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My chamber ensemble piece Rattle His Bones is now available to listen to at soundcloud.com/jonathan-woolgar. Below is the programme note: Rattle His Bones is based on a little music-box chorale I wrote several years ago but never really got out of my system. The title is taken from Ulysses (although it turns out that Joyce…

I was interviewed by the Cambridge University Musical Society recently ahead of my piece Rattle His Bones being premiered by their New Music Ensemble on Thursday 2nd February. It will be played alongside pieces by Mark-Anthony Turnage and John Hopkins in what  is sure to be a very exciting concert. You can read the interview here and get full information…

I recently did a “Meet The Artist” interview for Frances Wilson’s Cross-Eyed Pianist blog, in which I talk about influences, working methods and musical memories. You can read it here.

I am pleased to say that I will be appearing on BBC Radio 3’s In Tune at around 6pm on Tuesday 29th November, along with brilliant soprano Héloïse Werner, to talk to Katie Derham about Scenes from the End, which runs at the Tristan Bates Theatre from 6th-10th December. Héloïse will be singing extracts from the show live in…

From 6th-10th December, soprano Heloise Werner will perform one-woman opera Scenes from the End at the Tristan Bates Theatre in London’s West End, directed by Emily Burns with words and music by me. Tickets are available here. You can read press quotes from the successful summer run of the show here, and find out more about Heloise Werner here. “Scenes…

On 18th December, I will conduct the world premiere of my choral piece The Second Advent  at St Mark’s Basilica, Venice, as part of the Eton College Compline Choir’s tour to Italy. This is the second piece I have written for the Compline Choir, and I am thrilled to be working with them and music director Ed Yeo once…