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# John Hawkins Music

John Hawkins composer of classical music

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- [Serenata](https://johnhawkinsmusic.co.uk/2026/06/11/serenata/) - Brilliant performance of my 'Sonata Serenata' by Klio Blonz (flute) and Jane Beament (piano) at NMB, Brighton on 6th June
- [Blake Visions](https://johnhawkinsmusic.co.uk/2026/04/23/blake-visions/) - Recording sessions with the London Piano Quartet and Piatti Quartet are now complete for the forthcoming 'Blake Visions' CD. It will include several of my William Blake inspired chamber music pieces ('Urizen', 'Fuzon' and 'Orc') plus the song cycle 'Portions of Eternity' with soprano April Fredrick.
- [Clarinet Sonata](https://johnhawkinsmusic.co.uk/2026/04/02/clarinet-sonata-2/) - On May 1st, Philip Edwards (clarinet) and David Elwin (piano) will be including my Sonata in their fascinating programme which includes pieces by Cahuzac, Gade and Baermann at the beautiful Holy Trinity Church, Cuckfield, Sussex 1.10 pm.
- [Visionary](https://johnhawkinsmusic.co.uk/2026/01/05/visionary/) - My 'Blake Visions' which was premiered by the London Piano Quartet last year will be repeated by them at the Nicholas Yonge Society on January 30th. https://www.nyslewes.org.uk/30-Jan-2026.html The score is available from me as PDF https://johnhawkinsmusic.co.uk/contact/
- [Unwinding](https://johnhawkinsmusic.co.uk/2025/12/04/2819/) - First performed by Hannah Shilvock in September this year, Skellton Edition has just published my 'Ariadne' for bass clarinet and piano.
- [Record event](https://johnhawkinsmusic.co.uk/2025/11/21/record-event/) - In a freezing Brighton yesterday, the Piatti quartet managed to record my ‘Stranger, Lover, Dancer’ (cello solo), ’Fuzon’ string quartet and ‘Orc’ (violin duo). Brilliant playing towards a forthcoming CD of my music related to Williams Blake.
- [Six violas?](https://johnhawkinsmusic.co.uk/2025/11/15/six-violas/) - A powerful and very expressive performance on 10 November of my 'Tri' for 6 violas by brilliant young players from the Guildhall School of Music at their Viola Day. A great occasion!
- [Short and ...](https://johnhawkinsmusic.co.uk/2025/10/27/short-and/) - My three ‘Short Preludes’ for piano were performed (brilliantly) by Karen Kingsley on 11 October at Brighton Friends’ Meeting House. Hear her performance on Soundcloud
- [One thing after another](https://johnhawkinsmusic.co.uk/2025/10/18/one-thing-after-another/) - Wittily, both my ‘Brief Encounters’ (flute and viola) and ‘Disturbed Nights’ (solo Oboe) are played by the Trillium Chamber Players in their concerts in Elizabethtown and Lake Placid, New York on October 18th and 19th.
- [Strange Bridge](https://johnhawkinsmusic.co.uk/2025/10/12/strange-bridge-2/) - On November 2, brilliant young baritone Florian Störtz will be performing my song cycle ‘Strange Bridge’ – one of many setting I have made of WWI poet Edward Thomas’s work. It was first performed in Thomas's home town of Steep. Lewes Festival of Song https://www.lewesfestivalofsong.co.uk/
- [Short, but](https://johnhawkinsmusic.co.uk/2025/09/08/short/) - On October 11, pianist Karen Kingsley will be giving the first performance of my 'Short Preludes' at the Friends' Meeting House in Brighton at 3.00 as part of a New Music Brighton event.
- [Threads](https://johnhawkinsmusic.co.uk/2025/08/11/threads/) - My ‘Ariadne’ for bass clarinet and piano was written for the Hacha Duo: Hannah Shilvock (bass clarinet) and Viola Lenzi piano. It will get its first performance in a New Music Brighton concert on September 6th at 3 pm at St Luke’s, Brighton. They will add oboe and cor anglais played by Catherine Underhill for
- [Both Beauties](https://johnhawkinsmusic.co.uk/2025/07/24/both-beauties/) - On 19 August at 1.10pm at the Chapel Royal, Brighton, Ben Hancox-Lachman and Will Hancox, tenor and piano will be giving the first performance of my 'Both Beauties' a short cycle of songs about music with words by Shakespeare, Herrick, Tennyson and Marvell. Written over 40 years ago, this will be it's first performance! https://johnhawkinsmusic.co.uk/music/
- [Rameau Morceaux](https://johnhawkinsmusic.co.uk/2025/06/27/rameau-morceaux/) - On June 15th the Barefaced Violas gave the first performance of my arrangement for four violas of two Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764) keyboard pieces in a concert which included pieces from Telemann to Debussy!
- [Double Up](https://johnhawkinsmusic.co.uk/2025/04/18/double-up/) - The Argilla Ensemble’s recital on 12 May 6.30 pm at the Royal Academy of Music, will include three of my pieces which feature double bass: ‘Worlds Apart’ (db/pno), ‘Waiting: Tango’ (vla/db) and ’Shadows’ (vla/db/pno) Angela Burgess Recital Hall 6.30 pm, plus pieces by Debussy, Poulenc and Goetz.
- [Crossings](https://johnhawkinsmusic.co.uk/2025/01/28/crossings/) - Crossings for viola and guitar has just been released on a CD of the same name [Ashmont Music 1224] by Patricia McCarty (viola) and Bill Zito (guitar) American Record Guide reviewed it enthusiastically in May 2025 " 'Crossings’ is an excellent addition to the repertoire with a rich variety of moods and textures.”
- [Escape](https://johnhawkinsmusic.co.uk/2025/04/03/escape-2/) - On March 22nd pianist and composer Nathan Williamson included my 'Escape' in a recital in memory of composer Malcolm Lipkin. 'Escape' was originally written for Nancy Cooley to play at a concert in aid of the Freedom from Torture charity. It has since also been performed by Julian Broughton.
- [Mouth Piece](https://johnhawkinsmusic.co.uk/2025/02/21/mouthpiece-2/) - Warwick Music has just published my 'Mouth Piece' (a short bluesy showpiece for trumpet and piano) in sheet music and as PDF adding it to my 'Sonus' (tuba and piano) which they published last year.
