Man with Limp Wrist

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New piece with the Halle

LA Phil commission announced

Thomas Ad&eacute;s conducts the Hall&eacute; in a new piece of mine, Man With Limp Wrist, alongside a programme of his own works and Janacek&#39;s Sinfonietta.

[POSTPONED] UK Premier of an LA Phil commission for wind and brass, part of LA Phil's 2021 residency at the Barbican, as well as the Barbican's series 'Thomas Ad&egrave;s at 50'.

[POSTPONED] A new piece for LA Phil winds and brass LA Commission, conducted by Tom Ades.

Circadian Nocturne (with Anna Ridler)

Circadian Nocturne goes live in Times Square

Times Square Arts piece

The Most Relative Medium in Art

Available on streaming services: my arrangement for full orchestra of Cristobal Tapia de Veer&#39;s fantastic The White Lotus Main Theme

Renaissance (White Lotus Main Theme by Cristobal Tapia De Veer)

New videos of White Lotus theme arrangement

White Lotus theme arrangement release

A special charity event, conductor Oliver Zeffman and the CBSO present the first Classical Pride concert given by a major orchestra in Europe.

Full score PDF download

Text set from the 2014 Immigration Bill. Recording released on Delphian October 2023.&nbsp;

Removal and Other Powers

Our Indifferent Century out now

Natalie Burch, Fleur Barron, and Francseca Chiejina, have put together a disc on a state of the nation theme. Two new commissions from Joanna Ward and me, alongside Finzi and Britten.

Full score and harp part PDF download

Daybed Melody

Daybed Melody for The Hermes Experiment

New work Daybed Melody, performed by Heloise Werner and Anne Denolm of The Hermes Experiment, at Listenpony&#39;s 10th anniversary concert.

Full score PDF

Written for the Music x Museums at Science Museum with Oliver Zeffman, released on Platoon as a visual and digital album.

Why Do You Grieve

Ivor Novello Award Nomination

Live at the Science Museum release

Live at the Science Museum visual album release

Why Do We Grieve out soon

New work for Music x Museums

<a href="https://www.eliasbrown.com/" target="_blank">Elias Brown</a>&nbsp;conducts Why Do You Grieve with an orchestra of players from Colburn School, alongside music by Ligeti and Debussy.

Platoon release Live at the Science Museum, part of Oliver Zeffman&#39;s Music x Museums.

Why Do We Grieve is out on Platoon as a Visual Album, released as part of Music x Museums, a series of albums and films with Apple Music.

The premiere of Why Do We Grieve, for 11 instruments. Performed at the Science Museum under Oliver Zeffman, part of his Music x Museums series.

Full score and parts

No Verticals

Listenpony 21 announced

Stuart King, Caroline Balding, and Clare O&#39;Connell play a programme of ancient and new music.

Stuart King trio -- Stuart King,&nbsp;Caroline Balding, and Clare O&rsquo;Connell -- perform No Verticals, alongside contemporary rep and renaissance music, part of Behind the Mirror concert series.

Stuart King trio -- Stuart King,&nbsp;Caroline Balding, and Clare O&rsquo;Connell -- perform No Verticals, alongside contemporary rep and renaissance music.

A new work for Explore Ensemble, to be performed at Listenpony at Crypt on the Green.

Members of apartment house will be giving the first perf of this string trio, for Listenpony.

George's Sonatas and Man Dances

Dutch Indoor Subjects

Bishopsgate Recital online

George Fu plays George's Sonata book in a programme of work written for RAM's 200th anniversary.

Natalie Burch is playing a few of my piano pieces in a concert the University of Glasgow, alongside Heloise Werner singing music by herself and Jonathan Woolgar. Concert is free to attend online and in-person, see here: <a href="https://www.gla.ac.uk/events/musicintheuniversity/index.html/event/12305">gla.ac.uk</a>

<a href="https://www.josephhavlat.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joseph Havlat</a> explores a selection of music inspired by the Bishopsgate Institute collections

Full score and parts PDF download

a song for two voices and violin with Shadwell Opera, video collaboration with Antonia Luxem

Stone Him (with Antonia Luxem)

Video collaboration out soon

Stone Him, a binaural video collaboration with Antonia Luxem and Shadwell Opera, released online for free streaming. Part of Shadwell&#39;s binaural commissions project.

