New and existing works by Peter Moran are to be featured in a series of concerts in the UK.

The premiere of Peter Moran’s The Stranger on the Southbound Train, a work for voice and piano based on a text by Emily Crossland, will be given during the York Spring Festival of New Music on Saturday 10 May as part of an event supported by Culture Ireland which will involve the Young Composers' Collective and 30 performers from around the UK.

Still in York, on Monday 9 June, during the city’s Late Music Festival, the percussion-and-alto flute duo Black Hair (Damien Harron and Jos Zwaanenberg) will give the first performance of Moran’s Peyote Transcriptions, a work inspired by the traditional vocal and rhythmic techniques of the Navajo and Quechua tribes in North America.

Peter Moran will also be presenting a day-long workshop, Exploring the Musicality of Speech, on Saturday 21 June in the Albemarle Music Centre, Hull as part of the Humber Mouth Literature Festival. The event, which begins at 10am, will be followed by a concert featuring works produced during the day alongside music drawn from the Irish vocal and 20th-Century experimental traditions.

Peter Moran has also launched a new web site – www.petermoranmusic.com – which is offering free downloads of the composer’s music for a limited period.

For further details, see our calendar or visit www.yorkconcerts.co.uk, www.latemusicfestival.org.uk or www.humbermouth.org.uk.

Posted: 3 April 2008