The Dong

The Dong with a Luminous Nose is a new setting of the surprisingly lyrical, and sad, Edward Lear poem – much more than mere nonsense! The setting is for baritone and solo clarinet, with an alternative version for soprano voice and soprano saxophone. (c. 10...

2017/8

2017 was a busy year with performances of my Clarinet Sonata (clarinet and piano), Silk Road  (voice and string quartet), Sonata Serenata (flute and piano), Lost in Translation (piano solo), Divisibility (COMA ensemble), Urizen (viola and piano), Like the Touch of...

Kiss me on Wednesday

Two of the cabaret songs written by me and lyricist Alison Rutherford get their first outing on December 9th, sung by the wonderful Katherine Glasson. ‘Too Old to Fall in Love (Too Young to Believe it)’ and ‘When We Were Young’ come from our...

Marcel Morceaux

A piano recital by Yuri Patterson-Olenich with Evgenia Startseva on Saturday November 18th features pieces by several New Music Brighton composers including the premiere of my three ’Marcel Morceaux’. For the faint-hearted, there will be pre-concert discussion with...

Fire works

On November 5th the wonderful Piatti Quartet played my ‘Fuzon’ at the Hampstead Garden Suburb Chamber Music Festival. An auspicious day for William Blake’s Fuzon who “On spiked flames rose, his hot visage flam’d furious”.  This...

Tri-ing at the Guildhall

The Guildhall School of Music viola day on Wed 25th October included my ‘Gestures’ viola duo and my viola sextet ‘Tri’ performed by a group of postgraduates to finish off the day.