-clarinet-cd/
Odd Ode
In a poetic palinode the writer retracts a view expressed in an earlier piece … but, sadly, like so many other events, the May 27th performance in the wonderful St Anne’s concert series of my own ‘Palinode’ quintet has had to be temporarily retracted!
John Hawkins studied composition with Malcolm Williamson and Elisabeth Lutyens. He has written a wide range of chamber, vocal, choral and orchestral pieces, which have been performed worldwide.