[photo by Eivind Sorgenfryd]
Upcoming
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January 18, 2026 // KLANG IM DACH, c/o Christoph Nicolaus and Rasha Ragab, Zieblandstr. 45; V. Stock, München-Maxvorstadt // composer, performer
One Guitar; Laurence Crane, Bobby J.; Howard Skempton, Chorale; Alvin Lucier, On the Carpet of Leaves Illuminated by the Moon; Laurence Crane, Chorale for Howard Skempton; Laurence Crane, Single Harmony for Rhodri Davies; Eva-Maria Houben, Some Tiny Gestures; Elisabet Dijkstra, Dream life of a pylon…
Solo performance
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January 21, 2026 // Horse Hospital, London // performer
Solo improvisation
Opening for Kari Watson and Katinka Kleijn
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= more upcoming events TBA =
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December 11, 2025 // George Wood Theatre, Goldsmiths, London // performer
Alvin Lucier, Families of Hyperbolas…; Pauline Oliveros, Extreme Slow Walk; John Lely, The Parsons Code…; Eva-Maria Houben, Symphonia; Max Lunn, Nausea; Mieko Shiomi, Shadow Piece I & Shadow Piece II; Annea Lockwood, Dusk; G. Douglas Barrett, A Few Marlenes.
With Goldsmiths Contemporary Music Ensemble (dir.)
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November 13, 2025 // To Your Ear, St. Catherine’s, Telegraph Hill, London // composer, performer
Octet: after five bars by Rebecca Clarke, composer (premiere); Eva-Maria Houben, Gelbe Stunde; Siri Livingston, my eyes are shaky and they glimmer like stars
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November 10, 2025 // Tranzac, Toronto, CA // performer
Solo improvisation
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October 26, 2025 // Pianodrome Granton, Edinburgh // composer
Four Pianos: after four bars by Rued Langgaard, composer
Performed by Square Music
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September 20, 2025 // 840 Series, St. Cyprian’s, Clarence Gate, London // composer
Plain Song (premiere)
Performed by Amalia Young & Anne Yin Han, violins, and Fernando Yada & Jay Austin Keys, pianos.
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July 24, 2025 // Café Oto, London // performer
Max Syedtollan: Prynhawn Da!
With The Listening Project
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July 15–20, 2025 // Klangraum, Düsseldorf, DE // composer, performer
Tending: 5. Pretending (15th); 4. Love Letters (16th); 3. Cartographies (17th); 2. Writing (18th); 1. Reading (19th)
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July 13, 2025 // Music for a While, Trudi’s Kitchen, Arnhem, NL // performer
Antoine Beuger, Ozu Tunings for Thirteen
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July 10, 2025 // Nice to See You, St. Laurence, Catford, London // composer
Octet, or, Music for 9+ Musicians, alongside work by Barbara Monk Feldman, Sylvia Lim, Freeman Edwards, John Lely, Jürg Freay, and Antoine Beuger
Performed by Maya-Leigh Rosenwasser, Anne Yin Han, Amalia Young, Freya Hicks, Adam Possener, Rebecca Burden, Kirke Gross, Michelle Hromin, Alex Lyon, and Clare Spollen
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June 20, 2025 // “Tending” and Versions of “Tending”, St. Cyprian’s, Clarence Gate, London // composer, performer
Six new chamber works
With Standard Issue and Outline ensemble
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June 19, 2025 // Goldsmiths, University of London // performer
Terry Riley: In C; Laurence Crane: Some Rock Music for Alan Thomas
With Goldsmiths Contemporary Music Ensemble (dir.) and Electronic Music Studios
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June 6, 2025 // Goldsmiths, University of London // performer
Improvisation with Louis Gardner and James Graham
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April 16, 2025 // To Your Ear, St. Catherine’s, Telegraph Hill, London // composer, performer
Second Piece for Jennie Gottshcalk (premiere); Luiz Henrique Yudo: The Arrow Maze
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March 27, 2025 // Deptford Town Hall, London // composer, performer
One Guitar
Solo performance
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March 25, 2025 // Goldsmiths, University of London // performer
John Lely: White Noise Machine
With Veronika Dressel, Erik Hill Blaske and Ruthie Cerny
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March 20, 2025 // Goldsmiths, University of London // performer, director
Terry Riley: In C
With Goldsmiths Contemporary Music Ensemble and Goldsmiths Electronic Music Studios
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February 13, 2025 // Goldsmiths, University of London // performer
Solo improvisation
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January 31, 2025 // Scratch Night at Levenshulme Old Library, Manchester // composer, performer
Tending(s): a version of “Tending”
Solo performance
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December 11, 2024 // “HYPER PLACE” at Venue MOT, London // composer, performer
