Practice-Led Research into an ‘Avant Garde’ Style
I’ve made a YouTube video that tries to elaborate on my own approach to composing music. This entails what I think about what we call “Avant garde” music or “contemporary classical music” today. By all means, check out the video on my YouTube channel. In this video, I outline some practice-led research (from my own PhD… Continue reading Practice-Led Research into an ‘Avant Garde’ Style
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Olivier Messiaen: Quatuor pour la Fin du Temps
I’ve made an online lecture that discusses the compositional technique of Olivier Messiaen with reference to his quartet: Quatuor pour la Fin du Temps (Quartet for the End of Time) for clarinet, piano, violin and ’cello. In this lecture, I discuss his use of ‘modes of limited transposition’; ‘isorhythms’, ‘non-retrogradable rhythms’, and ‘reductive rhythm’. This blog… Continue reading Olivier Messiaen: Quatuor pour la Fin du Temps
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Samuel Beckett: Waiting for Godot
I went to see Waiting for Godot in Sheffield’s Crucible last night. It was energetically mesmeric and I was gripped. Below is my review of the event: Samuel Beckett’s minimalistic and thought-provoking play Waiting for Godot was brought to life once more on Saturday 13th February, 2016 in Sheffield’s Crucible in Yorkshire. According to the artistic director… Continue reading Samuel Beckett: Waiting for Godot
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August Strindberg (1849-1912): Preface to *Miss Julie*
Some of my current research has led me to acknowledge a comparison between what is realistic/unrealistic and realist/non-realist drama. According to Egil Törnqvist and Birgitta Steene (translators and editors of Strindberg on Drama and Theatre) Strindberg’s preface to Miss Julie is ‘often hailed as the manifesto of modern drama’. I personally find it interesting because it… Continue reading August Strindberg (1849-1912): Preface to *Miss Julie*
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Museum für Moderne Kunst
I once made a video about my experiences at the Museum für Moderne Kunst (Museum of Modern Art, or MMK for short) in Frankfurt, Germany. You can view this on my YouTube channel (although it’s one of my first videos and not very good). Here is a blog post about the experience that can accompany that online… Continue reading Museum für Moderne Kunst
Keep readinghcmf// Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival 2014
The Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival (HCMF) is a nine-day long festival of contemporary music, typically held every year in November. The following is a brief account of some of the pieces, from the festival, that have inspired some thoughts about my own compositional approach (having said this, I didn’t attend every event at the festival). I am writing about them… Continue reading hcmf// Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival 2014
Keep readingReviewing the New Music Biennial Festival #nmb17
Any readers following my Instagram feed will be aware that I was reviewing this year’s New Music Biennial Festival in Hull. For those of you who could not attend the festival this year, my article features in Sounds Like Now: Contemporary Music News and can be read here. Below is a preview of the article, also… Continue reading Reviewing the New Music Biennial Festival #nmb17
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Polskie Radio / Polish Radio
Tonight, my piece ‘We Lived in the Gaps Between the Stories.’, performed by accordionist Ryszard Lubieniecki, will be played on Polish radio: [translation]: “[…] a presentation of the music of young generation composers gathered around the Łódź scene of Musica Privata. “Seeds” is the title of Ryszard Lubieniecki’s debut album. We will listen to works by… Continue reading Polskie Radio / Polish Radio
Keep readingYorkshire Young Sinfonia and BBC Radio 4
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… Continue reading Yorkshire Young Sinfonia and BBC Radio 4
Keep readingUpcoming Performance: *Pacific Pleasures*, an opera.
I have composed a one-act opera called Pacific Pleasures (with libretto by Jorge Balça), which will be performed by Bloomsbury Opera company on March 25th and 26th in London. More information can be found here and on the poster below. Pacific Pleasures (2016-17) is a prequel to Leonard Bernstein’s Trouble in Tahiti (1952), which tells the story of a married… Continue reading Upcoming Performance: *Pacific Pleasures*, an opera.
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