Author Archives: seanlclancy

Forbidden City (Beijing) Hui! I’ve been up to a fair bit these past two months. If you’re interested you can read below (I am aware that this post may be the victim of TLDR sentiment). Frontiers Festival Birmingham The Frontiers Festival in Birmingham Conservatoire (and across the city) is our annual large scale festival, highlightingContinue reading “What Have I Been Up To Then?…”

Hui! If you’re interested, here are some details of forthcoming concerts I’m involved in. If you’re about, come and say hui! 12 April 2016 8pm, Scandinavia House, New York Ensemble neoN perform Fourteen Minutes of Music on the Subject of greeting Cards This concert also includes music by Alexander Kaiser, Matthew Welch, Neil Luck, Diego Jiménez Tamame, and Jan Martin Smørdal.Continue reading “Gigs etc. etc.”

I’m really fortunate to have my work included in a number of really interesting projects and concerts over the first half of 2016. If you’re interested, you can find out more below! Association of Irish Composers Directions Series in Dublin On 27 February, composer Ed Bennett curated a really beautiful concert of music for bassContinue reading “Cool Stuff, Slick Stuff, Neat Stuff, Raw Stuff”

I’ve started writing, performing, and recording electronic music on a number of different synthesisers in parallel with my instrumental music. For anyone interested, you can listen here. Hope you enjoy!

The antithesis to destruction is creation… Austrian Cultural Forum At the beginning of November I was fortunate enough to be included in the Soundings Series at the Austrian Cultural Forum in London. It was such a marvellous experience to be featured alongside the other fantastic composers Daniel Moser, Hannes Kerschbaumer, Mirela Ivičević, Kate Whitley, andContinue reading “Fortunately, No Complaints”

I’ve been keeping busy. If you are interested in anything that I do, below you will find some highlights of the past few months. I also just posted a newish piece to soundcloud here. Walk from Birmingham to London for de Ereprijs In July, myself and Joe Cutler walked from Birmingham to London along the GrandContinue reading “…and So On and So Forth…”

Good news! Birmingham Record Company will be releasing my electric guitar quartet Forty-Five Minutes of Music on the Subject of Football on 7 August 2015. Performed by Ensemble Krock and recorded & mixed by John Murphy at Guerrilla Studios (with mastering by Simon Hall). It is my longest piece to date and was a true collaborationContinue reading “Release of 45 Minutes of Music on the Subject of Football and so on and so on…”

From 6 – 12 July Joe Cutler and I will walk from Birmingham to London along the Grand Union Canal in support of Orkest de Ereprijs’ Young Composers Meeting. Orkest de Ereprijs have had severe cuts over the past number of years making their annual cultural and educational programmes increasingly difficult. For more than twentyContinue reading “Planes, Trains, and… Walking”