Past Performance Highlights

BCMG NEXT CONCERTS

The BCMG NEXT programme offered a unique training programme for music students and professional musicians looking for a career as performers of contemporary music. As part of this, talented early career musicians performed throughout the year along with professional BCMG Musicians. During the period that I played with the Next Ensemble our repertoire included:

Elliot Carter Triple Duo / String Trio / Tre Duetti / Mnemosyné for solo violin / Canon for 4 / Con Leggerezza

George Lewis Hexis for sextet / Artificial Life

Benjamin Graves Étude

Rebecca Saunders The Under-side of Green

Tristan Murail The Bronze Age / Treize Couleurs du Soleil Couchant

Nicolas Tzortzis What the Wave Meant

Enno Poppe Gelöschte Lieder

Gérard Grisey Périodes

Dai Fujikura Halcyon / Scion Stems

Gerard Pesson Récréations Françaises

VIOLIN & ELECTRONICS

Improvisation has been a big part of my performance career. Collaborating with other musicians and electronics brings out the best of my musicianship and I’ve always enjoyed it.

Here are some highlights of some concerts. Photos from a collaboration with Tom Pountney-Barnes.

Below is a video where I experimented with a freeze pedal. I used it to emphasise the harmonic pillars in Bach’s solo violin music.

I also collaborated with Thomas Vaughan using a similar set up for his animation project.

SOLO RECITAL

September 2023

For this recital I performed all female composers. It was a great experience delving into these composers works. They provided new ways of communication and exploring the violin. I performed the following pieces:

Ellen Taaffe Zwilich Violin Concerto

Grażyna Bacewicz IV Sonata for violin and piano

Lili Boulanger Violin Sonata

JAZZ CONCERTS

Throughout my time at college I have always made an effort to collaborate with musicians from different departments and genres. It was incredible working with Lucy Mellenfield and Lucy-Anne Daniels, two very talents jazz singers. The collaboration and beauty that they brought to these concerts was unforgettable.

Lucy Mellenfield Original Pieces

Check out her website (click on her name)

Lucy-Anne Daniels Jazz Standards

Video Highlights

RIPIENO PLAYERS – SCHOENBERG

Schoenberg Pierrot Lunaire

Ripieno Players with Sofia Kirwan-Baez – Soprano

Midland Arts Centre Hexagon Theatre & St Philips Cathedral, Birmingham

ALBERT ORCHESTRA – ROYAL ALBERT HALL

Royal Ablert Hall Family Christmas Concerts

As far as family concerts go, this was up there with the top. The Albert Orchestra are made of professional freelance musicians. This was a lot of fun.