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11/03/2025

Ash's new work Imagin'd Games is touring this month with Uproar in a programme featuring new works alongside Ligeti's Chamber Concerto and Thorvaldsdottir's Hrim.

Full details about the tour can be found here: www.uproar.org.uk/ligeti

You can watch an interview with Ash talking about the new piece below:

15/11/2024

Ash's work Beyond the Haze of Winter's Edge has been selected by the ISCM for performance at its World Music Days in Portugal in 2025.

More information on the festival can be found here:
iscm.org/wnmd/2025-portugal/

You can listen to a recording of this work by the Chromatophonic Trio below:

30/05/2024

New release available!

A new album of music for trumpet and piano which feature Ash's work Mondestrunken is available to purchase from the link below.

www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/9614976--nexus

09/11/2023

New release!

Charlotte Keeffe's new album ALIVE! in the Studio is now available on Discus Records:

03/03/2023

New releases!

Beyond the Haze of Winter's Edge is now available on The Chromatophonic Trio's new album by Chopin University Press:

Somewhere Becoming Rain has been recorded by Trio Anima for their new album Between Earth and Sea, released by Tŷ Cerdd

You can read a review of the album here: www.planethugill.com/2023/01/evocative-and-imaginative-trio-animas.html

08/06/2022

The Chromatophonic Trio has just recorded Ash's Beyond the Haze of Winter's Edge in the Polish Radio Studio for CD release in the Autumn. In the meantime, the premiere performance of the piece is now available on YouTube:

In performance related news, Yetii, featuring the talents of Alex Veitch and Alex Goodyear have been releasing weekly videos through its YouTube channel. The first of these, 'Afar' (also available on Spotify), is below. Subscribe to the channel for weekly updates!

09/11/2021

Ash's acousmatic piece Edau Bywyd was released a few days ago by Ty Cerdd on the album 'Cynefin: Music from the Grange'.

You can listen to the album here:
https://open.spotify.com/album/7mDYXEHPh6NqeDfB61Loh1

Interviews and further information about the project and all of the composers involved can be found here:

https://www.tycerdd.org/cynefin-music-from-the-grange

01/04/2021

Ash's new work Shadow Play is being broadcast on BBC Radio 3 on Saturday 3rd April performed by Uproar.

See here for further details:
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000tt7f?fbclid=IwAR0p7vU7dpqVTnAorR7jbHLbpXk1_UaiM6Zx9wTuMjy4pIpZQY9BOm76mhE

24/03/2021

Ash's orchestral piece The Dreaming has been awarded honourable equivalent distinction at the 4th International Penderecki competition.
festiwal.zkp.krakow.pl/en/konkurs/

28/10/2020

Ash will be playing a short improvised solo set for Deep Tones For Peace on 30th October at 15.00 EDT (19.00 GMT).
Click here to watch.

09/07/2020

Ash's new work for piano trio Beyond the Haze of Winter's Edge will premiere tonight as part of Festiwal muzyczny Trzy-Czte-Ry Konteksty Kontrasty Konfrontacje. The performance can viewed here from 6pm GMT: https://youtu.be/Z8GGK54w6oQ

04/06/2020

The video of Ash's new work for solo flute my way is in the sand flowing is available online; beautifully performed by Matthew Featherstone.

01/02/2020

Tickets are on sale for the CoDI Sound concert featuring UPROAR at Bangor Music Festival on February 14th . This concert will include the premier of Ash's new work for chamber ensemble and electronics: Etiäinen
www.bangormusicfestival.org.uk/2020-programme/

01/10/2019

Ash is composing a work for Uproar as part of Ty Cerdd's CoDI Sound. Please see here for further information:
https://www.tycerdd.org/post/codi-2019-20-composer-list-announced

23/08/2019

Ash's work as an improviser/composer has been shortlisted to represent Wales at the next ISCM World Music Days 2020 in New Zealand. Please see here for more information: www.tycerdd.org/iscm-2020-newzealand

18/07/2019

The video of the premiere performance of Lunea given by the London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by
Sir James MacMillan is now available to watch online:

20/04/2019

Ash's work has been featured in a British Music Collection spotlight article. The full text can be read here: britishmusiccollection.org.uk/article/ashley-john-long-contemporary-double-bassist