It's wonderful to be back in Ernen again, for three performances of my work over two days, during the 'Newcomers' part of Festival Musikdorf Ernen. Going to be very hard to leave this place in a few days for the final time! www.musikdorf.ch/en/chamber-m...

@rsno.bsky.social officially my favourite orchestra in the world after telling me that can't tell the age difference between a publicity photo taken 18 years ago and one taken last year. 😂 I'll take that fib any day! :)

Super happy that my Toccata, commissioned by Simon Hogan, features in this Choral Evensong! Huge thanks to Tom Winpenny for this fab performance. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Really delighted to feature on this fab new disc from @schellhornmusic.bsky.social and @firsthandrecords.bsky.social ! youtu.be/DYwA8dlyLqo?...

It's so wonderful to be back in Ernen for Festival Musikdorf Ernen! Hugely grateful that so many of my works are being performed here - the earliest a cello piece I wrote in 1997 (!) and the latest, a new string quartet that I only finished this February. Feeling exceptionally lucky to be here.

Such a pleasure to interview @cherylfranceshoad.bsky.social for The God Cast today and talk about music and the art of creating something new. Full chat here youtu.be/hf8gQpE8U4s?...

Sequenzas, tributes and memorials with Ensemble Renard at Aldeburgh Festival Splendid centennial tributes to Berio and Boulez, feat. @cherylfranceshoad.bsky.social world premiere, Esa-Pekka Salonen 📯 étude & quintet rarity, plus solos by Britten, Maxwell Davies & Colin Matthews #adventuresinmusic

Hugely grateful to Simon Hogan for his fabulous recording of my Toccata on this newly released disc from @conviviumrecords.bsky.social !

Very happy that my solo cello suite, premiered by the wonderful Natalie Clein last year at the @wigmore-hall.org.uk is now available to purchase! @wisemusiccreative.bsky.social

Hugely grateful to Oriel College Choir, Oxford and Director of Music Dr. David Maw for the premiere of my anthem ‘O Maria, Virgo Pia’ yesterday!

Join me and Cara Berridge in #Kent this Sunday 🎻 at the Sacconi Chamber Music Festival, 18 May at 11am! A morning of #Bach and @cherylfranceshoad.bsky.social, with tales from my #Cello book woven together 🌿✨ Under 25s go free! 🎟️ Tickets: www.ticketsource.co.uk/sacconi-fest...

Hugely pleased with these reviews of my piece for @stileantico.co.uk at the @wigmore-hall.org.uk! So grateful for such a fabulous performance! 🙂 (The Times, MusicOMH, The Arts Desk)

Congratulations to @stileantico.co.uk for their fantastic 20th anniversary gala at the @wigmore-hall.org.uk this evening. I was very lucky to have my recent piece for them performed during the three part concert. Fantastic piece by Huw Watkins too!

An amazing day exploring Guernsey. Much inspiration to be found here for my residency in the Channel Islands!

I had a wonderful time at the Austrian Academy of Sciences tonight, for the 25th Annivery celebrations of the Gregor Mendel Institute. My ‘Erbensrondo’ (or Rondo of the peas) was inspired by Mendel’s work, but also by cutting edge research into duckweed and chlamydomonas (a sort of green mould). 🫛😄

I’ve been here this week, except it was basically ‘we’ve got a really tight budget’, ‘ok what is it then?’….tumbleweed

I decided to have a glass of wine and some very buttery toast right now instead of starting my new piece. But just had a killer idea whilst doing the above. Ha! Sometimes it’s great to be a composer.

t was fab to be back at @kebleoxford yesterday (where I was Visiting Fellow a couple of years ago) to hear @orieloxford (where I’m now Musician in Residence) record my new anthem ‘O Maria, Virgo Pia’. The piece was written for the 40th Anniversary of the admittance of women at Oriel. Thanks to all!

Well I didn’t manage to wash my face today, but who cares ‘cos I just finished my string quartet!!!!!

The trouble is, once I started imagining they were taking selfies I couldn’t unsee it

Anyone have a spare ticket they can’t use for Festen on Monday or Thursday? Was meant to go tonight but a fatality on the train tracks near me meant all trains were cancelled. Don’t really feel I can stretch to a box (£480) all to myself, which is all that’s left..!

A nice lot of scores arrived in the post in the last few days! Some of these written ages ago now, but nice they are available for purchase! 🙂

Looking forward (as much as someone like me looks forward to talking in public can) to giving a talk about my music tonight as part of my residency at Oriel College, Oxford. Here’s some harmony inspired by duckweed that I probably won’t get to, but, it looks pretty! 🙂

Excited about the WP of my new piece for vibes and string orchestra today with the fabulous Owen Gunnell and @brittensinfonia.bsky.social Today at Norwich Cathedral, tomorrow at St Edmundsbury Cathedral.

Looking forward to this at @templemusicfdn tonight! @stileantico

By no means the highlight of a wonderful day in London, but this sculpture-bus combo gave me a great deal of pleasure today…

Look at the beauty I saw in the Botanic Garden today! Made my day.

Thank you both! 🥰

Might be able to stretch to buying a Freddo with this year’s Spotify earnings.

To cheer a cold Monday, here is part of today’s court listing in Nottingham.

I had a fab time visiting the Gregor Mendel Institute in Vienna last week, & learnt about plant evolution. What an incredible 4 days! I often have to pinch myself nowadays, getting privileged access to places/people like this, all to write a piece for their 25th anniversary!

Hello everyone!