I am Become a Man

New work for Listenpony #20, on 'I Am Become a Man' by poet Jack Underwood, for vocal ensemble EXAUDI.

exhibiting at Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich and The Contemporary Austin, Texas

Elegy for the Silent (with Torbjørn Rødland)

Elegy for the Silent installed in Austin, Texas

Elegy for the Silent installed in Zurich

PDF download

solo viola piece, written for Lawrence Power&#39;s lockdown video series

This poor room

This poor room online now

This poor room out on Christmas day

This Poor Room, video coming soon

Lawrence Power lockdown series

The Water of Tyne

CoMA New Music Trail, Newcastle

Played by members of the <a href="https://sagegateshead.com/royal-northern-sinfonia/">Royal Northern Sinfonia</a>, part of the <a href="http://www.coma.org/">CoMA</a> Gateshead new music trail, part of their 2020 UK and European festival.

A quintet of players from <a href="http://www.chromaensemble.co.uk/" target="_blank">CHROMA ensemble</a> performs Water of Tyne alongside other works by composers at the Academy.

written around recordings of my parent&#39;s voices, released on the Solem Quartet&#39;s debut disc, available on Spotify

Be nice to see you

Solem Quartet Four Quarters out now!

Solem Quartet album out soon

Be nice to see you on BBC Radio 6 Music

'Be nice to see you' out now on the BBC

New Creatives North commission

Listenpony #19, new piece for Ligeti Quartet

Psalms 22 and 23

3 missed alarms

Listenpony 2019

The Frankland Quartet are playing Be nice to see you, live and on livestream.&nbsp;<a href="https://theglobenewcastle.bar/product/nov-7-the-frankland-string-quartet/">Tickets here.</a>

The Frankland Quartet plays 'Be nice to see you' at Berwick Music Series.

This short piece, made under the New Creatives / Arts Council Scheme, is available online.

New work, Psalms 22 and 23, for Jess Dandy

Next Listenpony announced!

Performed by Jess Dandy and Francesco Iannuzzelli.

written for Royal Northern Sinfonia and Lars Vogt, recording online

The Sea

New works for Apartment House and Royal Northern Sinfonia / Lars Vogt

New work for Royal Northern Sinfonia

Broadcast of the previous week&#39;s concert at Sage Gateshead, with Lars Vogt and the Royal Northern Sinfonia.

A short Encore for the Royal Northern Sinfonia, as part of their 60th anniversary season, for the orchestra and Lars Vogt.

Bucketmouth

Performed by Liam Byrne at the Royal Academy of Music.

nominated for a British Composer Award, album recorded with Joseph Havlat out now

Belmont Chill

Belmont Chill British Composer Award nomination

A Lady at her Toilet

Radio 3 broadcast

Dances of Travel

Banff centre residency

Thomas Ades performs Belmont Chill from Dutch Indoor Subjects, in a piano recital with works by Janacek, Stanchinsky, Nancarrow, and his own work.

<a href="https://www.richarduttley.com/">Richard Uttley</a>&nbsp;plays pieces from Dutch Indoor Subjects.

Album out on for download and in physical CD on bandcamp, and available to stream on a number of services from 3 June.

George Fu plays a few of my piano pieces at the Reston Community Centre's 'Meet the Artists' series

George Fu is playing a few of my piece at the next Listenpony, hosted by Barnes festival. It's alongside a load of great music! Click for tickets.

Recorded at BBC Open Ear at LSO St Luke's earlier in the year, Joseph Havlat performing.

Excerpts broadcast, Joseph Havlat playing, as part of a behind the scenes programme about the LSO Open Ear concert.

Joseph Havlat plays a few pieces from the ongoing piano series Dutch Indoor Subjects, arranged for Piano, Celeste and Toy Piano,&nbsp;at BBC Radio 3 Open Ear. Recorded to be Broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and the BBC World Service.

Joseph Havlat plays a selection of pieces from&nbsp;Dutch Indoor Subjects, in a concert with Abrahamsen Marchenbilder and Ligeti Piano Concerto conducted by Will cole, part of RAM's piano festival.

A Lady at her Toilet&nbsp;is played by George Fu, on <a title="Listenpony" href="https://www.listenpony.com/" target="_blank">Listenpony</a>'s tour to Centrala Birmingham, the Anthony Burgess Foundation Manchester, and the Playground Theatre London.

