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Composer // Senior Lecturer in Composition @RHULMusic // Recent Sounds: https://nitter.gq/t.co/9XnZbOgA5J

London
Joined December 2012
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We are delighted to announce the 2023-24 @RoyalHolloway Young Composer Competition, for composers in years 10-13 to have your choral piece performed by our world-leading @RoyalHollChoir. #competition #schoolmusic #choral ✍️APPLY NOW: bit.ly/3S2fqVZ
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Hear Ye! Hear Ye! eavesdropping returns: 21-24 March 2024 at Cafe OTO. 4 evening double-bills, presenting fresh new work by 8 artists, + 2-day forum exploring experiments in failure. Save the dates! Booking opens 26 January. We look forward to tickling your ears.
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Sam Fernando retweeted
Also hey everybody. If you’re not an artist, this is for you. @Spotify sends artists these end of year wrap ups which is a criminally sort of animated thing that says things like the attached.
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New piece from me, written with love for everyone in grief right now. It has a simple message: "Side with the child over the gun every single time, no matter whose gun and no matter whose child." Moral consistency ≠ Moral equivalency. 💔 theguardian.com/commentisfre…
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Two-year departmental lecturer post in music since 1930 (esp. electronic music, sound art, music technologies, and/or sound studies) @OxMusicFaculty & @lmhoxford Deadline 27 Feb jobs.ac.uk/job/CWY376/depart…
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We open tomorrow!!! ❤️ Glass Human is a new opera about a journey from loneliness to connection, seen through the stories of: Oma, a refugee waiting for her leave to remain, Edward, an elderly man with dementia, and Grace, a student whose anxiety is causing her to hear voices.
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@Sam_Fernando_ and I are open our new contemporary opera poem: glass human @glyndebourne next week. We've collaborated with an amazing creative team & network of participants from across the U.K to make it and can't quite believe it almost born...
We're very excited about the upcoming premiere of #glasshuman - a brand new chamber opera from @Sam_Fernando_ & @MelanieWilson14. Look out for sneak peeks & insights in the next few days! See it on Tour this autumn: glyndebourne.com/events/glas…
Urgent casting call - PAID - Come and work with me on #thepromiseopera it’s going to be gorgeous #actor #actormusician #percussionist #artsjobs #randd @Promise_Opera
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📢We’re seeking emerging female #conductors for our annual intensive nine-week training scheme. This scheme runs in recognition of the fact that talented female conductors are less likely to find a way into the industry than their male counterparts. operanorth.co.uk/news/call-f…
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FAULT LINE 〰️〰️〰️ Tonight @MezzoRosie & I perform @Sam_Fernando_’s duet The Half Moon @FolkestoneNew. I met Sam working together with @RiotEns & was an instant fan of her music, her dramatic solo cello piece Fault Line is terrifying! 👂👇 🎥 @intonefilms youtu.be/k3jRJHzIu4Q
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£6 ticket restricted view to #PeterGrimesROH tonight - any takers? 7pm start
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Assistant Director job on our opera 'Violet' – £3k, assisting wonderful Jude Christian artsjobs.org.uk/arts-job/pos…
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👀 Any teaching pals have any budding choral composers? Amazing opp for Yrs 10-13 composers to have their music performed by the chart-topping @RoyalHollChoir. Even some advice for young composers here from the lovely @NinaWhiteman and mwah. DM me royalholloway.ac.uk/research… – at Tonyrefail, Wales
Calling all young composers! Are you in school years 10-13? Enter our new Composition Competition for the chance to have your music performed and recorded by our chart-topping Chapel Choir! More details (including entry form) here: royalholloway.ac.uk/research… @RH_Choir @NewHolloway
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Change your preconceptions about contemporary Opera with @RoyalOperaHouse AR hyper real experience - a post-COVID sensory overload, spatially complex, musically rich, vertiginous & totally exciting like a grown up Fairground #CurrentRising
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Wigmore Hall announces 16 composers selected through its Lockdown Commissions Scheme. The largest ever one-off commissioning scheme in the history of the hall. Congratulations to all the winners! Find out more here: bit.ly/3i8sx67
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Review: Current, Rising @RoyalOperaHouse ★★★★★ "I cannot recommend Current, Rising enough. For just 15 minutes I am utterly transported to a different realm; I escape into a fantasy that offers me respite from reality." ayoungertheatre.com/review-c…
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We're on the lookout for a socially engaged artist or collective to collaborate with the Orchestra as Artist In Residence, creating new artistic experiences across our 2020-2021 programme of activity. Find out more and apply below philharmonia.co.uk/vacancies…
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Meet the composers behind Radio 3's #IWD2020 commission - an ambitious collaborative choral work entitled Seven Ages of Woman: bbc.in/2TxlVQY @HelenaPaish @Sam_Fernando1 @GribbinDeirdre @Rhian_Samuel
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