Profiles
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[October 2011]
I completed my composition degree at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in 2008, under Richard Baker and Paul Newland. My final portfolio received the Frank Prindl Prize for the highest mark. Whilst there I performed many times, wrote several theatre scores and instigated exhibitions and collaborations.
I am a composer, poet, piano teacher, pianist and events organiser. I have also written articles, conducted interviews, directed and written for the theatre and travelled across the globe as a performance artist/musician.
In 2008 Anton Lukoszevieze chose me to perform Stockhausen’s extremely challenging Goldstaub which required me to live without thought or food in isolation for four days then play the piano to open the SAN/BBC Cut & Splice Festival. Other performances include: Kondo’s Metaphonesis for solo piano, Cage’s Music for Amplified Toy Pianos and Ligeti’s Poeme Symphonique (both at King’s Place).
My music has being heard on French radio (2010, arrangements of Welsh folk songs for SATB) and Channel 4 (Documentary, dir. Deborah Anzalone). I have written for and worked extensively with ARCO ensemble and premiered a new piece live on Resonance FM. General highlights have been improvising at the piano to an audience of over 1000 in India, composing for a National Theatre workshop, performing on home made instruments for dancers in Spain, performing my own score at the piano for Gut Girls (The Space, dir. Alex Crampton) and winning a young composers award and cash prize for my composition Instances (2006).
Along with composers Neil Luck and Joshua Kaye I formed KLK, a spokenwordmusic trio, dedicated to performing text works mainly by myself. KLK has performed in several galleries and at arts events and an album will be released toward the end of the year on Squib-Box Records.
I have performed, premiered and acted as composer-in-residence (along with Claudia Molitor) for Notations and The Voice and Nothing More, both curated by artist Sam Belinfante. I have collaborated recently with Brandon Labelle, Billie Maciunas, Mikhail Karikis, Elisabeth Rimmington, Catalina Niculescu, William Lane, Giorgio Sadotti and Adam de la Cour. Myself and Neil Luck jointly performed an eighty minute set, as a headline act at Miniere Sonore in Sardinia, which made headlines in international newspapers and television channels. A condensed version of the piece was performed in London a few months later at Nonclassical in Hoxton. I returned to Sardinia this summer as librettist for a new opera called Shadow Prophets.
In 2008 my global performance event six_events was introduced to 25 countries and in 2008 my follow up, sixty_six_events, a collaboration with Andy Ingamells, was performed in over 30 countries worldwide. In 2012 666_events will once again become a global performance.
I have curated and created several large scale happenings since 2007, the largest of which lasted three hours and involved 150 people at the Louise T Blouin Institute. Street Scenes took over a London street for a whole day, Around This House was performed in a library and For The Birds in a cemetery.
I recently spent a week in Zurich rehearsing a commission from Ensemble TaG, for eleven players, which received two performances and a further commission followed for solo piano which has being premiered in London and Switzerland this year. Before that I spent a week in Germany for an arts festival, Atomino, where I performed several of my longer poems in commissioned costumes, from hand made booklets and collaborated with others artists and musicians.
I recently finished my first play, Kidnapped, and along with George Chambers, created my own art exhibition at Oxford University, Ejected Material.
Current projects include a collaboration with a dancer (Antonio J. de la Fe Guedes) and pianist (Yshani Perinpanayagam) to create a piece called Concerto For Dancer and Pianist in 18 Parts. For Alan Turing was finished in September and is a six movement, epic piano-solo, several hours in duration and I have been invited to perform this at a prestigious Alan Turing event next year. I am also working on a large composition for string quartet and piano, which when finished will be my most technically complex piece to date. I am also coming to the end of a major architectural public art commission, which will see my poetry/text permanently covering an entire building in Marylebone. This has been a collaborative project with architects over the previous two years and I was chosen for the job over globally prominent artists because of my equal links to poetry and music.
List of works
“String Quartet and piano” work in progress
“Fantasies on Welsh Themes [string quartet] work in progress
“60 Variations on the theme from Cannibal Holocaust” [solo piano] work in progress
“Concerto for Dancer and Pianist in 18 parts” work in progress
“Concerto for two pianos” work in progress
“140 pieces for clarinet, piano and silent orchestra” work in progress
The following list omits wholly graphically notated
or spoken word scores and is not comprehensive.
