Pretty excited for this one – new piece for Allan Clayton & BBC Phil – 'Monologues for the Curious' at the BBC Proms this July.

May contain eroticism, grief, surreal dreams, an eccentric Tinder bio, and Allan playing a harmonica.

Tx

Happy birthday Pierre! I'm talking at the Royal Academy of Music at the 4.45 and 6pm pre-concert talks, ahead of the evening concert where the Manson Ensemble will be tackling the *unbelievably* virtuosic 'Sur Incises' amongst other things.

www.ram.ac.uk/whats-on/bou...

12 Ensemble are giving the UK premiere of my Prelude (after Monsieur de Sainte Colombe) on Tuesday – a chocolatey treat for five low strings. Alongside gorgeous stuff!

www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/whats-on/202...

Two interviews/blogs about my recent album Pieces that Disappear:

1. With Presto Music: www.prestomusic.com/classical/ar...

2. With NMC Recordings: www.nmcrec.co.uk/discover/tom...

@prestomusic.bsky.social @nmcrecordings.bsky.social

I've made a new version of my 'O Ecclesia' for
Aidan O'Rourke & Sean Shibe – premiere is at Kings Place on Friday, also performances in York and Perth. Will be lovely gigs x www.kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on/fol...

This is absurdly bad writing from Giles Coren. 

The first sentence: mercifully short. The remainder: 99 words in two enormous, un-parsable sentences dizzyingly full of subordinate clauses. Is the Pride rally *itself* dressed as Boney M? Is it the Ivan Drago flat-top that is wielding a sledgehammer?

OUT NOW: Pieces that Disappear, my new portrait disc, all beautifully performed by BBC Philharmonic Orchestra and various friends!

Available to stream in all the normal places, or get it on CD/FLAC/MP3 from
@nmcrecordings.bsky.social

Links – nmcrecs.lnk.to/PTD

Happy disappearing comrades…

Used Monica from Friends's erogenous zones advice in a composition lesson today, as a model for an unpredictable but still goal-directed form. Then made a graph on the train home. www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpQJ...

It’s rare to combine pathos with cynicism, intense beauty with wry distance…but those few who do always hit my absolute musical sweet-spot. Happy 80th birthday Randy Newman, one of the absolute top drawer songwriters

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The Lords Cameron of Chipping Norton, Foreign Sectaries (b. 1966)