- [Ghost of a Flea](https://johnhawkinsmusic.co.uk/2024/12/10/ghost-of-a-flea/) - Very exciting that the London Piano Quartet will be giving the first performance of my 'Blake Visions' Including 'Pity', 'Innocence and Experience' and 'The Ghost of a Flea' in London at the Conway Hall on 26 January 2025. www.conwayhall.org.uk/whats-on/event/london-piano-quartet-2/
- [Shadows to Light](https://johnhawkinsmusic.co.uk/2024/10/14/shadows-to-light-2/) - On 9th October violinist Siân Philipps and William Vann (piano) performed my 'Looking Back' for violin and piano at St James Piccadilly in an intriguing event which also included Matthew Beaumont reading from his recent book 'Nightwalking'. The recital part of the event also included works by Wellesz, Finzi and Vaughan Williams. 'Looking Back' is
- [Sonata Serenata](https://johnhawkinsmusic.co.uk/2024/10/14/sonata-serenata/) - A wonderful performance at the Adur Arts Festival on 13 October of my Sonata Serenata for flute and piano by top players flautist Klio Blonz and pianist Jane Beament.
- [Simplicius live](https://johnhawkinsmusic.co.uk/2024/09/15/simplicius-live/) - My 'Simplicius' for clarinet and string orchestra will get its live premiere on Saturday 28 September 7.00pm at St Mary, Horsham, RH12 1HE Soloist Steve Dummer brilliantly recorded it on Claudio Records CC6045. “Claudio Records has come up with a winner here" [MusicWeb International] !
- [Tuba Mirum](https://johnhawkinsmusic.co.uk/2024/08/29/tuba-mirum/) - Warwick Music have just published my 'Sonus' – (meaning ‘sound’) – a two-and-a-half minute showpiece for tuba and piano, sometimes brilliant and sometimes lyrical.
- [Looking Back](https://johnhawkinsmusic.co.uk/2024/07/25/looking-back-2/) - This wonderful CD by violinist Sian Philipps includes my 'Looking Back'. It has just been enthusiastically reviewed by Jonathan Woolf in MusicWebInternational: "Looking Back is an Orphean piece inspired by the backward glance of the mythical character, its pungent lyricism irradiating the music to fine effect: an admirable, concise work." It was also reviewed in July
- [Bow Bop](https://johnhawkinsmusic.co.uk/2024/05/20/bow-bop/) - BoBop is a 5 minute showpiece for solo violin in Bebop style. Recorded by Thom Gould on his Bach to Parker CD, it has been played many times and most recently in two performances in Brighton by Ellie Blackshaw. A version for viola has been performed in the UK by Yuko Inoue and in the USA
- [Chidiock's End](https://johnhawkinsmusic.co.uk/2023/11/01/chidiocks-end/) - In 1586, having written his own justly famous elegy 'My Prime of Youth', the young Chidiock Tichborne was executed for his part in a plot against Queen Elizabeth 1. On 18 November the brilliant Brass Fusion included my 'Chidiock's End' for brass quintet in a New Music Brighton concert at All Saints in Brighton. A
- [Shadows to Light](https://johnhawkinsmusic.co.uk/2024/04/04/shadows-to-light/) - Violinist Siân Philipps has just released her new CD 'From Shadows to Light' which I'm delighted to say includes my 'Looking Back'. The CD includes music by Grace Williams, Paul Ladmirault, Vaughan Williams, Sally Beamish and Egon Wellesz. CD formats and downloads are on the Claudio label CC6035
- [Seeking Harmony](https://johnhawkinsmusic.co.uk/2024/03/06/seeking-harmony/) - The ‘Seeking Harmony’ recital by pianist and composer Julian Broughton on 24 March at 4pm at the Christian Community, Forest Row will include my ‘Escape’ for piano which was one of three pieces commissioned last year in aid of the ’Freedom from Torture’ charity.
- [Period Pieces video](https://johnhawkinsmusic.co.uk/2024/02/20/period-pieces-video/) - Pianist Yoko Ono has just made a wonderful video of 'Period Pieces' – now available in my YouTube Channel. https://youtu.be/NKPoK0fG5i0?si=sxoQNrkIMAKBAF9q
- [Threnody](https://johnhawkinsmusic.co.uk/2024/01/02/threnody/) - Beginning my 75th year, there will be a concert on 13 January given by Musicians of All Saints at All Saints, Lewes including my 'Threnody' for string orchestra written 50 years ago!
- [Period Pieces](https://johnhawkinsmusic.co.uk/2023/10/24/period-pieces-4/) - Pianist Yoko Ono performed my Period Pieces on Saturday 28 October at St Mary de Haura, Shoreham-by-Sea in the Adur Arts Live festival. Also in the concert were Debussy's 'Childrens' Corner' and 'Estampes' and Chris Gander's 'Haiku for the Four Seasons'.
- [Child's Play](https://johnhawkinsmusic.co.uk/2023/09/10/childs-play/) - In the 1960s Malcolm Williamson wrote a brilliant and popular song cycle on words from Robert Louis Stevenson's 'A Child's Garden of Verses'. This year I was asked by soprano Judy Mackerras to write more songs to go with the Williamson. • The premiere will be on Sunday November 12th at 6.00 pm at St
- [Urizen](https://johnhawkinsmusic.co.uk/2023/09/05/urizen-2/) - On 27 August there was a wonderful performance of 'Urizen' played by Rachel Roberts (viola) and Chris Hopkins (piano) in a typically ingenious programme at the Presteigne Festival. 'Urizen' was also given a brilliant performance in Brighton by Ros Hanson (viola) and Steve Carroll-Turner on 11 June!
- [Clarinet coffee](https://johnhawkinsmusic.co.uk/2023/08/08/clarinet-coffee/) - 'Three Cafés' for clarinet and piano are not too difficult or too serious! 'New York Café, Rio Café and, of course, 'Paris Café.
- [In Time](https://johnhawkinsmusic.co.uk/2023/06/25/in-time/) - Yoko Ono included my 'Period Pieces' for piano in her recital on Wednesday 28th June at St Nicholas church in Brighton. The pieces follow the form of dances from a baroque suite – Allemande, Courante, Sarabande and Gigue. Hear the Gigue on Soundcloud
- [Mimes for one](https://johnhawkinsmusic.co.uk/2023/05/27/2352/) - Yulia Drukh is a truly astonishing clarinettist with many international awards to her name so I’m thrilled that her new CD (available internationally from 9th June) includes my ‘Mimes’ for solo clarinet. Unusually, all the music on the CD is for solo clarinet and features works from the 20th and 21st centuries including a virtuoso
- [Chidiock's End](https://johnhawkinsmusic.co.uk/2023/06/04/chiddiocks-end/) - Chidiock Tichborne was only 24 years old when he was brutally executed by being hanged, drawn, and quartered for his role in the Babington Plot to assassinate Queen Elizabeth I in 1586. His 'Elegy', ('My Prime of Youth is but a Frost of Cares') written on the eve of his execution was sent to his
- [Escape](https://johnhawkinsmusic.co.uk/2023/01/11/escape/) - 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 charity!
