Thank you to Fiona Maddocks @theobserveruk.bsky.social for including Nazli Tabatabai-Khatambakhsh's and my song cycle premiere in this lovely article on Oxford International Song Festival 2025! @oxfordsong.bsky.social @sorayamafi.bsky.social #IanTindale observer.co.uk/music/classi...

@sorayamafi.bsky.social returns to @oxfordsong.bsky.social performing the world premiere of Book of Queens by Emily Hazrati. Full details here: buff.ly/2q0VTVt

From Handel to Verdi & beyond: soprano Soraya Mafi on singing in Handel's Saul at Glyndebourne, Bernstein at Welsh National Opera, premiering Emily Hazrati at Oxford International Song Festival & her German debut at Komische Oper, Berlin. My interview: www.planethugill.com/2025/06/from...

Tomorrow! Thank you @owainpark.bsky.social and BBC Singers for programming my recent composition 'The World Turns' at Milton Court, Barbican - in a programme of contemporary music for choir and trumpet, with the extraordinary Aaron Azunda Akugbo ✨✨✨ www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/202...

Happy release day to Dobrinka Tabakova! I cannot recommend this beautiful album enough - it is every bit the perfect successor to her wonderful 'String Paths'. Give yourself a Friday treat and take an hour to listen to this ❤️ open.spotify.com/album/7azNPv...

★★★★ Music of hope from a young composer: an unusual combination of horn, strings and electronics makes for some intriguing listening writes @bernardhughes.bsky.social on Goldscheider, Brother Tree Sound, Kings Place theartsdesk.com/classical-mu...

Last night we welcomed professional friends and contacts to meet the 2025 RPS Composers @ambleskuse.bsky.social, Arthur Keegan, Cameron Biles-Liddell, Derri Joseph Lewis, @emilyhazrati.bsky.social, Lisa Robertson, Sasha Scott and @zdscomposer.bsky.social whom we've supported across the year. (1/2)

Pinching myself that this is happening a month today! Such an honour for @sorayamafi.bsky.social and Ian Tindale to be premiering Nazli Tabatabai-Khatambakhsh's and my new song cycle 'Book of Queens' @oxfordsong.bsky.social Holywell Music Room, 23 October 2025, 7.30pm oxfordsong.org/events/the-b...

Join RPS Composer @emilyhazrati.bsky.social on Thursday 23 October for the premiere of her new song cycle, commissioned by @oxfordsong.bsky.social as their Associate Composer: ‘Book of Queens’. Find out more and book via: royalphilharmonicsociety.org.uk/whats_on/emi...

Are you a composer?✍️ Would you like to collaborate and explore musical ideas with LSO Musicians?🎶 Then this is the opportunity for you! We are currently recruiting for our new Soundhub Members and Associates. Head to lso.co.uk/soundhub for more info and share with someone who should apply!❤️

Each of our three new trustees, Raymond Yiu, Harriet Wybor and Sam Wigglesworth, brings considerable expertise and commitment to our work. We very much look forward to working with them! Find out more about our new trustees here 👇

New interview! Had such a great time chatting with @leahbroad.bsky.social for Choir & Organ magazine's Autumn 2025 issue, delving into just some of my compositional interests and experiences over the past few years, with a particular focus on my choral output. www.gramophone.co.uk/choir-and-or...

🥁 We're absolutely thrilled to be entering a Multi-Year Partnership with The Hinrichsen Foundation, over the course of 2025-28! More information below...

#TàTFest2025 's London listings are live! Join us to watch this amazing group of artists and their new works this September/October, with tickets from just £6.50. What are you most excited about seeing? www.tete-a-tete.org.uk/festival/tet...

Direction Londres pour un concert aux #BBCProms au Royal Albert Hall 🇬🇧 Sous la direction de Pierre Bleuse, et avec la soprano Sarah Aristidou, pour célébrer les centenaires de Boulez & Berio ! 💯

Our weekend listening recommendation? The RPS Composers takeover of @soundandmusic.bsky.social's The Sampler Mixtape on Resonance FM. Our composers have curated mixtapes including both their own music and their diverse inspirations. All episodes now available at: soundandmusic.org/post/the-sam...

