BRIAN INGLIS - Composer
NEWS & RECENT PERFORMANCES
Brian’s article ‘Rehearing and rapprochement, or moustaches on the Mona Lisa?’ is published in the Autumn 2021 issue of
The Recorder Magazine It concerns 2 cadenzas for Anton Heberle’s Recorder Concerto in G, recently published by Composers Edition
Brian’s article ‘Serendipity, poetry and play in toy piano composition and Four Pieces for Toy Piano’ has been published in
Revista Vórtex/Vortex Music Journal, volume 8 no 2 The article discusses these pieces (published by Composers Edition) in the broader context of toy piano composition and performance.
Tainted Kiss (new limited release CD single)
‘A Fond Kiss’ (after Robert Burns) and ‘The Ballad of Reading Gaol’ (words by Oscar Wilde) feature on the limited-release CD single Tainted Kiss available from tutti.co.uk. Gina Fergione sings voice & string trio versions of both songs, plus a bonus voice & Indian harmonium version of ‘A Fond Kiss’. Sample available to hear at media/sound ‘A Fond Kiss’.
‘Laugh’ from Four Pieces for Toy Piano (2018: Composers Edition), recorded by Kate Ryder, is included in a special ‘lockdown compilation’ album released by Nonclassical, Friday 3 July 2020.
The release is available initially via the label’s BANDCAMP PAGE
Brian is published by Composers Edition. See scores.
Appreciation
… there proved to be plenty of ‘passion’ in the work, generated by the rapid-fire juxtapositions, alternations and altercations of Inglis’s score, as well as contrasts between syncopated propulsion, rhythmic hyper-tension and disturbing dissipation of movement (seenandheard-international.com)
… pleasantly tropical luxuriance (Daily Telegraph)
… most accomplished (Daily Express)
… most impressive (Musical Pointers)
… a moving piece (RVW Trust)
… your extraordinary work (Moeck Music)
… unqualified praise…. inspired…. a highpoint of the service (Churches Together in Wales)
… a powerful experience for all concerned (Bath Chronicle)
… this is an ‘homage’ and not an imitation. The music is very modern and very much the composer’s own. It would certainly be of interest for aspiring young pianists hoping to expand their abilities (British Music News)
… een bijzonder stuk…. Voor zeer vergevorderde of professionele spelers een uitdaging om hier samen met een pianist eens de tanden in te zetten! [… a remarkable piece…. For very advanced or professional players this is a challenge and together with a pianist something to get their teeth into!’] (blokfluitist)
… The Perfect Soundtrack – Deep and beautiful, I find this album [Living Stones] to be perfect for when I paint or when travelling. It is sublime and transporting, 5 stars (Galaxian Punk, on music.apple.com)
News & Performances
June 2020
NEW PUBLICATION IN THE RECORDER MAGAZINE: Brian’s new composition ‘Air’ for solo alto recorder (with optional drone) is published as the centrespread of the Summer 2020 issue of The Recorder Magazine. ‘Air’ is part of a larger work-in-progress Études de Concert, solos for different sizes of recorder which will be subsequently published complete by Composers Edition. Alongside the new piece is a short feature about Brian and his recorder music, focussing on the experience of writing for the instrument and collaborating with performers.
Friday 6 September 2019
Conservatory of Music, Baldwin Wallace University, Berea, Ohio.
Trumpet Sonata performed by Jack Sutte (trumpet) and Christine Fuoco (piano).
Tuesday 5 March 2019
Concert Room, Grove B, Middlesex University, The Burroughs London NW4 4BT. Three War Songs performed by Jeremy Huw Williams and Paula Fan.
Tuesday 20 March 2018
Church of St George the Martyr, London SE1 1JA. Four Pieces for Toy Piano PREMIERE performed by Kate Ryder.
Sunday 28 January 2018 Hall 1, King’s Place, London.
Piano Trio PREMIERE performed by the Aquinas Trio.
RELEASE OF LIVING STONES
The album Living Stones is released by Sargasso on 8 September 2017 (SCD28081). Including all of Brian’s extant solo piano music to date, it features pianists Gabriel Keen and Christopher Scobie. The release is available on CD and for download, from selected physical retailers, iTunes, Amazon, and direct from the Sargasso website
The tracklisting is:
1 Wedding (2014)*
2 Kärleks-Vals (2009)*
3 Piano Sonata (2002)
4 Living Stones (1999)*
5 Passacaglia (1992)*
6 Concerto for Piano Solo (Homage to Alkan) 2013/14
*Published as ‘Four Piano Pieces’ by Composers Edition in 2015.
