Jan 11, 2023 | News and events, Uncategorized
My new short piano piece ‘Escape’ is one of three new works commissioned by pianist Nancy Cooley for her concert in support of the charity Freedom From Torture on 5 February. The recital was a sold-out success raising £3500 for the...
Oct 10, 2022 | News and events, Uncategorized
My brass quintet ‘A Walk with Ingres’ Wife’ is now available from Edition Skellton. Why the title? The first issue (June 1914) of the Vorticist movement’s journal ’Blast’ included an article by it’s editor Wyndham Lewis claiming that the wife of classicist...
Oct 3, 2022 | News and events, Uncategorized
On November 4th the Stane Street Sinfonietta played my ‘Another Orpheus’ for string orchestra in Horsham where the poet Shelley was born. The concert is part of a series devoted to the 200th anniversary of Shelley’s death. The title comes his drama ‘Hellas’...
Sep 22, 2022 | News and events, Uncategorized
Tête à Tête Opera made an excellent video of the first performance of ‘The Dong with a Luminous Nose’ which can be seen here with Steve Dummer, Aidan Smith and Eline Pérès in full...
Sep 12, 2022 | News and events, Uncategorized
On September 11th ‘The Dong with a Luminous Nose’ got its first staged outing as a performance piece with Eline Peres as mime/dancer, Steve Dummer (clarinet) and Aidan Smith (voice) at the Cockpit Theatre, London as part the Tête à Tête Opera festival....
Sep 3, 2022 | News and events, Uncategorized
On 2nd September viola duo Peter Mallinson and Matthias Wiesner gave an astonishingly wide-ranging concert – from Shostakovich to Frank Bridge and including my own ‘At Two’ which they commissioned and recorded on their Meridian Records CD ‘A Tale of...
