I am absolutely thrilled to annouce that I have been selected as one of the 1,000 artists to take part in World Event Young Artists (WEYA) 2012 with my immersive opera Entr'acte.

The festival is the first of its kind and will take place in Nottingham this September. It is a truly global event with artists from 100 nations across the world taking part. I'm still blown away by the thought of it and the wonderful experience and opportunity it will provide. 

Read more about the event here and view a wonderful BBC Slide Show here.

In other news...
I realise it has been ages since I've posted an update but I promise it has been because I've been beavering away on some new projects. I have just recently completed Limbo a 7-minute octet for the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group and will be having an extract from my orchestral work Nocturne (the revised piece: Nocturne 0.4) performed by Toy Sound Circus in May conducted by Dan Watson. I have a few choral pieces lined up for St Barnabas Cathedral Choir which will now doubt premiere in June and be taken on tour with us to Northern Ireland in June/July 2012. 

Tomorrow I screech out some high B-flat's in Mahler's 2nd Symphony in a performance by the University Philharmonia and Choir of the University of Nottingham including a wealth of current and former students. Rehearsals have been going really well and the performance promises to be incredibly exciting.

Next week sees the press launch of Architects of Air's EXXOPOLIS at Lakeside Arts Centre which will be coming in June. This will include performances of my music by a live choir inside the construction and should be a beautiful experience. If you've never experienced the Architects of Air's Luminaria, I really urge you to go - it had me amazed. I'm also going to be writing a new choral piece for the space itself which I'm really looking forward to.

That's all for now folks. I'll try to keep my updates a little more regular from now on.
Alex

Tomorrow, OpSoc, the University of Nottingham's Opera Society will give the first performance of my first opera, Entr'acte which I completed earlier this month. I have been heavily involved in the rehearsals and am thrilled with the performances coming from the cast members - Nottingham is lucky to have such a talented bunch of people and I feel priviledged to be able to work with them. Not to mention those who do all the hard work behind the scenes. Jade Whymark, OpSoc President and Director of the opera has done a sterling job and it's hard to imagine that we've only been working on the production for 6 weeks. Time travels fast.

If you haven't already checked out the PREQUEL, please do and also look out for the official event on Facebook.

That's not all that's been going on. I'm just putting the finishing touches to my setting of John Henry Newman's Lead, kindly Light which will be performed by the St Barnabas Cathedral Schola Cantorum on Sunday 11 December. I'm also looking forward to a workshop with other collegues from Birmingham Conservatoire at a workshop with Rolf Hind next week. Rolf will be having a look at my piece, Photocopying for solo piano.

Welcome to the newly relaunched website - I fancied a change! If you have any comments or feedback about the new design, let me know. I'm hoping to use this blog here as a way to inform you guys of the latest news regarding me and my music. Lots of exciting things coming up before Christmas so watch this space.