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Trio Agile at Late Music (again)
May 2025: as will have been apparent over the last few news items, Late Music York have been a great supporter of my work in 2025 and many previous years as well as the instigators of several important projects. This opportunity comes courtesy of a joint project between Late Music, students from the Northern School of Contemporary Dance and Music on the Edge (in the shape of Trio Agile - Susie Hodder-Williams, Chris Caldwell and Richard Horne). […]
Variation Tapestry I – Premiere
April 2025: pianist Jakob Fichert gave the premiere of Variation Tapestry I - a composed programme of variation works - at Late Music York. This piece is another collaborative project although with a shorter backstory than some dating, as it does, to 2023. […]
Roger Marsh at 75
March 2025: up to York Late Music to celebrate Roger Marsh's 75th birthday with Trifarious including pianist Alex Wilson. […]
Retroperspective at Longparish
February 2025: my long-running collaboration with Trifarious finally saw the light of day before a paying audience at St Nicholas' Church, Longparish in Hampshire's Test Valley. […]
A Book of Song – First Outing
Late January - February 2025: A Book of Song, a collaboration with composer/pianist Nathan Williamson and three singers, received its first try-out performance at Sophie's Barn, Chacombe. […]
Partita Weaving
October 2024: to Trinity Laban Conservatoire for preliminary work with Head of Keyboard Ji Liu on my recent Bach reworking. […]
More Sounds, More Personalities: British Postminimalism 1979-97
September 2024: myself, Ian Gardiner and Imogen Burman organised a conference at Goldsmiths dedicated to music by British composers who forged their musical language from US minimalism and English experimental music. […]
Divertissements – Vestry Hall Recording
July 2024: time to lay down some harpsichord! Jane, Simon and I were at Vestry Hall in Ealing recording Divertissements, the notes written in the score as well as some we improvised together on the day. […]
Divertissements – at the Townshend Studio
April 2024: yet another version of Divertissements is in the offing, this time for harpsichord and vintage synthesisers courtesy of the University of West London's Townshend Studio. […]
Trifarious Testing in the Test Valley
April 2024: at St Nicholas Church, Longparish, with Tim Redpath and Rachel Calaminus (2/3 of Trifarious) to try out our arrangements of Beethoven, St George, Gonzaga and Elkington. […]