“Death is My Erection and of Urinary Liquefaction” [small ensemble] 2011
“I Recalled my Liberation and Caught Myself Drifting” [speaker, piano] 2011
“Linked eagle of night hints at real activity, real economical delivery,
understanding, lacking reactionary excitement” [solo piano] 2011
“They are made to dance naked, as four libertines conduct” [percussion quartet] 2011
“Variations on a Theme by Telemann” [solo piano] 2011
“Blue Diamond, Rough Diamond” [oboe, piano] 2011
“Telemann Had Two Wives” [four pianos] 2011
“Shooting and Thrusting, Descending and Shuffling, Destroying my Darlings”
[open inst.] 2011
“Burning Whilst Sleepwalking” [string octet] 2011
“A Harder Pill to Swallow” [twenty speaking voices] 2011
“Circus - a six piece suite for solo” [solo piano] 2010
“Little Girl Variations” [solo piano] 2006, revised 2010
“Homage a Tchaikovsky” [solo piano] 2010
“We Need Trouble*” [open instrumentation] 2010
“Piano and Clarinet” 2010
“August piano pieces 1-6” [solo piano] 2010
“Media Marketing Serious Smackers Produce Fastest Cash” [percussion quartet] 2010
“Memaveeaneursajuwoprosusiverepoaralalrigadelapietancamocabegacecewovycama”
[9 piece ensemble] 2010
“Improving the Remarkable” [bassoon, piano] 2010
“And Who But Rumour” [solo flute] 2010
“Foreman’s Harmony” [voice, violin, guitar, cello, piano] 2010
“Muzio Clementi” [solo piano] 2010
“Talking Bungalow” [mixed performers/instruments/speakers] 2010
“Here’s To Nell Gwyn” [soprano and piano] 2010
“Eighteen Months On, I Still Fucking Hate You” [septet] 2010
“22 Variations on a Theme by Andy Ingamells” [solo piano] 2010
“The Best Treatment for the Nature of his Difficulties” [string quartet] 2010
“Night and Day has no Place in this Way” [SATB] 2010
“The Defendant got a Little Simplistic” [two flutes] 2010
“Piano, Clarinet and Violin” 2010
“The Flood” [open instrumentation] 2010
“Five Squared” [solo piano] 2010
“For Hannah” [solo clarinet] 2010
“They’re Not Bats!” [voice, piano] 2010
“For Rus Pearson” [double bass, voice] 2009/10
“Silly Flying and Shopping” [trumpet, piano, soprano, sticky assistant] 2009
“Salve Regina” [SATB] 2009
“twenty6” [solo bass clarinet] 2009
“Here. A Ten Song Cycle” [tenor, piano] 2009
“The Dead Spot of a Racquet” [cello, bass, guitar, violin] 2009
“Kotrab Aleb Art-secror-of-orec-noc” [4 French horns] 2009
“I Know” [speaking pianist] 2009
“…get out as early as you can…” [solo piano] 2009
“Fit Lady. Fit Baby” [3 guitars, voice] 2009
“This Is The Shit That Killed Elvis” [cello, bass, guitar] 2009
“The Gut Girls” [theatre score] 2009
“For Kevin” [solo piano] 2009
“Please Love Me” [speaking actor, piano] 2009
“(A SEEmEd hEArt:ShowEd of mirror) (thE ShoCk wAS:of firSt mEdiA)
(or iS hE:yEStErdAy thE dEliBErAtEly) [clarinet, cello] 2009
“Caged: Disturbed Mind” [solo piano] 2009
“Dim Noose - Lack of Vodka” [open instrumentation] 2009
“Bursting Dancing Cascading Spreading Daring” [solo oboe] 2009
“Brush up on your Bruch” [solo violin] 2009
“All but two and six” [solo voice] 2009
“Son, I’m O.D., 1-2” [solo violin] 2009
“Stoneware with a modern twist, 1-2” [solo cello] 2009
“This Be The Verse” [solo voice] 2009
“A Place at the Table” [theatre score] 2009
“Let the exertion begin, Had enough of this dodgy finger, The smell of paraffin cancelled my senses, My soul now has a steady linger” [piano, open instrumentation] 2009
