The Archives

• Concerts, News

  The week ahead, ending with TEI

  01.17.10 | Permalink | Comment?

  As some of you know, last week I made a quick jaunt to Nottingham to do some preparatory work Sarah Kettley and Yann Seznec ahead of going to Boston next weekend for the TEI conference at MIT, Boston.
  Basically, it’s a project involving stretch sensors weaved into a shirt that I wear to play; it maps [...]

• Concerts

  Programming

  01.08.10 | Permalink | Comment?

  I’m currently programming 10 concerts for this coming year - some of these will be done more than once, but I have 10 concert programmes this season. (When I say it out loud, that seems like an awful lot…)
  For those of you that don’t know what this means, it’s basically choosing pieces of repertoire that [...]

• News

  Enchanted Voices, more enchanted!

  10.05.09 | Permalink | Comment?

  Just a quick news update on Enchanted Voices - it’s still riding high at 27 weeks at #1, and has just won a Special Gramophone Award in recognition of this!
  The Christmas follow-up album, Enchanted Carols, will be released in November. We recorded at the start of September, so it’ll be nice to hear it so [...]

• Concerts, News

  Sold out Albert Hall

  04.17.09 | Permalink | Comment?

  Last night, I was fortunate enough to be a part of Classic FM Live at the Albert Hall - not only was it a sell-out (5,500 people!) but it was a really great fun evening to play in! Dry ice, balloons, pyrotechnics, mood lighting… it had it all!

  We’re touring the Enchanted Voices programme in the [...]

• Concerts, New Things

  SoundWIRE

  11.19.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  This is a new project for me, but one that has been going on at CCRMA / Stanford for a while now: using the internet as a medium for concert performance. Check it out here.

  I am to be trying it out from here in Edinburgh and in London from December, so will look forward to [...]

• News

  America Concerts

  09.07.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  SPEM in America; Britten

• News

  Boulez, Cashian and the Eternal Golden Metronome

  05.28.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  On June 11th in the Duke’s Hall, London, I will be playing (along with 6 others) Messagequisse by Pierre Boulez alongside a new work by Philip Cashian. 
  Both are ferociously difficult, but both are rewarding to play in. It should be a fascinating concert, and soloist extraordinaire Olly Coates, is in the hot seat for the [...]

• Concerts

  SoundsNew

  04.16.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  I was playing at the Sounds New festival in Canterbury yesterday - it was fantastic! They had some amazing concerts with such an impressive (and rare) outlook on contemporary music… I was performing Gaia Sketches, an early work for HyperBow, and we had so many interesting questions at the end - it was amazing.
   
  Am in [...]

• News

  Banff

  02.25.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  I’m in my final week of being at the amazing Banff Centre in Canada. I’ve been here for six weeks, and it’s just amazing. 
  So, what have I been doing? Well, I’ve been recording my debut CD, SPEM in my studio hut (see below). Literally completed the other day, I’m yet to listen back to all [...]