I’m very happy to have been awarded a Koussevitsky commission award (August 2024) to write a piece for F-plus.

Augustin Hadelich will be performing my violin concerto at Aspen on July 16, and at Musikfest Berlin with the Konzerthaus Orchestra on September 7. Markus Stenz conducts at Aspen, and Joana Mallwitz conducts the German Premiere in Berlin. (Aspen also co-commissioned the concerto).

Limina, a piano concerto for Eliza McCarthy, premiered at the New Music Dublin Festival in April 2023 with Crash Ensemble. Contemporaneous will present its US premiere at National Sawdust on June 14.

Alarm Will Sound premiered ‘Land of Winter’, an hour-long composition written especially for them, at the Beethovenfest in Bonn on September 14. It will be broadcast on WDR Radio 3 on 8 December. The composition of ‘Land of Winter’ was supported by a Guggenheim Fellowship. Augustin Hadelich and the Oregon Symphony will give the US premiere of my Violin Concerto, written especially for Augustin, on October 8 in Portland, Oregon.

[Photo from Beethovenfest]

The First Child, the final opera in my trilogy with the writer/director Enda Walsh will premiere at the Dublin Theatre Festival from 2-9 October. Produced by Irish National Opera and Landmark Productions, it features a cast of Sarah Shine (soprano), Niamh O’Sullivan (mezzo), Eric Jurenas (countertenor), Dean Power (tenor), Emmet O’Hanlon (baritone), Caia Hynes (actor/dancer) and Joan Sheehy (actor). Features a small children’s choir (coached by Elaine Kelly) and Crash Ensemble, all conducted by Ryan McAdams.

Augustin Hadelich will premiere my new violin concerto with the philharmonie zuidnederland on 22nd and 23rd October in the Netherlands. The premiere will be conducted by Claus Peter Flor. The Violin Concerto was co-commissioned by the Oregon Symphony, Aspen Music Festival and philharmonie zuidnederland.

Her Wits (about him), written as a tribute to Bob Hurwitz, President Emeritus of Nonesuch Records, features on an album of tributes to Hurwitz, released by Nonesuch Records on May 22, 2020. Performed by Timo Andres, the album also features a piece by Timo Andres himself, as well as works by John Adams, Laurie Anderson, Louis Andriessen, Philip Glass, Nico Muhly, Brad Mehldau, Steve Reich, Pat Metheny, and Randy Newman.

Bridget (2019), influenced by the paintings of Bridget Riley, and written for the Irish-based Australian flautist, Lina Andonovska, features on Lina’s debut album, A Way A Lone A Last, released by Diatribe Records in March 2020.