FIVE WEEKS …

… to the First Performance of THE DRUMMER BOY OF WATERLOO.

It means so much to me that the premiere will be in Aldeburgh.  That wonderful Suffolk coast has been a source of rest, recreation and inspiration almost all of my life.  And the links with Britten, too: the first great 20th Century composer whose work I studied in depth.  The premiere of Britten’s A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM was in the Jubilee Hall in 1960.  And the Britten-Pears Foundation provided funds for the commissioning of my fourth String Quartet.