A beautiful warmth from the strings, even if short lived and tinged with an unease.

A transformative ending into an unknown but harmonically rich world.  Thanks for sharing this impressive work.

Reminds me of John Adams meets Hans Zimmer, love it!

This is second performance. 

This work was created as part of Sound and Music’s Portfolio programme and
premiered in collaboration with London Graduate Orchestra, conducted by Claire Lampon. The project was funded by Cockayne; The London Community Foundation; Esmée Fairbairn Foundation; PRS for Music Foundation; and Arts Council England.

My Mind Directs My World

www.davidjohnroche.com

David John Roche’s music is direct, determined, and loud. Strongly influenced by heavy metal, lush orchestral music, and his working-class Welsh background, he has been marked out as a “clear-minded and class-conscious artist” (Culture Matters) and “one of the most energetic, driven, and successful of Wales’s millennial generation of composers” (Tŷ Cerdd). David’s work has been described as “exquisite” (Adam Walton, BBC Introducing Wales), praised for its “ingenious scoring” (The Arts Desk), and complimented for its “passages of intense expressive power” (Thomas Adès). His compositions have been broadcast, televised, and written about internationally to millions of people.

A string of international performances and commissions form the backbone of David’s work: BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, Florence Philharmonic, Zhejiang Symphony Orchestra, Tanglewood Music Center, Psappha Ensemble, and the Solem Quartet, among others.  David has been nominated for an award by the American Academy of Arts and Letters and has been the recipient of an Arts Council England Developing Your Creative Practice Grant and a Lithuanian Arts Council grant. He has just completed an electric guitar concerto for Sean Shibe, Sinfonia Cymru, and Britten Sinfonia, and he is currently finishing his first symphony-length work for orchestra, funded by Aberystwyth University, Tŷ Cerdd, and the Arts Council of Wales.

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