Constellating; assorted other works
Large ensemble
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December 4, 2024 // Clothworkers’ Centenary Concert Hall, University of Leeds // composer, performer
Commissions for durational guitar from Elisabet Dijkstra and Desmond R. Clarke; new work
Solo performance
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November 23, 2024 // Howard Assembly Room, Leeds // composer
Trio: a version of “Tending” (premiere)
Performed by Marsyas Trio
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October 13, 2025 // Music for a While, Trudi’s Kitchen, Arnhem, NL // performer
Antoine Beuger, to the memory of
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October 1, 2024 // Deptford Town Hall, London // performer
Seán Clancy: 45 Minutes of the Subject of Football
With Omri Kochavi, Saurabh Shivakumar and Zahrah Hutton
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September 26, 2024 // Avalon Cafe, London // composer, performer
Piano Quintet: a version of “Tending” (premiere); Julius Eastman: Joy Boy
With Anne Yin Han, Matthew Gilley, Charlotte Glyn-Woods, Amalia Young, Freya Hicks, Rebecca Burden, Jay Austin Keys and Fernando Yada Rodrigues
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September 21, 2024 // Pianodrome at Leeds City Museum, Leeds // composer
Four Pianos: after four bars by Rued Langgaard, composer* (premiere)
Performed by Square Music
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August 15, 2024 // Avalon Cafe, London // composer, performer
Towmond; Sophie Stone, Postcard Pieces; George Lewis, Artificial Life
With The Listening Project
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July 18, 2024 // Goldsmiths, University of London // performer
Michael Pisaro-Liu: Anabasis (1)
With Mia Windsor, Thomas Carroll, Anthony J. Stillabower, Yu Jin and Jo Christman
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July 16, 2024 // All Souls Church, Leeds // composer/performer
Duo: a version of “Tending” (premiere); Pipe Organ Study 1
With Kory Reeder, Lottie Sadd and Mia Windsor
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July 14, 2024 // University of Leeds // performer
Michael Pisaro-Liu: Anabasis (1)
With Mia Windsor, Thomas Carroll, Anthony J. Stillabower, Yu Jin and Jo Christman
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July 12, 2024 // Music We’d Like to Hear, St. Mary-at-Hill, London // performer
Christian Wolff: Sveglia
With Jack Louis Rennie, Maddie Ashman, Omri Kochavi, Tom Smith, Saurabh Shivakumar, Henri Växby
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July 11, 2024 // Eternal Series, St. Giles Cripplegate, London // performer
Alvin Lucier: Sizzles (solo); Catherine Lamb: Bass Guitar Piece for Adam Overton (trio)
With Sam White and Kirke Gross
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June 16, 2024 // Trudi’s Kitchen, Arnhem, Netherlands // composer, performer
Lomond and Steven Vinkenoog: Reprogression
Performance with Steven Vinkenoog, Tamara Kho, Arjen Stolk, Harm-jan Roeles, Clare Spollen
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June 11, 2024 // Goldsmiths, University of London // director, performer
Sarah Hughes: Stones Fall to the Sea; Julius Eastman: Buddha; James M. Creed: Lomond
With Goldsmiths Contemporary Music Ensemble
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May 29, 2024 // Hundred Years Gallery, London // composer, performer
“For at Least Two Players” with James McIlwrath and Maya-Leigh Rosenwasser (flxnflx)
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May 27, 2024 // The Crescent, York // composer, performer
“For at Least Two Players” with James McIlwrath and Maya-Leigh Rosenwasser (flxnflx)
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May 25, 2024 // The Attic at Seagulls, Leeds // composer, performer
“For at Least Two Players” with James McIlwrath and Maya-Leigh Rosenwasser (flxnflx)
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May 24, 2024 // Unit 44, Dublin // composer, performer
“For at Least Two Players” with James McIlwrath and Maya-Leigh Rosenwasser (flxnflx)
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May 16, 2024 // St. James Garlickhythe, London // performer
John Cage: Five
Performance with Huw Morgan, Eva-Maria Houben and Artur Vidal
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May 9, 2024 // St. Mary-at-Hill, London // performer
Mathis Saunier: Lava Cycle
Performance with Standard Issue
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April 6, 2024 // Bantha, Pittsburgh, PA, USA // performer
Solo improvisation
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March 28, 2024 // Resource, Minneapolis, USA // performer
Solo improvisation
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March 18, 2024 // Deptford Town Hall, London // director, performer
Mieko Shiomi: Music for Two Players I ; Ailie Robertson: Vedbaek ; Christian Drew: Pink Room ; Isaiah Ceccarelli: Vingt-deux accords sur fond gris argenté ; Julius Eastman: Joy Boy
With Goldsmiths Contemporary Music Ensemble (dir.)
