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• The Arts Foundation Futures Award
I'm very happy to announce I've been announced as the winning Fellow of the Arts Foundation Futures Awards 2026 for Music. The Fellowship is an unrestricted award from The Arts Foundation, part of the Arts Foundation Futures Awards which annually award no strings attached support across five disciplines. I'm very excited to have received the award, and the time and breathing space it gives. More details below
• Man with Limp Wrist • Walt Disney Hall, Los Angeles, USA
My orchestral piece Man with Limp Wrist will be performed in LA by the original commissioners LA Phil, conducted by Thomas Adès at Walt Disney Concert Hall. Also on the program: Adès’ own Aquifer, Tchaikovsky’s Francesca da Rimini, and Yuja Wang playing Prokofiev’s Second Piano Concerto.
• Circadian Bloom (with Anna Ridler) • Buk-Seoul Museum of Art, South Korea
Anna Ridler's Circadian Bloom, her seven-channel video piece with a matching seven-channel audio work by me, is up in Buk-Seoul Museum of Art in South Korea.
• George's Sonatas and Man Dances • Dutch Indoor Subjects • Piano pieces about food • 1901 Arts Club
A full concert of my piano works with Joseph Havlat -- more details to come.
• Industry Chorales • The Water of Tyne • Be nice to see you • Tung Auditorium, Liverpool
A new work for Solem Quartet, based on chorales and psalm chants, and on a theme of Industry -- more details released soon.
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• Man with Limp Wrist • Dutch Indoor Subjects • This Classical Life, BBC Radio 3
Chatting with Jess Gillam, swapping favourite tracks and why they mean something to us. Also broadcast excerpts from my work. Available online after broadcast with this link:
• Cadenzas for Mozart Violin Concerto I • Auditorium Jean-Pierre-Miquel, Vincennes
Charlotte Silouste-Bridoux performs all 5 Mozart violin concertos, with cadenzas composed by Joseph Havlat, Héloïse Werner, Isabella Gellis, Oliver Leith, and me. Recording project forthcoming.
• Elegy for the Silent (with Torbjørn Rødland) • Yuz Museum, Shanghai
Part of Rødland's solo show Songs for the Sun
• Daughters of the Lonesome Isle • Waterloo Festival
New London Chamber Choir performs my Daughters of the Lonesome Isle, on words by Luke Kennard.
• Removal and Other Powers • Red House, Aldeburgh
Natalie Burch, Francesca Chiejina, and Nancy Holt perform my Removal and Other powers in a programme of Joanna Ward, Finzi, and Britten. Two concerts, 3pm and 7pm, on Britten's 111th birthday and in his library.
• Dutch Indoor Subjects • Folkestone New Music
Thomas Ades performs Belmont Chill from Dutch Indoor Subjects, in a piano recital with works by Janacek, Stanchinsky, Nancarrow, and his own work.
• Why Do You Grieve • Colburn School, Los Angeles
Elias Brown conducts Why Do You Grieve with an orchestra of players from Colburn School, alongside music by Ligeti and Debussy.
• Man with Limp Wrist • Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
Thomas Adés conducts the Hallé in a new piece of mine, Man With Limp Wrist, alongside a programme of his own works and Janacek's Sinfonietta.
• Removal and Other Powers • digital and physical release
Natalie Burch, Fleur Barron, and Francseca Chiejina, have put together a disc on a state of the nation theme. Two new commissions from Joanna Ward and me, alongside Finzi and Britten.
• Renaissance (White Lotus Main Theme by Cristobal Tapia De Veer) • Classical Pride, The Barbican Hall
A special charity event, conductor Oliver Zeffman and the CBSO present the first Classical Pride concert given by a major orchestra in Europe.
• Why Do You Grieve • digital release
Platoon release Live at the Science Museum, part of Oliver Zeffman's Music x Museums.
• The Patronages • digital release
The Patronages, out on bandcamp and streaming platforms.
• Why Do You Grieve • digital release
Why Do We Grieve is out on Platoon as a Visual Album, released as part of Music x Museums, a series of albums and films with Apple Music.
• No Verticals • Berkhamsted Old Town Hall
Stuart King, Caroline Balding, and Clare O'Connell play a programme of ancient and new music.
• Den Vater dort oben • NightMusic, St David's Hall, Cardiff
The Ashwell Trio (Callum Smart, Ben Goldscheider, and Richard Uttley), will be playing my Horn Trio at NightMusic, St David's Hall.
• No Verticals • Berkhamsted Old Town Hall
Stuart King trio -- Stuart King, Caroline Balding, and Clare O’Connell -- perform No Verticals, alongside contemporary rep and renaissance music, part of Behind the Mirror concert series.
• No Verticals • Park Lane Chapel, Norwich
Stuart King trio -- Stuart King, Caroline Balding, and Clare O’Connell -- perform No Verticals, alongside contemporary rep and renaissance music.
• Dutch Indoor Subjects • Cardiff University
Richard Uttley plays pieces from Dutch Indoor Subjects.
• Austerity Songs • NightMusic, St David's Hall, Cardiff
SongSpiel are singing a varied programme at St David's Cardiff, including some of my Austerity Songs in Cardiff. This event is part of the series NightMusic, where I am Associate Composer.