My recent article for the OUP journal Adaptation has just been published. It examines my approach to creating a musical narrative in the first movement of my clarinet quintet At Night after a beautiful poem by Robert Louis Stevenson entitled ‘The Land of Nod’. Click here to view the full article …
As the end of the year approaches, I wanted to take this moment to take stock of the year and its many developments. Returning to so-called normality after the pandemic was not without its difficulties, but the year began excitingly with the recording sessions for my new album on Delphian …
And that’s a wrap! It’s been an absolute joy recording my upcoming album for Delphian Records in the gorgeous acoustic of Stapleford Granary over the last month or so.
It’s been an utter delight recording this week (4-5th January) for my debut album with Delphian Records (out later this year). Sessions took place in the stunning setting of Stapleford Granary, which also currently houses an exhibition of textile art by my own mother, Sabine Kaner. The first two sessions …
It was a real pleasure after the year and a half since the pandemic began to attend the premiere of my Five Highland Scenes at East Neuk Festival in Fife, performed magnificently by Benjamin Baker and Daniel Lebhardt. The Bow House at East Neuk is a particularly sonorous venue, and …
My new stage work Hansel and Gretel (created in collaboration with poet Simon Armitage and artist Clive Hicks-Jenkins) got off to a fantastic start to a sold-out audience in the Parabola Theatre at Cheltenham Festival last Saturday. Adey Grummet and the Goldfield Ensemble gave a fantastic performance of the music …
I’m now back from Lucerne following the premiere of my new orchestral piece Encounters, with the superb Lucerne Festival Academy Orchestra and Jeffrey Means, and am stuck in with teaching back at the Guildhall School. The concert, also featuring new works by Lisa Streich and Luca Frascenconi, was recorded live, …
So much has happened during this residency, and I don’t really feel like the same composer (or person) any more! What an amazing three months. I’ve written more music than I’d previously written in several years! If you’d like to catch up on any of the music or interviews, you …
And so it begins… My BBC Radio 3 Embedded Residency in partnership with Sound and Music has now kicked off! You can listen to the first of my 10 pieces for Breakfast, Collide (written for the incredible Workers Union Ensemble), and hear my short interview with Petroc Trelawney at this link. …
The start of my residency as Embedded Composer in 3 with Radio 3 and Sound and Music is getting very close! Amongst lots of exciting things, I’m very pleased that the first of my new pieces for Breakfast is for the wonderful Workers Union Ensemble. Tune in live on Monday 26th …