Past Events

 

Friday 8th November 2024, 7pm

Norrisette EP Launch at Off the Square, Manchester

 

Saturday 28th September 2024, 8.30pm

Premiere of Ghost with Tête à Tête Festival at The Cockpit, London

 

Sunday 22nd September 2024, 7.30pm

Performance of Bridges with Blackpool Symphony Orchestra and conductor Helen Harrison, Blackpool Grand Theatre

 

12th July 2024

Release of new arrangement of CUE for 9x13 Ensemble's album 'Nieuw Babylon' 

 

30th June 2024, 7pm

Performance of Bridges with Barnet Symphony Orchestra and conductor Oliver Till

 

2nd June 2024, 4pm

Performance of Reservoir at University of Southampton

 

15th May 2024, 4pm

Keynote Lecture at RNCM Postgraduate Research Conference

 

May-June 2024

Mentoring for The Sunday Boys

 

30th April-5th May 2024

Workshops and Performance with Electric Voice Theatre in Newcastle Upon Tyne

 

16th MARCH 2024, 7pm

Album launch event with Laefer Quartet in London

 

1st MARCH 2024

Release of Strata with Laefer Quartet on Coviello Classics 

 

25th FEBRUARY 2024, 3.30pm

Performance of Future Dream with Electric Voice Theatre in Harlow

 

21st FEBRUARY 2024

Performance of Heart Embers with the Piatti Quartet at Grand Hotel, York

 

14th FEBRUARY 2024, 6.45pm

Premiere of Heart Embers with the Piatti Quartet at Kings Place, London

 

21st JANUARY 2024, 3pm

Performance of Electric Aeroplanes with the Laefer Quartet at Hertford Music Club

 

JULY - DECEMBER 2023

Third UK tour of Tin Man with Joss Arnott Dance

 

20th NOVEMBER 2023

Release of Elsewhere, Elsewhen album with Nordic Viola featuring Hrakningar

 

17th NOVEMBER 2023

Panel discussion and concert at St Hilda's College, Oxford with Gabriella Di Laccio, Professor Anne Laure Humbert and Dominique Le Gendre

 

3rd NOVEMBER 2023

Release of CBSO Sounds New album on NMC Recordings featuring Sonnet 43

 

27th OCTOBER 2023

Premiere of Future Dream with Electric Voice Theatre at Conway Hall, London

 

1st OCTOBER 2023, 5pm

Premiere of Electric Aeroplanes with Laefer Quartet at Bradshaw Hall, Royal Birmingham Conservatoire for CASSGB Single Reed Day

 

SEPTEMBER 2023

Workshops with English Touring Opera for ETO Perform

 

25th AUGUST 2023

Panel discussion and performance of 1967 in the Red House with The Sunday Boys at Stoller Hall, Manchester.

 

5th AUGUST 2023, 10pm

Broadcast of Drought opera on BBC New Music Show

 

21st JULY 2023

Solo piano set supporting Ollie West at International Anthony Burgess Foundation

 

19th JULY 2023

Concert at Kings Place with Riot Ensemble, Hannah Williams and Stephanie Lamprea

 

17th JULY 2023

Concert at Turner Sims, Southampton, with Riot Ensemble, Hannah Williams and Stephanie Lamprea

 

15th JULY 2023

Premiere of Bridges with Young Sinfonia at Sage Gateshead

 

8th JULY 2023

Performance at Manchester International Festival supporting Anna Meredith and the RNCM Festival Orchestra

 

15th JUNE 2023, 4.25pm: Performance of 1967 in the Red House with The Sunday Boys at Auditorium Manzoni, Bologna

 

11th JUNE 2023, 6.30pm: Performance of 1967 in the Red House with The Sunday Boys at Temple des Batignolles, Paris

 

29th JANUARY 2023

Premiere with CBSO conducted by Clark Rundell for Sounds New

 

1st OCTOBER 2022 - 23rd DECEMBER 2022: Autumn tour of Tin Man with Joss Arnott Dance beginning in Canterbury and ending in Sheffield

 

26th OCTOBER 2022: Premiere of Drought opera at Media City UK with BBC Philharmonic conducted by Jack Sheen. Libretto by Niall Campell. Directed by Charlie Sinclair. Starring Sally Pitts and Lila Chrisp. 

