I am presently en route to Warsaw for a short residency at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music . I hope to post more later about my visit. There will be a generously programmed concert of six of my chamber pieces ( Monday 24th November, 19.00 in UMFC's Concert Hall) followed on Tuesday morning (25th, 10am) by a composition workshop. I'll be discussing some impressive scores by UMFC's student composers. Thanks in advance to UMFC for this interesting invitation.   PICTURED

It's a particular composer's pleasure to hear one of your old pieces sounding much more coherent (or having whatever else it lacked before) than you previously remembered. For me that was the case today at the St Cecilia Festival in Westminster Abbey, where Andrew Nethsingha directed Praise Him With Trumpets with the choirs of Westminster and St Paul's Cathedrals plus Westminster Abbey and (my impression) achieved a luxurious balance of voices, trumpets and organ sounds.   T

My chamber orchestra piece PLANET , an Aldeburgh Festival commission from 2024, is having its German premiere this week. I'll be going to Bielefeld to hear a performance by the Bielefelder Philharmoniker under their general music director, (British born) Robin Davis.   This isn't my first time, or even first premiere in Bielefeld. I vividly remember my last visit, I think exactly thirty years ago, to hear Der Blonde Eckbert (in Germany, and in German, for the first time) in