May-Nov 2022

Well I’ve managed to do that thing again where I forget to update my website for several months… distracted by writing many, many notes…

During November I’ve mainly been working on a new piece Honnold for the Crash Ensemble for New Music Dublin 2023, and been…

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Feb 2022

Thank you to everyone who came to Spike Cello Festival last week! Martin Johnson premiered my cello suite Three Words for Light at the Pepper Cannister – you can read a review of the concert in the Journal of Music. We then took the piece up north and performed it at the Seamus Heaney Homeplace at a concert that included the premiere of Judith Ring‘s Wildwoods (order it on bandcamp here), and I premiered Martin Della Vechia’s A Line, A Circle and performed movements from my own guitar suite Eyewitnesses of His Majesty.

In other news, the Ulster Orchestra‘s performance of my orchestral work Laniakea was broadcast on BBC Radio 3 Breakfast, and you can listen back here from 1:51:00. Pollen, Blood, and Seaspray was screened in Dublin, Paris, and Belfast, and can be watched back on YouTube till early March 2022. I finished up my brass band piece Rasp, commissioned by New Music Dublin Festival for the 1st Old Boys’ Brass Band, for premiere at NMD in April 2022.

https://youtu.be/8Ut3fHA8VOE?t=1439

Martin and I performing at the Seamus Heaney Homeplace on 17th Feb 2022, with composer Judith Ring and CMC Ireland’s Project Manager Linda O’Shea Farren.

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