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...
May 10, 2022 | News and events, Uncategorized
COMING September 11 ‘The Dong with a Luminous Nose’ (performance version) Steve Dummer, clarinet , Aidan Smith, baritone with mime artist, Tête à Tête Opera, Cockpit Theatre, London September 17 ‘Veiled Lightning’ (organ) David Stevens, All Saints, Hove October 20...
Apr 24, 2022 | News and events, Uncategorized
“Their heads are green, and their hands are blue …” Looking for a mime or dancer to create – for a London performance this September – the role of the Jumbly Girl in a 15-minute staged version of Edward Lear’s tragic love story ‘The Dong...
Oct 10, 2021 | News and events, Uncategorized
On October 14th, Ellen Blackshaw (violin) and Yoko Ono (piano) performed my ‘Nocturne’ and ‘Cortège?’ at All Saints church, Hove. Both pieces are based on poems by the Spanish surrealist poet Federico García Lorca. The ‘Nocturne’...
Oct 9, 2021 | News and events, Uncategorized
Originally written for five flutes but now taking advantage of the wider spectrum offered by strings, these three miniatures for string quintet are in a nostalgically American mood: ‘Late Nights’, ‘Big Skies’ and ‘Train...
