Category Archives: Gigs

Nonclassical @ Sounds Like This Festival 2018 – Belgrave Music Hall – Leeds – 15/03/18

What	Nonclassical @ Sounds Like This Festival 2018
When	Thursday, March 15, 2018 7:30pm - All Ages
Where	Belgrave Music Hall (map) 1-1A Cross Belgrave St Leeds LS2 8JP
Other Info	Nonclassical are returning to Leeds for the Sounds Like THIS Festival 2018. Held at The Belgrave Music Hall and organised by Leeds College of Music, this boundary pushing festival presents cutting-edge music, sound art and visual installations by leading artists and emerging talent working across a broad range of disciplines. This year they will be bringing you performances by Juice Vocal Ensemble, cellist Cecilia Bignall and DJ sets by Ben Vince. Juice will sing my 'Songs for Stanley' (2014).

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‘The Virus Within: Hearing HIV’ Recordings

Just uploaded some recordings of the premiere of The Virus Within: Hearing HIV from February. Videos to follow in April!

‘The Virus Within: Hearing HIV’ Premiere

Loved working with my friends Workers Union Ensemble and Dr Chad Swanson (King’s College London) on my newest piece The Virus Within: Hearing HIV. We premiered the piece on Thursday to a great crowd at Guy’s Chapel, King’s College London. Unfortunately the Southampton performance on 10 March has had to be cancelled but we will play at the University of Southampton Science and Engineering Day 2019 instead!

We asked the audience in London for five word reviews. Here are some of my favourites (!):

“Novel, exciting and inventive, complex piece”
“Head on crash with virus”
“Interesting but slightly anxiety inducing!”
“Brilliant translation: science to music. Thank you! One of the best pieces of scientific performance art I’ve ever seen/heard. Incredibly intellectually rewarding. Wonderful!”
“Top science/music mash-up”
“A structurally chaotic masterpiece!”

Recordings and video to come soon and, hopefully, more performances!

The Virus Within: Hearing HIV PREMIERE – Chapel of Thomas Guy – London – 15/02/18

What	The Virus Within: Hearing HIV PREMIERE
When	Thursday, February 15, 2018 7:30pm - All Ages
Where	Chapel of Thomas Guy (map) King's College London London SE1 1UL
Other Info	Premiere of my new work, developed in collaboration with Chad Swanson (KCL), 'The Virus Within: Hearing HIV' for ensemble and electronics. Workers Union Ensemble will play with Chad providing scientific input!

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Tallis Festival: The New Music Players – Attenborough Centre for Creative Arts – Brighton – 08/02/18

What	Tallis Festival: The New Music Players
When	Thursday, February 8, 2018 8:00pm - All Ages
Where	Attenborough Centre for Creative Arts (map) University of Sussex Gardner Centre Road Falmer Brighton, UK BN1 9RA
Other Info	A programme of creative responses to the world of the great 16th century English composer Thomas Tallis, including from artistic director Ed Hughes, Rowland Sutherland, and Sussex composers Lee Westwood, Eleanor Clapp, Jason Hazael and Hugh Chambers, and an AI generated composition based on machine readings of Tallis’s musical output. I'm currently writing a new piece for this concert called 'BmB' for ensemble and electronics.

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Yshani Perinpanaygam @ ALL YOUR BASS Festival at the NVA – The National Videogame Arcade – Nottingham – 19/01/18

What	Yshani Perinpanaygam @ ALL YOUR BASS Festival at the NVA
When	Friday, January 19, 2018 3:30pm - All Ages
Where	The National Videogame Arcade (map) 24-32 Carlton Street Nottingham NG1 1NN
Other Info	Yshani Perinpanayagam will play my 'Mr Turquoise Synth' (2017) alongside pieces by Blake Troise and Cheryl Frances-Hoad at her performance and talk at the new National Video Arcade Festival, ALL YOUR BASS.

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Live video of ‘Piano Trio (with whistles)’

On 27 November Aisha Orazbayeva (violin), Alice Purton (‘cello) and Mark Knoop (piano) performed my Piano Trio (with whistles), which I wrote in 2014 as part of their concert at the University of Southampton Music Department professional concert series. I’m pleased to have uploaded to Youtube a video of their fantastic performance:

Aisha Orazbayeva / Alice Purton / Mark Knoop – Turner Sims Concert Hall – Southampton – 27/11/17

What	Aisha Orazbayeva / Alice Purton / Mark Knoop
When	Monday, November 27, 2017 1:00pm - All Ages
Where	Turner Sims Concert Hall (map) University of Southampton Southampton
Other Info	As part of the University of Southampton Music Department Lunchtime Concert Series Aisha Orazbayeva (violin), Alice Purton (‘cello) and Mark Knoop (piano) present three contemporary works for piano trio. Programme to include '1981' by Clarence Barlow, Walter Zimmerman’s 'Ephemer' and my 'Piano Trio (with whistles)' (2015), which was originally commissioned by the Deal Festival.

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SU Sinfonietta – Swaythling Methodist Church – Southampton – 28/10/17

What	SU Sinfonietta
When	Saturday, October 28, 2017 7:30pm - All Ages
Where	Swaythling Methodist Church (map) Southampton SO16 3BE
Other Info	I will be conducting SU Sinfonietta in a programme that includes Schubert's 'Unfinished Symphony', Copland 'Quiet City' and Busser's orchestration of Debussy's 'Petit Suite'.

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‘The Virus Within: Hearing HIV’ Premiere – 15 Feb 2018

I’m just putting the finishing touches on the first two movements (of three) of my 30-minute new piece for Workers Union Ensemble, The Virus Within: Hearing HIV. Workers (with two new lovely babies!) are coming for a November weekend in Southampton to rehearse the piece and do some recording for the electronics that will be involved in the piece. Then I have a few months to sort out the electronics stuff and write the short final movement for the premiere on 15 February at the Chapel of Thomas Guy, King’s College London (KCL).

I’m excited about this piece. It’s been great to collaborate closely with KCL virologist Chad Swanson in developing the music and I can’t wait to see it all come together.