How are programmes made? How do curators build up a coherent universe over years of programming? How do composers find a life for their work?

Over a FREE day (31 May) at Woolwich Works I'll be teaming up with some amazing curators to help answer these questions for #composers

Delightful to be back at Royal Northern College of Music last night for a concert shared with the RNCM New Ensemble ✨ Thank you Dr Kathryn Williams for joining us in a premiere by Benjamin Graves 🪸 And great to work with Larry Goves’s composition department and with RNCMconducting students 🎓 #newmusic

We’re delighted to be back at The Tung Auditorium this summer! Music by Philip Cashian #LizaLim and more 🎶🎶🎶 #Liverpool University of Liverpool

What a show! Bravo everyone! New music at its finest, masterfully crafted and delivered! 🎵 🎹 Royal Northern College of Music Riot Ensemble #TheFutureIsGreen

EDINBURGH!🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
Sunday 12 May 2.30pm
Cello Piano Duo at Scottish Arts Club
with Joseph Havlat
Celebrating living composers & music from 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
2 World Premieres 🌟🌟
Shruthi Rajasekar
Sally Beamish James MacMillan Bill Sweeney Dai Fujikura / 藤倉大
prems by Nick Williams & Iain Matheson
Scottish Music Centre

Thursday’s New Music Royal Northern College of Music will be great. Riot Ensemble workshopped six super new pieces last week and, as Larry Goves will testify, it was hard to pick two for the concert. With New Emsemble and Mark Heron🇪🇺 in the first half, it’s a terrific programme! rncm.ac.uk/performance/ri…

Join us this Friday for our concert at Royal Academy of Music with these beautiful #graphicscores from students!

📍 Angela Burgess Recital Hall, 6.30pm

🔹Tickets free, booking required: ticketing.ram.ac.uk/royalacademyof…

#sidebyside #newmusic #lucernescholars

Our Royal Academy of Music #lucernescholars have started their 1st big project with us! One of their 5 commissions is based on #fluxus principles so this week Heather Roche gave a lecture & we went to the Tate #YokoOno exhibition. Watch this space, beautiful things are being made 💕

🔌Charged-up & spring clean🌥️SoundCloudCraig🌤️
Live recordings of solo/duo works by PatriciaAlessandrini with Stephanie Lamprea & some chimaerical improvisations with live electronics (Alistair MacDonald & Stephanie)

🌘 on.soundcloud.com/sPZDv1po7YHRih…

🌒on.soundcloud.com/ZYCxqXFwCJrFgh…

BOOM!!!

Benjamin Oliver: TOO MANY SWEETS nmc-recordings.myshopify.com/products/benja…

Tons of wonderful moments not pictured here. Fantastic days at New Music Dublin - thank you CMC Ireland #NMDX for the ongoing work in facilitating new music and connecting creators and makers everywhere. Sad to be missing the final day but leaving Dublin with an inspired heart 💚

IT'S HERE! Give TOO MANY SWEETS a spin #BirminghamNewMusic /// Benjamin Oliver NMC Recordings University of Southampton Royal Birmingham Conservatoire

Join our fantastic co-AD Adam Swayne at Royal Northern College of Music ⭐️🔽

very excited to be releasing Benjamin Oliver's TOO MANY SWEETS tomorrow!! /// find out more here nmc-recordings.myshopify.com/products/benja… /// NMC Recordings University of Southampton Royal Birmingham Conservatoire Birmingham City University #BirminghamNewMusic

I'm talking to students about the history of Fluxus today at the Royal Academy of Music and I've just discovered this brilliant long interview with my favourite Fluxus artist, Alison Knowles. She's just so charming.
youtube.com/watch?v=OA2TIx…

Released Friday 26 April by our distributed label Birmingham Record Company – ‘Too Many Sweets’ by Benjamin Oliver (feat. Blake)

The album is filled to the brim with filthy crooked grooves and shameless flirtations with the nearest triad 🔥

Pre-save 👇

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It’s #EarthDay and we're having a splendid day workshopping & rehearsing for our #TheFutureIsGreen concert Royal Northern College of Music! Thankyou to students here and at The University of Manchester today for being curious and sharing their music with us & letting us share our knowledge! #newmusic #nextgeneration

Spent yesterday recording a beauuutiful piece by Gareth Moorcraft, can’t wait to listen back to this! 💫💫💫

A weekend with Joseph Havlat and the mesmerising music of Gareth Moorcraft 💫 Watch this space! #collaboration #newmusic #justintonation

Monday is ‘Earth Day’ and Riot Ensemble visits Royal Northern College of Music to rehearse/ workshop seven pieces addressing the climate crisis. We’re also working with UoMMusic students on the same day. Collaborations and partnerships are so important and help make us stronger! 🌳💚🌱 #thefutureisgreen