Journal Entries

Jesus’ Blood Never Failed Me Yet in Zimbabwe Dec 5/6 2012 Richard Sisson has been working with BBC Radio Three presenter Petroc Trelawney to develop their music teaching in Zimbabwe

Wednesday January 16th was my 70th birthday, which was spent quietly. Anya is in Russia working on her film, Mashka is away at university, so there was just Yuri and

Prague One of the many pleasurable aspects of the tour was the way that the ensemble was able to be together socially as well as in performance. In Prague, for

A new album on GB Records Mercy and Grand is released on April 23 2012. This is one of the projects that Gavin Bryars has worked on with Opera North,

I wrote Biped for Merce Cunningham in 1999 and have performed the piece live many times with the company. After Merce’s death in 2009 the company continued to perform his

Juan Muñoz, a tribute Juan Muñoz (died August 28th 2001)   I was extremely shocked and upset when I learned of Juan’s sudden death, which happened when he was on

Gavin’s note On March 5th we will finally put together the whole of the Anáil Dé project, which Iarla O’Lionaird and I have worked on for over three years. Anáil Dé,

The Morrison Songbook sets texts by my long time collaborator Blake Morrison. Blake had written a number of poems intended to be set as madrigal texts for my First Book

The new project with Edouard Lock looks to the Baroque and involves a reworking of music from Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas and Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice, just as our previous

Morrison Songbook Premiere My First Book of Madrigals was written for the Hilliard Ensemble between 1998 and 2002. One of the disadvantages of writing such a work is that it

The recording that I made with Percussions Claviers de Lyon in May is released in UK and Ireland on September 20 2010 (digital release September 19 2010) – New York

In 1992 I was appointed music juror for the Akademie Schlöss Solitude, an extraordinary place and an even more extraordinary concept. At the time I was there, 7 disciplines were

The new issue of Mojo Magazine is edited by Tom Waits and includes a cover CD which contains his choice of music which has influenced him. This CD includes the

1. BCGBCD18 Mercy and Grand A live recording of Opera North’s Project’ on the songs of Tom Waits/Kathleen Brennan from the ensemble’s final concerts in Leeds at the end of

Ralph van Raat writes: On February 19th, 2010, the moment had finally come, to which the Borletti-Buitoni Trust and I had looked forward for four years: the première of Gavin