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1971
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First broadcast piano recitals: Liszt, Chopin, Messiaen.
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1974
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ARD Television appearance as piano soloist with Herbert Henck (2 pianos and orchestra).
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1975
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Teaching assistant to Karlheinz Stockhausen.
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1976
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Piano piece for the opening of IRCAM, Pompidou Centre, Paris.
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1979
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First portrait (solo) concerts of own music in New York and
Cologne.
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1980
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Portrait concert at the Ostasiatische Museum, Köln, funded by the City of Cologne.
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1981
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Featured composer in Newer Music Festival, Frankfurt.
Dublin Contemporary Music Festival.
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1982
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One week installation at the ICA, London (soundscapes and four concerts).
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1984
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'Kevin Volans and Pupils' at ICA.
Professor at Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik (Darmstadt).
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1986
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White Man Sleeps with the Kronos Quartet (Darmstadt); the piece went on to become the biggest selling string quartet record in history in 1989 and again in 1992; world tour followed including the Salzburg Festival, Berliner Festwoche and Montreal Jazz Festival, Interlink Festival Tokyo.
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1987
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Hunting:Gathering - Lincoln Center commission for the Kronos Quartet; premiere Herbst Theatre San Francisco CD single and world tour.
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1988
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The Songlines - Lincoln Center commission; premiere NYC and New Music America (Miami)
Collaboration with Bruce Chatwin; featured in his last book ‘What Am I Doing Here’; feature in Andy Warhol’s Interview and NY Times Literary Review.
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1990
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Cover Him With Grass album selected as Financial Times Record of the Year.
Rambert Dance Company commission.
Dance Opera with Shobana Jeyasingh.
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1992
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Composer-in-Residence, Princeton USA.
Pieces of Africa CD - 26 weeks as best selling classical and world music album in the USA.
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1993
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Premiere of opera The Man with Footsoles of Wind (ENO)
“…the major British operatic event of 1993 to date.” (Tempo Magazine, Sept.); one of Andrew Porter’s “Best 10 Events of The Year” (The Observer).
Two portrait concerts of chamber music at the Turin Opera (Teatro Regio)
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1994
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BBC2 commission “Sound on Film”.
Ballet ‘La Chambre” at the Vienna State Opera
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1995
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BBC Proms commission for a piano concerto with the Netherlands Wind Ensemble and Peter Donohoe (Daniel Harding, cond.) CD of wind music. Television dance film with Silvie Guillem and Jonathan Burrows (choreographer)
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1996
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Featured composer in the New Year’s Day live TV broadcast from the Koncertgebouw Amsterdam.
Frankfurt Ballet commission.
European tour of ‘The Stop Quartet’ dance piece including one week at the Pompidou Centre, Paris
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1997
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Cello concerto for the Bavarian Radio Symphony, Munich.
Percussion piece for Robyn Schulkowsky (Berlin) and another for Jonny Axelsson (Stockholm).
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1998
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Full length dance piece for Siobhan Davies (Sadlers Wells plus tour).
Dance piece for Jonathan Burrows Group –European tour.
Guest at ‘June in Buffalo’ New York
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1999
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50th Birthday Concert at Queen Elizabeth Hall, featuring musicians from around the world and Jonathan Burrows and Akram Khan (dancers).
CD ‘Cicada’ (Black Box Music)
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2000
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Dance piece for Shobana Jeyasingh (QEH plus tour including South Africa).
2-piano concert tour in South Africa (with Jill Richards).
Composer-in-Residence at Grahamstown Festival.
First recordings for Liszt CD.
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2001
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Double string quartet for Duke Quartet, CD recording (Str. Quts).
Theatre piece with William Kentridge for Kunsten Festival des Arts, Brussels, Lincoln Center NYC, Minneapolis and Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art.
Commission: Concerto for Double Orchestra for the BBC Symphony, (performed Barbican Centre, Swensen conducting, 2002)
Recording of Liszt CD
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2002
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Surface Tension with the Shobana Jeyasingh Dance Company – tour beginning Queen Elizabeth Hall, London
Part 2 of Zeno at 4 am for Kunsten Festival des Arts, Brussels,Dokumenta Kassel, Yokohama Festival, Pompidou Centre, Paris, BerlinerFestwoche, Hamburg, Rome, Salamanca, etc.
