Three Whitman Songs now on SoundCloud
Three Whitman Songs is a set of (oddly enough) three songs plus a tiny interlude, scored for contralto and piano. I finished it in 2010 and I’ve finally made a recording of these which you can listen to now online.
My new piece for unaccompanied violin, Diabolus, written for Conway Kuo’s 15 Minutes of Fame concert, can now be heard on SoundCloud. Have a listen!
Tonight my short song-cycle Remembrances of Half-Forgotten Dead People receives its world premiere. The lovely folks at London Composers Forum have included it in their Piano Plus concert, where it will be sung by soprano Tamara Tempera. The concert also includes works by other members of London Composers Forum – it’s going to be a [...]
New piece: Thickets for string quintet
I’ve just added my latest piece, Thickets for 2 violins, viola and 2 celli (or cello and double bass) to this site. Thickets was written for a 5-day composer workshop in Durham with Tansy Davies which was organised by the fantastic organisation CoMA. CoMA focuses on contemporary music-making for amateur players, and as our Masterclass [...]
Second performance for Deconstruct: Point, line, plane
The London New Wind Festival will be playing my flexible-ensemble piece Deconstruct: Point, line, plane for the second time on 19 November in London at their “Brand New Music for Winds” concert. I’ll be there – and I’ll also be speaking on a panel of composers talking about their work which appears in the concert [...]
World premiere: Deconstruct: Point, line, plane
As part of the London New Wind Festival, Caitlin Rowley’s new composition, Deconstruct: Point, line, plane, will receive its world premiere on 28 September at St Cyprian’s Church in London. Deconstruct: Point, line, plane is written for flexible ensemble consisting of five instruments plus piano. For this performance, the five instruments will be violin, oboe, [...]
New performance: London, 6 Nov
Yes, if you missed the performance of Caitlin Rowley’s Pieces of Eight back in September, it’s on again! The London New Wind Festival is performing it again, in a slightly different configuration on Friday 6 November 2009 at 9pm at Regent Hall, 275 Oxford St, London, W1C 2DJ. It’s going to be part of an [...]
London premiere for Pieces of Eight
We are pleased to announce that Caitlin Rowley’s Pieces of Eight will be receiving its London premiere this week as part of the London New Wind Festival in a concert on 21 September called ‘Brand New Music for Winds’. Pieces of Eight will be performed in a new arrangement for oboe, clarinet, horn, trombone, piano [...]
A new publication of a new work! At long last we are pleased to announce that Caitlin Rowley’s arrangement of Erik Satie’s ‘Chanson’ from Trois autres mélodies is ready to face the world. It’s been a long time coming, but at last it’s here. There’ll be an extract to listen to shortly too, but in [...]
New piano work: The decimal egg
We have a new piano piece lined up for future publication – this is the 10th in Caitlin Rowley’s series of short and quirky piano works and is titled The decimal egg. It’s a very short chromatic piece with a duration of under 30 seconds. It will be published later this year and will be [...]