- [Adding Up](https://johnhawkinsmusic.co.uk/2022/11/10/adding-up/) - On 18 November the Leto Ensemble (flute, clarinet and piano) gave the first performance of my Adding Up – four movements each of which uses a different interval + its inversion (1+8, 2+7, 3+6 and 4+5). 'Adding Up' was originally written only for flute and clarinet but the trio version, without changing the flute and
- [Revisited](https://johnhawkinsmusic.co.uk/2022/11/26/revisited/) - I have just rewritten the slow movement of my first string quartet for string orchestra as 'Threnody'. An intense piece that alternates calm and lamentation. Hear it on Soundcloud
- [Fuzon](https://johnhawkinsmusic.co.uk/2022/10/17/fuzon/) - On October 28th the Piatti Quartet performed my 'Fuzon' string quartet. Based on the fiery character in Blake's 'Book of Ahania', the quartet was written for the Piatti in 2012 and their recording of it can be seen on YouTube. The new performance is at the first concert in the Nicholas Yonge Society's 2022-23 season.
- [Yet Another Orpheus](https://johnhawkinsmusic.co.uk/2022/10/03/yet-another-orpheus/) - 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’ which was written in 1821 to raise awareness of the Greek War
- [Ingres' Wife](https://johnhawkinsmusic.co.uk/2022/10/10/ingres-wife/) - 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 painter Ingres would cover his eyes when out walking to protect him from
- [Dong in Motion](https://johnhawkinsmusic.co.uk/2022/09/22/dong-in-motion/) - 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 flight! https://vimeo.com/751362086
- [Three Têtes better than one?](https://johnhawkinsmusic.co.uk/2022/09/12/2118/) - 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. (Photo Claire Shovelton @claireshov)
- [Nose on the Tête](https://johnhawkinsmusic.co.uk/2022/07/13/nose-on-the-tete/) - On Sunday 11 September my setting of Edward Lear's ’The Dong with a Luminous Nose’ will get its first performance as part of the Tête À Tête Opera 2022 festival. ‘The Dong’ was recorded by Aidan Smith and Steve Dummer on my ‘Simplicius’ CD but in this performance they are joined by the exciting mime/dancer
- [Two's Company](https://johnhawkinsmusic.co.uk/2022/09/03/twos-company/) - 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 Two Violas'. https://www.meridian-records.co.uk/acatalog/CDE84652.html
- [Comings and Goings in 2022](https://johnhawkinsmusic.co.uk/2022/05/10/gone-and-coming/) - 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 ‘Lost in Translation’ (piano) Michiko Shimanuki, All Saints, Hove October 28 ‘Fuzon’ (string quartet) Piatti
- [Sonus](https://johnhawkinsmusic.co.uk/2022/06/15/sonus/) - A new piece for tuba and piano – 'Sonus' is dramatic and perhaps surprisingly lyrical! Hear it on Soundcloud.
- [Jumblies](https://johnhawkinsmusic.co.uk/2022/04/24/jumblies/) - "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 with a Luminous Nose' using my setting for voice and
- [The Unknown Bird](https://johnhawkinsmusic.co.uk/2022/02/10/the-unknown-bird-2/) - On March 5th there was a performance of my song cycle ‘The Unknown Bird’ to words by Edward Thomas. This was the first of many settings I have made of his poetry and is for voice with flute, viola and harp. The performance was with baritone John Lofthouse and the Aurora trio and held at
- [Period Pieces](https://johnhawkinsmusic.co.uk/2022/01/18/period-pieces-3/) - The world premiere of my 'Period Pieces' - four short pieces (Allemande, Courante, Sarabande and Gigue) - was on 25th January at the Chapel Royal, Brighton played by Yoko Ono who says 'I can't help feeling personal with this, especially the beautiful Sarabande'. She also played Haydn's Sonata in E flat, Hob. XVI/49 and Debussy's
- [Another Orpheus](https://johnhawkinsmusic.co.uk/2021/12/10/another-orpheus-2/) - On January 15th MAS string orchestra will be performing my ‘Another Orpheus’. The title comes from Shelley’s ‘Hellas’, written to raise money for the Greek War of Independence (during which Byron famously perished!). From the poem I took the line 'Another Orpheus sings again, and loves and weeps and dies'.Tickets are available from www.trybooking.co.uk/BJSI
- [Antique Love](https://johnhawkinsmusic.co.uk/2021/11/07/antique-love/) - My trio for flute, viola and harp Romantique gets its first performance on Friday 12th November played by the Aurora Trio at 7.30 at St Luke’s, Brighton. Also on the programme are trios by Arnold Bax, Malcolm Lipkin and members of New Music Brighton. It will be played again by the Trilogy Ensemble in the
- [Before and After](https://johnhawkinsmusic.co.uk/2021/10/26/1932/) - I have recently set two poems by Isaac Rosenberg, the artist, poet and reluctant soldier who was killed in WWI. The first is the idealistic 'My Days', written before the war, and the second is extracts from his long and savage 'Dead Man's Dump' written in 1917 and bitter with experience. The settings are for
- [Not Coming Up](https://johnhawkinsmusic.co.uk/2021/08/17/coming-up-2/) - SADLY, SIÂN PHILIPPS HAS HAD TO CANCEL HER 24th SEPTEMBER CONCERT. Siân was to play at Music & Wine at St Luke's a concert including my 'Looking Back'. Of Siân's playing at the Wigmore Hall Musical Opinion said: “This was a quality of violin sound as beautiful as it comes ... pristinely shaped and immaculately
- [Night Music](https://johnhawkinsmusic.co.uk/2021/10/10/night-music/) - 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' was written especially for this concert to contrast with the Nocturne and Cortège by Lili Boulanger.
- [Mime in Time](https://johnhawkinsmusic.co.uk/2021/09/03/1889/) - Saturday 2nd October 2.30 pm Pianist Karen Kingsley includied my Marcel Morceaux in her New Music Brighton concert at the Friends’ Meeting house in Brighton. Marcel Morceaux are three pieces written in memory of the great mime artist Marcel Marceaux. Karen Kingsley also played works by Benjamin Britten and New Music Brighton composers.