Commission: Strip-Weave for the Ulster Orchestra
Commission: Chakra for 3 percussionists (Sisu)
Commission: Trumpet and String Quartet for the Tromp Biennale, Eindhoven
Commission: 7th String Quartet for Cicada Up North Festival, Dublin
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2003
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De Vlaamse Opera, Ghent, Antwerp: Hunting:Gathering Zeno Tour continued: Capetown, Singapore, Las Palmas, Lisbon
Commission: Piano Trio for Osiris Trio - Bantry Bay festival, Ireland,
Commission: 3 Rhythmic Etudes (for Jill Richards, by Tom Breslin)
Commission: Passi Leggieri for Hardanger Fiddle
Commission: Desert Steps for Tom Kerstens – International GuitarFoundation Cristina Caprioli Artifical Project (Dance) percussion workswith Jonny Axelsson, tour beginning Stockholm
BBC Proms: Revised version of Strip-Weave for Orchestra at the BBC Proms, Albert Hall
2nd International Percussion festival, Moscow
BBC Scottish Ballet, White Man Sleeps Tour
Featured Composer: Ultima Festival, Oslo: 5 concerts
World premiere of Chakra for percussion trio by SISU
New String Quartet for Kronos quartet
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2004
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Performances: Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels, Berlin
Composer’s Choice, Dublin: Piano Etudes and Percussion pieces, Ullen and Axelsson
Estonian performances of 1000 bars by Crash Ensemble
Keynote speaker at Princess Constance Magogo kaDinizulu Conference, Chicago
Commission: 3 Structural Etudes (premiere: Jill Richards, Durban)
Commission: 8th String Quartet for Kronos, Ravinia Festival, (prem: Chicago)
Commission: 4 Guitars for the Dublin Guitar Quartet, (prem: Bray, Dublin)
Commission: Double Take for Clarinet and accomp. For Carol McGonnell
Commission: 9th String Quartet for the Smith Quartet (BBC)
Featured composer, Huddersfield Festival 4 concerts
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2005
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Martin Toonder Award from the Arts Council of Ireland
Music Juror for Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany
Commission: Trio Concerto for the Storioni Trio by The North Netherlands Orchestra, the Royal Flemish Philharmonic,the RTE National Symphony Orchestra (Ireland) and the Storioni Trio
Commission: 10th String Quartet for the Vanburgh Quartet, by RTE
CD release: Standing Wave (Desert Steps)
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2006
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CD release: Dublin Guitar Quartet, White Man Sleeps arrangement
Horizons Festival, Dublin
RTE Living Music Festival
Commission: Choral piece for Theatre of Voices – East Neuk Festival
Commission : Piano Concerto for Marc-Andre Hamelin and theSan Francisco Symphony (Michael Tilson Thomas, cond.)
Commission: Chamber Work for Crash Ensemble, Joining up the Dots
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2007
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Commission: Percussion Concerto for Robyn Schulkowsky and the Munich Chamber Orchestra
Commission: Piece for for 3 ensembles for Juergen Partenheimerexhubition in Ikon Gallery Birmingham and the Deutsches Kunstmuseum,Bonn
Recording of Cicada, with Jill Richards and Kevin Volans
Jury of Gaudeamus Composition Competition, Amsterdam
Recording of complete percussion works, Jonny Axelsson
Recording Piano Trio (Fidelio Trio)
Residency Schloss Solitude,Stuttgart
Performance Ludwigsburger Festspiele (Gavriel Lipkind)
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2008
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BBC Concert and live broadcast, Shiva Dances etc. (Volans and Richards performing, St. Luke’s London
Commission: violin and piano for Waldo Alexander
Commission viola and piano for the Wigmore Hall, London
Commission; 3 piano etudes for Jill Richards
Jury of the International Society for Contemporary Music World Music Days
One-month installation at the Ikon Gallery, Birmingham and 3-month installation at the Kunstmuseum, Bonn
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2009
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60th birthday concerts in Dublin (Crash Ensemble), Dublin IMMA (Ensemble Madrid, 2 concerts),London, (Wigmore Hall, 2 concerts), Pretoria Johannesburg, Durban and Stellenbosch
Commission: cello:piano
Commission: Canciones del Alma (in memoriam Bruce Chatwin)
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2010
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Commission: Symphony: Daar Kom die Alibama
Commissioned by Edinburgh International Festval Society
first performance 27th August Usher Hall Edinburgh
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