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Chronologie
1981
Night Dances awarded the Guinness Prize for composition
1982
First performances of Night Dances for orchestra by the London Sinfonietta; and Entranced for piano
1983
Wins a Mendelssohn Scholarship enabling him to attend the Tanglewood Summer School, where he studies with Gunther Schuller and informally with Hans Werner Henze. Lament for a Hanging Man, commissioned by Gemini
1985
On All Fours, commissioned by the London Sinfonietta. Henze commissions the opera Greek for the Munich Biennale; Feeney Trust commissions Three Screaming Popes for the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
1987
Release, composed for a BBC Television documentary as part of the Sound on Film series
1988
First performance of Greek at the Munich Biennale; UK première at the Edinburgh Festival
1989
Three Screaming Popes first performed in Birmingham
1990
Becomes Composer-in-Association with the CBSO; Kai, for cello and ensemble, written for the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group
1991
1993
Drowned Out marks the end of Birmingham residency; Your Rockaby, for soprano saxophone and orchestra
1995
Becomes Composer-in-Association at English National Opera; Dispelling the Fears (orchestral version)
1996
First complete performance of Blood on the Floor
1997
Aldeburgh Festival premières of Twice through the Heart and The Country of the Blind; begins compostion of The Silver Tassie
1998
Silent Cities, for orchestra premièred in Tokyo
1999
Completes The Silver Tassie; About Time, for ensemble and period-instrument orchestra; Your Rockaby featured in BBC TV documentary series Six Pieces of Britain
2000-2003
Gastkomponist beim BBC Symphony Orchestra
2001
Première of The Silver Tassie at ENO
2001
The Silver Tassie gewinnt den South Bank Show Award und den Olivier Award in der Kategorie Oper.
2002
Scorched für Jazztrio und Orchester
2002
Simon Rattle führt Blood on the Floor bei seinen ersten Konzerten als Chefdirigent der Berliner Philharmoniker auf.
2003
großer Rückblick im Londoner Barbican Centre in Zusammenarbeit mit der BBC
2003
Vertragsunterzeichnung mit Boosey & Hawkes
2004
Composer in Residence beim Moritzburg Festival
2005
Scorched wird für 2 Grammys nominiert
2005
Ernennung zum Forschungsstipendiat in Komposition am Royal College of Music in London.
2005
2006-2010
2006-2010
Mead Composer in Residence beim Chicago Symphony Orchestra
2006
Dozent in Tanglewood
2007
Composer in Residence beim Risør Festival in Norwegen
2010
Composer in Residence beim Dutch Youth Orchestra
2010
Composer in Residence beim Cabrillo Music Festival, California
2011
Featured Composer beim Music@Malling Festival, Kent, UK
2011
Ehrendoktor der Universität Anglia Ruskin
2011
Ehrendoktor der Universität London (Royal Holloway)
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