 

1st AUGUST 2022: Performance of The Windhover with the Hermes Experiment at the Lake District Summer Music Festival

 

23rd JULY 2022: Norrisette performance on the Nebula stage at Bluedot Festival

 

3rd, 4th, 5th JUNE 2022, 12 and 3pm: Tin Man with Joss Arnott Dance at Northern Ballet, Leeds (Live Music with Psappha)

 

21st MAY 2022: Premiere of new fanfare inspired by Ethel Smyth's The Wreckers to open Glyndebourne Festival 

 

17th MAY 2022: Workshop of Drought opera with BBC Philharmonic conducted by Jack Sheen with singers Morgana Warren-Jones, Sally Pitts and Elspeth Piggott. Libretto by Niall Campbell. Repetiteur James Gillett.

 

11th MAY 2022, 7.30pm: Performance of Requiem for Gaia with the Castalian String Quartet at Holywell Music Room, Oxford

 

7th MAY 2022, 2pm and 6pm: Tin Man with Joss Arnott Dance at Dance City, Newcastle (Live Music with Psappha)

 

23rd & 24th APRIL 2022, 11am and 2pm: Tin Man with Joss Arnott Dance at Pavilion Dance South West, Bournemouth

 

26th MARCH 2022, 11am and 2pm: Tin Man at The Lowry, Salford (Live Music)

 

5th MARCH 2022, 11am and 2pm: Tin Man with Joss Arnott Dance at The University of Sheffield

 

25th, 26th, 27th FEBRUARY 2022: Premiere of Pay the Piper with Glyndebourne Youth Opera

 

30th NOVEMBER: Release of Winds of Iona with Helen Lacey

 

22nd NOVEMBER, 12pm: Premiere with Amy Green (Riot Ensemble) at HCMF

 

21st NOVEMBER, 3pm: Performance with Donne at Guildhall School of Music and Drama at Nicola LeFanu masterclass

 

21st OCTOBER, 8pm and 27th OCTOBER, 7.30pm: Concerts with Donne in London and Oxford

 

21st and 22nd OCTOBER: Premiere with The Sunday Boys at Corridor of Light Festival, Manchester

 

7th OCTOBER 2021: Release of Future Dream (EP) by Norrisette

 

6th OCTOBER 2021, 1pm: Online performance of Uptake with University of Liverpool

 

1st OCTOBER 2021, 7.45pm: World premiere of Dust Mouth with Piatti Quartet at Stapleford Granary

 

23rd SEPTEMBER 2021: Norrisette debut supporting Sylvette at Deaf Institute, Manchester

 

AUGUST 2021: Choreodrome residency with choreographer Carolyn Bolton at The Place

 

AUGUST 2021: Mentoring with Red Note Ensemble's Composer Development Sessions

 

AUGUST 2021: Judging panel for RPS Chamber Composition Prize

 

5th JULY 2021: Presentation at Mathematics in Healthcare Research Showcase about Uptake, a 'jazz' trio made in collaboration with scientists at the University of Liverpool as part of PRiSM 8 Cubed

 

25-27 JUNE 2021: Exhibition of paintings at Fermata Festival as part of Kensington and Chelsea Art Week. 

 

3rd MAY 2021: Workshop with the Piatti Quartet

 

27th APRIL 2021, 5pm: Online concert with Nordic Viola and Ear To The Ground for 'Art Making in the Anthropocene'

 

16th APRIL 2021, 4.15pm: Online concert with Nordic Viola featuring Hrakningar

 

20th MARCH 2021: Composition workshop with Sheffield Music School and BBC Philharmonic

 

11th MARCH 2021: Broadcast of Q&A with Huddersfield Festival of Contemporary Music

 

9th MARCH 2021, 5pm: RNCM Insights online live Q&A with Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Caroline Shaw, hosted by Anna Appleby

 

20th NOVEMBER 2020: online premiere with saxophonist Amy Green for Riot Ensemble / Zeitgeist / HCMF commission. Read the I Care If You Listen review here

 

1st OCTOBER 2020: Short story 'Funreality' published as part of The Fairlight Book of Short Stories (volume 1) 

 

6th SEPTEMBER 2020: performance of Winds of Iona with Helen Lacey at Boco Arts Cuckmere Festival

 

4th SEPTEMBER 2020: online performance of Hrakningar with Nordic Viola at Orkney International Science Festival

 

31st JULY 2020: Release of Twenty Piano album

 

25th JULY 2020, 7.30pm: At Home with The Sunday Boys live on Youtube

 

30th JUNE 2020: Online premiere of Outside of Me, In

 

17th JUNE 2020, 4.15pm: Presentation on Research in Progress, RNCM online Research Forum

 

