John Woolrich @johnwoolrich.bsky.social · 05/10/2026John Woolrich: Ulysses Awakes Britten Sinfonia The Halls, Norwich Tuesday 20 October 022
John Woolrich @johnwoolrich.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Zoe Gilbert reading her words for John Woolrich's new songs at Folkestone New Music Customs House, Folkestone Wednesday 23 September 2026 photo by Tom Aizlewood 100
John Woolrich @johnwoolrich.bsky.social · 17/06/2026John Woolrich: Ulysses Awakes Britten Sinfonia Aldeburgh Festival 18 June 2026 011
John Woolrich @johnwoolrich.bsky.social · 06/05/2026John Woolrich: In the mirrors of asleep Ellie Blamires (flute), Anna Hashimoto (clarinet), Joseph Havlat (piano), Alessandro Ruisi (violin), Adrian Bradbury (cello) Sacconi Chamber Music Festival/Folkestone New Music Thursday 14 May The Grand, Folkestone photo: Chelsey Browne 020
John Woolrich @johnwoolrich.bsky.social · 07/02/2026Zoe Gilbert has written the words for John Woolrich's new song, Wood-wake: 'Hare’s ear pricks at danger nearing, Hears the trumpet of the dead....' James Gilchrist (tenor), Adrian Adlam (violin), Mark van de Wiel (bass clarinet) 7.30pm Monday 16 February St Eanswythe’s Church, Folkestone 010
John Woolrich @johnwoolrich.bsky.social · 31/01/2026John Woolrich: Watermark Adrian Adlam (violin) and Mark van de Wiel (bass clarinet) Folkestone New Music 7.30pm Monday 16 February St Eanswythe’s Church, Folkestone 020
John Woolrich @johnwoolrich.bsky.social · 17/01/2026John Woolrich: Ulysses Awakes Fay Sweet viola Martin Hughes conductor Lakeland Sinfonia Sunday 18th January Kendal Town Hall 030
Reposted by John WoolrichFolkestone New Music @folkestonenewmusic.bsky.social · 06/12/2025Pierre Boulez's Notations and Incises played by Rolf Hind Folkestone New Music 7.30pm 11 December The Grand, Folkestone 021
Reposted by John WoolrichFolkestone New Music @folkestonenewmusic.bsky.social · 29/11/2025Composer David Matthews at Folkestone New Music November 2025 022
John Woolrich @johnwoolrich.bsky.social · 01/10/2025John Woolrich: Stendhal's Observation Claire Booth (soprano) and Jâms Coleman (piano) Holywell Music Room, Oxford Oxford International Song Festival 13 October 2025 040
John Woolrich @johnwoolrich.bsky.social · 27/09/2025Conlon Nancarrow Prelude & Blues (arr. John Woolrich) (LS commission, World Premiere) Conlon Nancarrow Toccata (arr. John Woolrich) (LS commission, World Premiere) London Sinfonietta Jonathan Berman conductor Sat 11 Oct 2025 Teatro Juárez, Mexico 040
John Woolrich @johnwoolrich.bsky.social · 23/09/2025John Woolrich: Once there was not first performance of new songs with words by Zoe Gilbert Song in her hallways. Moonlight in her eaves. The elm hollows herself and subsides. Claire Booth (soprano) and Andrew West (piano) Folkestone New Music 7.30pm Thursday 25 September The Grand, Folkestone 030
John Woolrich @johnwoolrich.bsky.social · 18/09/2025John Woolrich: Stendhal's Observation Claire Booth (soprano) and Andrew West (piano) Folkestone New Music 7.30pm Thursday 25 September The Grand, Folkestone 020
John Woolrich @johnwoolrich.bsky.social · 01/09/2025John Woolrich: Unlit Suburbs '....quintessential Woolrich - filled with ghosts, shadowy half-heard reminiscences, and marked by a laconic, black humour.' Sarah Parkin (soprano) & Lara Dodds-Eden (piano) 7pm Thursday 4 September Kollectiv, Folkestone CT20 1RN 052
Reposted by John WoolrichFolkestone New Music @folkestonenewmusic.bsky.social · 28/08/2025Canadian/French soprano Sarah Parkin is singing and talking about singing at Folkestone New Music 7pm 4 September Kollectiv, Folkestone CT20 1RN 022