- [Americana](https://johnhawkinsmusic.co.uk/2021/10/09/americana/) - 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 hopping'.
- [Strange Bridge](https://johnhawkinsmusic.co.uk/2021/08/13/strange-bridge/) - Edward Thomas's poem 'The Bridge' begins 'I have come a long way today: On a strange bridge alone ...'. Some years ago I set three of his poems for voice with flute, viola and harp ('The Unknown Bird'). I have now added a second cycle of three songs, this time with piano: 'The Bridge', 'Will
- [Marcel Morceaux](https://johnhawkinsmusic.co.uk/2021/05/18/marcel-morceaux-2/) - Happily, the concert including my three 'Marcel Morceaux' which pianist Karen Kingsley had to cancel in June has now been rescheduled to Saturday 2nd October.The event includes works by Benjamin Britten and pieces by several members of New Music Brighton. It will be at the Friends' Meeting House in Brighton at 2.30 pm.
- [Looking Forward](https://johnhawkinsmusic.co.uk/2021/06/14/looking-forward/) - On June 21st, the wonderful Siân Philipps played my 'Nocturne' and 'Cortège?' for violin and piano in Brighton. Both pieces are reflections on poems by García Lorca. She also played works by Vaughan Williams, Sally Beamish and Egon Wellesz. The concert was part of the Brighton Fringe. Both pieces will be played
- [Period Pieces](https://johnhawkinsmusic.co.uk/2021/04/19/period-pieces-2/) - Four pieces in the form of a baroque suite for keyboard or string trio
- ['At Two'](https://johnhawkinsmusic.co.uk/2019/05/27/at-two-2/) - In their extraordinarily wide-ranging new CD of music for two violas, Peter Mallinson and Matthias Wiesner include works by Bach, Benda, Bridge, Dowland, Schubert, Tertis and Vitali. Arrangers include Lionel Tertis himself and Vadim Borisovsky. My own (very demanding!) piece on the CD, ‘At Two’, was commissioned by Peter and Matthias and they give it
- [Sleepless City](https://johnhawkinsmusic.co.uk/2021/02/18/1784/) - 'Nocturne' is a short new piece for violin and piano, a partner for my 'Cortège?' – both prompted by poems by Lorca. In this case it is the bizarre, threatening 'Nocturne, Brooklyn Bridge' written by Lorca in the 1920s when he briefly lived in New York (the title of the collection 'Poet in New York'
- [Changing places](https://johnhawkinsmusic.co.uk/2021/02/18/changing-places/) - Fellow composer Julian Broughton and I have suggested changing our identities (and shaking up our ideas) by using each other’s compositional 'f'ingerprints'. We have teamed up with clarinettist Steve Dummer to try to raise funds to commission and perform new pieces for clarinet and piano, intended for students as well as professional musicians. https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/julian-broughton-1 image
- [Contretemps](https://johnhawkinsmusic.co.uk/2021/01/18/contretemps/) - The bassoon is an awkward, athletic, melancholy, rambunctious instrument! There aren’t many solo pieces for it – so I’ve just written this. https://soundcloud.com/johnbhawkins/contretemps
- [New Year's Irresolution](https://johnhawkinsmusic.co.uk/2020/12/30/new-years-irresolution/) - 'Kiss Me on Wednesday (Don't Kiss me Now)' is a cabaret song cycle I wrote with brilliant lyrics by Alison Rutherford, sad and funny. This one is 'New Year's Irresolution'. Another New Year, Another fresh look at your life: A change of career? Perhaps a new husband or wife? Click the picture to see it
- [O Ecstasy!](https://johnhawkinsmusic.co.uk/2020/12/11/o-ecstasy/) - These SATB settings are of four vivid poems by Mervyn Peake. They alternate between the nonsensical and the heartbreakingly tragic. 1. ‘O Love!, O Death!, O Ecstasy!’ 2. ‘And I Thought You Beside Me’ 3. ‘The Trouble with Geraniums’ 4. ‘Out of the Chaos of my Doubt’ Score available from me https://johnhawkinsmusic.co.uk/contact/
- [No longer distant Echo](https://johnhawkinsmusic.co.uk/2020/10/25/no-longer-distant-echo/) - In 1991, director Wilf Judd at Covent Garden developed a wonderfully imaginative scheme (The Garden Venture) to commission short chamber operas. Mine, titled 'Echoes', had a brilliant libretto by Anne Harris whose skills – developed writing for television – were perfect for opera. I've just revised the music and the score is now available from
- [Crossing borders](https://johnhawkinsmusic.co.uk/2020/08/11/crossing-borders/) - I wrote ’Crossings’ for viola and guitar this year for violist Patricia McCarty and guitarist Bill Zito. Their first, video, performance was streamed online from the InterHarmony International Music Festival: https://www.interharmony.com/ The concert is posted on the festival's YouTube page https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPCM2S3TJUk Crossings is at about 55 mins into the video. On September 6th, they are
- [Canon and Toccata](https://johnhawkinsmusic.co.uk/2020/08/03/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](https://johnhawkinsmusic.co.uk/2020/07/15/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](https://johnhawkinsmusic.co.uk/2020/07/05/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!](https://johnhawkinsmusic.co.uk/2020/06/30/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
- [Odd Ode](https://johnhawkinsmusic.co.uk/2020/05/27/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!
