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New Work for Cello & d&b Soundscape

I’m thrilled to be writing a new work for cellist Louise McMonagle, including immersive spatialised electronics in d&b Soundscape. The piece will be premiered on 29th September at Kings Place (and I will be engineering/mixing the whole concert).  

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World Premiere: Deal Festival

My work As the soul receds in what the years bring received its World Premiere performance at the Deal Music & Arts Festival. Conducted by Thomas Kemp with Chamber Domaine, the performance was every bit as weird, wild and wonderful as I was hoping for!

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Marie Schreer on her new project ‘Belonging’

For some time now, Violinist Marie Schreer has been developing a (frankly) extraordinary project on home & belonging, for which I am honoured to be contributing a new (20′) piece. The project has been supported by HCMF Shorts (2024), and has recently received funding from the PRS Foundations Open Fund.  Marie […]

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Interview with Thomas Kemp

Ahead of the world premiere of my new work As the soul recedes in what the years bring (which, rather naughtily, interrupts a performance of Bach’s 2nd Brandenburg Concerto and slowly descends into a chorus of slide whistles and bird calls…!) I had the opportunity to do a little interview with conductor […]

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Leading a PRS day for Composers

How are programmes made? How do curators build up a coherent universe over years of programming? How do composers find a life for their work? I’m proud to have worked alongside Dan Lewis at PRS for Music to bring together a (FREE) day for #composers looking at these questions with […]

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as the soul receds in what the years bring

It’s been a real and unusual joy to work on a new piece to ‘interrupt’ Bach’s 2nd Brandenburg Concerto (something I think you can all imagine me doing!) and I am hugely looking forward to the premiere this summer at the Deal Music & Arts Festival with Chamber Domaine and […]

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Behind the Scenes: new work for solo violin

One of my new pieces involving spatial audio this year is a work for my friend, colleague and fantastic violinist Marie Schreer. If I Am from Somewhere I Am From There will be a 20 minute piece for violin, electronics and video that dwells on the ideas of home, belonging and migration. […]

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Art Mentor Lucerne at Tate Modern

We have established a new 3-year residency where six performers and three composers from the Royal Academy of Music will work closely alongside Riot Ensemble to develop their work in contemporary music. I’ve led the fundraising and design of the course, and am hugely excited to see where the students […]

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Wigmore Hall with Riot

I’m thrilled to be returning to Wigmore Hall with Riot Ensemble for the World Premiere performance of Jocelyn Campbell’s f o r e v e r 1 9 9 0 for voice and ensemble, on 29th June at 1pm.

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I contemplate making a libretto

My new piece for double bell trumpet, baritone, electronics and (optional) video will be premiered this weekend at ECLAT. Over the last few years, my pieces have grown more and more intimate with the words and viewpoints of their performers. I’ve recently started asking each of them the same seven […]

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