“For Richard Baker” [piano, actor] 2009
“After Beethoven, Debussy, Liszt, Mendelssohn, Reinecke and Schumann”
[solo piano] 2009
“For Three Flutes” 2008/9
“Edkovsky” [open instrumentation] 2008/9
“Piano, for Laurence Crane” [solo piano] 2008
“The Story of a Magnificent Banquet” [speaker, harpsichord] 2008
“Diana of the Ephesians” [concerto for solo soprano] 2008
“Gershwin Transcriptions 1-5” [solo piano] 2008
“Something will cloud her glittering footsteps” [8 singers] 2008
“For Richard Glover” [solo piano] 2008
“Food for the ears, feeling at peace with myself, can’t hold back the tears,
my biscuits are back on the shelf” [guitar, violin] 2008
“For Paul Burgess” [solo violin] 2008
“Composition For Solo Double Bass” 2008
“This is Fluxus” [speaker, piano] 2008
“After Marc Chan” [solo piano] 2008
“She fixing with her eye … a distant bell … as she hastened towards it”
[alto saxophone, desk bells] 2008
“Post PH (Hong) creates purpose carries about art, neither abstract,
only plane minutes then recently into music suggested” [alto saxophone, piano] 2008
“For Morton Feldman” [solo piano] 2008
“Lecture on Chopin” [piano, 2 page turners, speaker] 2008
“Post Re, S1-6 MW:LTH TP*” [solo piano] 2008
“Rearrangement of a Beethoven Sonatina” [solo piano] 2008
“Welsh Folk Song Transcriptions, 1-5” [SATB] 2008
“Hoic(K) [cello, piano, viola, clarinet, marimba, violin] 2008
“Palestrina” [piano, midi keyboard electronics] 2008
“Procession March” [solo piano] 2008
“Writing in Praise of the Solitary Act” [keyboard, vocals, percussion] 2008
“The picture was taken the moment the firing squad's bullets struck the victim”
[keyboard, vocals, percussion] 2008
“Recently my desire in sky left art to another young forgotten poem,
but never in someone only recently suggested” [piano, alto saxophone, violin] 2007/8
“a great tiger could buiLd it and It never falters. perhaps it is Gory, but I rEstrict iT,
not unLike a tree” [clarinet, horn, trombone, oboe, piano, trumpet] 2007
“Post CN, 8b 23:54, TP” [solo piano] 2007
“[19/80] [8/40] [11/48] [14/72] [11/45] [22/77] [9/44]” [percussion quartet] 2007
“Piano Pieces for John Lely 1-4” [solo piano] 2007
“Piano 02:(5):12 for Joshua” [solo piano] 2007
“A little more than nothing but not yet something” [oboe, clarinet, piano} 2007
“Outrageously fulfilling and confused, hello to bizarre gay shit and whoosh!
goes an illogical imagination” [concerto for soprano and ensemble] 2007
“Inherit The Wind” [theatre score] 2007
“The Winter’s Tale” [theatre score] 2007
“A tribute to Erik Satie and Morton Feldman” [clarinet, cello, piano] 2007
“Who are you and what are you doing here” [choir] 2007
“Nothing, Something, Everything, Anything” [flute, viola, pack of cards] 2007
“Do You See?” [violin, cello] 2007
“Red on Maroon” [small ensemble] 2007
“Nothing Implied” [string quartet] 2006
“Dawning: Blue, black, red” [soprano, piano, cello] 2006
“Squiggle” [orchestra] 2006
“Ten Pieces For Laurence Crane” [piano, speaker, percussion] 2006
“Five Movements for a Woodwind Quintet” 2006
“For Piano, 1-11” 2005/6
“Space Dikhotomia” [orchestra] 2005
“Instances” [3 celli, flute, harpsichord] 2005
“Mad About the Boy” [soprano, violin, alto saxophone, bassoon] 2005
“Isa 5” [percussion quartet] 2005
“Petut de Murt” [2 trumpets] 2004/5
“Raston Ca Bands” [string trio] 2004/5
“Solo For Alto Saxophone” 2004