12th MAY and 9th JUNE 2020, 1pm: Features on RNCM Radio with Streetwise Opera and poet Merrie Joy Williams for the Rosamond Prize

 

22nd APRIL 2020: Launch of Twenty Piano Miniatures including Sleepwalking

 

13th MARCH 2020: Exhibition of paintings as part of a concert organised by RNCM students at the International Anthony Burgess Foundation

 

2nd FEBRUARY 2020: Presentation with Making Music for Adopt A Composer

 

16th JANUARY 2020: Launch of short story online, published by Fairlight Books

 

12th DECEMBER 2019: US Premiere of Knocking with Shana Norton at St David's Episcopal Church, Austin, Texas. More info here

 

2nd DECEMBER 2019, 5pm:

Preview performance of Head Above Water piano duet created for Joss Arnott Dance's upcoming UK tour with pianists Andrea Emanuele and Teresa Desiderio at CRAL del Banco di Sicilia, via Rosolino Pilo, Palermo, Italy

 

18th NOVEMBER 2019, 1pm:

Performance of From the River at the Royal Opera House Crush Room with mezzo-soprano Stephanie Wake-Edwards and pianist Matthew Fletcher. More info here

 

10th NOVEMBER 2019:

Performance of The Manchester Peace Song Cycle at Manchester Cathedral. More info here

 

25th OCTOBER 2019:

Performance of Knocking by harpist Eira Lynn Jones at Harp on Wight International Festival: Opening Concert at Ryde Methodist Church, 7.30pm. More info here

 

21st SEPTEMBER 2019:

Performance of Hrakningar at An Cridhe, Arinagour, Coll with Nordic Viola. Promoted by the Isle of Coll Music Group

 

28th AUGUST - 5th SEPTEMBER 2019:

Performances of Knocking as part of harpist Eira Lynn's tour of South Africa. More info here

 

 

21st & 22nd AUGUST 2019:

Premieres with dancer-choreographer Carolyn Bolton at Opera Estate Festival Veneto, Bassano del Grappa. More information here

 

11th & 14th AUGUST 2019:

Premiere of From the River song cycle for Jerwood Young Artists Recital Series at Glyndebourne Organ Room, 14:45. Performed by Stephanie Wake-Edwards and Matthew Fletcher

 

26th JULY 2019:

Preview at DanceEast in Ipswich with Joss Arnott Dance

 

23rd JULY - 4th AUGUST 2019:

Premiere and performances at Tête à Tête opera festival of a Pop-up Opera collaboration with Ruth Mariner. Find out more here

 

19th JULY 2019:

Performance by Helen Lacey of 'Winds of Iona' at Latitude festival, BBC Introducing stage. Watch a clip here and find out more here

 

23rd JUNE 2019:

Performance of Federalizing Zoo at Chester Music Festival's opening concert: 'Summer Serenade: Manchester Camerata Wind Soloists with RNCM Maestros of Tomorrow'

 

12th JUNE 2019:

Panel discussion about collaboration at Dutch National Ballet

 

8th JUNE 2019:

Premiere of Antiphony string quartet at Festival Fresco, Altrincham

 

7th APRIL 2019:

Performance of Knocking with Eira Lynn Jones at Edinburgh International Harp Festival

 

3rd MARCH 2019:

Performance of Turbines with Merchant Sinfonia, also featuring Step Up by Gaynor Barradell and Edinburgh Concert Band. More info here

 

27th FEBRUARY 2019:

Panel discussion on Composition and Embodiment at Mark Baldwin's Embodied Knowledge, Bermondsey Project Space

 

3rd FEBRUARY 2019:

Performance of If I Have Not Love at St David's Episcopal Church, Baltimore, US with conductor Douglas Buchanan

 

17th JANUARY 2019:

Performance of Federalizing Zoo with RNCM Wind Orchestra. More info here

 

16th JANUARY 2019:

Broadcast of Turbines with Merchant Sinfonia on BBC Radio 3. Tune in here at 21:15

 

13th JANUARY 2019:

World Premiere of Knocking with Eira Lynn Jones at RNCM Strings Festival

 

8th, 21st, 22nd DECEMBER 2018:

Release and tour of North East Christmas Album by Voices of Hope, featuring Anna's new piece Behold!

 

7th DECEMBER 2018:

US Premiere of Dust in Toledo, Ohio by The University of Toledo Glee Club

 

4th DECEMBER 2018:

Performance of If I Have Not Love in Toledo, Ohio by the Glass City Singers

 

NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2018:

Research and Development with Joss Arnott Dance.