Friday 30 June 2017
Schott Recital Room: 48 Great Marlborough St, Soho, London W1F 7BB:
Concerto for Piano Solo (Homage to Alkan) and Piano Sonata played by Gabriel Keen. Plus shorter pieces played by Christopher Scobie; including works by Alkan, Finnissy and Sorabji.
Friday 31 March 2017
Maynooth University, Ireland:
Embodied Monologues contribution on The Song of Margery Kempe
Monday 12 December 2016
Savile Club, London:
Burmese Pictures performed by Consortium 5
Tuesday 22 November 2016, at 1.00pm
Holst Room, Morley College, London:
Flute Sonata excerpt performed by Katherine Darton & Christopher Scobie
Thursday 23 June 2016
Faculty of Music, Oxford University
Moving Performances symposium – Talk and screening of The Song of Margery Kempe (excerpts)
Sunday 8 May 2016
St Pancras Church (London Festival of Contemporary Church Music)
‘Without Loss’ for unaccompanied choir
December 2015
Publication of Flute Sonata and Trumpet Sonata: Two of Brian’s early works, the Sonata for Flute and Piano and Sonata for Trumpet and Piano (both completed in 1992), have now been published by wind and brass music specialists Forton Music and are available from the Forton Music website.
Friday 4 and Sunday 6 December 2015
Bedford School Chapel, Bedford School, Bedford, 6.30 pm: Premiere of ‘A Christmas Alleluia’ for choir and organ.
Friday 2 October 2015
Morley College, 7.30 pm: ‘Toccata’ from Concerto for Piano Solo will be performed as part of a concert promoted by the Cornelius Cardew Concerts Trust to celebrate the life of James Allen.
Thursday 16 July 2015, 7.30pm
Temple Methodist Church, Budleigh Salterton, Devon (Budleigh Music Festival):
Everyone Sang (Inglis/Sassoon) Roderick Williams, baritone
Tuesday 14 July 2015
Llandeilo Festival, Wales:
Everyone Sang (Inglis/Sassoon) Roderick Williams, baritone
Tuesday 23 June 2015
Concert Room, Block Grove B, Middlesex University:
Breaking the Sound Barrier
Brian will present an updated version of his paper ‘The Liminal Zone of Opera’ at this day symposium devoted to extended techniques.
Saturday 4 April 2015
St Mary’s Church,Netherbury, Dorset:
Verbum Bonum Et Suave Ishirini chamber choir/Jeremy Rouse
Sunday 23rd November 2014, 7.00pm
Sutton House, London E9 6JQ
Three War Songs for baritone and piano (world premiere as a group of songs)
‘Le Christianisme’ (Wilfred Owen); ‘Everyone Sang’ (Sassoon) and ‘Here They Lie’ (Graves).
Mark Oldfield (baritone), Christopher Scobie (piano)
In the same concert – Concerto for Piano Solo (Homage to Alkan); Gabriel Keen, piano. Part of a concert, TRAUMA AND WITHDRAWAL, co-promoted by the Sutton House Music Society and the Stoke Newington Contemporary Music Festival, reflecting responses to traumatic events and retreat into inner worlds of grandiloquence. Alongside works by Galina Ustvolskaya and Kaikhosru Sorabji. Tickets: Sutton House Music Society
Sunday 19th October 2014, 12 noon
Rose Bruford College, Sidcup, DA15 9DF:
Music on Stage Conference
Brian will deliver a paper, ‘The liminal zone of opera: The Song of Margery Kempe and the genre of (a cappella) monodrama’ with audio and audiovisual illustrations.
Thursday 13th March 2014, 5.30pm
St Mary’s Church, London, NW4 4JT
Middlesex University Singers’ Ensemble – Admission Free
Everyone Sang – Inglis/Sassoon + Here They Lie – Inglis/Graves (for voice and piano)
Thursday 28th November 2013
Concert Room, Block Grove B, Middlesex University
Sunday 3rd November 2013, 3.30pm
Stoke Newington Contemporary Music Festival
Verbum Bonum et Suave Ishirini chamber choir/Jeremy Rouse
Sunday 3rd November 2013, 1.00pm
Stoke Newington Contemporary Music Festival
Concerto for Piano Solo (Homage to Alkan) *PREMIERE* Gabriel Keen, piano
Sunday 30th June 2013
Cadogan Hall
Highbury Fields (Inglis/Hart) – world premiere
Islington Choral Society/Michael Bowden
CONTACT
b.inglis@mdx.ac.uk