Reposted by John WoolrichFolkestone New Music @folkestonenewmusic.bsky.social · 30/08/2025Cecilia Livingston's Kalypso is 'about the Odyssey, but it’s also my own love letter to Harold Arlen’s Stormy Weather'. Sarah Parkin (soprano) and Lara Dodds-Eden (piano) Folkestone New Music 7pm 4 September Kollectiv, Folkestone CT20 1RN 022
Reposted by John WoolrichFolkestone New Music @folkestonenewmusic.bsky.social · 21/07/2025This caricature of Schubert is attributed to his friend, Franz von Schober. The Salomé Quartet is playing Schubert's Quartettsatz: 7.30pm Friday 25 July Biggin Hall, Dover 7.30pm Saturday 26 July St Leonard’s Church, Hythe 032
Reposted by John WoolrichFolkestone New Music @folkestonenewmusic.bsky.social · 11/07/2025Puccini's Crisantemi is an elegy for a friend. He composed it in 1890 in just one night. White chrysanthemums are a symbol of death in Italy. Salomé Quartet 7.30pm, Friday 25 July Biggin Hall, Dover 7.30pm, Saturday 26 July St Leonard’s Church, Hythe 032
John Woolrich @johnwoolrich.bsky.social · 10/07/2025'All the hallmarks that make John Woolrich’s music so alluring are evident in his string quartet ‘Ending Up’...a wistful lyricism tugged at by disruptive undercurrents.' Salomé Quartet 7.30pm 25 July Biggin Hall, Dover 7.30pm 26 July St Leonard’s Church, Hythe 033
Reposted by John WoolrichFolkestone New Music @folkestonenewmusic.bsky.social · 09/07/2025Little Tich’s Big Boots routine inspired the second of Stravinsky’s Three Pieces for String Quartet. Salomé Quartet 7.30pm 25 July Biggin Hall, Dover 7.30pm 26 July St Leonard’s Church, Hythe 032
John Woolrich @johnwoolrich.bsky.social · 06/06/2025Zephyr Wills is playing John Woolrich's Three Pieces for Viola. 7pm Thursday 12 June Kollectiv, 69 The Old High Street, Folkestone 000
Reposted by John WoolrichFrance Musique @francemusique.fr · 26/03/2025Il parait que Frank Zappa avait 3 modèles dans la vie : Don Harris, Johnny Guitar "Watson" et Pierre Boulez. Fasciné par la musique et l'art de la direction du chef, il a composé pour lui et l'ensemble Intercontemporain "The Perfect Stranger" ➡️ l.francemusique.fr/qIc 2148
Reposted by John WoolrichFolkestone New Music @folkestonenewmusic.bsky.social · 22/03/2025You can hear Howard Skempton's 24 Preludes and Fugues, played by William Howard, at Folkestone New Music. 1pm Thursday 27 March The Grand, Folkestone 041
John Woolrich @johnwoolrich.bsky.social · 18/03/2025John Woolrich: Pianobook 7 William Howard (piano) 1pm Thursday 27 March The Grand, Folkestone 052
Reposted by John WoolrichFolkestone New Music @folkestonenewmusic.bsky.social · 10/03/2025Marie Schreer (violin), Chloe Harrison (horn) and Milda Daunoraite (piano) play new music by Luca Zucchi, Adam Zolty and Alexander Papp 7.30pm Thursday 13 March Folkestone New Music The Grand, Folkestone 032
Reposted by John WoolrichFrancisco Goya @franciscogoya.bsky.social · 04/03/2025They Sing for the Composer www.wikiart.org/en/francisco-goya/t… 021
Reposted by John WoolrichFolkestone New Music @folkestonenewmusic.bsky.social · 01/03/2025Debussy wrote his Sonata for flute, viola and harp in 1915. He wrote: "It is frightfully mournful and I don't know whether one should laugh or cry - perhaps both?” You can hear it, played by Ensemble Pelléas, at 7.30pm on Thursday 6 March Folkestone New Music The Grand, Folkestone 021
Reposted by John WoolrichFolkestone New Music @folkestonenewmusic.bsky.social · 02/03/2025Hans Abrahamsen is coming to Folkestone. He will be interviewed by Philip Cashian before a concert, including his Horn Trio, played by Royal Academy of Music students coached by Hans for tonight’s event. 7.30pm Thursday 13 March Folkestone New Music The Grand, Folkestone 062
