Settings of Dalloway -- an opera and dance-theatre work.
Premiered in Copenhagen for Pulsar Festival 2020.

Scene performed by:
Johanna Maria Nylund - Mrs Dalloway
Ni Zhou
Katrin Helena Kuslap
Åsne Sjølie Sandegren
Richard Låås
Thomas Zimmermann
Jonathan Munro

With Dancers:
Jessica Lyall - Dalloway's Shadow
Ruth Rebekka Hansen and Stefanos Bizas - Abstractions

"You cannot find peace by avoiding life." -- Virginia Woolf

A stream of consciousness setting of Virginia Woolf's "Mrs Dalloway" as a work for stage. Fusing the forms of opera and dance-theatre, the work takes form as an immersive poetic telling of the classic novel.

Performed by musicians of the Royal Danish Academy of Music for Pulsar Festival 2020, Dance & Drama.

Dalloway - Excerpt - Snow Falls

Affirmation

Lorraine Gorey, Alison Furber, Michael Gorey & Beth Sometimes giving pronunciations of fifty important Arrernte words and their meanings in another language: English.
Words: 
1.	werte!		hello!
2.	mwerre		good, well, proper
3.	ware		not much, just, only
4.	apmere		place, country, camp
5.	kwatye		water
6.	lhere		creek, river
7.	unte		you
8.	ayenge		I, me
9.	iwehne?		what?
10.	ampe		child
11.	artwe		man
12.	arelhe		woman
13.	arratye		true, like that
14.	re			her, him, it, that
15.	lyete		now, today
16.	yaye		big sister
17.	kake		big brother
18.	meye		mother
19.	akngeye		father
20.	merne		food
21.	kere		        meat
22.	alheme		going
23.	alakenhe		like this
24.	uterne		sun, summer, yellow
25.	anwerne		us
26.	arltele		daytime
27.	nhenhe		this, here
28.	yanhe		that, there
29.	nhakwe		that, over there (far)
30.	akweke		small, little bit
31.	akngerre	big, a lot, important
32.	arrangkwe	no, nothing, not
33.	aweme		listening, hearing, understanding
34.	aneme		sitting, being, staying
35.	inteme		lying, being, sleeping over
36.	apurrke		tired
37.	akangkeme	happy, pleased
38.	alhwarrpe	sad, sorry
39.	alhwerrpe	winter
40.	arritnye		name
41.	kweye!		oh! aye! oops!
42.	yekwe		dunno
43.	atweye		family, owner, custodian
44.	ayepe-arenye	tar vine caterpillar
45.	apetyeye!	come!
46.	akutne		ignorant
47.	akaltye		knowledgeable, clever
48.	nthenhe?	where?
49.	akunye		poor thing, dear thing
50.	kele		        OK, alright, finished

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Performed by the NZSO National Youth Orchestra 2017 under Sir James McMillan, recorded by RNZ Concert in the Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington New Zealand.

Vespro (radio recording)

for Mezzo-Soprano, two violins, horn, percussion, and birdsong.
Performed by Loré Lixenberg and the Royal Northern Sinfonia.

Buy album: www.nmcrec.co.uk/recording/next-wave-2

This work was created as part of Sound and Music’s Next Wave 2 programme. It was recorded and premiered in collaboration with Sage Gateshead and NMC Recordings. Next Wave 2 was funded by Arts Council England, PRS for Music Foundation, the Leverhulme Trust and The Angus Allnatt Charitable Foundation.

A sweet, wild note

Premiere performance by DR VokalEnsemblet for Pulsar Festival 2019. 

In emptiness we speak
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Speak

Premiered 8th March 2019 by the RDAM Sinfonietta conducted by Jean Thorel with soloists Emma Ilona Mustaniemi (soprano) and Stephen George Yeseta (countertenor). Text sourced from William Blake’s ‘Songs of Innocence and of Experience’. Excerpt:

              The thrones of Kings are shaken,
              Tombs in desolate places:
              Night is worn
              And the morn rises
                                from slumberous Mass.
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Night is worn

A piece on the subject of finding clarity as the immediate surrounds continue to blur. Composed for the Gildas Quartet and Lucy Humphris - written at Dartington while studying with Sir Harrison Birtwistle.

Duets

Symphony d'aere - reduced version as performed at the WASBE Conference in Buñol, Spain with conductor John Lynch and violin soloist Anna Da Silva Chen.

Symphony d'aere - 2019

An installation work on the central nervous system performed in March 2019 for Pulsar Festival, Copenhagen.

Sensibilité

Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Clare Hammond, piano, Vasily Petrenko, conductor January 30th 2020

Uncoiling the River for piano & orchestra

Award-winning Australian composer, songwriter, arranger & producer. 📍 London & Sydney.

Affirmation

David Evans