In April 2018, Gavin will lead a five-day masterclass in composition at CAMP, a residential arts facility in the high French Pyrenees.This course will take Gavin’s work as a starting
More...Father John Misty’s album Pure Comedy, for which Gavin arranged two pieces, is to be released in April, followed by a tour of live performance. In the meantime here are
More...Carla Bley and Big Ears Festival 2017 It was something of a shock to the system to find myself on the front page of the US Edition of Rolling Stone
More...Father John Misty Some time ago, in March 2016, Josh Tillman got in touch with me through the pianist Thomas Bartlett. Thomas plays on most of the tracks on the
More...My Pencils Part One – The Aztec Scoremaster 101 In January and February 1982 I worked in New York on the first part of Medea, which culminated in a draft
More...1. Cadman Requiem at Kings Place October 24 2015 Over a year ago I planned a concert with my ensemble and David Wordsworth’s Addison Singers to be part of the
More...Etel Adnan Event Gavin Bryars: It Never Rains (2010) for viola, cello, electric guitar, double bass Gavin Bryars: The Island Chapel (1997) for voice and ensemble Etel Adnan: Five Senses
More...I attended, for the first time, the annual ‘Pataphysical New Year’s Eve dinner in Paris this year, where along with The London Snorkelling Team, I performed a sequence of short
More...In March this year Long Beach Opera created a new production of Marilyn Forever at the Warner Grand Theatre in San Pedro, California. There had been performances earlier that month
More...Adelaide Festival From the end of February until March 5th I was guest composer at the Adelaide Festival where I had a very dense schedule and did 6 performances in
More...From March 10-18 I was in Bordeaux for the premiere of a new ballet, Pneuma, with choreographer Carolyn Carlson – the premiere itself was on March 17 and there were
More...From March 10-18 I was in Bordeaux for the premiere of a new ballet, Pneuma, with choreographer Carolyn Carlson – the premiere itself was on March 17 and there were
More...I spent three days – one evening, one full day, one part day – in Denmark at Engelsholm School of Music and Art, which is housed in the very beautiful
More...Marilyn Forever – music by Gavin Bryars; libretto by Marilyn Bowering On September 13 and 14 my new opera was premiered at the MacPherson Playhouse, Victoria BC, Canada. It was
More...Rita Cadman Rita Cadman died on March 25 2013. She was the mother of Bill Cadman, my former sound engineer who was killed in the Lockerbie air crash and for
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