NEWS / UPCOMING PERFORMANCES / SCREENINGS
November 17th 2024 - Concert performance with the AUSTRALIAN DISCOVERY ORCHESTRA, Melbourne... The Melbourne-based ADO will perform a concert centred around two of Stuart's orchestral works: Variations on a Heroic Theme and Raptures (both of which featured on his 2019 Raptures album). Kevin Purcell will conduct this brilliant professional orchestra at Ian Roach Hall, Scotch College, Melbourne. Info and tickets here.
October 30th 2024 - KENSUKE'S KINGDOM Special Screenings... Stuart will be introducing special screenings of Kensuke's Kingdom with Q+A during the October half-term Family Film Week at the Barbican Centre. Click here to book - Wednesday October 30th, showings at 2:15 and 3pm. And in the evening of the same day, at Leighton Buzzard Library Theatre - 7pm.
August 2nd 2024 - KENSUKE'S KINGDOM - ***OUT NOW***... Check here for a cinema screening near you!
March 7th 2024 - BRITISH ANIMATION AWARDS - KENSUKE'S KINGDOM wins big, including Best Music... It's a fabulous night for Stuart and animated feature film Kensuke's Kingdom at the biennial British Animation Awards. The film picks up three of the four awards it has been nominated for: Best Music, Best Writing (Frank Cottrell-Boyce) Best Feature Film for directors Neil Boyle and Kirk Hendry. This is followed up, a couple of weeks later, with the Grand Prize at the New York International Children's Film Festival. Catch a clip of the movie here and stay tuned for news of a UK theatrical release.
RECENT LIVE PERFORMANCES / SCREENINGS
July 3rd 2024 - VIOLIN CONCERTO - Cadogan Hall performance... Fenella Humphreys was the soloist in a stunning performance of Stuart's epic Violin Concerto at London's Cadogan Hall. Lev Parikian conducted the London Phoenix Orchestra. Hear a clip from the BBC Concert Orchestra recording with Jack Liebeck here.
March 16th, 17th, 23rd & 24th 2024 - RAIN DANCE - US revival... The wonderful North Cambridge Family Opera mounted a new stateside production of Stuart and Donald Sturrock's Rain Dance. The show, originally written for W11 Opera (now London Youth Opera) was premiered in 2010 and a first NCFO staging in Boston followed in 2014. Catch a clip from the 2010 Riverside Studios production here, featuring a pre-fame 15-year-old Jonathan Antoine as the villainous Tau.
December 16th/17th 2023 - PANDORA'S BOX - World Premiere... The newly christened London Youth Opera unveiled their newest commissioned work - and their first back live on stage since 2019 - Stuart and librettist Donald Sturrock's contemporary take on Pandora's Box. The venue was the beautiful Susie Sainsbury Theatre at the Royal Academy of Music, London. Info here, with clips to come soon.
November 18th 2023 - PETER & THE WOLF and KENSUKE'S KINGDOM LIVE IN CONCERT... Following the success of the charity performances last year of We're Going On A Bear Hunt Live In Concert, Stuart conducted the brilliant St Paul's Sinfonia in family presentations of the Academy Award®-winning stop-motion Peter & The Wolf (2008 Oscar®-winner - Best Animated Short Film). Director Suzie Templeton, together with the puppets that star in movie, was there in person as part of the presentation. The shows opened with an exclusive preview look at KENSUKE'S KINGDOM with Stuart's symphonic score performed live. All profits will benefitted the music education charity Music Masters - empowering children to reach their creative potential through music, no matter their background.
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