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!
Three Têtes better than one?
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)
Two’s 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
Nose on the Tête
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 Eline Pérès to bring Lear’s bizarre tale to life.
https://www.tete-a-tete.org.uk/event/the-dong-with-a-luminous-nose
More details about the piece here
Sonus
A new piece for tuba and piano – ‘Sonus’ is dramatic and perhaps surprisingly lyrical!
Hear it on Soundcloud.
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.