2026 is a year of big birthdays … which means it’s also shaping up to be a wonderfully busy year of activities and performances. I turn 50, and my longtime friends and collaborators ELISION turn 40 ( … and, in my personal world, my wife turns 40 as well, my dad turns 75 … ), …
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The first half of 2025 is a fairly busy period of projects, including several exciting conducting projects with, among others, ELISION and Ensemble Musikfabrik. The year begins with a recording project at Deutschlandfunk with Musikfabrik for the new Podium Gegenwart portrait disc of Dariya Maminova, who I first worked with when she was still a …
It’s somehow been over a year since the last News post. The reason for that is simple: after a hefty beginning to 2023—several international trips, some really wonderful conducting projects, finishing and premiering my Piano Concerto, officially starting the new Professorship in Hannover—it was a pretty quiet second half of the year. I spent the …
First, the big news: after 15 years working at the University of Huddersfield, I have accepted a new role as Professor für Komposition at the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover. I first moved to the UK in October 2007, and alongside an amazing team of colleagues we built the contemporary music & composition …
A Way of Making Ghosts
ELISION (Aaron Cassidy & Manuel Nawri, conductors), Ensemble Musikfabrik (Aaron Cassidy, conductor), JACK Quartet, line upon line
New CD Release Dejana Sekulić’s solo violin CD Temporality of the Impossible was released by HCR in February, and is now available through all the usual commercial outlets and streaming services. It includes The Crutch of Memory, along with works by Clara Iannotta, Rebecca Saunders, Liza Lim, Evan Johnson, Cathy Milliken, and a rather extraordinary …
Dejana Sekulić, violin: Temporality of the Impossible. Includes The Crutch of Memory (2004), performed with octave-low violin strings, along with works for solo violin by Clara Iannotta, Rebecca Saunders, Liza Lim, Evan Johnson, Cathy Milliken, and Dario Buccino. Recorded on 1-2 July 2021, L’Argonne, Brussels, Belgium LUDO ENGELS Recording and EditingCHRISTOPHE ALBERTIJN Mastering Release date: 11 …
It’s a reasonably quiet time, during which I’m mostly focused on completing a Piano Concerto for ELISION and soloist Alex Waite, commissioned by the Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung, which has a planned premiere in September 2022. The piece, which will be ca. 25 minutes long, is scored for the slightly unusual instrumentation of solo piano …
Third verse, same as the first. It’s been eight months since the last news post, so I’m overdue for an update. It has mostly been a period of planning, rescheduling, waiting, rescheduling again. It has also been a period of resourcefulness, opportunistic workarounds, dogged determination, a good bit of luck, and some patient trust that …
One of the things I’ve noticed during this pandemic period is a very strange bifurcation of the experience of time—for me, days seem to go by impossibly slowly, but months go by in a flash. The sameness of the routine of Zoom and the lack of variety in our surroundings (my office walls seem to …