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New blog-site for the UNLEASHED anti-opera project
We’ve just got together the new blog site for the UNLEASHED anti-opera project that I’m doing with director Nick Blackburn. Check it out here.
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Music, Text and Violence (an interview)
A conversation with Theatre Director Nick Blackburn about my compositional approach.
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Selected for Blue Touch Paper
I’m delighted to have been selected with poet Steven J Fowler for the London Sinfonietta’s new Blue Touch Paper scheme. We were selected in October for our project that is…
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Contrasts in Space (video)
Contrasts in Space was screened at the British Film Institute on 1st December, alongside the premiere of my new soundtrack for it, featuring tape and live viola. Ensemble Amorpha were performing.…
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K, prelude to Mozart’s Clarinet Quintet (video)
K, a prelude to the Mozart Clarinet Quintet Performed by: Endymion Location: Kings Place Date: September 2010.
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numbers 91–95 (video)
World premiere of Numbers 91-95 Music: Philip Venables Text: Simon Howard Performed by: Ensemble Adapter Location: Casino Baumgarten, Vienna (Wien Modern Festival) Date: 10th November 2011
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‘Signals’ featuring the Metamorphoses after Britten
I just received a copy of the Signals volume of new music for oboe. It features my Metamorphoses after Britten in it, and I also designed the front cover. The…
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Wonderful reviews of numbers 76-80 : tristan und isolde
numbers 76-80 : tristan und isolde was performed brilliantly by EXAUDI and Endymion under the direction of James Weeks on Monday 19th September. I was really delighted, and the Purcell Room…
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Contrasts in Space
So – very busy at the moment with a number of big projects that I’ll be telling you about in the next few weeks, hopefully. But this week I’ve been…
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…dark and violent, and so so gay.
Last week’s performance of Fuck Forever was reviewed by www.sosogay.com. “There were some really great little works in among the chaff….. Philip Venables’ Fuck Forever managed to tease out a dark and…
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Fuck Forever, video from Tete-a-Tete festival
Fuck forever from Philip Venables on Vimeo. My 3-minute Six Word Opera was premiered last week (11th and 12th August) at Riverside Studios in London, as part of the Tête-à-Tête…
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BBC Radio 3, In Tune, with Phoenix Piano Trio
Wonderful news: one of the movements (the Scherzo) from my new piano trio, Klaviertrio im Geiste, will be performed live on BBC Radio 3 on Friday afternoon, 10th June, from about…
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‘FLIPP’ premiere. Unerhörte Musik, Berlin.
Well – a few weeks ago I went along to the premiere at Unerhörte Musik in Berlin, of my new short saxophone duo, Flipp, which I wrote for Christoph Enzel…