- [On Your Own?](https://johnhawkinsmusic.co.uk/2020/05/12/on-your-own/) - For those working from home, here are some pieces I have written for solo instruments you could try! Solo 'Cello 'Stranger, Lover, Dancer': Three pieces written for and premiered by Jessie Richardson (of the Piatti Quartet) in the Cheltenham Festival and subsequently played at the Presteigne Festival by Alice Neary. Published
- [In the Stream](https://johnhawkinsmusic.co.uk/2020/04/16/in-the-stream/) - In these locked-down days, many are choosing to hear music streamed to save the postman! I'm glad to say that both my CDs ('Voices from the Sea' and 'Simplicius') are available streamed as well as on CD. For instance these sites can be searched for both CDs. Some pay the composer more than others! Spotify
- [Safe Encounter](https://johnhawkinsmusic.co.uk/2020/04/02/safe-encounter/) - Back in 2019 BC (before corona), the wonderful duo of flautist Emma Halnan and pianist Daniel King Smith played my ’Sonata Serenata’ in London at a St Martin-in-the-Fields lunchtime concert. Here is a video of that excellent performance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whiiAZ_HkxU&feature=youtu.be
- [Times on hands](https://johnhawkinsmusic.co.uk/2020/03/24/times-on-hands/) - Just in case you have ... here are some recordings of Hawkins pieces on Youtube First string quartet (1976) played by James Toll, Guy Button (violins), John Crockatt (viola) and Jonathan Rees (‘cello) in 2019 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbwaslLhZl8 ‘Urizen’ played by Paul Silverthorne (viola) and Aglaia Tarantino (piano) at LSO St Luke’s in 2012 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-NfGIbhXqs ‘Fuzon’ played
- [Party Piece](https://johnhawkinsmusic.co.uk/2020/02/27/party-piece/) - On March 7th, the wonderful Cuatro Puntos group with Alexander Kollias (clarinet) gave the first public performance of 'Party Piece' which was written for a birthday party back in 2004. Five minutes of Klezmer-slanted music for clarinet and two violas ends wildly! The concert called 'Klezmer Dreams' iwas in the USA at Glastonbury CT on
- [Fauxsong](https://johnhawkinsmusic.co.uk/2020/02/26/fauxsong/) - On Tuesday 10th March at the Chapel Royal, Brighton 1.00 pm will be the first performance of a new short piece for violin, 'cello and guitar 'Fauxsong' played by Paul Gregory (guitar), Manon Derome (violin) and Anthony Pleeth ('cello).
- [For These](https://johnhawkinsmusic.co.uk/2020/02/26/for-these/) - The Manchester choir Altèri commissioned a setting of the WWI war poet Edward Thomas's 'For these' from me. ["For these I ask not, but, neither too late/ Nor yet too early, for what men call content,/ And also that something may be sent/ To be contented with, I ask of Fate."]. I counterpointed the poem
- [Clarinet Sonata](https://johnhawkinsmusic.co.uk/2017/01/31/clarinet-sonata/) - 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 first performance by Steve Dummer and the Musicians of All Saints. More recent
- [Breather](https://johnhawkinsmusic.co.uk/2020/01/17/breather/) - My Clarinet Sonata, which was described by Musical Opinion as "compact and gloriously melodic … a fine contribution to the genre" was played at the Horsham Music Circle on Saturday 15th February 7.30 pm and then at the lunchtime concert on Tuesday 18th February, 1.10 pm at the lovely Chapel Royal, Brighton all by the
- [Not so Simple](https://johnhawkinsmusic.co.uk/2019/11/27/not-so-simple/) - This new CD released on January 3rd, includes much of the music I've written for clarinet. Two large-scale pieces are with string orchestra, others are with chamber groups. The CD title comes from a highly dramatic piece for clarinet and strings prompted by the 17th-century novel ‘Simplicius Simplicissimus’. Also included is a setting of the
- [Zany violas?](https://johnhawkinsmusic.co.uk/2019/10/14/zany-violas/) - On 19th October at 7.00pm at St Margaret, Rottingdean, my ‘At Two’ for two violas was played by the violists who commissioned it, Peter Mallinson and Matthias Wiesner – both members of the BBCSO. Reviewing their new CD, MusicWeb International said: "One work stands at something of a remove; John Hawkins’ 'At Two' …. Taking its
- [Getting Balance](https://johnhawkinsmusic.co.uk/2019/09/30/getting-balance/) - On 29th September we recorded my Clarinet Sonata and 'In Touch' trio, with Steve Dummer (clarinet), Ivana Peranic ('cello) and Yoko Ono (piano). The venue was the huge St Bartholomew in Brighton and, to get balance between the instruments, the clarinet and 'cello needed to be lofted. They came down safely and the CD of
- [Slow Release](https://johnhawkinsmusic.co.uk/2019/11/14/slow-release/) - Friday 15th November saw the first performance since 1973 of my 'Romanza' for 'cello and piano! One of three pieces (Intrada, Romanza and Burlesca) which started life in my 'Cello Sonata (the fourth movement did not survive!). The performance was at a tour de force concert by Ivana Peranic, cello and Rachel Fryer, piano at
- [2 x 70](https://johnhawkinsmusic.co.uk/2019/11/18/70-again/) - On Friday 6th December, two of my pieces will be performed in a 7.30pm concert at St Luke's, Brighton as part of a joint 70th birthday celebration with fellow composer Barry Mills. They are 'Lost in Translation' for piano and 'Cortège?' for violin and piano. The performers will be Michiko Shimanuki, piano/composer and Ellie Blackshaw,
- [Grounding](https://johnhawkinsmusic.co.uk/2019/11/09/grounding/) - On 9th November is the first performance of the orchestral version of my 'Grounds' for oboe and string orchestra, played by the Musicians of All Saints with Clare Worth, oboe. An abrupt concertino, each of the three short movements is spun from a repeating figure (the ground). Earlier this year the piano reduction was performed
- [Looking Back](https://johnhawkinsmusic.co.uk/2019/09/25/looking-back/) - On September 25th, violinist Siân Philipps who recorded my 'Cortège?' on her CD 'Homage à Lorca', will be performing 'Looking Back' for violin and piano which I wrote for her and which she premiered at Blackheath Concert Halls last year. The concert is entitled 'Outsiders: Being on the Edge' and includes rarely-heard pieces by Egon
- [Disturbed Night](https://johnhawkinsmusic.co.uk/2019/09/09/disturbed-night/) - On 17th September, wonderful flautist Klio Blonz will be playing my 'Disturbed Nights' (originally for oboe) at the Hurst Festival. It was written for artist/musician Emily Bakker who drew this mildly disturbing picture while babysitting one of our children ... hence the title! This is Klio Blonz's second performance of the piece.
- [Repeating Serenade](https://johnhawkinsmusic.co.uk/2019/08/29/repeating-serenade/) - My Sonata Serenata for flute and piano having just had a wonderful performance at The Presteigne Festival by Katherine Bryan and Tom Poster gets another outing at St Martin in the Fields lunchtime concert on 3rd September with Emma Halnan and Daniel King Smith. Emma was woodwind category winner in the BBC Young Musicians 2010.
- [Lost again](https://johnhawkinsmusic.co.uk/2019/08/20/lost-again/) - On Saturday 24th August Michiko Shimanuki will include my 'Lost in Translation’ in her recital at St James’s Church Bushey Saturday Recital Series
- [Just Good Friends](https://johnhawkinsmusic.co.uk/2019/08/19/just-good-friends/) - A new piece for two violins – fast but demanding friends. Hear it on Soundcloud
- [Not too folksy](https://johnhawkinsmusic.co.uk/2019/08/10/not-too-folksy/) - Following 'Take Two' for two guitars, premiered last year, is this new trio 'Fauxsong' for guitar, violin and 'cello. It will have its first performance in March 2020. A rather melancholy melody gets the treatment.
