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upcoming performances:
June 19. – at Out of the Brew in New Cross, London, music by Patricia Alessandrini, Christopher Fox and Chikako Morishita
June 25. George Crumb Portrait with Marsayas Trio & guests at St. John’s Smith Square, London
June 30. Open Ear at LSO St. Luke’s with Apartment House
July 14. LSO SoundHub Concert, music by Robin Haigh, Lillie Harris, Yvonne Eccles and Nick Morrish
July 15. Cheltenham Festival with Scott Wilson, Xenia Pestova and Carla Rees – new pieces by student composers of the festival for clarinet, flute, piano and electronics
August 13. Another Timbre Canadian Composers Release Party with Apartment House at Cafe Oto, London.
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- Spending the afternoon practicing solo pieces by Ann Cleare and Chikako Morishita that I haven't played in a few ye… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 4 hours ago
- Have me in to do a workshop for your students and I'll point at stuff for them too! https://t.co/ofw5dlB1qo 9 hours ago
Category Archives: on performance
How to Apply for a (Composition) Competition
If you follow the blog, you’re probably aware that recently I successfully raised funds with crowdfunding in order to fund a competition for young composers. Here is the first blog post in a series documenting the competition process! The application … Continue reading
on chamber music
A few weeks ago, as part of a week long residency at Bangor University (specifically to play a rockin’ concert with Xenia Pestova and Carla Rees), I was asked to lead a workshop on chamber music performance. I don’t teach … Continue reading
the cologne new music scene
This article was published in German this week in the ON magazine (online version is here). The magazine features a number of articles from local interpreters, composers and even dancers, discussing their experience of the scene here in Cologne. Here … Continue reading
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the kölner musiknacht: another performance paradigm
Some time ago, I wrote at length about my ensemble‘s last experiment with the audience-performer relationship through an alternative concert situation, our Unter Vier Ohren project. As I’ve been so focused on developing audience-performer/ensemble relationships, the Kölner Musiknacht seemed the … Continue reading
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Approaches to the performer/audience relationship: a case study
Over the last two weeks, my ensemble has collaborated with ensemble chronophonie on a fairly unusual concert presentation. Called Unter Vier Ohren (literally “under four ears” – “unter vier Augen” means “between the two of us”), we installed 7 musicians … Continue reading
