diversion

Last week was a super fun week for me. Not only did Misha and I do our first ever Mandel recording (release details to follow in my next letter) but there was all the fun of the Radio 3 "Seven Ages of Woman” BBC Singers commission broadcast which led to a lovely chat with Jenny Murray (who absolutely was as lovely as she sounds) on Woman's Hour on Thursday morning. Listen here 32 minutes in (the "ums" do eventually subside!) https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000fw0t

You can here my song “Veins” here, part of a whole 7 movement multi-generational piece by 7 female composers (which turned out to be really good) 
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000g67l

Coming up on the 26th March is my new piece for Rakhi Singh as part of SOLO at the CLF Art Café in Peckham London for violin and vocoder. It’s called Outshifts. I spend quite a lot of time in Outshifts (fringes or boundaries of a town) near my house chasing that nature "hit" but within the glow of the town….Violinist Rakhi Singh is an incredible musician and its a big honour to write and perform with her (I'll be playing vocoder) Alex Groves has done a pretty in depth interview about the piece here https://www.thisissolo.co.uk/Q-A-Emily-Hall

I've just been working last weekend with my choir (Stroud Fringe Choir) on the SATB version of my secular requiem ‘Rest' which I wrote with Toby Litt  back in 2013. It sounds so good this way. We'll be performing it in a woodland at Hawkwood College near Stroud as part of Hidden Notes ii festival in September (and hopefully lots more thereafter)