Summer is drawing to a close and I’m flying back to the USA. Before it ends, here we are in Darmstadt, workshopping ideas for a new work, rumour — distant land, with Gwen Rouger, Franco Venturini and Simon Steen-Andersen. Experiments with the musicians of soundinitiative will inform the use of cassette players in my work being premiered by DieOrdnungDerDinge in November at the […]
On Thursday, 26 June, flautist Paolo Vignaroli and cellist Karolina Öhman are giving the first performance of my Tomorrow I will build a house here, if I can hold still in Paris, France. Come along to Studio Le Regard du Cygne (Google Maps) at 8pm to hear a concert of music for flute, cello and electronics that will also include […]
This week, ELISION Ensemble will be in residence at Harvard University, culminating on Saturday 17 May in a concert of new music by graduate composers at Harvard that will also include the US première of Richard Barrett’s Lens, for flugelhorn and electric lap-steel guitar. Ensembles that undertake their work and perform with the integrity and intensity of ELISION are rare, so it […]
This weekend I am travelling to Chicago to take part in the NUNC! Conference at Northwestern University. There’s a full schedule of concerts, presentations, and masterclasses, including a performance of my piece The Incredulity of St Thomas by Ensemble Dal Niente. See the full schedule here.
At 11:30 this Saturday morning at Harvard University, my duo for flute and cello, Tomorrow I will build a house here, if I can hold still, will be presented by Jessi Rosinski and David Russell of the Callithumpian Consort as part of my and fellow first-year PhD candidate Kai Polzhofer’s jury examination. Our pieces will be performed […]