Out today on all streaming platforms 🦋 'Ellie Wilson's haunting Moth x Human, turned data about night-time moth activity intoa beguiling synthesised fabric.' The Guardian ⭐⭐⭐⭐ @nmcrecordings.bsky.social nmcrecs.lnk.to/MothxHuman

Great to be exploring new composers at @londonsymphony.bsky.social Panufnik workshops today

Applications for our 2026 scholarships open in December! In the meantime, we are thrilled to introduce the 2025 Vaughan Williams scholars 👏 Congratulations to you all - we wish you a fascinating and rewarding year ahead. Listen out for these talented new voices!

Still can't quite believe @londonsymphony.bsky.social are performing my new work 'silk eternal' in less than 2 weeks! Part of 2025 LSO Helen Hamlyn Panufnik Composers' Scheme Workshops @blackheathhalls.bsky.social FREE tickets for Monday 14 July (10.30am-2pm): www.lso.co.uk/whats-on/lso... (1/3)

Huge congratulations to Wind, Brass & Percussion alumna, Ruby Collins on being appointed Sub-Principal Bassoon in the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra 🎉 👏

Hear RPS Composer @emilyhazrati.bsky.social's @soundandmusic.bsky.social The Sampler Mixtape on Resonance FM, this Friday at noon. Emily's music embraces narratives, voices, and interdisciplinary artforms. You can also catch up with Arthur Keegan's episode here: soundandmusic.org/post/the-sam...

Music We'd Like To Hear. Very very important! www.eventbrite.com/cc/music-wed...

Nicky Spence returns to @wigmore-hall.org.uk‬ tonight for a concert celebrating the works of LGBTQ+ composers and poets. Full details here: buff.ly/v1fcAsF

Iran: Weeks away from having nuclear weapons since 1995

️‍🔥 WOW! What an absolute joy it's been to present DANCE SUITE by Alex Groves and Zubin Kanga at PRS Foundation's #NewMusicBiennial last weekend ✨ FOMO? We're doing it again at the Southbank Centre, 9pm on Saturday 5th July: www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/ale... 📸 Scott M Salt

RIP Brian Wilson. You were truly a genius.

Job vacancy: Lecturer in Composition (0.4) at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire @royalbirmcons.bsky.social jobs.bcu.ac.uk/en/sites/CX_...

Tune in to Resonance FM this Friday at noon for RPS Composer @zdscomposer.bsky.social's episode of @soundandmusic.bsky.social's The Sampler Mixtape. Zygmund's music fuses eclectic influences from punk rock to opera. You can also catch up on Lisa Robertson's episode: soundandmusic.org/post/the-sam...

Thank you @stmartinsvoices.bsky.social #imogenwhitehead ! Over the moon with yesterday's premiere of The World Turns - what an honour to work with such stellar performers and be part of this special concert 💫

✨ Last night’s Heaven and Earth concert was celestial! 🌌 Huge thanks to Artist in Residence #imogenwhitehead & to #emilyhazrati for her stunning new piece The World Turns 🌍🎶 Next #choraldiscovery concert: 1 July! 💡 #heavenandearth #musicpremiere #classicalconcert #stmartinsvoices

Premiere broadcast of my new piece M87 for the brilliant BBC Singers here from c.2:23 :) @askonasholt.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

One week to go until the premiere of The World Turns at St Martin-in-the-Fields next Tuesday, 7pm 🌍✨ A new commission for @stmartinsvoices.bsky.social and Imogen Whitehead, with powerful text by David Bottomley Tickets just £10/£5 for students: www.stmartin-in-the-fields.org/calendar/st-... (1/2)

Across June and July, the 2025 RPS Composers will be taking over ‪‪@soundandmusic.bsky.social‬'s The Sampler Mixtape on Resonance FM. Each week one of our RPS Composers will host an hour of captivating music, including some of their own works and the diverse creators that inspire them. (1/2)

🕺 One week left until Alex Groves' electrifying DANCE SUITE at PRS Foundation's New Music Biennial - coming to The Underground, Bradford, at 9pm on Saturday 7th June 🔥 What are you waiting for? Get your free tickets now: bradford2025.co.uk/event/dance-...

