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Switch on In Tune BBC Radio 3 to hear the wonderful Stile Antico singing my piece, The Phoenix and the Turtle, or catch it Buxton International Festival on 20th July! (Gorgeous Tallis too)

Massive treat to visit Glyndebourne for the first time tonight, and frankly it’s hard to imagine any opera being more fun than The Merry Widow with John Wilson at the helm.

Come hear me give a recital in Folkestone tomorrow, programmed in collaboration with John - Schumann, Ravel, Stravinsky, Knussen, Grime, Watkins and a Woolrich premiere.

That could fund Welsh National Opera for 100 years! (Meanwhile, Bristol airport’s pretty close…)

The Welsh premiere of my Second Symphony (co-commissioned by The Hallé) - edrych ymlaen!

There can’t be a more remarkable fugue in a symphony than the one that comes out of nowhere half an hour into Shostakovich 4 - BBC Philharmonic Orchestra playing it sensationally on BBC Radio 3 BBC Proms rn

It’s Robert Plane Tim Horton and Rachel Robert’s rehearsing the end of my trio, Speak Seven Seas for their concert tonight in Church Stretton - do go, they’re all magnificent!

My Prayer, written in memory of Lars Vogt for Spannungen: Musik im RWE-Kraftwerk Heimbach and given its premiere there by François-Frédéric Guy, is now available from Schott Music

There’s a lot wrong with the world, but I’m sitting in the garden with a decent Rioja, and my son is practising, of his own volition, the first prelude of the well-tempered clavier, so really I shouldn’t complain.

Well, it didn’t seem like the Harris campaign could get much worse after pushing price controls, but mandating “up to date” COVID vaccines in late 2024 is about as bad as it gets

Remember finding a second-hand CD of Carter’s Concerto for Orchestra there in 1993, freshly stolen from my room at Chetham's School of Music

My very favourite contemporary music festival! I’m also looking forward to the premiere of Michael Zev Gordon new piano quintet with Piatti Quartet on Sunday.

Young Apollo rehearsal with George Vass and sensational Presteigne Festival | Gŵyl Llanandras orchestra - come tonight, and hear Mathiasland and Joseph Phibbs too Faber Music Composers

Massive protests in New York, London, Paris, Berlin after Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers ban women showing their faces or speaking in public. edition.cnn.com/2024/08/22/mid…

The last time I saw Sandy was at his 90th birthday concert Wigmore Hall - his first memory of the hall was his father conducting the premiere of Britten’s Serenade there in 1943. A wonderful, generous man and a great composer.

Rehearsing my horn concerto for its Scandinavian premiere tomorrow night in Uppsala with Ben Goldscheider and #RebeccaMiller

The sunshine has been unbroken! It’s a sensational orchestra, and Ben is a horn superstar.