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OrchLab is an LPO project for disabled adults and has been shortlisted for a 2025 Digital Inclusion Award by the Digital Culture Network. I lead the project from the LPO workshop side of things, and we partner with Drake Music who co-lead the workshops and develop the digital instruments. It’s a fabulous team! Check out […]
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Written with Andrew Melvin, the first performances of Fanfare on Personent Hodie and Variations on the Carol ‘Entre le boeuf et l’ane gris‘ will take place at Little Missenden Chruch on 13th December 2024! It’s a great programme of Christmas delights curated by wonderful French Horn player, Marcus Bates. Further details https://little-missenden.org/2024-programme/christmas-brass.html
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28th September premiere of a new Brass Quintet movement by Q6. It’s brash, jazzy, scrunchy and has windows for players to improvise: it’s sounding great, and the band love playing it. But I don’t know what to call it…. Incarcaration, Mean streets or City Vibe. Audience vote in the first performance will decide!
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Open Sound is a project I have been co-leading for a number of years with the lovely Dav Shiel. It’s an ensemble for disabled young people and their carers, and is part of the London Philharmonic Orchestra’s Education and Community Department. We’ve got a new course happening very soon, and the LPO has just released […]
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St Paul’s Church, Covent Garden Saturday 15th June saw the premiere of my Concerto for Tuba, Strings and Percussion with the wonderful Mike Poyser as soloist. He nailed it fabulously and the band did a sterling job considering we only had 1 hour to rehearse with them. Sean and Malcolm on the percussion did particularly […]
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Premiere 15th June, 7.30, St Paul’s Covent Garden, WC2 The wonderful MIke Poyser is the soloist in this concerto I’ve written for him, performed by the Marcel Sinfonia and conducted by myself! The piece is based around aspects of Mike’s character and playing – his whacky humour, the breadth of music he performs professionally, his […]
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Sing a Story, my show for young children, returns to the Wigmore Hall in May presented by myself and Charlie Mafham. It includes the stories Train Ride (June Crebbin), The Three Little Pigs (Robert Adederian) and Little Rabbit Foo Foo (retold by Michael Rosen). There’s also a visit from a certain Grand Old Duke. 22nd […]
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I’m delighted to be part of @earthpercent’s Earth Day initiative this year, being one of 60+ artists passionate about the planet who have donated an exclusive track that you can now buy on Bandcamp and help us raise funds for climate action. Head to http://earthpercent.bandcamp.com where you will be able to buy the slow movement […]