📣 NEW BRUM COMMISSIONS: COMPOSERS OPEN CALL 📣

Have you got a story to tell? We're commissioning three, short new pieces to present in 2025.

🎶 We're open to any theme
💷 Fee: £1500 per composer/creative team
⏰ Deadline: 24 May

More info: birminghamopera.org.uk/open-call-for-…

Last few tickets available for tonight! 🎟👀
ticketsource.co.uk/birmingham-ope…

Tonight! 6:30 and 8:30pm!

I am very much looking forward this! I wrote it in collaboration with Gareth Mattey and will feature a fab creative team including the brilliant Rosie Middleton! Many thanks to Birmingham Opera Company for their support for the project!

Very much looking forward to the first performance of 'From Tulip, to Orchid (with love)! We have a cracking team for this production including Rosie Middleton who is sounding fab in rehearsals. Thursday, Eastside Projects, 6:30 and 8:30pm!

Incredibly excited that 'From Tulip, to Orchid (With Love)' premiers THIS THURSDAY (6.30pm and 8.30pm) with Birmingham Opera Company !!

It's been such a joy developing an opera on coded desire with the amazing Michael Taplin and Rosie Middleton

Don't miss it!!

birminghamopera.org.uk/new-work

Based in Birmingham? Come along to Eastside Projects on Thursday to hear two brand-new mini-operas from LSO Panufnik Composers Scheme alumni Cassie Kinoshi and Michael Taplin! 🎶

Tickets now on sale: ticketsource.co.uk/birmingham-ope…

Really looking forward to this new work with Birmingham Opera Company later this month. Beautiful music and text by Michael Taplin and Gareth Mattey, exploring coded language between queer women in the Victorian era.

Tickets now on sale: ticketsource.co.uk/birmingham-ope…

I am very much looking forward this! I wrote it in collaboration with Gareth Mattey and will feature a fab creative team including the brilliant Rosie Middleton! Many thanks to Birmingham Opera Company for their support for the project!

🚨Brum Commissions sees four creative teams present brand new short form opera. You, dear Birmingham, are invited to join us on Thursday 28 March at Eastside Projects to listen to a few notes we’d love for you to hear🚨

Book your tickets🎟 birminghamopera.org.uk/new-work

Happy to share this video of 'Deep Darkening Clouds' recently premiered at the Remus Georgescu Festival in Timișoara, Romania. Many thanks to AuditivVokal Dresden (Olaf, Anne, Kathrina, Ingvill, Kyle, Nikolai, Mykola and Nicole) for a wonderful performance! youtube.com/watch?v=I0GUep…

♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️ Késia Decoté

Sorry this had to happen and thank you!

Thank you very much AuditivVokal Dresden for a wonderful premiere! It was a real pleasure to work with you all on this!

2023年度武満徹作曲賞第1位に選ばれたマイケル・タプリンさんのSelvedge。その初演をご自身のSoundCloudやYouTubeで公開して下さっています。あわせて創作のひらめき、過程、方法などの文章も。とても興味深いです。和音の推移や音色感が美しい作品です✨是非ご一聴を。

musicatcambridge.wordpress.com/2023/07/26/mic…

I have written a little blog outlining some of the inspirations and compositional methods explored in Selvedge! Many thanks to Cambridge Uni Music for asking me to write it.

New on the Research Blog: Cambridge University PhD composer Michael Taplin introduces his orchestral work 'Selvedge', winner of the 2023 Toru Takemitsu Composition Award
musicatcambridge.wordpress.com/2023/07/26/mic…

I've also done a version of Selvedge for YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=YDTavJ…