CONCERT TICKETS NOW ON SALE

Tickets are now on sale for a special concert in the heart of the Norfolk Broads on 11th July 2015.  

The concert, Water Music for a Summer's Evening, will feature the World Premiere of my new work specially commissioned to mark the centenary of the Norfolk Wherry White Moth.  I will be conducting an evening of English music for choir and strings inspired by water, including works by Handel and Orlando Gibbons.

All proceeds from the concert will be going to the Wherry Yacht Charter charity.

Box Office now open: Online or Telephone 01603 63000

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CHARLOTTE GREEN CULTURE CLUB INTERVIEW

It was great to be in the Classic FM studios again today to talk to Charlotte Green all about The Great War Symphony.  

The broadcast will go out on her Culture Club programme this Sunday and will feature the premiere broadcast of an excerpt from the work called Christian Soldiers.  This track and the sheet music for it will also be available as FREE DOWNLOADS available after the interview.

PSALM 91

Really pleased to see my new a cappella work Psalm 91 for SATB choir and SATB quartet in print. 

It has been commissioned by the Lancaster Chorale, Ohio, USA to mark the retirement of the Artistic Director Bob Trocchia.  I had the pleasure of working with Bob and the chorale in 2011 when they commissioned the Te Deum from me and I was fortunate enough to be able to attend the premiere in the USA.

This new work which uses words from Psalm 91 will be premiered by the chorale in October 2015.

CLASSICAL MASTERCLASS (SONY) - BEHIND THE SCENES FOOTAGE

CLICK HERE to see great behind the scenes footage posted by the English Session Orchestra from this week's recording with Alex James. 

It is the strings section recording my new arrangement of Praeludium from Grieg's Holberg Suite - amazing!  Alex James is in the foreground (back to camera) and we're recording in his barn.

And this is a photo of the whole team, including, on the left, Alex James, me, Sarah Pickering from Sony and our fantastic engineer Steve Price, and then the brilliant English Session Orchestra players.

GREAT WAR SYMPHONY ENDORSED BY WWI CENTENARY PARTNERSHIP

The Great War Symphony has just featured on the World War One Centenary website (led by the Imperial War Museum). It's great to have their endorsement.

Read the full article here.

THE GREAT WAR SYMPHONY IN THE DAILY TELEGRAPH

(L-R) Classic FM presenter John Brunning, Patrick, Lord Astor (grandson of Field Marshall Haig) and Lady French (great-grand-daughter of Field Marshall French)

I'm over the moon to see the large article in the Arts section of today's Daily Telegraph about The Great War Symphony. Written by the Telegraph's Arts correspondent Ivan Hewitt, it really captures what we are trying to achieve with the project and how exciting it all is!

Read it online here.

The interview took place at the Classic FM studios where we will be releasing the first taster of music from the symphony at the end of May.  We were delighted to be joined by Lord Astor and Lady French who are both descendants of First World War commanders (grandson of Field Marshall Haig) and great-grand-daughter of Field Marshall French, respectively).

CLASSICAL MASTERCLASS WITH ALEX JAMES FROM BLUR

An amazing project is brewing! 

In an exciting new avenue for me, I'm teaming up with Alex James from Blur to produce 14 new arrangements of well-known classical pieces for Sony/ATV Music Publishing.  Entitled 'Classical Masterclass' Alex will amaze everyone with his skills on the bass guitar and, set against strings, harp and horns, the soundworld should be something quite unique! 

The photo above is of me and Alex with Sarah Pickering from Sony and our engineer Steve Price at our meeting yesterday in London.