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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. Â 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. Â What a great evening! Â 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. Â The work is moving…
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New blog-site for the UNLEASHED anti-opera project
We’ve just got together the new blog site for the UNLEASHED anti-opera project that I’m doing with director Nick Blackburn. Check it out here.
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Music, Text and Violence (an interview)
A conversation with Theatre Director Nick Blackburn about my compositional approach.
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Selected for Blue Touch Paper
I’m delighted to have been selected with poet Steven J Fowler for the London Sinfonietta’s new Blue Touch Paper scheme. We were selected in October for our project that is…
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Contrasts in Space (video)
Contrasts in Space was screened at the British Film Institute on 1st December, alongside the premiere of my new soundtrack for it, featuring tape and live viola. Ensemble Amorpha were performing.…
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K, prelude to Mozart’s Clarinet Quintet (video)
K, a prelude to the Mozart Clarinet Quintet Performed by:Â Endymion Location:Â Kings Place Date: September 2010.
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numbers 91–95 (video)
World premiere of Numbers 91-95 Music: Philip Venables Text: Simon Howard Performed by: Ensemble Adapter Location: Casino Baumgarten, Vienna (Wien Modern Festival) Date: 10th November 2011
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‘Signals’ featuring the Metamorphoses after Britten
I just received a copy of the Signals volume of new music for oboe. It features my Metamorphoses after Britten in it, and I also designed the front cover. The…
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Wonderful reviews of numbers 76-80 : tristan und isolde
numbers 76-80 : tristan und isolde was performed brilliantly by EXAUDI and Endymion under the direction of James Weeks on Monday 19th September. I was really delighted, and the Purcell Room…
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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…
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…dark and violent, and so so gay.
Last week’s performance of Fuck Forever was reviewed by www.sosogay.com. “There were some really great little works in among the chaff….. Philip Venables’ Fuck Forever managed to tease out a dark and…