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March 14, 2024 // Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art, London // performer
Solo improvisation
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March 7, 2024 // University of Leeds // performer
Solo improvisation (four-channel guitar)
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February 23, 2024 // The Lab, Royal Birmongham Conservatoire // composer, performer
“For at Least Two Players” with James McIlwrath and Maya-Leigh Rosenwasser (flxnflx)
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February 19, 2024 // Deptford Town Hall, London // performer
Solo improvisation (four-channel guitar)
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January 15, 2024 // Cafe Oto, London // compoer, performer
Tending ; Catherine Lamb: Parallaxis Forma
Performed by/with Standard Issue
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December 17, 2023 // Wharf Chambers, Leeds // performer
Accordion/guitar duo (Blood Niece) performance with Clare Spollen
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September 28, 2023 // Wharf Chambers, Leeds // performer
Solo improvisation
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August 2023 // Co-Incidence Festival, The Station, Neufelden, Austria // composer, performer
Callander; Piano Study 3 & 5; Trio
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July 2023 // Music We’d Like to Hear at St. Mary-at-Hill, London // performer
Amber Priestley: Repeat yourself until friends are embarrassed
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July 2023 // Music We’d Like to Hear at St. Mary-at-Hill, London // performer
Tim Parkinson: Septet
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April 2023 // Deptford Town Hall, London // performer
Linda Catlin Smith: Drifter
Duo with Jay Austin Keys, piano
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April 2023 // AMOK, Artefact, Birmingham // performer
Tending
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March 2023 // Bermondsey Project Space, London // performer, composer
Towmond
Solo performance with screening of Joanna Ward’s audiovisual documentary In Suffolk, Working/Playing
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February 2023 // AME, Dai 大 Hall, Huddersfield // composer, performer
Piano Studies 1-6, Piano Study 7, Piano Study 8 (premiere), Lomond composed by J.M. Creed, with music by L. Crane, J. Frey, E.M. Houben, C. Fox and J. Lely
Performed by Kate Ledger, piano and James Creed, guitar
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December 2022 // University of Leeds // composer, researcher
19 Ways to Write C Major (possibly with more ways)
Presentation at University of Leeds PGR Symposium
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October 2022 (rearr. from June 2021) // AiR Niederösterreich, Krems an der Donau, Austria // composer
[new works]
Month-long writing residency, artist in residence for Lower Austria
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October 2022 // Forum Frohner, Krems an der Donau, Austria // performer
improvisation/installation, workshop
Facilitated by AiR Niederösterreich
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October 2022 // Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London // composer, researcher
Cartographies: Notation as map-making by way of five abandoned pieces
Presentation (remote) for symposium A Dream of Walking: Practising music of place, cur. Amy Crankshaw and Julian Philips
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September 2022 // IKLEKTIC, London // performer
Jennifer Walshe: The Text Score Dataset
Performance with Megan Steinberg, James McIlwraith, Peter Nagle and Neil Luck.
