Philip Venables

A composer of ferocious dramatic instincts
— Alex Ross

Tag: Naomi Pinnock

  • Naomo Pinnetuo released by Royal Academy of Music

    Naomo Pinnetuo released by Royal Academy of Music

    In celebration of their 200th Anniversary, the Royal Academy of Music asked 200 composers for birthday-gift compositions for solo instruments. To celebrate our friendship, which began at the Academy in 2002, Naomi Pinnock and I both chose to write for solo violin, taking snippets of musical material from each other’s student works for strings. This resulted in my piece, Noamo Pinnetuo, performed by Academy student Ezo Sarici, and Naomi’s piece, The Shadow of the Thing, performed by Academy student Daniel Stroud.

    Today the Academy has recorded and released all 200 recordings on a special website. The recordings are available for streaming here:

    Venables — Naomo Pinnetuo, performed Ezo Sarici

    Pinnock — The Shadow of the Thing, performed by Daniel Stroud.

    Photo of Ezo Sarici © Will Thomas

  • Contrasts in Space

    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 working on a short instrumental + tape piece to accompany this short film by Sebastian Schmidt. Obviously it won’t have that sound on it, but rather my live-performed piece to go with it.

    The piece has been commissioned by Ensemble Amorpha for their Amorpha_Shorts programme, and they’re premiering the pieces at the British Film Institute on 1st December 2011.  Do go along if you’re around on that night!  Lots of other good composers are involved too, like my very good friend and Berlin buddy, Naomi Pinnock.