My book on Heiner Goebbels, John Cage, and what I am calling curatorial composing is out now from Cambridge University Press (for just £15). I’ve tried to make it an enjoyable read. Here's a thread by way of introduction… cambridge.org/core/elements/…

Very happy to be on this release alongside some top folk!

Great memories of earlier this summer, reconnecting with old friends and making new ones.

A quartet plus a trio of Irish composers (David Fennessy Raymond Dean Matthew Whiteside) at last nights concert in The Flying Duck Last concert of this years season in Summerhall tonight. Come hear the Robinson Panoramic Quartet! Doors 7.30pm for 8pm start. Tickets otd £10/£6.

Post-gig pint after a great The Marian Consort gig at Music in the University and a fantastic new piece by Royal Conservatoire of Scotland staff composer David Fennessy Alistair MacDonald newmusicscotland

Last of the #monthofdave #fennessyfest gigs this week - tonight in Glasgow and tomorrow evening in Edinburgh the wonderful Robinson Panoramic Quartet (if that sounds like a supergroup, it's because they are!) premiering my piece SLATE. Should be fun!

How many of you know what Cruella Braverman's Public Order Bill contains?
It's frankly unbelievable: legislation you might expect in Russia, Iran or Egypt. Here's a summary from my column today:

Stunning sold out concert at our Memorial Chapel this evening by the wonderful The Marian Consort with gorgeous work by David Fennessy thanks so much to the fab team Royal Conservatoire of Scotland for this partnership and long may we work together with joint vision for excellence in music!! ❤️🥳🎵🌍👏

Tonight, in the chapel of University of Glasgow there will be a very special concert by The Marian Consort of Schütz's weird and wonderful 'Exequien' interleaved by my own 'Two pieces about Heinrich Schütz (1585 - 1672)'. Royal Conservatoire of Scotland
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Planning next week's activity? We are welcoming the professional choral ensemble The Marian Consort to our University Memorial Chapel on Monday, 17 October for a one hour performance at 7.30pm. DO NOT MISS THIS! Tickets available on the door and online gla.ac.uk/concerts

Another standing ovation tonight for Fennessy, Haydn & Dvořák! 🔥👏👏🔥

Catch us tomorrow at @uchlimerick!

#ClassicalMusic #chambermusic #arts #bantry

Thanks Teddy Jamieson for featuring our concerts this week in The Herald On the Radar. 8pm (doors 7.30pm) The Flying Duck Wed 19th, and Summerhall Thurs 20th. Music includes David Fennessy Slate, Matthew Whiteside Quartet, Jenn Kirby Now and more! heraldscotland.com/news/23038760.…

Tomorrow lunchtime, FidelioTrio will be playing my 'Piano Trio No.2' - In Memoriam Spencer Boney', which I wrote for them in 2020 at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland as well as a beautiful piece by Linda Buckley and music by Clara Schumann.
If you're in town, come along!
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Hello. Do I know anyone in the Glasgow or Edinburgh area with a Fender Rhodes?