November 2009

Priaulx Rainier

Priaulx Rainier-Fragment ‘Rhythms of the Stones’ 23-01-2006 20th July 1950 (Rainier observing Barbara Hepworth, with John Wells, Dennis Mitchell, at work in the Trewyn Studio, on Contrapuntal Forms]     ‘CONTRAPUNTAL FORMS’                    ‘Rhythms of the Stones’  BARBARA HEPWORTH                     …

Interview with University of York Music Press 2008

Interview on Collaboration University or York Music Press 2008   The Kreutzer Quartet have commissioned countless (how many?) new works over the years they have been together – what is the motive for commissioning new works when the string quartet…

Gloria Coates-Berceuse (from the Solo Sonata)

  I met Gloria Coates in Munich in 1991. From the moment that we met, I felt empathy: a conversation began which continues unabated. We have shared ideas over innumerable cups of coffee at the Lenbachhaus. There, the paintings of…

Scattered thoughts on being a vagrant musician

Scattered thoughts on being a vagrant musician. or how I saw things in 2009, and still do… Aaron and I have just played George Rochberg’s entire violin and piano music in one go at the Arsenale as part of the…