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August 21st, 2024 - The King of the Cats for violin and piano
Sandra Goldberg, violin, - Yukie Smith, piano
Downing Place Church, Cambridge, UK
June 1st, 2024 - The King of the Cats for violin and piano
Sandra Goldberg, violin, - Yukie Smith, piano
Zurich-Balgrist Reformed Church, Zurich, Switzerland.
May 16th, 2024 - (selections from) Songs of Love and Death for two pianos.
Re:Sono Piano Duo - Lauryna Šableviciutė and Nicholas Ashton.
First performance.
International Šiauliai Piano Duet Festival, Lithuania.
May 15th, 2024 - (selections from) Songs of Love and Death for two pianos.
Re:Sono Piano Duo - Lauryna Šableviciutė and Nicholas Ashton.
First performance.
International Šiauliai Piano Duet Festival, Lithuania.
April 24rd, 2024 - Pájaros del Mar - Tondo Duo
Sophia Elger, saxophone, Declan Hickey, guitar
1901 Arts Club, London.
April 23rd, 2024 - Pájaros del Mar - Tondo Duo
Sophia Elger, saxophone, Declan Hickey, guitar
Live performance on BBC Radio 3 In Tune.
April 20th, 2024 - Petenera - Marcia Hadjimarkos, clavichord
Western Early Keyboard association, Portland, Oregon, US
April 14th, 2024 - Petenera - Marcia Hadjimarkos, clavichord
National Music Museum, Vermillion, South Dakota, US
April 10th, 2024 - Admiring Yoro Waterfall - Yonit Lea Kosovske, harpsichord
Private house concert, Berkeley, California, US
March 13th, 2024 - Klinger Fantasies, Silbury Hill in the Moonlight
Duncan Honeybourne, piano, Tavistock parish church, UK
March 13th, 2024 - Couperin on the Road -Tourist Saxophone Quartet
Royal College of Music woodwind competition, London
March 9th, 2024 - Apollo Tocatte -Rody van Gemert, guitar
Finnish National Radio broadcast from Ancient Greece CD
March 2nd, 2024 - Eurydice Sings - Granta Trio
Wolfson College, Cambridge
February 11th, 2024 - Couperin on the Road - Tourist Saxophone Quartet
Royal College of Music recital hall, London.
February 7th, 2024 - Eurydice Sings - Granta Trio
Downing Place TRC Cambridge
December 18th, 2023 - London Preludes - the premiere of five of the pieces -
Dark Pastoral, Eve Naming the Birds, Kew Green 1892, Lambeth Nocturne,
The Ghost’s Pavane - performed by Rody van Gemert, Leo Brotherus, Pekka Kotilainen, Sakari Savola, and Samuel Järvinen.
November 23rd, 2023 - Dark Sonata - Rody van Gemert, José Casallas, GGemert, José Casallas, Guitars
Lappeenranta Ja Kitara Soi festival, Finland
November 19th, 2023 - Apollo Toccate - Finnish Radio broadcast from the
’Ancient Greece’ CD by Rody van Gemert
November 1st, 2023 - Pastorale 2 - Kevin Duggan, organ
Memorial Chapel, Glasgow University, Scotland
October 21st, 2023 - Three Folksongs - Paul Ayres, piano
St. Alban’s Church, Harrow, London, UK
October 7th, 2023 - Milonga Azure - Faux Pas
Matthäus Church, Hildesheim, Germany
September 26th, 2023 - Pastorale 2 - Kevin Duggan, organ
St Salvator’s Chapel, St Andrews, Scotland.
September 24rd, 2023 - Milonga Azure - Faux Pas
St Nikolai Church, Sarstedt, Germany
September 24th, 2023 - Pastorale 2 - Kevin Duggan, organ
Dunblane Cathedral, Scotland.
September 23rd, 2023 - Petenera (three pieces) Marcia Hadjimarkos, clavichord.
Cologne, Germany
September 23rd, 2023 - Milonga Azure - Faux Pas
St Michaelis, Bissendorf, German
September 20th, 2023 - Pastorale 2 - Kevin Duggan, organ
St Ives church, St Ives, Cornwall, UK
August 24th, 2023 - Spanish Café - Daniel Gilbert, violin - André Duvall, piano
Trezevant Manor, Memphis, US.
July 22nd, 2023 - Ay! - Tamar Halperin, harpsichord - Max Clouth, guitar
Fluide Klänge, Frankfurt, Germany.
July 13th, 2023 - Petenera - Marcia Hadjimarkos, clavichord.
Abbaye de Cluny, France.
June 21st, 2023. - The Pale Dancer - Quattro per Tutti Saxophone Quartet, Hungarian Radio broadcast, Budapest.
June 19th, 2023 - pieces from Sound Sketches and Art Preludes - for piano,
various performers, Royal Albert Hall, UK
June 18th, 2023 - The Pale Dancer - RCM quartet,
the Great Exhibition Road Festival, London
June 8th 2023 - La Forêt de Melisande - Assi Karttunen, harpsichord.
Tampere Guitar Festival, Finland. First performance.
June 8th 2023 - Sing, Memory - Rody van Gemert, guitar - Assi Karttunen, harpsichord
Tampere Guitar Festival, Finland.
