The album and sheet music can be bought here
Dutch Indoor Subjects is a piano album inspired by the Dutch paintings of painting, everyday scenes from the 15- and 1600s. Each piece illustrates a domestic scene, sometimes from eponymous paintings, sometimes from my own life: the music is concerned with domesticity, and the enshrining of quotidien experiences.
Track 7, Belmont Chill, was nominated for BASCA British Composer Award 2018
An album of these pieces is out now on my bandcamp, played by Joseph Havlat. The PDF sheet music can also be bought there.
Recordings
Dutch Indoor Subjects Dutch Indoor Subjects
3 Jun 2022 • Joseph Havlat
Inspired by the Dutch painters that in the 1600s became interested in recording the mundane, daily activities of their contemporaries. They painted "nothing of great importance": families eating together, women cooking, or getting ready to entertain guests. Private, usually unobserved, domestic scenes.
Dutch Indoor Subjects is 7 piano tracks about everyday life.
Written for Joseph Havlat between 2016 and 2020.
Listenpony Sessions: George Xiaoyuan Fu Listenpony Sessions: George Xiaoyuan Fu
28 May 2021 • George Xiaoyuan Fu
Listenpony Sessions: George Xiaoyuan Fu marks the three-year-anniversary of the concert series’ first tour, when the two Listenpony commissions on the record, William Marsey’s and Daniel Fardon’s, were premiered. Recorded in the midst of the second nationwide lockdown, the intimately recorded EP offers a varied programme delivered by Fu with his characteristic emotional depth, sensitivity and sparkling virtuosity.
PDF sales
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PDFs are for personal use only. Do not distribute them to others or print out extra copies for friends or students.
If you'd like to perform or distribute the work please contact me at [email protected].
Physical sheet music sales
Sheet music is posted within 4 working days of receipt of payment.
Postage
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Performances
• Birmingham, Manchester, London
A Lady at her Toilet is played by George Fu, on Listenpony's tour to Centrala Birmingham, the Anthony Burgess Foundation Manchester, and the Playground Theatre London.
• Duke's Hall, Royal Academy of Music
Joseph Havlat plays a selection of pieces from Dutch Indoor Subjects, in a concert with Abrahamsen Marchenbilder and Ligeti Piano Concerto conducted by Will cole, part of RAM's piano festival.
• LSO St Luke's
Joseph Havlat plays a few pieces from the ongoing piano series Dutch Indoor Subjects, arranged for Piano, Celeste and Toy Piano, at BBC Radio 3 Open Ear. Recorded to be Broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and the BBC World Service.
• The Arts Hour Backstage, BBC World Service
Excerpts broadcast, Joseph Havlat playing, as part of a behind the scenes programme about the LSO Open Ear concert.
• BBC Radio 3
Recorded at BBC Open Ear at LSO St Luke's earlier in the year, Joseph Havlat performing.
• Barnes Festival, London
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.• Reston Community Center, Virginia, USA
George Fu plays a few of my piano pieces at the Reston Community Centre's 'Meet the Artists' series• Online
Album out on for download and in physical CD on bandcamp, and available to stream on a number of services from 3 June.
• Cardiff University
Richard Uttley plays pieces from Dutch Indoor Subjects.
• Folkestone New Music
Thomas Ades performs Belmont Chill from Dutch Indoor Subjects, in a piano recital with works by Janacek, Stanchinsky, Nancarrow, and his own work.
• 1901 Arts Club
A full concert of my piano works with Joseph Havlat -- more details to come.