I am very excited to announce that I have been commissioned to write a new piece for soprano Heloise Werner and pianist Natalie Burch which will tour around the UK in late 2019/early 2020. The piece will sit alongside Britten’s Les Illuminations as well as a new piece by Heloise. I have worked with Heloise many times…
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Premiere at Wigmore Hall 23rd May
On Thursday 23rd May my new piece Cantata-Roundelay, for soprano, tenor and cello, will be premiered at the Wigmore Hall. The concert is part of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama’s Voiceworks project, featuring collaborations between writers, composers and singers. The text for Cantata-Roundelay was written by Sophie Rashbrook, and the piece will be performed by soprano Hannah…
Read MoreUpcoming Projects
I have some exciting projects coming up for 2019, including taking part in the London Symphony Orchestra’s Panufnik Scheme, which will involve writing a brand new piece for the orchestra. I am also currently working on a new piece for Soprano, Tenor and Cello to be premiered at the Wigmore Hall on Thursday 23rd May,…
Read MoreNew Recordings Online
You can now listen to recordings of three of my latest pieces, Trio-Sinfonie, SEXTET and Frammenti Ricercati online here. Each of these pieces explores the relationship between the fragmentary and the continuous in different ways, putting fragments as short as 10 seconds alongside continuous passages of up to 10 minutes.
Read MoreUK Premiere of “Trio-Sinfonie”
Following the world premiere at the Liszt Academy in Budapest on 12th November, my Trio-Sinfonie will receive its UK premiere at Milton Court Concert Hall, London at 7:00pm on Friday 30th November. The 14-minute piece plays with proportion and continuity to create what could be described as a “broken structure”, and its compositional language is inclusive, letting…
Read MorePremiere of “Dream” in Yerevan on 19th October
My new song for Tenor and Piano, “Dream”, setting a poem by Vahagn Davtian, will be premiered by Berj Karazian and Arpine Kalinina at the Komitas Museum-Institute in Yerevan, Armenia on Friday 19th October. I am thrilled to have had the chance to work with Berj and Arpine again after last year’s project with the…
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