My composition angustia (2015) for flute, accordion, and violin (optional fixed-media electronics pending) will be premiered by Trio Layers in an evening concert at the Academy of Music in Bydgoszcz, Poland this Friday. They will also be performing an interesting piece by Ryszard Lubieniecki. More information can be found here. Continue reading World premiere at the Academy of Music in Bydgoszcz
My composition Parallax Error (2014) for any four-stringed bowed instrument has been selected to be workshopped by ‘cellist Katharina Gross and double bassist Dario Calderone at the 2015 Gaudeamus Muziekweek Academy in Utrecht this September. More information can be found here. Further information to follow! Continue reading Gaudeamus Muziekweek Academy
My orchestral piece Air, Earth, Water, Fire (2015) has been selected by the Yorkshire Young Sinfonia to be workshopped as part of their 2015 summer course and performed in their concert in the York Barbican. More information can be found here. They will also be performing works by Mendelssohn, Mozart, Taylor, Beethoven, and Brahms. The summer course is currently on-going and I will be workshopping my piece with the orchestra later this week. The summer course will also feature on the BBC Radio 4 Documentary ‘Birth of an Orchestra’ which will be aired on the 15th September this year. Further information regarding this can be found … Continue reading Yorkshire Young Sinfonia and BBC Radio 4
I have recently performed in the Centre Stage concert series. You can find details about this series here. I presented four world premieres, two of which were written especially for the concert. This post serves as a review of the concert, and … Continue reading Performing in the Centre Stage concert series
LSTwo ensemble will premiere ENERGY CANNOT BE CREATED II: 4B4 (chamber ensemble) on 1st May in Leeds. They will also perform works by Finnissy, Hoban, and Mclaughlin. There will be a pre-concert talk before the concert where I will discuss my music along with the other composers Hoban and Mclaughlin. Specific times can be found here. Continue reading Upcoming Performance: LSTwo
I will be performing in the Centre Stage concert series in February. The following works will be premiered: ‘…it’s (al[l]/[ready]) been done!’ (2013), fixed-media electronics ‘It sounds an isochronism.’ (2015), solo piano and fixed-media electronics ‘Read between the…’ (2013), fixed-media electronics To Rave in a Fifteenth-Century Discotheque from another Time Entirely. (2015), solo string instrument and fixed-media electronics The concert will also feature work from other female composers, details of which can be found on the following poster (photo by Cormac Ó Callanáin). Highlights from the concert can be heard here: 1) Knitted, Crocheted, Looped – Morag Galloway Morag Galloway – voice, viola Margaret … Continue reading Upcoming Performance: Centre Stage concert series
The Ridge is beyond the Edge (Fixed-Media Electronics) will be performed this Sunday 2nd November in the ‘di_stanze festival of electronic music’ in Leeds along with other works by contemporary composers. More information can be found here. Below is a brief programme note about the piece: The Ridge is beyond the Edge is about a state of limbo induced by the act of ‘waiting to wait’ within a timeline that is not straightforwardly linear. This act of ‘waiting to wait’ is not to be confused with the act of simply waiting, which suggests a wait for something and a state … Continue reading Upcoming performance: di_stanze festival of electronic music
The Interlocutor is my most recent composition and it was performed by Discord earlier this week. It is for French horn, electric guitar, electric bass guitar, piano (doubling keyboard), and electric five-string violin. As a (very) basic description of the composition’s structure, it is based on the dynamics of conversing. Although a seemingly simple compositional procedure, I intend the form to be more complexly dynamic, and I think that Discord brought this out. Composing for Discord was very useful, not only did it force me to consider writing for these instruments in the context of this particular ensemble, but working with the performers introduced me … Continue reading Performance of *The Interlocutor*: ensemble Discord
LSTwo ensemble will perform ENERGY CANNOT BE CREATED I: the title is an image for chamber ensemble in the Leeds Contemporary Music Festival in May. They will also perform music by Harrison Birtwistle, James Dillon, Emmanuel Nunes, and Oliver Thurley. The Carbon Loop for seven percussionists will be performed in Leeds in May by percussion ensembles of the Musikhochschule Freiburg and the University of Leeds. Continue reading Upcoming Performances: Leeds Contemporary Music Festival
Notes Inégales realised my graphic score CROSSWOR[K] in the ‘Tableaux Vivants‘ concert earlier this week. The concert also featured traditional klezmer music as well as compositions by Peter Wiegold, The Notes, Marcello Messina, Antti Sakari Saario and Martin Iddon, and visuals by Adam York Gregory (listed here in order of appearance in the concert programme). The score for CROSSWOR[K] is as pictured below. This piece resulted from a request to write a graphic score on a postcard specifically for Notes Inégales. CROSSWOR[K] is structured like a crossword practically as well as visually. Deciphering a performance from this score resembles the process one goes … Continue reading Graphic Score: Notes Inégales, Tableaux Vivants, and CROSSWOR[K]
LSTwo ensemble will perform In the Zone (2012-13) along with works by Scott McLaughlin and Mic Spencer. For more details, see this poster: Continue reading Leeds Contemporary Music Weekend
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