- [Contra](https://johnhawkinsmusic.co.uk/2019/07/23/contra/) - Just written 'Contra': six minutes of powerful contrasts for piano quintet! Contact me for details.
- [Lost in Translation](https://johnhawkinsmusic.co.uk/2019/07/22/lost-in-translation-2/) - On 23rd July, Michiko Shimanuki will be playing my ‘Lost in Translation’. This is one of seven Haydn Fantasies for piano commissioned by the Presteigne Festival from seven composers in 2009 in celebration of pianist/composer John McCabe’s 70th birthday. The concert is part of the Square Mile Music Series, St Mary-at-Hill, London 1.15 pm
- [Dryad dyad](https://johnhawkinsmusic.co.uk/2019/06/07/dryad-dyad/) - The exciting Portuguese Dryads Duo (named after Szymanowski’s 'Dryads et Pan') played my ‘Cortège?’ at Music & Wine at St Luke’s on Friday 21st June, plus works by Prokofiev and Frank Bridge. http://www.dryadsduo.com/
- [Future tense](https://johnhawkinsmusic.co.uk/2019/05/11/future-tense/) - It is very exciting that three of my pieces are being played by students of the Royal College of Music in their final recitals this year: 'Urizen' (viola), 'Variations' (piano) and 'Grounds' (oboe).
- [Winds (and strings) in May](https://johnhawkinsmusic.co.uk/2019/04/22/winds-in-may/) - On 11th May at St Michael and All Angels in Brighton, at 7.30 pm Ellie Blackshaw (violin) and David Elwin (piano) are playing my ‘Cortege?’ in a concert including Beethoven, Rebecca Clarke and Frank Bridge. On 30th May at St Anne’s, Lewes, at 1.00 pm Klio Blonz of the Amalthea Duo (flute and harp) is
- [Antique Romance?](https://johnhawkinsmusic.co.uk/2019/04/09/antique-romance/) - Just finished the tricky process of rewriting my 'Romantique', first performed in 2018 with piano, now in a version for the more usual grouping of flute, viola and harp.
- [The Dong and the Stranger](https://johnhawkinsmusic.co.uk/2019/03/14/the-dong-and-the-stranger/) - This month, my new setting of Edward Lear's 'The Dong with a Luminous Nose' for voice and solo clarinet will be recorded for a forthcoming CD of my music which includes clarinet. Other pieces will include my Clarinet Concerto, Clarinet Sonata, and several chamber works. The Clarinettist for all the pieces is Steve Dummer and for
- [These Lovers](https://johnhawkinsmusic.co.uk/2019/02/10/these-lovers/) - Just rewritten this 5 minute drama for flute and 'cello, first performed at the 'Music Past and Present' series in London:'... these lovers, these people entering into illusion glittering eyed, must be danced round with mockery, decorated with garlands.'Virginia Woolf 'To the Lighthouse'
- [Looking forward/ Looking Back](https://johnhawkinsmusic.co.uk/2018/11/13/looking-forward-looking-back/) - On Monday 19th November, Siân Philipps' recital for violin and piano at Blackheath Concert Halls included my 'Looking Back' which I wrote for her and which she premiered two years ago in London. The concert also included music by Mendelssohn and Grace Williams.
- [Old Year/New Year](https://johnhawkinsmusic.co.uk/2018/12/22/old-year-new-year/) - Pieces written in 2018 Grounds (Concertino for oboe and strings) The Dong with a Luminous Nose (Voice and Clarinet) Last Tango in Brighton (CoMA ensemble) Laments and Scherzos (Orchestra) Simplicius Simplicissimus (Clarinet and String Orchestra) Take Two (Guitar duo) Time and Again (Orchestra)
- [Triad](https://johnhawkinsmusic.co.uk/2018/11/06/triad/) - ‘Tri’ is for six violas which is unusual but these three pieces exploit the wonderful rich sound which the combination produces. The many performances of 'Tri' include those given by students at the Royal Academy, London, the Royal Welsh School of Music and Drama and The Guildhall School of Music and Drama. The Guildhall is
- [Grounds](https://johnhawkinsmusic.co.uk/2018/10/16/grounds/) - 'Grounds' is a new concertino for oboe and string orchestra. The three short movements are based on different ground bases which develop into increasingly florid and passionate music.
- [Time and Again](https://johnhawkinsmusic.co.uk/2018/10/12/time-and-again/) - 'Time and Again - A Toccata for Orchestra' is a new piece, fast and furious for four and a half minutes. The title comes from a fitful, many-times-repeated melody which appears across contrasting instrumental guises throughout. Hear it here: https://soundcloud.com/johnbhawkins/time-after-time-for-orchestra
- [A Walk with Ingres' Wife](https://johnhawkinsmusic.co.uk/2018/08/28/a-walk-with-ingres-wife/) - A just-rewritten movement for brass quintet (2 trumpets, horn, trombone and tuba). The title comes from an essay On the Exploitation of Vulgarity (1914) by the artist Wyndham Lewis in which he quotes a story about the French painter Ingres: “When an ugly or uncomely person appeared on the horizon of their daily promenade, Ingres’ careful
- [Last Wave](https://johnhawkinsmusic.co.uk/2018/07/03/last-wave/) - Just finished rewriting ‘The Seafarer’, the last and only unperformed one of my trilogy of sea pieces (‘Sea Symphony’, ‘Voices from the Sea’). This large-scale piece is for tenor, choir and chamber orchestra and uses words from the Anglo-Saxon poem ‘The Seafarer’ and a powerful short story by the great Liverpool seaman, poet, actor and
- [It Takes Two](https://johnhawkinsmusic.co.uk/2018/07/26/it-takes-two/) - Take Two is a new short, sharp (2'30") showpiece for two guitars. Music is available from me and can be heard on Soundcloud!
- [At Two with Nature](https://johnhawkinsmusic.co.uk/2018/06/06/at-two-with-nature/) - 'At Two', a challenging piece for two violas in two movements (naturally), gets its first performance at June 14th's lunchtime concert at St Olave's Church, Hart Street, London. It will be played by Peter Mallinson and Matthias Wiesner who commissioned it and who are recording it for their second CD with Meridian Records the next day.
