Joel Bell – Bell-like (2014) For two pianos (and e.guitar) Pianos Martin Butler, Kate Halsall, e.guitar Joel Bell Joel Bell Composer/ Guitarist Web: www.joelbell.co.uk/ Recording, Digital Editing & Mastering Chris Lewis Miniaturised Concertos | Maché will be released Spring 2016 on Metier. Commissions by Philip Cashian, Colin Riley, Katharine Norman, Andrew Poppy and Naomi Pinnock, for duo,…

Boom Residency, OCM Over the next 12 months I’ll be developing a performance project supported by Oxford Contemporary Music, working with guitarist/composer Joel Bell and some other collaborators, exploring new ideas for our Duo, in locations across Oxfordshire. 

Leo Chadburn – Vapour Descriptors (2014) For two pianos (and pianists’ voices) Premiered hcmf// 2014 (Kate Halsall, Fumiko Miyachi) The vocabulary of the perfume industry is a strange thing; technical, scientific, archaic, evocative. The set of descriptors announced in the piece include some common and not-so-common terms that might be applied to scent, separated by…

Forming a new trio for voice, keyboard instruments and percussion: Melanie Pappenheim, Genevieve Wilkins and Kate Halsall. With their diverse range of musical experience in classical, theatre, film and pop music,  the trio draws together their mutual interests in experimental sound worlds and intimate visual effects with some stunning results. Includes music by Howard Skempton,…