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Philip Jeck
March 31, 2022
Philip Jeck died peacefully on Friday, March 25th. He was a good friend, an unclassifiable artist who produced the most poetic music imaginable (and yet to be imagined). He was without doubt a genius and a very lovely man.
Conducting RSNO at Sonica
March 22, 2022
On March 12th I was to join forces with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra for a spectacular performance at Cryptic’s Sonica Glasgow 2022. There were three works: Jesus’ Blood Never Failed Me Yet, Arvo Pärt’s If Bach Had Been a Beekeeper and the UK premiere of my Viola Concerto (A Hut in Toyama) with Morgan Goff on viola.
Cambridge Concert postscript
August 21, 2021
Cambridge Summer Music Festival, West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge The Gavin Bryars Ensemble was to perform at the Cambridge Summer Music Festival on July 20, 2021, this being our first live performance since December 8th, 2019, when we’d performed the 50th anniversary concert of The Sinking of the Titanic (1969-) at Kings Place, London.
