Hurrah! PRS for music Foundation have awarded my new project, 'Rest', full funding. ‘Rest’ is a new cycle of mourning songs, a sort of secular small-scale requiem, written with Toby Litt, for the a capella folk trio, Lady Maisery. Watch this space for multiple performances dates in 2013.

'Nightingale and the Rose' is having a screening in the Clore Ballroom, Royal Festival Hall, as part of 'Chorus' festival at the Southbankon the 5th May. 5:30pm, free

Oliver Coates will play my piece for cello and ghetto blaster, 'All Grand All Bright', Friday 30th March as part of Positive Blackout, hosted by the Guillemots at Village Underground from 7pm http://www.villageunderground.co.uk/events/positive-blackout

Nightingale and the Rose is playing in the Vaults festival, the old vic tunnels, 7:30, 9th Febuary. Live singing too! sneak preview?.....

Nightingale and the Rose is showing at the Roxy cinema, Brixton tomorrow along with the other three Fables Streetwise Opera films. There will be live music too from Streetwise performers. Tickets are £6, Starts 7pm. http://www.roxybarandscreen.com/listings.php?event=1863

Oh I do like to be beside the seaside! I'm starting 2012 by writing a set of songs to be programmed alongside Schumann's Dichterliebe as part of the 2012 Deal Festival......

I'm very happy Oliver Coates will be playing a bunch of my music in Bucharest, Romania, on the 16th December, courtesy of the British Council. He will play.... In Time, Eternity, All Grand and all Bright, Put Flesh On.... here's a video Tony Comley did for 'In Time' back in 2008

Stately Turrets Fall from Tony Comley on Vimeo.