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Heronhenge – update
I’m very pleased to report that last month’s premiere of Heronhenge was a great success. My utmost thanks to the tubists – Josh Allen, Sunny Anderson, Connor Gingell, Gavin Johnson, Nathan Mansell, Joseph McLennan-Parish, Tom Stone and Adam Zadi – who did an utterly fabulous job. I’m so glad to have worked once again with…
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A New Piece for Sarah Jeffery
I’m very excited to have collaborated with Sarah Jeffery (Team Recorder) on a new piece for Paetzold contrabass recorder. Escape Velocity is linear in form: as it progresses, Sarah continues to accumulate new sounds, consonants, shapes and gestures. By the time the piece is over, she is in possession of many more of these than…
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Tuba Octet
If you find yourself at a loose end next Thursday at 7:30pm, come along to the Royal College of Music to hear a new piece of mine. My tuba octet (yes, eight tubas?!), Heronhenge, will be given its premiere in the Amaryllis Fleming Concert Hall. This performance space offers the opportunity for some exciting antiphonal…
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New Opera Announced
Make a note in your diaries: at the end of June 2024, my new chamber opera will receive three performances at the RCM’s Britten Theatre, under the direction of Bill Bankes-Jones (Tête à Tête). I’m excited to be collaborating on this project with writer Samir Chadha, who will be penning the libretto. The short opera…
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WeCompose
I’m delighted to have joined the team at Music in the Round as a composer for their WeCompose initiative. I’ll be working closely with young people in schools, introducing them to the world of chamber music and mentoring them as they compose pieces for the wonderful Ligeti Quartet.
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Britten Sinfonia Premiere
Last weekend, I had the pleasure of attending a performance by the fabulous Britten Sinfonia of a new piece of mine, alongside fantastic new music by other composers. Written for bassoon, trumpet and celeste, Strands of Black Magic opens with formal interplay, where sharp, active objects are embedded within a viscid musical agar. The celeste…
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Concert in Cambridge
My new piece for Britten Sinfonia will be premiered in Cambridge in a couple of weeks’ time, alongside other music by some really excellent composers. View the event and buy tickets here.
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Premiere at the RCM
Come along to the Royal College of Music this Friday to hear the premiere of States of Matter, a short piece of mine for tuba and piano. I look forward to its performance by Gavin Johnson and Oliver Cuttriss.
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Premiere in Manchester
It has been an absolute delight working with Thomas Knollys, a fantastic musician and a good friend, on a new piece for solo bass clarinet. Viscous Impulse is concerned with densities of movement: melodic lines are pushed and pulled this way and that way, gaining momentum, entering and exiting various different orbits. The music works…
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Britten Sinfonia
I’m very pleased to announce that I have been invited to join this year’s Britten Sinfonia’s Opus 1 programme. Over the course of several months, I’ll be collaborating with their outstanding musicians and working with composer-mentors Dani Howard and Raymond Yiu. You can read my Britten Sinfonia composer profile here.
Ed Driver | Composer 