June 8th 2023 - Ravel, folksong arrangements - Rody van Gemert, guitar - Assi Karttunen, harpsichord. Tampere Guitar Festival, Finland.
June 8th 2023 - Daphne Prelude - Rody van Gemert, guitar - Tampere Guitar Festival, Finland.
May 29th 2023 - Daphne Prelude - Rody van Gemert, guitar - Metropolia, Helsinki, Finland.
April 14th 2023 - Light Darkness - the new CD is now available on all digital platforms, including Spotify, Apple etc.
March 26th 2023 - Sing, Memory - Yonit Kosovske, harpsichord - Darren Murphy, guitar.
Belltable Arts Centre, Limerick, Ireland.
Limerick New Music Ensemble (formerly CoMA Limerick) presents a programme of new and existing works reflecting on early music and its relationship with the contemporary canon.
February 18th 2023 - The Chimeras 1-4 - Michael Tsalka, piano
Ji Music Concert Hall, Shanghai, China.
Further performances from Michael of the first three pieces, and the premiere of the fourth
The Magic Theatre Overture
Oh, Music Box
DAFNÉ, do you know?
Madame de Scuderi
February 15th 2023 - Apollo Toccate - Lucas Zampaglione, guitar - Joana Carvalho, dancer
De Nieuwe Vorst, Tilburg, Holland
This is the first time that my music has been fused with dance, with the choreography
being created by Joana Carvalho
February 9th 2023 - Light Darkness - CD release - Pilfink Records, Finland.
This CD of my guitar music consists of duos through to quintet. The music is played by
Rody van Gemert, José Casallas, Mari Mäntylä, Petri Kumela and Antti Ignatius. The performances and recording quality are incredible. The following pieces are on the CD;
Figures from Watteau
Dark Sonata
Waltz Cocteau
Naivement Rondeau
Serenata Notturna
Pájaros del Mar
January 15th 2023 - The Chimeras 1-3 - Michael Tsalka piano
Macao, China.
The Magic Theatre Overture
Oh, Music Box
DAFNÉ, do you know?
This is the first performance of the first three pieces of The Chimeras
September 28th 2022 - Couperin on the Road - Mifune Tsuji Trio
Cambridge, UK
The UK premier of Couperin on the Road in a new arrangement I made for the ensemble, of sax, violin and piano.
September 14th 2022 - Arias - Sonja Tuomela, violin - Constance Chow, piano
New Maldern URC, Brighton, UK.
August 31st 2022 - The Chimeras - Yukie Smith
Downing Place URC, Cambridge, UK
The premiere of three of The Chimeras
Apollo and the Muses
Black Cat in the Evening Garden
Circus Flags
August 16th 2022 - Hockney’s Shoes - Oriente Saxophone Quartet
Santiago, Chile
First performance
August 12th 2022 - Landscapes with Angels - Paul Sánchez, piano
Release of video performance of the last piece of White Book 3
In Paul’s words - From a pianistic perspective, Graham has given me the opportunity to do my two favorite things at the piano in this movement: to explore color with sound, and to embark on an impossible-to-attain-yet-worthy-of-the-attempt poetic journey to a transcendent dimension. His work is a vast landscape rife with possibility; his angels are apparitions of terrifying aspect, inspiringly beautiful yet beyond our capacity to understand.
July 24th 2022 - Admiring Yoro Waterfall - Jane Chapman, harpsichord
Dartington Hall, UK
July 14th 2022 - Funambules - Késia Decoté, piano
New Theatre, Oxford, UK
First performance of this piece from The Chimeras
July 8th 2022 - White Book 3 - Paul Sánchez, piano
Excerpts from this set of pieces, from the recent recording Seria Ludo, have been used
in the video presentation that accompanies the current exhibition of paintings by
Christopher Le Brun, at the Lisson Gallery in London.
July 6th, 2022 - Les Chimères - Assi Karttunen, harpsichord
The poetry festival at Kajaani, Finland
The first performance of this piece, which was commissioned to be part of a new
production on Baudelaire, ‘The Green Fairy’, using musicians, actors, lighting
June 4th, 2022 - The Chimeras - Anita D’Attellis, piano
St Peter’s Wallingford, UK
Blue Bird in the Enchanted Forest
Kleist at the Marionette Theatre
This is the first performance of these two pieces
May 20th 2022 - The Couperin Sketchbooks - Paul Sánchez, piano
Release of the video performance of another piece from the CD Seria Ludo
May 8th 2022
Another fantastic review for the Seria Ludo CD, this time from Piano Professional Magazine - "...music of the highest integrity, rich in imagination and harmonic, melodic and rhythmic innovation...this recording is a very welcome addition to the catalogue of one of the most original voices in 21st century British music."
April 7th 2022 - Five Melodies by Turlough O’Carolan
Carole Bean, flute - Michelle Lundy, harp
First performance of these arrangements of the fantastic melodies of O’Carolan
USA
April 6th 2022 - Manet from the Art Preludes - Laura Kesiak, piano
Elgar Room at the Royal Albert Hall
An inspiring morning at the Albert Hall! Many young and very talented pianists from all over the world playing music by EVC Music