Lockdown update: Cello Messages

Although it was disappointing for the LSO Panufnik Workshop to have been postponed due to COVID-19, I am pleased to say that I was kept busy in the lockdown by a new piece for the brilliant cellist Joe Davies and pianist Daniel Chappel. Cello Messages was due to have been premiered later this summer, but all being well the premiere will now take place in late 2020/early 2021. It has been a joy to write for such talented and trustworthy musicians as these. Here’s the first movement stuck up on my wall…