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September 2022 // Nice to See You 6, The Hill Station, London // composer, performer
Two Guitars and Lomond, with works by Luke Martin, Pauline Oliveros and Laurence Crane
Performance with Luke Martin, Clare Spollen and others
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August 2022 // Clothworkers Centenary Concert Hall, University of Leeds // composer, performer
Piano and Accompaniment and Nomond, or, no more Lomond (premiere)
Performance with Clare Spollen, Joy Ingle, Mia Windsor, Ben Adamson, Ashruta Mani, Dave Riedstra and Alice Bhomwick
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August 2022 // Nice to See You 5, George Wood Theatre, London // composer, performer, curator
Lomond, Buddha (Julius Eastman), Towmond
Solo performance
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July 2022 // Klangraum Festival, Neuer Kunstraum, Düsseldorf // composer, performer
Lomond
Performed with Antoine Beuger, Katie Porter, Angeles Rojas, Eva-Maria Houben, Steven Vinkenoog, Lörinc Muntag and Bernd Bleffert
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June 2022 // Deptford Town Hall, London // composer, performer
Piano and Accompaniment: after an étude by Camille Saint-Saëns, composer (premiere)
Performed with Anne Han, Freda D’Souza, Katie Grout, Meghan Marshall and Clare Spollen
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June 2022 // Wharf Chambers, Leeds // composer, performer
Drifting Music
Composed and performed with Joy Ingle, Dylan Thompson and Mia Windsor
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June 2022 // Nice to See You 4 // composer, performer, curator
Lomond, Buddha (Julius Eastman), Towmond
Solo performance
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May 2022 // Memorial concert for Jeremy Peyton-Jones, Goldsmiths, University of London// performer
18 Guitars (Jeremy Peyton-Jones)
Performed with Arthur Dick for two electric guitars and 16 taped electric guitars
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March 2022 // Clothworkers’ Centenary Concert Hall, University of Leeds // composer
Having only seen the score for James Tenney’s…
Performed by Brian Archinal (percussion)
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March 2022 // Wharf Chambers, Leeds // composer, performer
Winter Piece (premiere)
Solo performance
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February 2022 // Clothworkers’ Centenary Concert Hall, University of Leeds // composer
Flute Study 1 (premiere)
Performed by Kathryn Williams (flute)
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January 2022 // Co-Incidence Festival, Somerville, MA, USA // composer //
The Hollies, for example
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December 2021 // Clothwokers’ Centenary Concert Hall, University of Leeds // composer, performer
Woodhouse, 09/11/2021, 9pm (premiere)
Composed and performed with Joy Ingle
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December 2021 // Wolfe Center, Bowling Green State University, Ohio // composer
Lomond
Performed by students and faculty
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September 2021 // Nice to See You 3, Pembroke House, London // cur.ator, composer, performer
Lomond, [untitled guitar piece], Piano Study 5 & 6 (all J.M .Creed); Six Bars (Darius Paymai); I lost my heart by the roses (Amber Priestley); Bobby J. (Laurence Crane)
Solo performance
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September 2021 // Nice to See You 2, Deptford Town Hall, London // cur.ator, composer, performer
Lomond (J.M. Creed); Three Welsh Landscapes (Katie Grout); What Will We Do When We Have No Money? (Mary Delaney arr. Lankum)
Performed with Outline Ensemble
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September 2021 // Nice to See You 1, Matchstick Piehouse, London // curator, composer, performer
Piano Studies 1-6, Lomond (all J.M. Creed); Surfaces of Emergence (Scott. McLaughlin); Buddha (Julius Eastman)
Performed with Jack Rennie and Olek Nixon, guitars
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August 2021 // Cafe Oto, London // performer
In C (Terry Riley)
Performed with Various Ensemble
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August 2021 // Cafe Oto, London // performer
Fréedom. (Samuel D. Loveless)
Solo performance
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August 2021 (rearr. from July 2021) // Matchstick Piehouse, London // co-curator, performer
“verse-noise” night of improvised music and composed words
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July 2021 // Music We’d Like to Hear, St. Mary-at-Hill, London // performer
Buddha, Julius Eastman
Solo performance
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June 2021 // Matchstick Piehouse, London // performer
Solo improvisation
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June 2021 // Podcast interview, YouTube // interview
“Keeping Score” for Classical Schmassical with Alexa Letourneau
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June 2021 // Deptford Town Hall, London // composer
Lomond
Performed by K. Grout (fl, dir.); F. Y. Rodrigues (pno); J. Keys (pno); M. M. Martinez (vln); P. Furniss (bc); F. Withers (vb); N. Gallagher (vla)
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June 2021 // Deptford Town Hall, London // performer
Attica (Fred Rzewski)
Performed with Goldsmiths CME
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May 2021 // online // composer
Sheepdogs (premiere)
Performed by Echo Vocal Ensemble
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May 2021 // online article, British Music Collection // interview
“Pianoless Composers” in The Sampler, written by Georgia Denham
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May 2021 // Tetractys “Net Work” commission series, virtual (based Austin, TX, USA) // composer
