The Momenta Quartet have been among my main collaborators for quite some time. In 1997 they gave the first performance of my String Quartet No. 1 ‘Montes’ at Rock Hall Auditorium, Philadelphia, and they went on playing the piece many times since. In 2008 they visited Newcastle, playing ‘Montes’ at […]
The Koussevitzky commission is now completed. It took me one and a half years’ work – obviously not full-time, since university work only allows a fraction of my week to be spent on composition – but intensive enough. The last few months I had to find additional hours in the […]
For the last few months I have been battling with a piece for double bass and piano. Along with the trombone, this is the instrument in the orchestra I feel I understand the least. Its workings may be based on the same basic principles as those of the violin and […]