Composer and former designer at book publishers Thames & Hudson
Joined April 2009
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25 Sep 2024
On Saturday 28th the wonderful Steve Dummer, clarinet, with the Sussex Players string orchestra are giving the first live performance of my 'Simplicius' for clarinet and string orchestra plus Bach, Stravinsky and Holst. St Mary, Horsham, 7.00pm
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29 Aug 2024
Warwick Music have just published my 'Sonus' for tuba and piano. Tuba mirum spargens sonum!
warwickmusic.com/p/hawkins-s…
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25 Jul 2024
This wonderful Claudio Records CD includes my "Looking Back' for violin and piano reviewed as " ... pungent lyricism irradiating the music to fine effect: an admirable, concise work." [MusicWeb International]
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15 Jul 2024
Fellow composer Barry Mills and I share our 75th birthdays this year. The lunchtime concert by Ellie Blackshaw at the Chapel Royal Brighton includes Bach solo Sonata in A minor, Four Pieces for Solo Violin by Barry Mills and my 'Bobop'.
23 July Chapel Royal, Brighton 1.10 pm
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29 May 2024
Wonderful Edition Skellton have just published (score and parts) my short brass quintet 'Chidiock's End'. A sad tale told in 4 minutes!
skellton.com/produkt/hawkins…
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John Hawkins retweeted
27 May 2024
Big thanks to everyone who is sharing our events over on Facebook and here.
Help spread the word! Tell your friends & family!
This year's festival opens on 7 June
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11 May 2024
Tomorrow, Sunday 12 May at St Michael and All Angels in Brighton, BN1 3BD at 4.45pm, Ellie Blackshaw (violin) and Nancy Cooley (piano) play Mozart, Prokofiev, Debussy and my 'Bobop'! Tickets on the door.
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John Hawkins retweeted
3 May 2024
Please, if you are able to, consider donating to @CHSunConcerts @ConwayHall for the repair of the roof of this historic building. It’s a wonderful venue and deserves our support! The fundraising ends on 6th May bank holiday….❤️🙏
conwayhall.org.uk/cf23roof
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5 Apr 2024
Violinist Siân Philipps has just released her new CD 'From Shadows to Light' which includes my 'Looking Back'. The CD also includes music by Grace Williams, Paul Ladmirault, Vaughan Williams, Sally Beamish and Egon Wellesz.
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21 Feb 2024
‘Period Pieces’ are four short piano pieces in the shape, but not the style, of a baroque suite. Lovely new video with Yoko Ono Piano.
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16 Nov 2023
This Saturday, the exciting Brass Fusion will be playing new pieces for brass by several New Music Brighton composers including my 'Chidiock's End'.
7.30 at All Saints Hove BN3 3QE.
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10 Nov 2023
Terrific performance yesterday of 'Masque of Vengeance' by Edward Lambert at the Cockpit Theatre – a bizarre, bloodthirsty farce brilliantly written and sung by The Music Troupe. Next on in Manchester, Stoller Hall on Sunday.
musictroupe.co.uk
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26 Oct 2023
The wonderful Yoko Ono is including my ‘Period Pieces’ in her recital at the beautiful St Mary de Haure, Shoreham-by-Sea on Saturday 28 October, 12.00–1.00
Debussy ‘Childrens’ Corner’, John Hawkins ‘Period Pieces’, Chris Gander ‘Haiku for the Four Seasons’ and Debussy ‘Estampes’
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20 Oct 2023
‘Would that all our princes were the same mind that is in you. Then these insane and wretched wars would end, and rulers would turn their minds to making their age illustrious by the arts of peace.’
Erasmus 1516
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20 Oct 2023
Today! The Lenokoro Quartet play Schubert, Janacek and Brahms in the first concert of the Nicholas Yonge Society's new season in Lewes.
ticketsource.co.uk/nyslewes
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10 Sep 2023
On 1 October soprano Judy Mackerras and pianist William Hancox will premiere my 'Child's Play' – four songs to words by Robert Louis Stevenson written for her to complement Malcolm Williamson's 'A Child's Garden' song cycle.
St Michael, Lewes 3pm. Plus Wolf, Mozart and Poulenc.
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5 Sep 2023
On 27 August there was a brilliant performance of my 'Urizen’ played by Rachel Roberts (viola) and Chris Hopkins (piano) at the wonderful Presteigne Festival. Earlier it was also given a terrific outing in Brighton with Ros Hanson and Steve Carroll-Turner. A good year for it !
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25 Jul 2023
This Saturday, Yoko Ono will be playing my 'Period Pieces' at the unique Bunglehoff club in Hove in a concert with clarinettist Steve Dummer. Also pieces by Malcolm Arnold, Gerard Grisey, Brahms and more!
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