- [Early Bird](https://johnhawkinsmusic.co.uk/2018/06/15/early-bird/) - My first string quartet (written in 1976) has just appeared on YouTube in a video made earlier this year. https://youtu.be/ZbwaslLhZl8 More recently I wrote 'Fuzon' for string quartet which is also on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFElZOSC6oU
- [Final Trio](https://johnhawkinsmusic.co.uk/2018/05/28/final-trio/) - Sadly, on June 17th the wonderful Duruflé Trio is giving its final concert. It will include my ‘Romantique’ for flute, viola and piano together with pieces by William Alwyn, Arnold Bax, CPE Bach and seven composers from New Music Brighton. The concert will be at St Luke’s church at 5.00 pm. Tickets here https://bit.ly/2IQ2ikC
- [Simplicius Simplicissimus](https://johnhawkinsmusic.co.uk/2018/05/23/simplicius-simplicissimus/) - Just finished a short piece for clarinet and string orchestra (or piano) based on the extraordinary Adventures of Simplicius Simplicissimus, the 17th-century story of a young boy travelling through a world ravaged by the Thirty Years' War and the appalling things he both sees and does '... in the end, contrite and fully tired of a world
- [Shadows in Germany](https://johnhawkinsmusic.co.uk/2018/05/13/shadows-in-germany/) - 'Shadows' for viola, double and piano is being performed at Saarländisches Staatstheater on Sunday, 3rd June. I have also transcribed the piece using 'cello, but this is the original!
- [Another Rebirth](https://johnhawkinsmusic.co.uk/2018/04/30/another-re-birth/) - Originally written in 1974 for London's City Lit. wind band, I have revived 'Overture, Tragedy and Farce'. The City Lit. group was very flexible (meaning that sometimes the bassoonist didn't turn up and the bass clarinet, a well-known actor was, happily, very busy). Usually there were at least 2 flutes (and sometimes 6!), 2 oboes, 4
- [Rebirth](https://johnhawkinsmusic.co.uk/2018/02/04/rebirth/) - On 3rd March my Concerto for Clarinet and Strings had its first performance since 1974. This time it was here in Lewes with the always-exciting Steve Dummer and the Musicians of All Saints.
- [Not COMAtose](https://johnhawkinsmusic.co.uk/2018/02/03/not-comatose/) - The fantastic COMA - Contemporary Music for All - has a festival from 2nd to 4th March in venues all over Britain and Europe http://www.coma.org/whats-on/events/festival/. My own piece ‘Divisibility’ in COMA’s open score (any instrument, anyone can play!) is now available from their library http://www.coma.org/catalogue/divisibility/
- [The Dong](https://johnhawkinsmusic.co.uk/2018/01/25/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 mins)
- [2017/8](https://johnhawkinsmusic.co.uk/2018/01/01/989/) - 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 Rain (voice, flute and harp), Another Orpheus (string orchestra), Mouthpiece (trumpet and piano), Marcel
- [Kiss me on Wednesday](https://johnhawkinsmusic.co.uk/2017/11/25/kiss-me-on-wednesday-2/) - 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 'Seven Songs for Grownups' which also includes 'Kiss Me on Wednesday'.
- [Marcel Morceaux](https://johnhawkinsmusic.co.uk/2017/11/10/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 composers from 6.45pm by way of introduction to the music! The concert is at St Luke's church, Brighton. Tickets
- [Fire works](https://johnhawkinsmusic.co.uk/2017/11/08/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 recording is from a performance the Piatti gave of the piece in France in 2014, since which they have
- [Tri-ing at the Guildhall](https://johnhawkinsmusic.co.uk/2017/10/15/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.
- [Coming Up in October 2017](https://johnhawkinsmusic.co.uk/2017/09/22/coming-up-in-october/) - On Saturday October 21st from 3:30 pm - 9:30 pm 'Celebrating Sussex Folk Song', at The Old Chapel, Alfriston included my Song of Three for choir and folk players and singers. The next performance will be at Bridge Cottage Heritage Centre, Uckfield on November 11th On Saturday October 28th 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm, the Riot
- [Mouthpiece](https://johnhawkinsmusic.co.uk/2017/08/17/mouthpiece/) - New music for trumpet and piano, including my ‘Mouthpiece’, will get first performances on September 21st at the Friends Meeting House, Brighton. The players are Fraser Tannock (winner of the Philip Jones Brass Prize, and the Royal Overseas League Competition) and composer and pianist Terence Allbright.
- [Romantique](https://johnhawkinsmusic.co.uk/2017/08/30/romantique/) - A new single movement for flute, viola and piano. It is, as its name suggests, somewhat romantic and slightly antique. It is also brief – 3'30"
- [Another Orpheus](https://johnhawkinsmusic.co.uk/2017/06/24/another-orpheus/) - July 8th sees the premiere of my 'Another Orpheus' for string orchestra, by the Musicians of All Saints. The title is from a drama by Shelley which he wrote to support the Greek war of independence (in which Byron famously died). 'Another Orpheus sings again and loves and weeps and dies'.
- [At Two](https://johnhawkinsmusic.co.uk/2017/06/22/at-two/) - ‘At Two’ is a pair of new pieces for two violas, commissioned by Peter Mallinson and Matthias Wiesner whose superb recent CD ‘Music for Two Violas’ is on the Meridian label. The title comes, of course, from Woody Allen’s ‘I am at two with nature’.
- [Wild, Weird and Wonderful](https://johnhawkinsmusic.co.uk/2017/06/13/wild-weird-and-wonderful/) - 2nd July sees another outing for my COMA piece 'Divisibility', this time at East Sussex Academy in a concert including (wild, weird and wonderful) pieces by Andrew Hadfield, Patrick Harrex, Zoe Martlew, Michael Nyman, Sheena Phillips and Dave Smith.
- [Urizen non-Brexit](https://johnhawkinsmusic.co.uk/2017/05/09/urizen-non-brexit/) - Following their terrific performance at the Brighton Festival, Timothy Ridout and John Reid will be playing 'Urizen' at the Munich Gasteig on 13th May. The concert will be broadcast by Bayerische Rundfunk on 24th June.
- [Lost in Translation](https://johnhawkinsmusic.co.uk/2017/05/16/lost-in-translation/) - Seven short piano pieces (including my 'Lost in Translation') written for the 2009 Presteigne Festival in celebration of Haydn's 200th and John McCabe's 70th birthdays will be included in Clare Hammond's recital at the Hertfordshire Music Festival on 9th June. The other composers are James Francis Brown, Peter Fribbins, David Matthews, Alan Mills, Matthew Taylor
- [Not amazed](https://johnhawkinsmusic.co.uk/2017/05/02/not-amazed/) - Minos' daughter Ariadne fell in love with Theseus and helped him escape the labyrinth by following a ball of thread. He left her on Naxos of course. 'Labyrinth' is a new piece for cor anglais and piano – an appropriately winding and unwinding single movement: atmospheric and dramatic, all in about 4 minutes.
