A composer of ferocious dramatic instincts
— Alex Ross
2025/26 Season
The North American premiere of The Faggots and their Friends Between Revolutions has been announced at the prestigious Park Avenue Armory in New York City. Ten performances of the original production with the same cast will take place between 2nd – 14th December 2025 in the historic Wade Thompson Drill Hall, and there will be an artist talk with Ted Huffman and Philip Venables on 4th December.
Answer Machine Tape, 1987, for piano and multimedia, has two more performances announced this autumn, including the London premiere. Zubin Kanga, who commissioned the piece, will perform the work at the Concertgebouw in Bruges, Belgium, on Sunday 30th November 2025, and then the week later at Kings Place in London on 5th December 2025.
More information about the Bruges performance is available here.
More information about the Kings Place performance is available here.
The programme for the 2025 Ruhrtriennale has been announced. We Are The Lucky Ones will feature in the festival, which will be the opera’s German premiere. The production by Ted Huffman is playing there in the wonderful Jahrhunderthalle for four performances on 4th–7th September, conducted by Bassem Akiki and with many of the same cast as gave the world premiere in Amsterdam in March 2025.
The 2025/26 season at the Tiroler Festspiele in Erl, Austria, has been announced. We Are The Lucky Ones will feature in the festival, which will be the opera’s Austrian premiere. The production by Ted Huffman is playing there for two performances, conducted by Bassem Akiki and with the same cast (almost) as gave the world premiere in Amsterdam in March 2025.
I am delighted to have received a Stipendium from Villa Aurora in Los Angeles. I take up a residency there from October–December 2025, to work on a large new opera project. Alongside the historic Thomas Mann House in Los Angeles, Villa Aurora maintains and cultivates the landmark home of exiled German-Jewish writer Lion Feuchtwanger and his wife Marta as a residence for an international body of artists, with both houses and residency programmes supported by the German Foreign Office and the Office for Culture and Media.