Diary

Performance of The Echoes Return Slow by Sinfonia Cymru under Iwan Teifion Davies at the Parc and Dare Theatre, Treorchy, Wales on 11 September.

Convening the All New Music series of talks at New College, Oxford through the autumn:
    Lisa Illean on 7 November
    Richard Baker on 21 November
    Joe Duddell on 5 December


Running a Young Composers Scheme with Sinfonia Cymru and Music Theatre Wales in Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales from December.


Paper on Factory Records and Steve Martland's Glad Day at the Royal Musical Association Annual Conference at King's College, London on 13 September.


Premiere of O Dreamland for the GBSR Duo at the Three Choirs Festival, Worcester on 28 July. Further performance the next day.


Second performance of Gardening Tips, at The Bullingdon, Oxford on 14 June.


Premiere of Gardening Tips for the Komuna Collective at Tap Social Taphouse, Oxford on 27 February.


Conducting Steve Martland's Danceworks at Tap Social Taphouse, Oxford on 27 February as part of the Oxford Cultural Programme project 'Steve Martland Hits the Club'.

new work for the Komuna Collective.


new work for wind quintet for Ensemble Renard.


Queneau Etudes for harpsichord and electronics for Dónal McCann. First performance at the Chapel of New College, Oxford, 13 June.

Public lecture on Arvo Pärt with Kristina Kõrver and Aile Tooming discussing Pärt's sketches, manuscripts, compositional technique and insights gained from his diaries. Lecture Room 6, New College, Oxford at 11am on Tuesday 22 November.


Discussion with director Paul Hegeman and Anu Kivilo from the Arvo Pärt Centre about That Pärt Feeling: The Universe of Arvo Pärt and Even if I lose Everything by Dorian Supin at the Ultimate Picture Palace on November 20 as part of the Arvo Pärt and a Littlemore festival.


New performing edition and performances of Cimarosa's Le Astuzie Femminili (1794), with a new English translation by Simon Rees, by New Chamber Opera throughout July.


Conducting and arranging the Silk Roads Project with Katie Melua and players from the BBC Concert Orchestra at the Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford on Thursday 28 April.


the echoes return slow for the London Sinfonietta at the Purcell Room, Southbank Centre on Sunday 6 February. Tickets here.

Performance of performing edition of Galuppi's La Diavolessa by New Chamber Opera throughout early July.


five portraits for the Solem Quartet, premiere on Monday 24 May.


shrove duos for two violins, online premiere by Clio Gould and Jonathan Morton (London Sinfonietta) on Wednesday 17 February.

Editing the manuscript for a performing edition of Galuppi's La Diavolessa.


Strings for new songs by Richard Walters.

Editing Steve Martland's Danceworks for Schott Music.


Programme notes for KOTTOS.


Arranging, conducting and playing a bit for special concert marking the 10-year anniversary and vinyl release of Richard Walters's breakthrough album The Animal at New College Chapel, Oxford on 22nd September. Tickets available here.


Performance with the Stakla Electric Guitar Quartet alongside pianist Elliot Galvin from the Mercury Prize nominated jazz quartet Dinosaur at the Holywell Music Room, Oxford on 19 June.


Arranging and conducting concert with Gaz Coombes and orchestra at the Sheldonian Theatre in Oxford on 19 May. Tickets available here from 25 March.


Performances of the new edition of Handel's 1712 opera Il pastor fido with a new translation by Simon Rees, direction by Michael Burden, and music from Steven Devine and The Band of Instruments. Tickets available here.


Performance with the Stakla Electric Guitar Quartet at Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford on 1 February. Repertoire to include Philip Glass, Arvo Pärt and Fred Frith.

Performing synth and guitar at the Art of Noises II at Modern Art Oxford, 19 November.


Creating a performing edition of Haydn's comedy Lo Speziale (The Apothecary) of 1768 for performances on 18 and 19 November by New Chamber Opera.


Programme notes for Natalie Clein's solo cello concert on 7 November at the Natural History Museum, Oxford.


First London show for The Holywell Sessions at St. Pancras Old Church with my musical arrangements for Oly Ralfe's piano album notes from another sea on 10 October. Tickets HERE.


Completion of John Fell Fund supported project to (re)construct a critical edition of Thomas Arne's Eliza from contemporary printed sources and the sole surviving manuscript – the third act – at the Houghton Library, Harvard University, Summer '18.


Performances of my new edition of Haydn's Il mondo della luna with new English translation by Simon Rees, direction by Michael Burden, and musical direction from Steven Devine and The Band of Instruments. Performances run 4, 7, 10, 11, 13 and 14 July in Oxford. Tickets here.


The second of two screenings of the Demons Land: a poem come true film at the Old Fire Station, Oxford on 8th May. Tickets here. 45 minutes long with a Q&A with the creative team.


Performing Philip Glass's String Quartet No.2 'Company' in my arrangement for four electric guitars at Modern Art Oxford, 3 May.


Screening of the Demons Land: a poem come true film at the Old Fire Station, Oxford on 17 April. Tickets here.


Aldeburgh Young Musicians course 'The Session Musician/Arranger and Building A Portfolio Career', with Joe Duddell, Fiona Brice and Laura Kinsella, 9-13 April '18.


New performing edition of Joseph Haydn's 1777 opera buffa Il Mondo della Luna (The Moon on the Earth) with translator Simon Rees.


