Hurray Team! #WorldPremière #LookingWest Ryedale Festival L-R Maddie Purefoy Dr Rebecca Hurst @afonwy @Bigpinkbutton Alex Knox @julianmphilips with @GeorgeVass19 NovaMusic Three Rebeccas in a row, awaiting a collective noun! 🤣 🎶 🌟 💗 💐 🌊 📸 #helenparker

Looking forward to our next performance of @julianmphilips and Dr Rebecca Hurst #LookingWest at the amazing Presteigne Festival | Gŵyl Llanandras in just 2 weeks! Fab team @Bigpinkbutton Rebecca Afonwy Jones 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Alex Knox Maddie Purefoy and our super talented ensemble Booking bit.ly/3yacJGE – a great treat!

So pleased @julianmphilips and Dr Rebecca Hurst joined forces for our #RVW150 co-commission with NovaMusic. A dramatic cantata, they have created a truly beautiful piece for @Bigpinkbutton Rebecca Afonwy Jones 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Alex Knox Maddie Purefoy – don't miss it – 7pm on 25 August at St Andrew's

Reasons to come to the Presteigne Festival | Gŵyl Llanandras next week, Part Four: #PresteigneFestOrchestra NovaMusic, 3 films by r/WesAnderson, Sidney Nolan Trust exhibition and Presteigne #OpenStudios. Tickets for most events still available, pre-booking recommended presteignefestival.com/events/

Reviewing Nova Music Opera’s premiere performance of Julian Philips’ Looking West at Ryedale Festival for Opera, Martin Dréyer writes, “St Bega was cleanly, smoothly and spiritually sung by the mezzo Rebecca Afonwy-Jones…” Rebecca Afonwy Jones 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 NovaMusic @julianmphilips

Looking West, a new dramatic cantata by @julianmphilips from Nova Music, @GeorgeVass19, Rebecca Bottone @Bigpinkbutton, Rebecca Rebecca Afonwy Jones 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Jones, Alexander Knox, Maddie Purefoy to celebrate RVW's birthday at Barbican Centre's Milton Court. My preview planethugill.com/2022/09/lookin…

Less than two weeks away, our fabulous cast talk about #LookingWest Rebecca Afonwy Jones 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Alex Knox @Bigpinkbutton – come and see this wonderful life-affirming piece 7pm, 12 October at Milton Court Concert Hall barbican.org.uk/whats-on/2022/…

Less than a week away, the London premiere of #LookingWest with music by @julianmphilips and words by Dr Rebecca Hurst - and a fab cast: @Bigpinkbutton Rebecca Afonwy Jones 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Alex Knox 7pm, 12 October, Milton Court Concert Hall barbican.org.uk/whats-on/2022/…

#LookingWest yesterday with @GeorgeVass19 @julianmphilips Dr Rebecca Hurst Rebecca Afonwy Jones 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @Bigpinkbutton Alex Knox NovaMusic Maddie Purefoy – well done everyone, what a night!

We call on Arts Council England and Darren Henley CBE to develop an opera strategy, in conversation with audiences and our colleagues across the industry - @RoyalOperaHouse, Opera North, English National Opera, English Touring Opera and @WNOtweet.

Huge congratulations Ryedale Festival – such a pleasure to be part of the Festival last year premiering @julianmphilips 'Looking West' with the amazing @Bigpinkbutton Rebecca Afonwy Jones 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 and Alex Knox

Sadly, NovaMusic are not at the Presteigne Festival | Gŵyl Llanandras this year, but the programme is simply outstanding. Lovers of Roxanna Panufnik and Janáček should get booking – so much fabulous music and a good deal more. Congratulations to all involved.

The new Huw Watkins Resonus Classics CD, which will be out next year, includes premiere recordings of 2 Presteigne Festival | Gŵyl Llanandras commissions – the Second Piano Trio and the Concertino for violin and string orchestra. Can't wait!

Very much looking forward to accompanying @StAchoralsoc at St Albans Cathedral in Handel's glorious oratorio 'Messiah' on 18 November. Tickets already on sale via this link: tinyurl.com/muvf4v4x

#WorldOperaDay This was my first. My second is complete and into production soon ... Damian Thantrey Resonus Classics NovaMusic

Another fabulous collaboration with Resonus Classics – brilliant chamber music and string orchestra pieces by Huw Watkins with an array of wonderful performers. Out next month.

Recording of some fabulous music by Huw Watkins just released on Resonus Classics. Piano Trios 1 & 2, Piano Quartet, Little Symphony and Concertino – @Leonoreinfo Rachel Roberts #OrchestraNova @GeorgeVass19 Buy CD here – bit.ly/4aCGeCR

PRESTEIGNE FESTIVAL | 22-26 August 2024 The 2024 Presteigne Festival | Gŵyl Llanandras programme is officially announced – online and telephone booking is open from today. 25 fabulous arts events taking place in the beauty of the Welsh Marches. Join us! Brochure & booking shorturl.at/XX9x1

Gramophone: '...all the performances here are strongly characterised and well-shaped.' Read the review👉 bit.ly/3K8icUL Stream on Apple Music #appleclassicalapp or wherever you get your music👉🎧 orcd.co/ob8ayod Buy the disc👉🎶 bit.ly/4aCGeCR

Another fab review for Huw Watkins, @GeorgeVass19, the Leonore Trio and #OrchestraNova.