I think I'm now allowed to share this wonderful news that I'm this year's Composer In Residence at the fantastic Deal Music & Arts Festival - thanks so much to the whole DM&A team! dealmusicandarts.com/news/

Thanks so much for coming, Caroline

Ha so true! I think I got a bit carried away

Was bare boss innit fam?

Great to spend the day at Chetham's School of Music meeting the composition staff and students and speak with them about their composition programme. Thanks for having me! Everyone was so interesting.

Looking forward to hearing Six Brandenburgs: Six Commissions Deal Music & Arts with new works by Luke Styles @AaronHNahum & Florence Anna Maunders with @tdpkemp and chamber domaine. Great to have some more contemporary works to add to this project! 😃 🎶 ➡️ buff.ly/45mf1mb

This is super exciting and happening super soon! Can't wait for Deal Music & Arts

Thanks so much to Chetham's School of Music for this collaboration. It's great to work with such fab students and staff

Such a delight and pleasure to be asked to work with the amazing students of Chetham's School of Music

Super exciting Deal Music & Arts Festival is now underway. So delighted that they've granted me this residency to work with local and visiting musicians to create new works and bring older ones to a new audience ❤️💕

Brilliant first lunchtime concert with extraordinary pianist #GabrieleSutkute and wonderful piece by our composer in residence Florence Anna Maunders

I'm massively excited about this! Such a fun collaboration

Absolutely amazing experience - a whole day of Bach and new music including my massive new Deal Music & Arts commission for chamber domaine

Thanks so much Tom Redmond and Chetham's School of Music for this fab opportunity to work with an awesome group of young musicians. Totally blown away by their attitude and professionalism

It's been an absolute joy working with the amazing young composers on this ORA Singers scheme

Don't miss the awesome Villiers Quartet folk in a couple of weeks in Oxford!

Super evening! So great to collaborate with NMC Recordings and Philharmonia Orchestra on this project 🥰

Can't wait! See you then!

Love these Villiers Quartet peeps so much 🥰

I will no longer be posting on this site, not that I did often, anyway. I'll probably leave the account active for a month or so, but, like most people, I'm done with this M*sk/Tr*mp platform.