@davidjohnroche.bsky.social
Composer - direct, determined, loud. "One of the most energetic, driven, and successful of Wales's millennial generation of composers" - Tŷ Cerdd www.davidjohnroche.com I gratefully acknowledge support from PRS Foundation
🪄 It was commissioned by and written for the fellows of the National Youth Guitar Ensemble - listen to their fabulous performance at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama - Coleg Brenhinol Cerdd a Drama Cymru below, they sound awesome!
🏴 Check out my piece The Hammer of Acceptance / The Outrage of Repetition - for guitar octet (well, quartet with some extra bits!).
www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-PY...
🏴 Really excited to be heading to Cardiff University School of Music today! I'll be talking about my music (including a few upcoming commissions!). It's going to be awesome.
🪄 Come and say hello if you're around and able to go!
🏴 Friday ahoy!
🏴 Check out this piece I wrote as part of my role as Composer in Residence with Contemporary Music for All London. Woo!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-Qr...
🏴 It's St. David's Day! Woo!
🏴 ...so why not check out this club classic? Performed by me, commissioned by the National Library of Wales, released on NMC Recordings, and based on a speech given by David Lloyd George at an Eisteddfod. It's awesome!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERqY...
🏴 Come and hear my Happy Pieces this evening!
🇺🇸 Originally commissioned by the fantastic Symphonic Brass Cardiff, this is the pieces fourth performance (including one in New York, woo!). Come and see it!
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🪄 A lot of this will focus around our ukulele concerto - being performed again later this year - but we'll also be looking at more general (but still essential) ideas!
🏴 I'll be at the International Guitar Research Centre Conference in March - come and say hello!
🇦🇺 I'll be talking with the mighty Samantha Muir about our collaborative work, creating new music for ukulele and large ensemble (as well as the problems that come with it!).
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🏴 It's rainy and cold (in the UK at least!). So go and have a nice warming listen!
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When did Muse Score suddenly become such a dodgy app?
I'm seeing so many people get caught out with its payment systems. Such a shame - it's a great app and they're wrecking it.
💡...and many moons ago, my own performance of The Only Marriage was featured on BBC Introducing: "Exquisite [...] beautifully realised", "Beautiful tremolo, beautiful piece" - the mighty Adam Walton (again!).
🪄 Gerard's album has already been described as “A transcendent experience” with “sublime cadences” (Adam Walton, BBC Radio) and as “A soulful contemplative guitar recital full of beautiful modern discoveries” (Apple Music).
🏴 Check out my compositions Always Meant and The Only Marriage on Gerard Cousins's Simple Truths! Still on BBC Sounds!
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
💯 You'll get loads of one-to-one time with me (by far the most cost-effective way to study with me!), time with orchestral musicians, and a whole host of lectures covering all sorts of different aspects of orchestration and arranging! It's going to be really fun!
🏴 Learning to Write and Arrange Music for Orchestra - a new module for Aberystwyth University's Centre for Lifelong Learning. Hurray! Wahoo!
🔥 Check out course details and sign up here: tinyurl.com/47ryf9me
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VsJ...
🏴 You can hear my Always Meant at 1:17:52, opening out the interview with Gerard Cousins (who's also the special guest on this programme - with a great playlist!).
🍾 Make sure you check out this episode of BBC Music Introducing with Adam Walton! I've got a new, Midwest emo / math rock(ish) track on there!
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
🎸 You can listen to it everywhere that you listen to music, but also on Spotify's New Classical playlist!
🪄 Gerard's new album has already been described as “A transcendent experience” with “sublime cadences” (Adam Walton, BBC Radio) and as “A soulful contemplative guitar recital full of beautiful modern discoveries” (Apple Music).
🏴 You can hear my Always Meant on BBC Music Introducing tonight - complete with a lovely interview with Gerard Cousins. Go and listen!
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Seeing a lot of Classical:NEXT stuff.
It's really interesting to see that they are charging €280-€490 (€100 minimum for students) per ticket - and this is before travel, food, and accommodation. I wonder if this will be mentioned in their "Expanding Access to Deepen Excellence" talk?
🎸 You can listen to it everywhere that you listen to music, but also on Spotify's New Classical playlist!
🪄 It has already been described as “A transcendent experience” with “sublime cadences” (Adam Walton, BBC Radio) and as “A soulful contemplative guitar recital full of beautiful modern discoveries” (Apple Music).
🏴 Gerard Cousins's Simple Truths is out today, containing my works The Only Marriage and Always Meant.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dfa1...
🪄 I really love this piece and - as always - Gerard Cousins plays it incredibly. Go and listen to it right now, and go and listen to his new album Simple Truths!
🍾 Grab a score here: payhip.com/b/ZUmIu
🍾 Grab some tremolo here: payhip.com/b/KJ7O8
🇺🇸 The whole piece is inspired by Midwest emo giants American Football. The FACGCE-tuned guitar, the CAPO on 7, and the ornate-half folky playing is straight out of that world (with a bit of Tiny Moving Parts and Yvette Young in there too). Woo!
🏴 Always meant is out today! Check it out on Spotify's New Classical playlist right now - next to some bloke called Max Richter (never heard of him).
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XGr...
🏴 2 new recordings out this Friday - get ready! Woo!
🪄 ...but before then, check out this lovely brand new score video featuring a recording of one of my guitar duos!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iN-S...
🪄 This composition was commissioned by The National Library of Wales and later released on NMC Recordings - I'm playing it!
🎺 Even better, this is a new edition I've made as part of my Tremolo Compendium!
🏴 I've a new score video up in advance of the release Gerard Cousins's new album this Friday (he's playing my pieces The Only Marriage and Always Meant, hurray!).
❤️🔥 Grab yourself a copy here: payhip.com/b/gbZUA
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERqY...