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.

'Threnody', for large symphony orchestra, was broadcast on BBC Radio3 on Monday January 28th, in 'Afternoon Concert'. The BBC Philharmonic is conducted by Clark Rundell. It will be available on iplayer for a month.

'Isobirthday' for flute and clarinet has two performances this winter:  19th January 2019, St Peter's Church Burnley, played by Emily Wilson's ensemble Salford Keys, and February 7th 2019 in the National Concert Hall, Dublin, played by Concorde, director Jane O Leary.

Peter Sheppard Skaerved gave a superb performance of 'Prelude after Grinling Gibbons' on Friday November 26th 2018.  The concert was in St Stephen Walbrook, London, a marvellous Wren church.

My oboe music, solo and chamber, is featured this month on the New Oboe Music Project website:

http://newoboemusic.org/nicola-lefanu/

Peter Sheppard Skaerved will play my 'Prelude after Grinling Gibbons' for solo violin, at St Stephen Walbrook, London EC4N 4, at 6pm on Friday November 23rd. He gave a brilliant performance of it at Fairfax House in York, on October 30th.

At RNCM, Manchester, 7.45pm on Wednesday November 21st, 'These Days - the Manchester Peace Song Cycle' includes several short pieces I have written for the Hallé training choir and a local primary school. This is part of a project of Caroline Clegg's, site-specific to Heaton Park, where it will first be staged on Sunday November 18th.

'Prelude after Grinling Gibbons', for solo violin, will be premiered by its dedicatee, Peter Sheppard Skaerved, at Fairfax House in York on October 30th, 2018. The Prelude is based on the carving 'King David performing a motet of Orlando di Lassus', which is in Fairfax House. Grinling Gibbons carved it as a young man in York, before he had become King Charles' 'Master Carver'.

The salon concert begin at 7pm.

James Willshire gave a beautiful performance of my new solo piano piece 'Souvenir du Petit Berger.' You can hear it here:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/play/m000087y

This 'In Tune' Radio 3 broadcast was followed by the première on September 1st in York at the Late Music Concert Series. My short piece was part of the 'Ten New Debussys project.'

Octandre Ensemble, who played a LeFanu portrait concert in London in March, have now released a video of its highlights. The link is here:

https://vimeo.com/281296974

It features 'Deva' for cello and ensemble (solo cellist, Corentin Chassard), interviews with myself, and extracts from The Same Day Dawns and String Quartet no2.