Virtual Ukulele Ensemble
May 2020: for the last month I’ve been working with a new ukulele ensemble on Shadow Variations.
York Late Music Projects
April 2020: just completed the second of two pieces for York Late Music. It is a piece for the Elysian Singers setting Emily Brontë’s ‘No coward soul is mine’ to form a pairing with David Power‘s setting of the same poem. It has been a rewarding project that has allowed…
Perspectives on Musical Revision
March 2020: just before the coronavirus mayhem took hold I organised a half day event on musical revision at the University of Surrey. Myself, John McGrath, Jeremy Barham and Chris Wiley talked about compositional strategies, David Lynch, Gustav Mahler revising Beethoven, and revisionism in musical biography respectively. The day featured…
Shadow Variations at Surrey
February 2020: delighted that Samantha Muir is giving the UK premiere of Shadow Variations at the University of Surrey.
100 Second Song
January 2020: I am working on a short song for soprano Anna Snow and pianist Kate Ledger.
Research time awarded
December 2019: myself and my colleague Chris Wiley have been awarded a Research Fellowship from the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Surrey.
Manchester Bound
December 2019: I am off to the Royal Northern College of Music this month to talk about musical ruination.
‘Divertissements’ in Amsterdam
My electric guitar and harpsichord duo receives its European premiere as part of the 2020 Prix Annelie de Man.
Autumn Performances
October 2019 sees outings for Two Tributes and a Dance as well as Shadow Variations.
Australian Premiere
Shadow Variations (2019) for ukulele ensemble was premiered this August at Vala Beach Ukulele Camp, NSW.
Latest Project
I am currently (summer/autumn 2019) working on a piece for solo cello for the New York based cellist, Madeleine Shapiro.
CD Reviews
The reviews are in! Dance Maze has been praised in Gramophone and on Planet Hugill.
Featured Composer
I am a featured composer in the April 2019 series of Borough New Music with a concert of three pieces performed by Jane Chapman, James Woodrow and Jeevan Rai.
Music and Sonic Art
My chapter ‘An Experimental Turn: A Composer’s Perspective on a Changing Practice’ was published December 2018 in Music and Sonic Art: Practices and Theories edited by John Dack and Mine Doğantan-Dack.
CD Release
My CD Dance Maze was released on Resonus Classics at the end of November 2018. It contains solo piano and chamber music spanning around a decade of work.