Peter Sheppard Skaerved has recorded the Prelude I wrote him in 2018 - you can hear it here:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2S8n0LcMQGU

'The Swan' (LeFanu, text Fleur Adcock) has been recorded by Jeremy Huw Williams on a new Cd that also includes the Shakespeare Songs by Maconchy.

http://www.lorelt.co.uk/cds/lnt/womens_voices

A Postcard and A Letter, for solo piano. York, October 5th. Josephine Peach, piano.

Prelude after Grinling Gibbons, for solo violin. Cambridge, October 16th; Dover, October 29th.

My piano trio is touring as part of Angela Slater's 'Illuminate' series. It was performed by the Ethel Smyth Trio on August 30th in Brighton, and September 7th, in York. More performances follow.

The Bloomsbury String Quartet will be playing String Quartet no.2 on Friday June 21st in the Stroud Green Festival. This is the first concert in a 2019/2020 tour of their programme 'Re:Centred', focussing on Elizabeth Maconchy, plus LeFanu and Vaughan Williams.

Nicola LeFanu was in residence at the Centre d'Art i Natura, Farrera de Pallars, in the high Pyrenees, from May 23rd to June 10th. http://www.farreracan.cat

During May and June she was 'Composer of the Month' in the Bodleian Music library, Oxford.

"The Swan" for baritone and piano was performed by Jeremy Huw Williams and Paula Fan on April 19th, at Auburn University, Alabama. Williams will record 'The Swan', in its instrumental version, later this year.

On May 4th, Sextet 'Fasach, a Wild Garden' will be performed by Alex Wilson and Dr K ensemble. The concert is at 7.30pm, St Saviourgate Chapel, York, in the Late Music Concert Series.

The Albany Piano trio gave a beautiful performance of my piano trio, in the Stoller Hall at Chetham's in Manchester, on International Women's Day 2019. It marked the end of a very busy week for me: a masterclass with young women composers at Manchester University, on Monday March 4th; BBCRadio 3 on Tuesday 5th (BBCSO Afternoon concert) and Wednesday 6th (In Tune) and a presentation and panel discussion at Chetham's on Thursday 7th.

March 5th 2019 at 3.35: BBC Radio 3 broadcast The Crimson Bird,' BBCSO conductor Ilan Volkov with soprano soloist Rachel Nicholls. Text: John Fuller.

PRSF have made me a grant from the Composers' Fund, for an NMC album of four major orchestral works. The CD will appear in 2020.