- [Whiskies of Islay](https://johnhawkinsmusic.co.uk/2017/04/25/whiskies-of-islay/) - Not an offer of drink but a concert by COMA Sussex on 18th May including not only Dave Smith's 'Whiskies of Islay' pieces but my 'Divisibility' and others by Michael Nyman, Zoe Martlew, Sheena Phillips, Andrew Hadfield and Patrick Harrex. As always with COMA the pieces are for flexible ensembles - bizarre, radical and entertaining!
- [Short and Suite](https://johnhawkinsmusic.co.uk/2017/04/14/short-and-suite/) - I've just rewritten three brief pieces 'Trivia' for two clarinets – Prelude, Tango and Ragtime – they date back to my youth but come up well I think in a slightly brittle way! Score available from me.
- [Tossicated lubbock](https://johnhawkinsmusic.co.uk/2017/04/01/tossicated-lubbock/) - Great Sussex dialect words I've plundered for my new 'Song of Three' (I must be settling in): Aggy dumbledore, beazled pug, Plaguey shimeroys, slabby spud, Tossicated lubbock, flittermouse farisees, Chuckle-headed codger - Zackly. [Aggy - peevish; Dumbledore - bumblebee; Beazled - weary; Plaguey - troublesome; Shimeroys - midges; Slabby - wet, slippery; Spud - for digging;
- ['The Unknown Bird’](https://johnhawkinsmusic.co.uk/2017/03/04/the-unknown-bird/) - 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 distinguished performers. The concert included ‘Like the Touch of Rain’
- ['Urizen' on tour](https://johnhawkinsmusic.co.uk/2017/02/14/urizen-on-tour/) - 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 supported by the Tunnell Trust. The pianist will be Ke Ma. 8th March -
- [Ironic Serenade](https://johnhawkinsmusic.co.uk/2017/02/20/ironic-serenade/) - 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 second movement is a rather remote lover's plea, the last is a jagged toccata – not for playing under windows! A
- [Kiss Me on Wednesday](https://johnhawkinsmusic.co.uk/2017/02/06/kiss-me-on-wednesday/) - 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 songs beginning with 'Too old to fall in love, too young to believe it', and ending with '... but that was then
- [Coming up](https://johnhawkinsmusic.co.uk/2017/01/20/coming-up/) - 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 publisher John Harding in memory of his sister. John worked for many years in China
- [2015 PERFORMANCES and NEWS](https://johnhawkinsmusic.co.uk/2016/09/12/86/) - [et_pb_section admin_label=”section”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”]‘Tattiesque’ was played by the wonderful Trittico at ‘Music in the Village’ St. Mary’s Church, London E17 on 26th November together with music by Poulenc, Malcolm Arnold, Madeleine Dring, Rhian Samuel, Rob Keeley, Sadie Harrison and Arvo Pärt. ‘Fuzon’ for string quartet can now be heard
- [2016 PERFORMANCES and NEWS](https://johnhawkinsmusic.co.uk/2016/09/12/2016-performances-and-news/) - [et_pb_section admin_label=”section” transparent_background=”off” allow_player_pause=”off” inner_shadow=”off” parallax=”off” parallax_method=”off” padding_mobile=”off” make_fullwidth=”off” use_custom_width=”off” width_unit=”on” custom_width_px=”1080px” custom_width_percent=”80%” make_equal=”off” use_custom_gutter=”off” fullwidth=”off” specialty=”off” disabled=”off”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row” make_fullwidth=”off” use_custom_width=”off” width_unit=”off” use_custom_gutter=”off” padding_mobile=”off” allow_player_pause=”off” parallax=”off” parallax_method=”on” make_equal=”off” column_padding_mobile=”on” parallax_1=”off” parallax_method_1=”on” parallax_2=”off” parallax_method_2=”on” parallax_3=”off” parallax_method_3=”on” parallax_4=”off” parallax_method_4=”on” disabled=”off”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left” use_border_color=”off” border_style=”solid” disabled=”off” border_color=”#ffffff”]A new William Blake inspired piece, Rintrah Roars for soprano (April Fredrick),
- [Portions of Eternity](https://johnhawkinsmusic.co.uk/2017/01/04/portions-of-eternity/) - Update on 'Portions of Eternity' and William Blake
- [Fuzon in Bath](https://johnhawkinsmusic.co.uk/2016/12/14/fuzon-in-bath/) - [et_pb_section admin_label=”section”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”]The Piatti Quartet played ‘Fuzon’ at the Old Theatre Royal, Bath on Saturday 10th December in a concert which also included Haydn, Frank Bridge and Schubert.[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section] Share this: Share on X (Opens in new window) X Share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook
- [2014 PERFORMANCES and NEWS](https://johnhawkinsmusic.co.uk/2016/09/12/89/) - [et_pb_section admin_label=”section”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”]JUST PUBLISHED! ‘Tri’ for 6 violas in three movements is now available from Comus Edition. Click to see sample pages and to order score and parts. JUST FINISHED! ‘Stranger, Lover, Dancer’ for solo ‘cello. Three short movements, c. 6 minutes overall. Trittico played ‘Tatiesque’ for flute,

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- [Complete List of Music by John Hawkins](https://johnhawkinsmusic.co.uk/music/complete-list-of-music/) - CHAMBER MUSIC String solos 'BoBop' (unaccompanied violin or viola) 1 movement, c.4’30” 'Coronach' (viola and harpsichord/piano) 1 movement, c.3' 'Cortège?’ (violin and piano) 1 movement, 5’30” 'Nocturne' (violin and piano) 1 movement, 2'00" (a companion piece for 'Cortège' ‘Intrada, Romanza and Burlesca’ (‘cello and piano) 3 movements, c.11’ ‘Looking Back’ (violin and piano) 1 movement, 5’30”
- ['Simplicius' - Music for Clarinet](https://johnhawkinsmusic.co.uk/simplicius-music-for-clarinet-cd/) - This CD, released in 2020 to enthusiastic reviews, includes music I've written for clarinet over more than 40 years. Two large-scale pieces are with string orchestra, others are with chamber groups. 'The Dong with a Luminous Nose' is a unique setting of the whole of Edward Lear's long and fantastic (in both senses) but wholly
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