Solo timpani for half an hour? Challenge accepted.
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Diaphanous Nebulosities. Say it out loud, and it’s even better. The concept of this new composition is just as ambitious as […]
Scott McIntyre
Am I really creative?
BY SCOTT MCINTYRE, COMPOSER “Right now, it’s only a notion, but I think I can… make it into a concept, and then later, turn […]
Live review: Objetos de Imitacion
BY THOMAS MISSON Objetos de Imitacion New music by various composers Simon Reade (conductor), Michael Kieran Harvey (piano), Benjamin Price (saxophone), Graeme Jennings (violin), Dan Brown (percussion) […]
Scott McIntyre, the ‘conservative modernist’ composer
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Only the dedicated listener is able to draw comparisons between two seemingly unrelated works – and then spin the resulting interpretation […]
Writing for piano (and destroying the universe)
BY SCOTT MCINTYRE As I start work on my Piano Sonata No.4, I pause and think about the creation of these works and the […]