Happy New Year everyone! 💫 🥳 BCMG 🌸 premiere of Dad’s Fanfare @wrotebirdsong.bsky.social North Wales pilgrimage Palestine 🇵🇸 🕊️ 🙏🏼 Retrofit Balsall Heath Co-op process & Spring Fair Stonehenge Action NOT GUILTY Solstice Still Points youtu.be/2uZE8ynyP6o?...

David had fun one Christmas composing this version of The Twelve Days of Christmas 🐦 🍐 🌳 here edited with @composersed.bsky.social composition covers. Artwork by Carry Akroyd including extras from Carry’s 2026 Bird of the Month Calendar youtu.be/do8qaRsrk20?... Happy Christmas 🎄🌟

the experience of witnessing dementia break down a close relative & witnessing ecosystem breakdown… environmental generational amnesia @alzheimerssoc.bsky.social @dementiauk.bsky.social @rupertreed.bsky.social @extinctionrebellion.uk @climatepsychol.bsky.social #BirdFanfares @bcmg.bsky.social

What are we talking about when we talk about extinction? 🐦 @bcmg.bsky.social @phillauri.bsky.social #birder @quaker.org.uk @rspb.bsky.social @extinctionrebellion.uk @juststopoil.bsky.social @westmidbirdclub.bsky.social @btobirds.bsky.social @seanronayne.bsky.social @musicdeclares.bsky.social

Jo Hindley introduces her Dad’s music at BCMG #BirdFanfares concert 15/6/25 Rolf Hind performs TRANSCRIPTION (Skylark) #skylark 🎶🐦by David Hindley youtu.be/3Bas7Vu1Zlk?... @bcmg.bsky.social @dilfhorn.bsky.social @composersed.bsky.social @homertoncollege.bsky.social @emilydoolittle.bsky.social

Rolf Hind, pianist and composer, speaks about birdsong, Olivier Messiaen and David Hindley at BCMG “Bird Fanfares” Pre Concert Talk youtube.com/@davidhindle... @composersed.bsky.social @bcmg.bsky.social @royalbirmcons.bsky.social #birdsong #messiaen #davidhindleycomposer 🎶🐦

BCMG “Bird Fanfares” concert videos are out now 🎶🐦🦤 whatsnew.composersedition.com/bcmgs-hindle... @composersed.bsky.social @dilfhorn.bsky.social @bcmg.bsky.social @royalbirmcons.bsky.social @homertoncollege.bsky.social @ballioloxford.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social @westmidbirdclub.bsky.social

Read Jo Hindley’s, daughter of David Hindley, guest post reflecting on BCMG’s June concert of the composer’s work and the importance of birdsong to his practice @wrotebirdsong.bsky.social @johindley.bsky.social @dilfhorn.bsky.social whatsnew.composersedition.com/hindleys-bir...

Reflecting on BCMG’s Bird-Fanfares concert whatsnew.composersedition.com/hindleys-bir... @composersed.bsky.social photos at Knepp @bcmg.bsky.social @royalbirmcons.bsky.social @dilfhorn.bsky.social @kneppwilding.bsky.social @btobirds.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social @birdlifeglobal.bsky.social

🙏🏻 to ALL who supported #BirdsFanfares 🎶 📣🐦 #newmusic www.davidhindley.org inspired by birdsong #CornBunting #Nightingale #Woodlark #Dodo #Skylark @bcmg.bsky.social @royalbirmcons.bsky.social @composersed.bsky.social @btobirds.bsky.social @birdlifeglobal.bsky.social @kneppwilding.bsky.social

Birmingham Contemporary Music Group perform their ‘Bird Fanfares’ concert this Sunday at the CBSO Centre, featuring works by David Hindley. R. Isaac Boulter, conductor Rolf Hind, soloist @wrotebirdsong.bsky.social @dilfhorn.bsky.social whatsnew.composersedition.com/bcmg-david-h...

Don’t miss this opportunity to hear public premiere performance of David Hindley’s birdsong works for piano solo: woodlark, nightingale, skylark www.bcmg.org.uk/Event/bird-f...

And this is how extinctions too often happen, if we let them. Incrementally, cumulatively via isolated ‘development’ projects which on their own seem innocuous. Strategic landscape environmental assessment is essential: far better than project-specific EIAs. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Read about the BCMG concert featuring David Hindley’s music coming up Sunday 15th June whatsnew.composersedition.com/bcmg-david-h... @composersed.bsky.social @bcmg.bsky.social

🎶📣🐦 www.bcmg.org.uk/Event/bird-f...