📣 Calling all ensembles! 🎼 Be our Ensemble in Residence for In the Making 2025 — a week-long residency supporting young music creators. Help us shape the future of new music! 💷£6K fee + 🚉Travel + 🏨Accommodation 📝 Apply by Monday 26 May: bit.ly/EnsembleInRe...

So pleased to finally share the recording of my new composition for brass band, 'Dawn, Wisdom', created in collaboration with Uckfield Concert Brass as part of @makingmusicuk.bsky.social Adopt a Music Creator programme 🎺✨ Have a listen at the following link: soundcloud.com/.../uckfield.... (1/3)

Thank you so much @carolinefrmus.bsky.social and @icareifyoulisten.bsky.social for such a lovely interview following my @wigmore-hall.org.uk debut last month 😇💜🌱 Feeling very very grateful! Have a read here: icareifyoulisten.com/2025/05/5-qu...

❗ Stop AI stealing our music! We're outside Parliament with musicians, music creators and @ukmusic.bsky.social supporting amendments to the Data (Use and Access) Bill that would increase transparency in relation to training AI models 🧵👇

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

Terrific performance by Temporal Harmonies Inc at @wigmore-hall.org.uk including new work by @zdscomposer.bsky.social & Ashkan Layegh. I definitely want to hear more from all of them! @royalphilsoc.bsky.social

I LOVE Sophie’s music. So please to see this scholarship.

We met up with RPS Composer @zdscomposer.bsky.social - and listened in on rehearsal for 'IN THE EVENT THAT YOU STAY', part of their RPS commission - ahead of their @wigmore-hall.org.uk lunchtime concert on Saturday 19 April. Tickets are available via: royalphilharmonicsociety.org.uk/whats_on/zyg...

🎟️ Tickets for our 2025/26 Season are now on sale! We’ve got an incredible line-up in store — and we’re so excited to share it with you. Explore our new season at: lso.co.uk/2526 #LondonSymphonyOrchestra #ClassicalMusic

📣 Happy #internationalvoiceday ! 📣 Today we celebrate the power and beauty of the human voice with a clip from our new Ned Rorem album: “For the Graces” To get your copy of the album click here: www.resonusclassics.com/products/ned... #nedrorem #newmusic #classicalmusic #vocalmusic

Very pleased to be featured on Planet Hugill, a preview of the National Youth Choir performance of my Hear My Heart Sing next Friday in Nottingham that explains something of how the piece came to be written

I have a fully-funded, 4 yr AHRC collaborative PhD studentship 'Soundscapes of domesticity: music and lived experiences in non-elite English homes, 1780–1870' supervised by myself and Matt Ingleby with colleagues at The Museum of the Home. Deadline 23 May See: www.qmul.ac.uk/geog/postgra...

On 19 April, hear the premiere of new work by RPS Composer @zdscomposer.bsky.social 'music for the quarter-life crisis (synth étude)' and 'IN THE EVENT THAT YOU STAY' performed by trio Temporal Harmonies Inc at @wigmore-hall.org.uk. royalphilharmonicsociety.org.uk/whats_on/zyg...

We are welcoming applications for the RPS Composer's programme until 11am on Tuesday 25 March. You can find out more about how the programme could support you and your career as a composer, and apply, on our website. royalphilharmonicsociety.org.uk/composers/rp...

Excited to announce “TECHNO-UTOPIA”, my new concerto for Zubin Kanga commissioned by the BBC Philharmonic and Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra. TECHNO-UTOPIA explores memory, magic, ruthless algorithms, and what makes music more than just data.