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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Obviously it’s been a very strange time, with many events and projects cancelled, postponed, and often still hovering in some sort of suspended animation, with uncertain but somehow still hopeful futures. This was supposed to have been one of the busiest spring schedules I’ve had in a few years, with lots of globetrotting and some …
Performances Karin Nakayama, violin. Half Moon Hall, Shimokitazawa, Japan. September 2, 2019. The Crutch of Memory Line Upon Line. Open Circuit, Leggate Theatre, University of Liverpool, UK. November 1, 2019. A republic of spaces (premiere of revised version) Line Upon Line. City University, London, UK. November 5, 2019. A republic of spaces Line Upon Line. Hochschule für Musik Freiburg, Germany. November …
Performances University of York, Rymer Auditorium, HISS@10. February 15, 2019. I, for example, … Kathryn Schulmeister, double bass. University of California, San Diego. February 23, 2019. The wreck of former boundaries (contrabass) ELISION. Lippes Concert Hall in Slee Hall, Center for 21st Century Music, University at Buffalo, New York, April 23-24, 2019. The wreck of former boundaries (B-flat clarinet) …
Performances Dejana Sekulic, violin. Darmstadt Summer Courses ‘Open Space’, Germany. July 18, 2018. “the green is where” Daryl Buckley, electric lap steel guitar. City Recital Hall, Sydney, Australia. August 25, 2018. The wreck of former boundaries (lap steel & electronics) Line Upon Line. First Street Studio. Austin, Texas. September 28, 29, & 30, 2018. A …
A number of exciting performances and projects coming up in the first few months of 2018 … In February I’ll be one of the featured composers (with Robert Normandeau) at the Florida Contemporary Music Festival in Gainesville, Florida. I’ll be giving some lectures and masterclasses, and the residency will conclude with a concert of six …