Gavin Higgins: Ekstasis for String Sextet

Gavin Higgins: Ekstasis for String Sextet

Grant: RTF34Detail: 6 movement piece for string sextet (25 minutes)Premiere: 18 June 2022, Aldeburgh Music Festival, Snape Maltings Performers: David Cohen, Piatti Quartet and Sara Roberts.Recording: Released on CD in October 2021  with support from Fidelio Charitable...
C.P.I (Hugo Capablanca & Marc Piñol): Alianza

C.P.I (Hugo Capablanca & Marc Piñol): Alianza

Grant: RTF32Detail: Electronic composition (40 minutes)Performers: Hugo Capablanca and Marc PiñolRecording: Released on vinyl by Hivern Discs in 2020 The Richard Thomas Foundation commissioned Hugo and Marc, both DJs, to create a concept album intended to be listened...
Claire M Singer: gleann ciùin

Claire M Singer: gleann ciùin

Grant: RTF31Detail: Organ and chamber ensemble (15 minutes)Premiere: 5 July 2019, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank, LondonPerformers: Claire M Singer and London Contemporary OrchestraRecording: To be released by Touch Music in 2022 The London Contemporary Orchestra...
Oliver Coates: Smoke Screens

Oliver Coates: Smoke Screens

Grant: RTF29Detail: Cello solo for Renaud Wiser Dance CompanyPremiere: 1 June 2018, Platform Theatre, LondonPerformer: Oliver Coates Renaud Wiser Dance Company commissioned Oliver to write the music for the dance piece “Smoke Screens” with funding from...
Jonathan Dove: Letters from Claude

Jonathan Dove: Letters from Claude

Grant: RTF28Detail: Soprano, Mezzo and Piano, 12 minutesPremiere: 15 May 2018, Purcell Room, Southbank, LondonPerformers: Claire Booth, Susan Bickley, Andrew Matthews-OwenRecording: Released on CD in March 2019 The Foundation commissioned Jonathan to create a piece to...
Martin Butler: French Horn

Martin Butler: French Horn

Solo for French Horn Joel Ashford gave the premiere of Martin Butler‘s Comic Book Fanfares, on 9 January 2017 at the Royal College of Music, London.  Comic Book Fanfares is a fantasy for horn, by turns elegiac and broadly comedic. It expands upon ideas from the...