Assistant arranger for the Manchester Camerata's Motown and Northern Soul concert at the Bridgewater Hall, Manchester, 30 March.


variations on themes of Richard D. James, for small ensemble, to be premiered at Modern Art Oxford, 3 May.


Musical arrangements for Oly Ralfe's launch of his notes from another sea as part of the Holywell Sessions on 20 April at the Holywell Music Room, Oxford. Tickets HERE


Installation piece with Dan Hulme and the EMPRES Collective at Modern Art Oxford as part of Nicholas Party's 'Speakers' exhibition. Opening 30 January.


Concert notes for the Villiers Quartet.


Sound installation for Nicolas Party's 'Speakers' exhibition at Modern Art Oxford from 28 Jan to 3 February as part of the EMPRES Collective.

New electronic piece at Modern Art Oxford based on Nicolas Party's exhibition Speakers as part of the EMPRES Collective.


Working with librettist Leo E Mercer alongside opera director Stephen Langridge to make new opera as part of Langridge's time as University of Oxford Visiting Professor of Opera 2017/18.


Music and production for some adverts.


Concert notes for the Villiers Quartet.


Arrangements for Festival No.6 with classical ensemble and bands ISLAND, Palace, The Slow Readers Club and KLARA for Joe Duddell.


Critical edition of Thomas Arne's 1754 opera Eliza based on the 1758 printed score and manuscripts at Harvard.


Critical edition of John Eccles's Europe’s Revels for the Peace of Ryswick with Michael Burden for AR Editions


String quartet arrangements for Wildes.


Demons Land: a poem come true exhibition at National Trust Stowe, Buckinghamshire, Monday 8 May to Sunday 16 July 2017.

Fright Friday event on 25 November at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, with a new site-specific work for the Oxford City Silver Band and preview showings of Demons Land.


Music for the film Demons Land written by Simon Palfrey with filmmaker Mark Jones and art direction by Tom de Freston.


New edition of Domenico Paradies's Fetonte with Michael Burden, for A-R Editions from the manuscript at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.


flocks and companies performed by Iwan Llewelyn-Jones at the North Wales International Festival on 22 September.


Performances of the new edition of Cimarosa's The Parisian Painter by New Chamber Opera throughout July.


flocks and companies receives its first performance by Iwan Llewelyn-Jones at the Wales International Piano Festival 2016, Caernarfon on Saturday 30 April.


A new modern performing edition of Cimarosa's Il Pittore Parigino (The Parisian Painter) (1781), based on the manuscript at the library of the Conservatorio di Musica San Pietro a Majella, Naples, with a new English translation by Simon Rees, Spring '16.


Music supervisor and copyist for recording sessions at Abbey Road Studios with the London Symphony Orchestra, Jan '16


Lecturing and tutorials at the Faculty of Music and various colleges, University of Oxford, Winter/Spring '16.

Music for Leo Mercer's new play ONLIFE at the Burton Taylor Studio Theatre, Oxford Playhouse, 1-5 December.


Working on a critical edition of Pietro Francesco Cavalli's L'Erismena (1656) with Prof. Michael Burden (New College, Oxford) for Bärenreiter.


Preparing a modern performing edition of Leonardo Leo's 1731 opera La Zingaretta.


Programme notes for the Leonore Piano Trio


Lecturing and tutorials at the Faculty of Music, University of Oxford, Autumn/Winter '15.


Various programme notes.


Arrangements for Jane Weaver and chamber ensemble at Festival No.6 in Portmeirion, 3-6 September with Joe Duddell.


Orchestrating a set for Active Child and Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestra at Frank Gehry's Pritzker Pavilion at Millenium Park, Chicago on 22 June with Joe Duddell.


Editing/typesetting projects for music publishers.


Screenings of 5 Fingers and comingupforair at Jacqueline du Pré Music Building, Oxford, June 6 at 7:30pm.


5 Fingers by Irina Iordache (music by Luke Lewis) to be screened at Musichouse, Copenhagen, May 18 at 5pm.


what broken hierarchies performance by Orkest de Ereprijs from Gaudeamus Festival 2014 broadcast on Dutch public radio Feb 23 (Radio 4.nl) & March 1st (Concertzender).


Programme notes for Howard Shelley and English Chamber Orchestra, Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford, March 1.


Various string and vocal arrangements for pop album sessions.

Gaudeamus Muziekweek – 14 September at 5pm in Utrecht, The Netherlands.
what broken hierarchies to be performed by Orkest de Ereprijs.


Various arrangements for pop recording sessions.


Esbjerg Ensemble – 4 April in Esbjerg, Denmark.
First performance of by which all   eloquence   gets justified conducted by Petter Sundquist.


BBC National Orchestra of Wales – 25 March at 7pm at Hoddinott Hall, Cardiff.
First performance of over us the shifting rafters under Jac van Steen.


Pulsar Festival – 6 March at 9:30pm at the Royal Danish Academy of Music, Copenhagen.
get carter is featured in the festival's electroacoustic concert.


Pulsar Festival – 6 March at 7:30pm at the Royal Danish Academy of Music, Copenhagen.
Athelas Sinfonietta/Pascal Rophé play ...and all watched over by machines of loving grace in the opening concert.


Orkest de Ereprijs – 1 March at 8:15pm in Apeldoorn, The Netherlands.
First performance of what broken hierarchies by Orkest de Ereprijs under Rob Vermeulen.


BBC National Orchestra of Wales – 3 February at Hoddinott Hall, Cardiff.
Public rehearsal of over us the shifting rafters under Frank Zielhorst.