#DavidHindleymusic expansive avian landscape piano pieces, brass sextet corn bunting fanfare, electronic recreation of the dodo’s call from the beyond of extinction 🦤 www.bcmg.org.uk/Event/bird-f... @dilfhorn.bsky.social @bcmg.bsky.social @royalbirmcons.bsky.social @musicdeclares.bsky.social

Premiere performance of FANFARE: Corn Bunting (1994) by DGH yesterday at BCMG’s Cherry Blossom 🌸 Concert Oozells Square youtube.com/shorts/ibtBC... 🎶🎺🐦 @bcmg.bsky.social @royalbirmcons.bsky.social @composersed.bsky.social @btobirds.bsky.social @birdlifeeurope.bsky.social #davidhindley #birdsong

The cherry blossom is out 🌸 in Oozells Square, Brindleyplace (in front of Ikon gallery) ahead of BCMG’s FREE Cherry Blossom concert coming up this Sunday 23rd March 3pm www.bcmg.org.uk/event/cherry... @royalbirmcons.bsky.social @bcmg.bsky.social @ikongallery.bsky.social @nationaltrust.bsky.social

The BCMG FREE concert 3pm is part of an array of spring blossom events 🌸 in Oozells Square, Brindleyplace on Sunday 23rd March www.brindleyplace.com/event/cherry... @ikongallery.bsky.social @bcmg.bsky.social @nationaltrust.bsky.social

Birmingham Contemporary Music Group will perform David Hindley’s ‘Fanfare: Miliaria calandra 21.7.63’ at the Cherry Blossom open air event in Birmingham this Sunday! @wrotebirdsong.bsky.social whatsnew.composersedition.com/bcmg-hindley...

Cambs wildlife sound recording society gifted this picture of David taken in the 90s. Victor C Lewis’ birdsong recordings became David’s source for transcription, analysis and composition. Fanfare to be premiered a week today is based on Lewis’ recording of a corn bunting 🎶 in Wiltshire on 21.7.63

“The more we know about it The more we appreciate it The less likely we’re going to let it disappear”. Catch up with “Birdsong” on iplayer @seanronayne.bsky.social 🙏🏼 sharing your sense of wonder and loss, helping people appreciate other species and how human actions have impact. #birdsongkin

UK friends! Tonight Birdsong makes its UK TV debut on BBC4 at 9pm. It will also be available on BBC Player thereafter. Please spread the word! Extract taken from The Times.

We’ve got not one but two Bird Camps in England this year! 😀 Discover more and apply ➡️ www.bto.org/bird-camp These residential weekends for secondary school students under 18 are completely FREE and full of bird and nature adventures! 🐦🦋🌿

🚜 On 11 March, the Government announced a pause in nature-friendly farming payments—the Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI). www.independent.co.uk/climate-chan... 👇 Here's why that’s disastrous for climate and nature. 🧵

Crank up the volume and lap up those joyous sounds of early spring. A little film from Pen Llŷn last week with some of my favourite sound recordings, including the pure dusk chorus of Blackbird and explosive dawn greeting of Song Thrush. Mwynhau, enjoy 🎧🎶 #PlantPotParabolic youtu.be/k_Enr8CspkE?...

David in 1994 talking about the song (squawk!) 🎶 🐦 of the Corn Bunting and a link to the BCMG Cherry Blossom 🌸 Concert which is open to all and FREE in Brindleyplace, Birmingham, Sun 23 March, 3pm @royalbirmcons.bsky.social 🎺 whatsnew.composersedition.com/bcmg-hindley... @composersed.bsky.social

BCMG 🎺 @royalbirmcons.bsky.social will perform David Hindley’s Fanfare: Miliaria calandra on March 23, 3pm FREE in Brindleyplace, Birmingham. Based on three phrases of a Corn Bunting’s song transcribed by the composer, the original birdsong recording lasts 2.5 seconds. youtube.com/shorts/QoMHK...

A wonderful range of birds feature here: Woodlark, Nightingale, Skylark, Corn Bunting, Huia, Dodo @wrotebirdsong.bsky.social Windhover, Phoenix, Crow, Golden Eagle, Snowbirds, Quetzalli, Ganet, Indian Tawney Eagle 🎶 🐦 whatsnew.composersedition.com/birds-in-con... @composersed.bsky.social #newmusic

Fascinating… 🎶 🐦

📣 FANFARE 🎺 🎶 🐦 Corn bunting www.davidhindley.org/work/fanfare... premiere Sunday 23rd MARCH 3pm Brindleyplace www.bcmg.org.uk/event/cherry... vignette @carryakroyd 🙏🏼 @bcmg.bsky.social @royalbirmcons.bsky.social #brassplayers @chrisgpackham.bsky.social #calltonature 🚨 @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social

🎶 🎺🎺 🐦 world premiere of Fanfare (Corn Bunting) Sunday 23 March 2025 3pm Brindleyplace, Birmingham www.bcmg.org.uk/Event/cherry-blossom-2025 🌸 @bcmg.bsky.social @composersed.bsky.social @royalbirmcons.bsky.social @btobirds.bsky.social @chrisgpackham.bsky.social @zero-hour.bsky.social

Happy Christmas 🎶 🌙 My Dad’s music is going to have premiere public performance by BCMG in 2025: 🎺 23 March 3pm Oozells Square, Brindleyplace Fanfare (Corn Bunting) 🐦 May/June tbc CBSO Centre Three Songs for Piano (Woodlark, Nightingale, Skylark) Nightingale serigraph (picture) by Carry Akroyd

It’s a yes from BCMG for 2025! Fanfare: Miliaria calandra (Corn Bunting 21.7.63) for brass ensemble will be joining pieces by Pierre Boulez & John Cage in the Cherry Blossom Concert in Oozells Square, Brindleyplace, Birmingham on Sunday 23 March, 3pm 🎶 🐦 www.davidhindley.org/work/fanfare...