On 31st March I’ll be making a music video of my setting of Lewis Caroll’s Jabberwocky. The Film will be made by Jack Patterson of Clean Films http://cleanfilm.co/ and should be really interesting. Rosie Middleton is singing Soprano along with Miriam Levenson on Bassoon, Steve Haynes on electric bass and me on electric guitar. ...
Continue ReadingI’m currently writing music for a new play at the National Theatre directed by Nadia Fall. I can’t say much about it as yet other than it follows the stories of various youths at a shelter for people who would otherwise be homeless. It will be playing in The Shed, the National’s new experimental performance space, in August.
Continue ReadingBassoonist Laila Woozeer gave the premiere of my ‘Individual Romance’ for Bassoon and Electric Guitar at Royal Holloway University on the 20th September. The audience loved the experimental programme that also included Susan Kander’s solo bassoon classic ‘The Lunch Counter’.
Continue ReadingThis Thursday the 19th I’ll be conducting the premiere of George Holloway’s ‘Brief Journey’, for soprano, string ensemble and piano at St. Michael’s Church Southampton. The fantastic mezzo Lucy Williams is singing so it’s going to be a really special event. It starts at 7pm and I think tickets are £8
Continue ReadingMy setting of Lewis Caroll’s The Jabberwocky is being premiered by WOLF PACK on Saturday 14 July at Hoxton Hall in London. It’s scored for Soprano, Bassoon, Electric Bass and Electric Guitar, and is a funky creature.
Continue ReadingOn the 21st June the Aditi Singers will be premiering my SATB setting of an anonymous 9th century Old English poem, ‘The Wayfarer’. I found the text in a lecture given by Jorge Luis Borges, and have tried to reflect some of the austere beauty present in the poem and the music of that time. The concert is in Christ Church ...
Continue ReadingThe Southampton based Conchord Singers will be giving the premiere of my latest SATB work on June the 16th in Freemantle Church, Southampton. ‘Out of the Chaos of My Doubt’ uses a poem by Mervyn Peake, chosen specifically to fit with the choir’s quaker origins. The concert will also include Schubert’s Mass in G, some Vaughan Williams ...
Continue ReadingOn Sunday the Art House Composers’ Group will be giving their first concert. This is a voluntary project I’ve been running at the Southampton Art House for the last eight weeks, open to any keen amateur composers who would like some guidance and an opportunity to showcase their work. They’ve been writing away like mad to make ...
Continue ReadingI’ll be conducting Etao Shin and a string quartet for a couple of songs at their gig in Southampton’s Bargate on 20th May. Etao Shin are a south coast band making a stir with their amazing African influenced grooves and the occasional Bach pastiche. Check them out on Spotify! www.myspace.com/etaoshin
Continue ReadingMy new string quartet, titled Black Mirror, will be premiered by the Mavron Quartet at the Vale of Glamorgan festival on the 6th of May. My piece is in between two quartets by Phillip Glass, so it’ll be an interesting concert. You can get tickets and more information on this page: ...
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