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I’ve been adopted!

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Logos of organisations involved with Adopt a Composer: Sound and Music, PRS for Music Foundation, Making Music and King Edward Musical Society.

I’m very ex­cited to be able to an­nounce that this year I will be tak­ing part in the Adopt a Com­poser scheme, funded by the PRS for Music Foun­da­tion and run by Sound and Music, in as­so­ci­a­tion with Mak­ing Music. The scheme pairs up com­posers with am­a­teur en­sem­bles to col­lab­o­rate on new music and I am de­lighted that I will be work­ing with the or­ches­tra of King Ed­ward Mu­si­cal So­ci­ety in Mac­cles­field.

In the com­ing months I will be get­ting to know the or­ches­tra and work­ing with con­duc­tor Tony Houghton and my com­po­si­tion men­tor for the pro­ject, David Horne. This col­lab­o­ra­tive process will re­sult in a per­for­mance on Sat­ur­day 18 June 2011 at St Michael and All An­gels Church, part of the Mac­cles­field Barn­aby Fes­ti­val and the cel­e­bra­tion of the 750th an­niver­sary of the town’s royal char­ter. It will be my first work for or­ches­tra, an ex­cit­ing learn­ing process — quite pos­si­bly for the or­ches­tra as much as for me — and I’m look­ing for­ward to it im­mensely.

Macclesfield Barnaby Festival

Gaza Cantos @ Hexham Abbey Festival

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Hexham Abbey Festival of Music & Arts Logo

Fan­tas­tic vi­o­list Emma Richards will be per­form­ing my short piece Gaza Can­tos at a lunchtime con­cert on Thurs­day 30 Sep­tem­ber as part of Hex­ham Abbey Fes­ti­val of Music & Arts. The pro­gramme also in­cludes Robert Schu­mann’s Märchen­bilder, Jo­hannes Brahms’s F minor Sonata and move­ments from a tran­scrip­tion of the first Bach cello suite.

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Hear: La leggerezza delle città

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La leg­gerezza delle città, which was premièred two weeks ago at En­cuen­tros Cuenca, is now avail­able over on Band­camp for stream­ing and down­load. Below is a photo from be­fore the con­cert in Cuenca in the clois­ter of art gallery and ex-con­vent, the Fun­dación An­to­nio Pérez. The view was spec­tac­u­lar and as the sounds of the tape music seemed to creep in from the nar­row streets and burst from the val­ley below the ex­pe­ri­ence of the music was very vivid.

Fundación Antonio Pérez

Con­cert space at En­cuen­tros Cuenca: the clois­ter of Fun­dación An­to­nio Pérez

Quiet Games & Improvisation

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Poster for A Curious Night

I will be per­form­ing/ap­pear­ing/being at A Cu­ri­ous Night at the Nip & Tip­ple in Whal­ley Range the evening of Mon­day 13th Sep­tem­ber. Put to­gether by com­poser Nina White­man and per­for­mance artist Michael May­hew, it will in­clude an eclec­tic range of per­for­mances, hap­pen­ings and a ‘cu­ri­ous veg­etable com­pe­ti­tion’, spurred on by Nabokov’s sug­ges­tion that ‘cu­rios­ity is in­sub­or­di­na­tion in its purest form’. My con­tri­bu­tions will in­clude an au­di­ence im­pro­vi­sa­tion piece with elec­tronic at­mos­phere, ti­tled Quiet Games, and an im­pro­vised per­for­mance on the cello. Come along, it should be in­trigu­ing.

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Encuentros Cuenca

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Encuentros Cuenca poster on billboard in Cuenca.

I have ar­rived home from a won­der­ful trip to pre­miere my tape piece La leg­gerezza delle città at En­cuen­tros Cuenca. The fes­ti­val was fan­tas­tic, the dance in par­tic­u­lar stand­ing out, and the clois­ter of the Fun­dación An­to­nio Pérez with a view across the val­ley proved a beau­ti­ful set­ting for the con­cert of elec­troa­coustic music, which also in­cluded music by Donal Sars­field, Panos Amelides, Irma Catalina Álvarez and Ri­cardo Cli­ment. Many thanks to all the En­cuen­tros Cuenca team. It was great to meet them all!

I was snapped dif­fus­ing dur­ing the con­cert by the local news­pa­per, El Día:

El Día, Cuenca, 05.09.2010, p. 16

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