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The Revenge of Miguel Cotto at MATA Festival, NYC
The Revenge of Miguel Cotto has been selected for inclusion in the 2017 MATA Festival in New York City. The festival will take place in April, and the performance will be the…
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4.48 Psychosis wins UK Theatre Award for Achievement in Opera
I’m delighted to say that we have just won the award for Achievement in Opera at the UK Theatre Awards 2016. The Royal Opera and Guildhall School of Music…
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PRSF Funding for new opera project
I’m delighted to announce that, thanks to the incredible Laura Bowler, the PRS for Music Foundation have awarded us a substantial grant for our new verbatim opera project. Laura is a…
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4.48 Psychosis
4.48 Psychosis was the astonishing final work of the radical British playwright Sarah Kane, first performed posthumously in 2000. Detailing the experience of clinical depression, the play harrowingly reveals, through…
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Introduction to my work and 4.48 Psychosis by John Fallas
Here’s a copy of the introductory essay to my work that John Fallas very beautifully wrote as an introduction to 4.48 Psychosis. It was commissioned by the Royal Opera for the 4.48 Psychosis…
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Stellar reviews for 4.48 Psychosis with the Royal Opera
The critics’ response to the world premiere of 4.48 Psychosis has been incredible. 4.48 Psychosis is my first finished opera, produced by the Royal Opera at the Lyric Theatre Hammersmith in…
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Bound to Hurt press reviews
Here’s a selection of press reviews for Bound to Hurt, a music theatre collaboration with Douglas Gordon and Ruth Rosenfeld, which played in Hamburg, Berlin and Basel in 2015/16. I’ve…
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Associate of the Royal Academy of Music
The Royal Academy of Music has just announced their Honours List for 2016, and I’m delighted to say I will be made an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music.…
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Video of numbers 76-80: tristan und isolde, from LSO St Luke’s
Text: Simon Howard Ligeti String Quartet Voices: Natalie Raybould, Lewis Bretherton, George Chambers, Ashley Mercer Recorded at LSO St Luke’s, 29th June 2013. Recording produced by Andrew Morgan Video by…
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Dutch Courage released on NMC
Dutch Courage, my piece for amateur ensemble, has just been released by NMC. The new disc is called Open Score and it is a collaboration with Contemporary Music for Amateurs (CoMA), for whom I…
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Bound to Hurt at Art Basel
Bound to Hurt is up on the Theater Basel website now, although tickets will only be on sale in May. However, the performance dates will be 15, 16, 17, 18…
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New Music Biennial 2017
Illusions, my collaboration with David Hoyle and the London Sinfonietta, has been selected for the New Music Biennial in 2017. That means that we will revive the work and hopefully…
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Video of Numbers 91-95 from LSO St Luke’s
Score and more info here This recording was made at LSO St Luke’s on 29th June 2013. It will be released on my solo album in 2018. Text: Simon Howard…
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Illusions – collaboration with David Hoyle
I’m delighted to have been able to contribute to the London Sinfonietta‘s Notes to the New Government on Saturday at the Southbank Centre. David Hoyle and I worked on an ‘in-yer-face’…
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Video of The Revenge of Miguel Cotto, LSO St Luke’s
Score and more info here The Revenge of Miguel Cotto Music: Philip Venables Text: Steven J Fowler Conductor: Richard Baker Voices: Leigh Melrose, Dario Dugandzic Violins: Ashot Sarkissjan, Ciaran McCabe,…
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Video of Numbers 91-95 at the Guildhall
Numbers 91-95 by Philip Venables (music/concept) and Simon Howard (text) Performed by students at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama: Alex Knox (speaker), Jack Welch (flute), Caolan Walpot (harp),…
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Philip to write new opera for Royal Opera House
From GSMD Press release: Philip Venables to research and write major work for performance at the ROH Linbury Studio Theatre in 2016. The Guildhall School of Music & Drama in…
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Portrait Concert / 30 June / St Luke’s
Fight music The first ever portrait concert of my work will be at LSO St Luke’s in London on 30th June 2013. The concert features five recent pieces from the…
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Video of Klaviertrio im Geiste, Oxford
Score and more info here performed by the Phoenix Piano Trio at Oxford Lieder Festival, Holywell Music Room, Oxford, UK. on 20th October 2012. Klaviertrio im Geiste is based on…
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Klaviertrio im Geiste (middle bit)
performed by the Phoenix Piano Trio at Oxford Lieder Festival, Holywell Music Room, Oxford, UK. on 20th October 2012. Klaviertrio im Geiste is based on the second movement of…
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Reciprocal Space (video)
Exploration of reciprocal space using glass sculpture and sound installation Crystallographer Brian Sutton Glass Sculpture and Video: Shelley James Music: Orã (extract) Philip Venables Performed by: BBC Symphony Orchestra
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The Revenge of Miguel Cotto (video)
A performance piece about a true story of revenge and honour between boxers Miguel Cotto and Antonio Margarito. Music: Philip Venables Text: Stephen J. Fowler Performed by: the London Sinfonietta…
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The Revenge of Miguel Cotto preview
The preview version of The Revenge of Miguel Cotto was premiered on 16th May at Village Underground in Shoreditch, London. What a great evening! The London Sinfonietta were performing, conducted…
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Sketches for The Revenge of Miguel Cotto
The Revenge of Miguel Cotto, the work that Steve Fowler and I are working on for the London Sinfonietta Blue Touch Paper project, is going well. The work is moving…