ORIGINAL FEATURES – a new children’s opera, commissioned to mark the 40th anniversary of London’s W11 OPERA, will premiere at the Riverside Studios, London W6 in December.
September 11th 2011. The Grace and Spiritus Chorale of Brooklyn will perform IN A FOG – REMEMBER in a memorial service for the 10th anniversary of 9/11 at Saint Ann’s Church, Brooklyn Heights.
NEW! A new opera by Julian Grant will be premiered at the 2011 Oundle Festival. PROPHET AND LOSS, written to an original libretto is a transformative satire on the oil industry. You can read the Synopsis and Libretto
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Premiere of a new choral elegy commissioned to mark the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks: In a Fog – Remember sets two poems by Brooklyn poet Anne Pierson-Wiese and is premiered by the Grace and Spiritus Chorale conducted by James Busby in three Brooklyn churches January 21-3.
Link to new site SOUNDCLOUD to hear the marvellous CHROMA Ensemble perform Strike Opponent’s Ears With Both Fists
Composer-in-Residence at Saint Ann’s School, Brooklyn, NY. From September 2010, Julian Grant will embark upon a three year post which will culminate in a large project involving the school and various surrounding musical institutions.
A new miniature operatic sketch commissioned by Tétè-a-Tétè for its 4th annual opera festival – to be performed at unexpected venues: ONLY CONNECT features a telephone, a singing French President and a certain ex-Governor of Alaska. Previews at Muso Life and the Independent
Hell Hot! Music Festival 2010 a new New music festival in Hong Kong – August 6th appearance of the Beijing New Music Ensemble: Michelle Yip plays Wu Dai Tong Tang
A review of Melvyn Tan playing SHIVEREENS at Spitalfields in the East London Lines
ON THIS SITE: New articles on Tchaikovsky, Debussy, Zandonai, and the problems of opera in the 21st century
New from Andromache Music, SHIVEREENS – a collection of miniature piano pieces – see PREVIEW
KNOW THY KINGS AND QUEENS is part of the NMC Songbook
Available for download from NMC records, Amazon.co.uk and Amazon.com Sheet music available for download from sheetmusicdirect
Also from Andromache Music - JULIAN GRANT: COLLECTED SONGS 1979-2008, and from Amazon.co.uk and Amazon.com 

