Feb-Mar 2023

It’s been a busy 2 months of recording and composing! February kicked off with a recording session with the 1st Old Boys Band Belfast at SARC, QUB, where we recorded my piece Rasp, commissioned by New Music Dublin in 2022. Brass magazine 4barsrest released an article about the recording here. Read more…

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January 2023

At the end of December I had two performances of works featuring electronics: Crash Ensemble played Cross-Purposes for clarinet/cello/electronics at The Source Arts Centre in Tipperary, and Tacet(i) Ensemble screened Pollen, Blood, and Seaspray for narrator/accordion/electronics/visual media in Bangkok, Thailand. Crash Ensemble received a 4-star review in the Irish Times for their [REACTIONS] album, with Cross-Purposes described as ‘abrasive and compelling’. January kicked off with a major premiere: the Ulster Orchestra performing my piece Coruscate, which was recorded for future broadcast on BBC Radio 3. It was a varied and thrilling programme, and a pleasure to have my work presented alongside compositions by Ed Bennett, a new work for guitar (Craig Ogden) and orchestra by Greg Caffrey, and a song cycle for mezzo (Sarah Richmond) and orchestra by Frank Corcoran. Making Music announced…

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PRS Open Fund & Jerome Hynes Composer Competition

Delighted to share two exciting announcements for 2023 projects (and there’ll be more to come over the next few weeks or so…) I’m grateful to acknowledge support from the PRS Foundation through their Open Fund for Music Creators, which is supporting the recording and release of my forthcoming album Kraina. Kraina is a CD project…

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