Two new performances this September!


September performances

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September has been a busy month for me already, with performances of my works To know the dark for mixed ensemble performed by the Brightwork ensemble in LA on 6th September to more recent performances with the world premiere of my wind quintet Mirage at the Peter Reynolds Composition as part of the Vale of Glamorgan festival, and the world

premiere of my piece Spinning Colours | Faded Time for piano quartet performed by Trio Northumbria and pianist Alison Gill as part of the RMA conference at the University of Newcastle. You can now for a short period catch up on these performances digital. See below


Mirage for wind quintet

On Thursday 16th September at Cardiff University Music department my work Mirage for wind quintet received its first performance, given by the Magnard ensemble.

Programme notes:

Mirage: an optical illusion caused by atmospheric conditions, especially the appearance of a sheet of water in a desert or on a hot road caused by the refraction of light from the sky by heated air.

Based on a poem by Angela Elizabeth Slater

A certain certainty

evaporated

paraded for the mirage it was

a false sense of security

forever an alarm

Mirage starts at 18 minutes into the concert




Spinning colours | faded time for piano quartet

This work was premiered on Wednesday 15th September by Trio Northumbria and pianist Alison Gill at Newcastle University as part of the RMA conference.The piece starts at 40 minutes into the concert.

Programme notes:

The piece explores the ways that musical expressions of colour interact with musical renderings of Laban's eight efforts. Each gesture and colour has an associated weight, energy, and speed, creating interesting relationships between the instruments and their respective sonorities.

The first half of the piece explores the slow Laban efforts: float, glide, wring, and press. Thesecond half engages with the gestural efforts: flick, slash, dab, and punch, before the material disintegrates in the pure harmonics, seemingly ever longer each time.



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