My account here was hacked. I've had to restart it empty of content, but with same user name. Composer from small solo pieces to operas & things in between.
Aberchirder, Aberdeenshire
Joined August 2026
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Our concert for Anne Cuddigan on Sunday @BrittenPears and @CuddiganOliver showcased some of the commissions the Cuddigan Oliver Trust has done over the last 13 years, some for me, and a joy to have sung @katewhitley_ “this is my love story to you” once more..
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@kat_broderick and @AnnaTilbrook with some gorgeously appropriate Mahler to finish our @CuddiganOliver and @BrittenPears concert on Sunday. “Ich leb’ allein in meinem Himmel, in meinem Liebe, in meinem Lied”
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Verdi gives us tenors the gift of allowing us to enter into characters easily through his music, but when the music stops, it can be difficult to get out of character!
#otello
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Hallowe’en started its life as a poem by the writer Violet Jacob. She wrote this a few years after the death of her son in the Battle of the Somme in WWI.
The poem was put to melody by the late Jim Reid. The poem told from the perspective of a man working on the farms of the North East, and acknowledging the vacant space around him in the bothy sheds as his fellow workers had fallen in the war.
#ScotsLanguage #FolkMusic
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finished writing my next book this week so am off on holiday. i leave you with a personal list of my 100 favourite novels. happy reading! —
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You could almost believe the mason put down his chisel yesterday. Yet this Romanesque bird at St Peter’s in Rowlestone, Herefordshire, was carved nearly 900 years ago.
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Well, there we are: finished writing my Shostakovich quartets book this lunchtime. An exhausting but wonderful journey. Will be out next autumn. I need a shot of vodka!
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A message from the residents of Unst, Shetland to the SaxaVord Spaceport which as applied for a licence to start dropping large, disused rocket components into the sea north of Shetland.
It's website highlights its “founding commitment” to “minimise our environmental impact on earth and in space”.
It adds: “We will work with launch operators to track returning components and record jettisoned material entering the marine environment.”
Yeah right...
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In the shelter of the Hundred Acre Wood they stood up straight again, to listen, a little nervously, to the roaring of the gale among the tree-tops.
“Supposing a tree fell down, Pooh, when we were underneath it?”
“Supposing it didn’t,” said Pooh after careful thought. ~A.A.Milne
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#jokeofheday My mom was known in my recital audiences with her loud Bravo-oh! #music
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Farm workers with horses ready for ploughing, early 20th century. I don't know the name of the farm but the image was captured by an #Invergordon-based photographer. If you recognise it, I would love to know
[source: HLH Archives, D1751/2/2/7]
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Tonight at 7pm at @Guggenheim NYC, I am honoured to be presenting/moderating @santafeopera’s ‘Works and Process’ event for OF ONE BLOOD. Musical excerpts of the opera + in-depth chat with the work’s creators (mum and dad). Big Apple friends come along!
guggenheim.org/event/works-p…
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What an endless Sunday!
Daylight saving + #StormBoelo 😫
That MWIS symbol feels like a metaphor for my life!
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Sitting in the back garden with Buzz the border collie, having a decaf, listening to the birds, wren, starlings, twites and a warbler the leaves mostly stripped from the trees . A moment of #calm
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After spending several hours trying to track down the pod of six ORCAS that we'd seen over consecutive days here in Shetland we struck lucky and relocated them off Weisdale. Here's three of them - including the huge male - as they passed us heading south.
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This is next Friday!! @BBCSO
More season announcements! So very excited to debut with @BBCSO early next season in the UK Premiere of Caroline Shaw’s intergalactic oratorio ‘The Listeners’, conducted by @DaliaStasevska — Oct 30 at @BarbicanCentre. Lyatoshinsky and Barber also on prog!
bbc.co.uk/events/ewdhj5
