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Monthly Archive: 2019
The Lick Quartet performed by Dover Quartet
Posted on Wednesday, November 27, 2019
My new string quartet The Lick Quartet was co-commissioned by Dallas Chamber Music Society and the Concertgebouw Amsterdam. It received one of the best premieres of a new piece I've ever received, thanks to the astoundingly brilliant Dover Quartet. Happily their performance at the Concertgebouw was recorded, here it is on my YouTube channel, with score included:
New Release of Chamber Works on Signum
Posted on Tuesday, July 30, 2019
After several years work, I'm delighted to announce that my first portrait recording featuring some of my chamber works is released on Signum on August 30th. The three pieces on this release represent a highly personal musical and spiritual responses to nature. The title work, The North Wind was a Woman treats various aspects of nature as human characters, as if they were manifestations of human emotions. So the North Wind for example, is a jilted lover who 'rattles your windows, bangs at your doors'.
The recording features several of my favourite artists - rock-star mandonlinist Avi Avital and the amazing Dover Quartet feature on Cymbeline; my dear friends at Camerata Pacifica recorded the piece they commissioned, The Consolation of Rain; and rising star Nora Fischer features along with a bespoke gathering of some of New York's best chamber musicians on The North Wind was a Woman. The recording was produced by Grammy-winning producer Erica Brenner and was engineered by Jack Renner and Michael Bishop. It was Telarc founder Jack Renner's last recording before he sadly passed away earlier this year.
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Oboe to the power of 10
Posted on Tuesday, May 7, 2019
David's new piece for 10 oboes premieres at Wigmore Hall on 8th Junes at 11.3o as part of Nicholas Daniel Oboe Day. Commissioned by Wigmore Hall for this occasion, the short piece is full of fun and wit, and comes with a suitably silly title 'oboe oboe oboe oboe oboe oboe oboe oboe oboe oboe'. The piece is the third piece David has written specifically for Nick Daniel, after his piece for Camerata Pacifica, The Consolation of Rain, and his 2018 BBC Proms commission Sidechaining.
New Video of Undula
Posted on Saturday, February 9, 2019
My old friend who now goes by the new name of Sequoia is a wonderful pianist I've worked with many times. He recently recorded my solo piano piece Undula. The piece explores senses of water and movement, inspired by David Hockney's 'pool paintings'. The video playfully adds a few of these watery effects over the top of Sequoia's hands at the keyboard, and the score itself.
