UPCOMING PERFORMANCES

A 70th Birthday concert for Clement Jewitt is in the planning, for the end of 2010.  Details later.

 

RECENT PERFORMANCES

November 2009

Kingfisher Chorale presented Invocations to Archangels for the third time in a public concert, this time in Leicester, England, again conducted by Giles Turner.  A review appeared in the Leicester Mercury of 11th November

November 2008. Sacred Music Through the Ages

This concert on 1st November by the Kingfisher Chorale, conducted by Giles Turner in The Emmanuel Church, Loughborough, England, included the choral version of Invocations to Archangels. Other works were by William Byrd, J.S.Bach, Peter Crump and Arvo Paart. A review appeared in the Leicester Mercury of 6th November.

August 2008: radio broadcast

On the afternoon of Sunday 31st August, between 3 and 5 o'clock, I was interviewed  by Bernard Davis on South Birmingham Community Radio. The following of my music was played (see Compositions):

  • Come With Me (Milton Godfrey)
  • He Would Send Me Running (Marion Griffin)
  • Three Hokku on Time (composer's text)
  • With Your Own Light
  • The Last Invocation (Walt Whitman)

April 2008 … the Isle is Full of Music …

This full length concert, shared with friend and fellow composer Raymond Head, took place to great acclaim at the Holywell Music Room, Oxford on 20th April 2008, and at the Arena Foyer, Birmingham Conservatoire, on April 24th 2008. 

The players were Wendy Nieper, soprano, Kirsten Johnson, piano & Christopher Britton, flute.

My songs performed with piano were:

  • Come With Me (Milton Godfrey)
  • He Would Send Me Running (Marion Griffin)
  • But a Part of it All (James Kavanaugh)
  • Save now we pray (bell hooks) premiere
  • The Harvest Bride (Christina Edwards) premiere

with flute alone:

  • Three Hokku on Time (composer's text) premiere

and four songs from The Night Sea, arranged for piano & two also with flute

  • The Last Invocation (Walt Whitman) - with flute
  • Rumination (Richard Eberhart) premiere
  • Skins 20 (Charles Wright) premiere
  • The Coming of Light (Mark Strand) premiere - with flute