Stockholm’s Curious Chamber Players will read Icebloom, a piano trio with music box drawing on Schubert’s Winterreise, as part of Impuls Academy, Graz, Austria.
Information about workshops of ‘Small Atlas’ by Chris Swithinbank at the Centre Acanthes composition workshops in Metz, France, July 2011.
My first workshop with the orchestra of King Edward Musical Society is on Tuesday — 11.1.11! — and I’m looking forward to playing around with some semi-improvised experiments mixing traditional notation and graphical elements that will hopefully let us create some interesting coincidences and arrays of interacting lines. I will post something about how it goes over on the […]
Two short fragments for string quartet were workshopped at 14:30, Thursday 18 February by the Quatuor Danel as part of my Masters course. The two fragments are experiments with material and notation that I hope to develop into a fully-fledged quartet later in the year.
Two new piano studies written as part of my Masters course will be workshopped alongside those of other Masters students by Richard Casey, winner of the British Contemporary Piano Competition and founder-member of contemporary music ensemble Psappha, on Monday 14 December. The studies explore aspects of time and harmony, demanding traditional virtuosity of speed and […]