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
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
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
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 a variety of pieces by other NMB composers..
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!
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John Hawkins studied composition with Malcolm Williamson and Elisabeth Lutyens. He has written a wide range of chamber, vocal, choral and orchestral pieces, which have been performed worldwide.