Philip Venables

A composer of ferocious dramatic instincts
— Alex Ross

Tag: Melinda Maxwell

  • Below The Belt

    Below The Belt

    My debut album, Below the Belt, is now available for pre-ordering via NMC here. The disc will be launched on 16th March 2018.  The works on the disc are:

    The Revenge of Miguel Cotto,
    Klaviertrio im Geiste,
    Numbers 76–80,
    Numbers 91-95,
    Metamorphoses after Britten,
    Illusions.

    The disc features David Hoyle, the London Sinfonietta, Phoenix Piano Trio, Ligeti Quartet, Leigh Melrose, Dario Dugandzic, Nick Blackburn, Melinda Maxwell, Natalie Raybould, Lewis Bretherton, George Chambers and Ashley Mercer, conducted by Richard Baker.

  • Portrait Concert / 30 June / St Luke’s

    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 last few years, performed in the concert by the Ligeti Quartet, Ashot Sarkissjan, The Warehouse Ensemble, Melinda Maxwell, Leigh Melrose, Richard Baker and The London Sprechchor.  The concert is being recorded live for my debut CD and also filmed for music videos.

    The concert is free (email me for an invitation), will last one hour, and will be followed by a wine reception.

    FIGHT MUSIC: music by Philip Venables

    Sunday 30th June, 2013, 7.30pm (doors open 6.30pm), reception 8.30pm

    LSO St Luke’s, 161 Old St., London EC1V 9NG

    Numbers 76-80: Tristan und Isolde
    Numbers 91-95
    New piece for solo violin and sprechchor
    Metamorphoses after Britten
    The Revenge of Miguel Cotto

    Performers: Ashot Sarkissjan, The London Sprechchor. Melinda Maxwell, Leigh Melrose, Richard Baker, The Warehouse Ensemble, Ligeti Quartet.

    Generously supported by the Arts Council, The Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, The Nicholas Boas Charitable Trust and LSO Soundhub.

       

     

     

     

  • ‘Signals’ featuring the Metamorphoses after Britten

    ‘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 volume was edited by the amazing Melinda Maxwell, for whom I wrote my Metamorphoses, and John Stringer an oboist-composer.  It’s now available on musicroom.com.

    If you play the oboe, go out and buy it now — it’s got a great selection of stuff in it.  And not all of it that difficult either.  Very suitable for Grade 7-8 upwards to university/conservatoire/professional, I think.