EXCITING NEWS!!! We're teaming up with Levitation Orchestra for a composition & performance project at Woolwich Works later this month! Sign up to the taster session on the 11th of May and come get involved 👇 surveyhero.com/c/34a9yekp

If I - a performer - want to share a clip from a concert with an ensemble, I have to get permission from all the players. If the piece is in copyright, there are big hoops (+ money) with publishers. How did we get from there to current discourse without any in between steps?

BREAKING NEWS - Fantasie Impromptu contains *non-real* notes youtu.be/-L6jkNPDqTg?si…

Just republished in the latest volume of Adaptation – my article on adapting Robert Louis Stevenson’s poetry in my clarinet quintet. Visit doi.org/10.1093/adapta… to view (or DM me for a free copy).

6) 🥇 Award for the best "hilarious textbook reference" goes to Quantіan

8) 🥇 Award for the best "wtf is that article" goes to Julia Galef

I am soooo glad people are FINALLY talking about the class issue in the creative industries. I’ve been banging on about this for years and years. Are we finally ready to have this conversation? youthmusic.org.uk/lets-talk-abou…

Compulsory national service options should include singing tenor in your neighbourhood choir or playing viola in your local orchestra.

Honestly - a few of the replies to this little tribute to engineering excellence exhibit a level of stupidity that suggests to me that it won’t be long before our spacecraft are the only thing that remains of our increasingly dim-witted civilisation. Until recently my guess has

Every year, this is one of the highlights of the Guildhall School of Music & Drama MMus composition course; the students get to write a piece for the excellent PlusMinusEnsemble. The concert of their works is tomorrow at 7.00pm at Milton Court Concert Hall. Free admission!

I could listen to this a million times on repeat youtu.be/CZmHIF_5Frc?si…

Dear Mogg There's a media fox hunt going on just because a few of our backroom boys had a flutter on the election date. If they had inside info, I say, jolly well done. If the Romans had known about the Wooden Horse, they would have gambled on it. Marsala dosa Boris

Protect Music at Goldsmiths - Sign the Petition! chng.it/Przwb2CL6K via Change.org UK

Niche research question: anyone on here know where to find out what visa/immigration laws would apply to someone from Hong Kong moving to the UK in the 1980s?

WELSH COMPOSERS!!! There’s still time to apply to Composition Wales! Don’t miss the deadline later this month - it’s a fantastic opportunity to work with BBC NOW looking forward to seeing all Your applications!

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A little clip of something I’m working on with amazing pianist Daniel Lebhardt, at the end of a challenging year. Happy holidays, everyone — here’s to a creative and productive 2025!

Very pleased to share this new article exploring my creative journey with my piece Pearl, out today in the Journal for Artistic Research. Contains lots of audio clips and the scores for reference. Free to view here: jar-online.net/en/exposition/…