 

21st NOVEMBER 2018:

World Premiere of A Manchester Peace Song Cycle (featuring Anna's setting of Wilfred Owen) at RNCM, Manchester

 

8th NOVEMBER 2018:

Premiere of Last Breaths at Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury on the Glyndebourne tour of 'Behind the Curtain' with presenter Chris Addison

 

3rd NOVEMBER 2018:

Performance of Five Miniatures at Sound Festival with Ensemble Klang

 

26th OCTOBER 2018:

Premiere of Hrakningar at Sound Festival with Nordic Viola

 

16th SEPTEMBER 2018:

Premiere of If I Have Not Love at St David's Episcopal Church, Baltimore, US with conductor Douglas Buchanan

 

15th & 16th SEPTEMBER 2018:

Recording session with Voices of Hope for their North East Christmas Album, featuring Anna's new piece Behold!

 

18th & 19th JULY 2018:

Premiere and showcase with Hull Urban Opera Collective at Brain Jar and Paragon Arcade

 

6th JULY 2018: 

Premiere of CUE with Ensemble Klang, three choreographers (Estela Merlos, Malgorzata Dzierzon and Patricia Okenwa) and Dansox at St Hilda's College, Oxford

 

17th JUNE 2018:

Premiere with Merchant Sinfonia at Glasgow City Halls as part of Making Music's 'Adopt a Composer' initiative

 

9th JUNE 2018:

Premiere of 'Sleepwalking' with Colchester New Music in Chelmsford

 

14th-15th APRIL 2018:

Premiere of Streetwise Opera's Tell me the Truth about Love at the Sage Gateshead

 

10th APRIL 2018:

Workshop with RSNO conducted by Holly Mathieson

 

15-17th MARCH 2018:

Performances with The Sunday Boys in Reykjavik, Iceland

 

11th MARCH 2018:

Iceland tour preview concert with The Sunday Boys in Manchester.

 

19th JANUARY 2018:

Broadcast of The Impossible Piano on BBC Radio 3 Late Junction, 23:00

 

15th JANUARY 2018:

Workshop with RSNO Chamber Ensemble and Stuart MacRae

 

5th OCTOBER 2017:

Workshop of Three Miniatures with Het Balletorkest and Tarik O'Regan in Amsterdam

 

16th SEPTEMBER 2017:

Performance of The Windhover with the Hermes Experiment at Colourscape Music Festival, London

 

15th SEPTEMBER 2017:

Premiere with Carolyn Bolton and Mbulelo Ndabeni at NaY Triple Bill, Rich Mix, London

 

19th AUGUST 2017:

Premiere with choreographer Carolyn Bolton and Mbulelo Ndabeni at Rambert River Stage

 

14-16th AUGUST 2017:

Premiere with choreographer Julie Cunningham at The Southbank Centre

 

12th AUGUST 2017, 7pm: 

Citizens of Nowhere chamber opera at RADA Studios with choreographer Dane Hurst as part of Tête à Tête opera festival.

 

30th JULY 2017, 8pm: 

Premiere with The Sunday Boys (male voice choir), Halle St Peter's, Manchester

 

7th JULY 2017, 12.30pm:

Performance of The Windhover with the Hermes Experiment at the Southbank Centre New Music Biennial

 

16th JUNE 2017, 8.30pm:

Premiere at Ignition Dance Festival with choreographer Dane Hurst

 

11th JUNE 2017, 2.30pm: 

Cohan Collective sharing at Rambert

 

MAY 2017:

'Trench Brothers' composition project with primary schools

 

27th APRIL 2017:

Spotlight concert at RNCM, revised version of Citizens of Nowhere (a miniature chamber opera), performed by RNCM students 

 

11th APRIL 2017: 

Opera Hour at HOME, Manchester with Streetwise Opera (Kingdoms Come and Kingdoms Go)

 

2nd APRIL 2017:

PRS Foundation Concert with Quay Voices at Jesmond URC, Newcastle Upon Tyne, Speak Out

 

9th MARCH 2017:

Book launch concert with poet Rachel Mann, Manchester Cathedral, The Pilgrims at Luke Copse

 

4th MARCH 2017:

RNCM Wind Ensemble at Didsbury Coffee Concert Series, Federalizing Zoo

 

FEBRUARY 2017:

'Positioning Ballet' Conference at Dutch National Ballet

 

JANUARY 2017:

'Rambert Connects' including workshop performance of The Windhover by the Hermes Experiment