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Tongue of the Land (2026)
I recently finished composing Tongue of the Land, a concerto for orchestra with carnyx. Commissioned by Roche as the 13th Roche Commission for Lucerne Festival, the world premiere is later this year...
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I had a truly lovely day today, taking in the news that I’ve won the Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition, for my cello concerto A Sutured World. It’s an incredible honour, and I’m grateful for the...
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String Creatures, NMC CD
Hot on the heels of the BR-Klassik CD, NMC Recordings have released a wonderful album collecting together some of my key pieces for string quartet and solo low strings. These recordings celebrate my...
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Orchestral works CD, BR-Klassik #47
BR-Klassik, CD cover I’m intensely grateful to all at Musica Viva Munich: Winrich Hopp, Pia Steigerwald , Giovanni Michelini; to photographer Astrid Ackermann; all at BR-Klassik including Thomas...
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futurist para
I wrote a little futurist para for Limelight Magazine’s 250th Anniversary issue where they asked a number of musicians to speculate on where ‘art music’ might be in 2050. You can see the various...
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solo string music on recent CDs
I’ve had the privilege of working with many superb string players with whom I’ve developed my ear for the qualities and capacities of string as a deeply magical substance. Here are 3 recent solo CD...
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Interview w/ Nicolas Altstaedt
David Niemann at Ricordi Berlin did an interview with cellist Nicolas Altstaedt for the Ricordi newsletter and I thought it would be nice to add some extra comments to that: Interview: Nicolas...
View ArticleComposer-in-Residence, Casa da Música 2025
I’m thrilled to be invited as Composer-in-Residence at Casa da Música in Porto, Portugal during 2025. Located in the famous futuristic concert hall designed by the Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas, the...
View ArticleAmsterdam, then Melbourne: A Sutured World
this was a sumptuous banquet… to work again with ‘cellist Nicolas Altstaedt hot on the heels of the Munich premiere of A Sutured World, this time in 3 concerts with the legendary Royal Concertgebouw...
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Munich premiere, A Sutured World
The broadcast recording of A Sutured World, for solo cello and orchestra, is online until 24 Nov. The work was premiered as part of the Musica Viva series in Munich on 25 Oct 2024 by the fabulous...
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Experiments with formats
A Musical Bestiary (article) I’m very pleased that an article I co-authored with eco-musicologist Joseph Browning has finally seen the light of day! The article experiments with a 2-column layout in...
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Joséphine Markovits, in memoriam
Joséphine Markovits, 7 August 2008, Kooljaman beach, Cape Leveque, Australia. photo_L.Lim This is how I remember her: laughing freely and delighting in the vibrant deep-orange landscape the colour of...
View ArticleA Sutured World, ‘cello concerto
I’ve spent the last months painstakingly and sometimes painfully writing a ‘cello concerto. The ‘cello is an instrument I think I know pretty well, having written several solo pieces for it as well as...
View ArticleAn Australian Season…2024
The first part of 2024 sees quite a range of my music being played in the towns where I live and work (!) Wonderful musicians from near and far will present both world and Australian premieres across...
View ArticleTailor of Time, EIC documentary film
The Ensemble Intercontemporain with film maker Jérémie Schellaert and interviewer Luc Hossepied created a beautiful short documentary about The Tailor of Time. The film includes footage from the...
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Multispecies Knots of Ethical Time—who are we and who else is here?
This is Part 2 of the ARTikulationen keynote talk given at Künstuniversität Graz entitled ‘Who are we and who else is here (Multispecies Knots of Ethical Time)‘ (see previous post for Part 1). This...
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The Tailor of Time (2023): time paradoxes and the sentiency of notation
I recently gave a keynote address for the ARTikulationen conference ‘Researching Across’ at Kunstuniversität in Graz and discussed two recent works: The Tailor of Time (2023) and Multispecies Knots of...
View ArticleOrchestral opulence: Annunciation Triptych
Reviews of Annunciation Triptych CD (WDR Sinfonie Orchester, conductor Cristian Măcelaru, soprano Emily Hindrichs) & of the concert with Mary/ Transcendence after Trauma by Bavarian Radio Symphony...
View ArticleAlbum release: Annunciation Triptych
I’m thrilled to have a new CD out on the KAIROS label [they previously published my work Extinction Events and Dawn Chorus in 2020]. Annunciation Triptych is a 45-minute orchestral 3-part cycle (the...
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Extinction Events and Dawn Chorus Who would have thunk it? My work Extinction Events and Dawn Chorus (2018) has been taken up by new music ensembles and orchestras all over the place, with 9...
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