The Manson Ensemble, cond. <a href="https://www.harrisonparrott.com/artists/oliver-knussen" target="_blank">Olly Knussen</a>

For Grace, After a Party

For Grace, After a Party recording now online

song set on poems by Sam Riviere, entire set filmed at Britten&#39;s Red House, videos on Youtube now

Austerity Songs

Austerity Songs online

SongSpiel are singing a varied programme at St David&#39;s Cardiff, including&nbsp;some of my Austerity Songs in Cardiff. This event is part of the series NightMusic, where I am Associate Composer.

Dominic Sedgwick and Natalie Burch performing two of my Austerity Songs at the Oxford Lieder festival, live and on stream, 10pm.

Crisis Poem performed at AirBnB's monthly Secret Concert series, by <a href="https://www.songspiel.org/" target="_blank">SongSpiel</a>.

Performed by <a href="https://www.songspiel.org/" target="_blank">SongSpiel</a>, in aid of charity Arts Emergency

Performed by <a href="https://www.clairelees.co.uk/" target="_blank">Claire Lees</a>, <a href="http://www.felicityturner.com/" target="_blank">Felicity Turner</a>, <a href="http://www.jamesbernardway.com/" target="_blank">James Way</a>, <a href="https://jamesnewbybaritone.com/" target="_blank">James Newby</a> and <a href="http://www.natalieburchpiano.com/" target="_blank">Natalie Burch</a>.

Crisis Poem, Performed by <a href="http://www.felicityturner.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Felicity Turner</a>, <a href="http://www.jamesbernardway.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">James Way</a>, and <a href="http://www.natalieburchpiano.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Natalie Burch</a>.

Crisis Poem&nbsp;in its earliest version, for mezzo and ensemble. Performed by Katie Slater, Gabriella Swallow, Eleanor Tinlin and Christina McMaster.

Mill

Part of the Peter Reynolds Composer Studio at the <a href="http://valeofglamorganfestival.org.uk/" target="_blank">Vale of Glamorgan Festival</a><a href="http://valeofglamorganfestival.org.uk/"></a>

Den Vater dort oben

The Ashwell Trio (Callum Smart, Ben Goldscheider, and Richard Uttley), will be playing my Horn Trio at NightMusic, St David&#39;s Hall.

Performance as part of my residency at the Banff Centre, played by Katia Dinas, Judy Ferguson and Madeleine Antoine.

A concert of newly written works, performed by Benjamin Keith Hulme, <a href="http://www.michaelfoyle.org/" target="_blank">Michael Foyle</a> and <a href="http://www.lauratearmanagement.com/artists/huw-watkins" target="_blank">Huw Watkins</a>.

PDF download (score and parts)

Hard copy (score and parts)

Piano pieces about food

Joe Havlat plays new works for piano for Ensemble x.y

<a href="http://www.zubinkanga.com/" target="_blank">Zubin Kanga</a> plays&nbsp;Prawn Cocktail,&nbsp;Cheesecake and&nbsp;Flapjack.

Flour, Eggs and Mackerel played by <a href="http://thomasang.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Thomas Ang</a>.

<a href="http://katewhitley.net/">Kate Whitley</a> plays Flour and premiere Eggs and Mackerel.

PDF download (score & parts)

40 Days and 40 Nights

Performed as part of my musicians residency there.

Played by <a href="http://www.albionquartet.com/" target="_blank">The Albion Quartet</a> (Tamsin Waley-Cohen, Emma Parker, Rosalind Ventris, Nathaniel Boyd).

Doctor

Laefer Quartet play 'Doctor' at NightMusic Cardiff, where I am the Associate Composer.

Part of St David's Hall 'nightmusic' series, performed by the Laefer Quartet.

Performed by Laefer Quartet, part of "Music on the Green" in Esher.

Premiere - performed by the <a href="http://www.laeferquartet.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Laefer Quartet</a>

Big Rubber Cock

The Patronages

The Patronages playlisted

The Patronages release

The Patronages, out on bandcamp and streaming platforms.

Cecilia Bignall and Joseph Havlat in luncthtime recital, alongside Martinu.

Played <a href="http://zoemartlew.com/" target="_blank">Zoe Martlew</a> and <a href="http://www.lauratearmanagement.com/artists/huw-watkins" target="_blank">Huw Watkins</a>, in a concert of new work.

Daughters of the  Lonesome Isle

Premiere by <a href="http://www.eo-nomine.com/" target="_blank">Eo Nomine</a>, who also sang new music by Josephine Stephenson and Ryan Latimer.

Chorale

Played by the Vickers Bovey duo at the St David Hall's contemporary series NightMusic.