Seven Lines for Sarah Hetrick
Development and premiere of Phonic Cycles with Sarah Hetrick, saxophonist and Virginia Lee Montgomery, video artist
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January 2021 // Co-Incidence Festival, virtual (based Somerville, MA, USA) // performer, composer
Lomond, The Hollies, for example & Somewhere on a Sundial
Performed with festival participants
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December 2020 // Ligeti Quartet “Workout!” workshop series // composer
Seven Lines for the Ligeti Quartet
Performed by Ligeti Quartet
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September 2020 // PureGold Festival, Goldsmiths College, London // performer
Three Welsh Landscapes (Katie Grout) (premiere);110920 London (Hardi Kurda)
Solo performance
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September 2020 // PureGold Festival, Goldsmiths College, London // composer
Cartography V for Thady Cooney
Performed by Thady Cooney
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August 2020 // Themselves Residency 1, MOT, Peckham, London // performer
Solo improvisation
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April 2020 // Guildhall Experimental Music Society, London // workshop
“Notation, People, Indeterminability”, session on verbal notation
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February 2020 // Bishopsgate Institute, London // performer, composer
Cartographies III & IV
Performed with Mira Benjamin, Anne Han, Katie Grout, Jay Keys and Khabat Abas
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February 2020 // Bishopsgate Institute, London // curator, performer
Concert of improvised music, students of Goldsmiths College
Improvisation with Khabat Abas, Anne Han and Jess Porter-Langson
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December 2019 // Goldsmiths College, London // performer
Repeat Yourself Until Your Friends are Embarrassed (Amber Priestley); Surfaces of Emergence (Scott McLaughlin)
Performed with Goldsmiths Contemporary Music Ensemble
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October 2019 // Matchstick Piehouse, London // performer
Abbey Road 50th anniversary playthrough
Performed with the Rob Howat Big Band
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October 2019 // Deptford Town Hall, London // performer, composer
Cartographies I & IV
Performed with Mira Benjamin, Katie Grout and Anne Han
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October 2019 // St. James Hatcham Church, New Cross, London // co-curator, performer
concert of improvised and experimental music
performed with students of Goldsmiths College, solo improvisation
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September 2019 // Haan, NRW, Germany // performer, composer
Cartographies I & IV and Hummingbirds
Performed with Antoine Beuger
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August 2019 // Daylight Music, Union Chapel, London // performer, composer
Cartographies I, II, IV
Performed with Amelia Gilmartin, Katie Grout and Jay Keys
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August 2019 // Matchstick Piehouse, London // curator, performer, composer
Cartographies I-IV; Burdocks (Christian Wolff); Buddha (Julius Eastman); Lake Eden (Mary Jane Leach)
Performed with Outline Ensemble
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July 2019 // Goldsmiths College, London // workshop
session on listening practice and sound hierarchies for KS5 students from South London
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July 2019 // Extinction Rebellion, Waterloo, London // performer, composer
Cartographies I, II, IV
Performed with Outline Ensemble
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July 2019 // Daylight Music, Union Chapel, London // performer
Burdocks V & VI (Christian Wolff)
Performed with Outline Ensemble
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June 2019 // PureGold Festival, Goldsmiths College, London // performer
Buddha (Julius Eastman)
Solo performance
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June 2019 // PureGold Festival, Goldsmiths College, London // performer, composer
Those Newfangled Machines
Performed with Sam Loveless, Khabat Abas and Anne Han
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June 2019 // John Donne Primary School, Peckham, London // workshop
Session on listening practice and sound hierarchies for KS1 & KS2 students
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June 2019 // CMRU Treatise Project, Goldsmiths College, London // performer, curator, co-director
Treatise (pp. 115-126) (Cornelius Cardew)
Performed with Nine Trio, Circle Percussion and Outline Ensemble
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June 2019 // CMRU Treatise Project, Goldsmiths College, London // performer, curator, co-director
Treatise (pp. 115-126) (Cornelius Cardew)
performed with Outline Ensemble
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May 2019 // CMRU Treatise Project, Goldsmiths College, London // performer, curator, co-director
Treatise (pp. 115-126) (Cornelius Cardew)
Performed with Circle Percussion
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May 2019 // CMRU Treatise Project, Goldsmiths College, London // performer, curator, co-director
Treatise (pp. 115-126) (Cornelius Cardew)
Performed with Nine Trio
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March 2019 // Goldsmiths College, London // performer
Mikrophonie I (Karlheinz Stockhausen)
Performed with Sam Loveless, Khabat Abas, Anne Han, Thomas Fletcher and Josh Wilde
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November 2018 // St. James Hatcham Church, New Cross, London // curator, performer, composer
Deer Isle (premiere)
Solo performance
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