Laefer Quartet play ‘Avalanche’
Turner Sims SouthamptonLaefer Quartet will play the world premiere of my sax quartet Avalanche as part of their performance at Turner Sims.
Laefer Quartet will play the world premiere of my sax quartet Avalanche as part of their performance at Turner Sims.
Laefer Quartet will perform Avalanche as part of their album launch for STRATA.
I'm pleased to be conducting Southampton University Sinfonietta for the summer concert. Programme to include Vaughan-Williams Symphony No. 5 and Mozart's Flute and Harp Concerto.
‘British soul sensation’ Hannah Williams (vocals) and composer Benjamin Oliver (piano/electronics) perform music inspired by, or created with, AI. The programme features cabaret number How Could You Prefer It To Me? by Bella Barlow and Drew Crawford, Anna Appleby’s 'Reservoir', selections from Jennifer Walshe’s 'A Late Anthology of Early Music Vol. 1: Ancient to Renaissance' […]
You are invited to a celebration of composer Benjamin Oliver's first portrait album TOO MANY SWEETS, released in April 2024 by Birmingham Record Company (distributed by NMC). The album features artists including Ensemble Saxologie (Montreal), Riot Ensemble, Clíodna Shanahan & Dorothy Chan (New York). The show, introduced by Matthew Shlomowitz, will feature: Yshani Perinpanayagam giving […]
Declare Sextet at Turner Sims playing new contemporary jazz.
Composer and Guitarist/Bassist Itö leads an exciting jazz collective, The Myanmar Jazz Club, in contemporary jazz music composed by, or co-created with composers/musicians from 4E Jazz Workshops. Expect gnarly grooves, Burmese traditional folk influences, sounds of struggle and of celebration, free creative improvisation and playful explorations of recorded sound. You’ll hear resonance of music that […]
I'm super delighted the BBC SIngers, with James Weeks conducting, will perform a new arrangement of my 2014 work for Juice Vocal Ensemble 'Songs for Stanley'.
A new piece for MUSARC, 'Vent' that I've created with long term close collaborator, theatre maker and puppetry director Rachel Warr.
Playing some Carla Bley with amazing Southampton colleagues Drew Crawford and Gre.
Playing with Dan Mar-Molinero Jazz Orchestra... Rivers run, flow, walk; hurricanes bluster, scream, and cry; wetlands thrive in unpredictability and flux. Works of and inspired by these and other aqueous landscapes of Louisiana and in the Southwest of England compose this event. Readings from regional and international authors, including Louisa Adjoa Parker, Linda Chavers, and […]
Excited to perform Love Letters with Hannah Williams and conduct Milhaud's seminal work La création du monde with the Hartley Loop Orchestra.
Playing a new work with Will May - Entail - and a collaborative piece with Drew Crawford, Gre and Pablo Galaz - Echolocations - as part of an exciting event celebrating beautiful whales hanging from the ceiling of Winchester Cathedral!
Happy that Yshani Perinpanayagam will play my 'Drip Feeder' in Sheffield as part of a great programme including pieces by Cheryl Frances-Hoad and Blake Troise.
Super happy to be bringing Pythagoras' Toolkit to Turner Sims for the UK premiere performances. There will be three performances - one family ticketed event on Sunday 30 March and then two schools performances on Monday 31 March. Really excited about the exciting group of musicians involved, and of course the amazing puppeteers directed by my co-creator […]