Mar 4, 2017 | News and events
The poet Edward Thomas was killed in action at Arras on 9 April 1917. He had lived in Steep near Petersfield so, on March 17th as part of the Petersfield Musical Festival, there was a centenary concert with readings and settings of his poems given by many...
Feb 20, 2017 | News and events
Flautist Nancy Ruffer and pianist Dominic Saunders included the first performance of my ‘Sonata Serenata’ in their recital at St John’s Hampstead on Wednesday 1st March. The ‘Serenata’ of the title is slightly ironic as, although the...
Feb 14, 2017 | News and events
Multi-award winning violist Timothy Ridout (winner of the Lionel Tertis International Viola Competition 2016, 1st Prize at the 2014 Cecil Aronowitz and Violin Channel Young Artist of the week, July 2016) will be including ‘Urizen’ in his March tour of Scotland...
Feb 6, 2017 | News and events
What started a long time ago as ’50 Songs for the over 50s’ has now been more realistically subtitled ‘Seven Songs for Grownups’ ! With brilliantly wry, wise and witty words by Alison Rutherford, this is a collection of more-or-less-cabaret...
Jan 31, 2017 | News and events
Following its premiere at Chapel Royal, Brighton, my Clarinet Sonata has had several performances with Steve Dummer (Clarinet) and Yoko Ono (piano). Meanwhile I typeset my Concerto for Clarinet and Strings (written, like the Sonata in the 1970s!) which was given its...
Jan 20, 2017 | News and events
On the 20th February in Kingston will be the first performances of an extraordinary dual commission: myself and Cecilia McDowall setting the same poem. The poem, ‘The Silk Road’ by Sarah Pope, was commissioned, like the music, by violist and music...