John Woolrich @johnwoolrich.bsky.social · 16/02/2025Ensemble Pelléas in Folkestone Debussy: Sonata for Flute, Viola and Harp John Woolrich: Favola in Musica III and music by Harrison Birtwistle, Barbara Strozzi, John Dowland, Anna Clyne and much more. Folkestone New Music 7.30pm Thursday 6 March The Grand, Folkestone 030
Reposted by John WoolrichFolkestone New Music @folkestonenewmusic.bsky.social · 11/02/2025Wiebke Pöpel’s ‘My Way’ -a film portrait of the German composer Helmut Lachenmann which explores his curiosity about death and the hereafter through references to natural life cycles: fires, rocks and forests. Folkestone New Music 7pm 27 February Kollectiv, Folkestone 062
Reposted by John WoolrichFolkestone New Music @folkestonenewmusic.bsky.social · 07/02/2025An introduction to the music of Helmut Lachenmann. Mark Simpson will introduce and perform Dal Niente (Intérieur III), followed by a showing of Wiebke Pöpel’s award-winning film portrait of Lachenmann, 'My Way'. Folkestone New Music 7pm Thursday 27 February Kollectiv, Folkestone 073
Reposted by John WoolrichFolkestone New Music @folkestonenewmusic.bsky.social · 07/02/2025Here are David Juritz and Adrian Bradbury playing a programme of Betsy Jolas, Ligeti and Ravel at Folkestone New Music. 071
Reposted by John WoolrichFolkestone New Music @folkestonenewmusic.bsky.social · 04/02/2025Stephen Plaistow 1937-2025 BBC producer, pianist, writer and friend to new music. 172
Reposted by John WoolrichAndrew Ward @andrewwmusicart.bsky.social · 02/02/2025Looking forward to 6/02, 7:30,The Grand, Folkestone for a journey into the intriguing territory of violin & cello duos.The masterly David Juritz & Adrian Bradbury will perform Stravinsky, Haydn, Villa-Lobos, Berio, Ligeti, Sibelius, Betsy Jolas & the stunning Ravel Sonata. www.folkestonenewmusic.com 031
Reposted by John WoolrichLondon Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 01/02/2025‘One of his earliest jobs was as a window dresser in Basel, where he put up elaborate, fun displays with department-store chairs, saucepans and handbags suspended from pieces of wire.’ Daniel Soar on Jean Tinguely and his kinetic sculptures: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...lrb.co.ukDaniel Soar · On Jean TinguelyThis is what’s weird about Tinguely: what should be forbidding and abstract – mechanised geometries, industrial... 0121
Reposted by John WoolrichFolkestone New Music @folkestonenewmusic.bsky.social · 28/01/2025David Juritz and Adrian Bradbury perform Maurice Ravel’s magnificent Sonata for Violin and Cello in a concert which also includes music by Ligeti, Berio, Sibelius, Haydn, Villa-Lobos and Betsy Jolas. 7.30pm Thursday 6 February Folkestone New Music The Grand, Folkestone 052
Reposted by John WoolrichRobert Macfarlane @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social · 21/01/2025Greatly looking forward to this––published Thursday. Sebald's essays on Kafka, Roth, Stifter, Handke, Roth & others, superbly edited, translated & introduced by Jo Catling. Sebald as critic; Sebald tracing in others the patterns & preoccupations that animate his own extraordinary 'prose fictions'.penguin.co.ukSilent Catastrophes‘We have become suspicious, rightly, of claims for literary greatness, but in Sebald’s case the claim was triumphantly justified. He was, he is, the real thing’ John Banville, Guardian From acclaimed... 39311
Reposted by John WoolrichAndrew Ward @andrewwmusicart.bsky.social · 20/01/2025The 2025 @folkestonenewmusic.bsky.social season kicks off this Thursday 23/1 at kollectiv, the new arts hub in F'stone, with @johnwoolrich.bsky.social at 6pm talking about the new season & at 7pm Mark Simpson & Mel Challenger will be talking about their very well-received 2016 opera 'Pleasure'. 031
Reposted by John WoolrichFolkestone New Music @folkestonenewmusic.bsky.social · 19/01/2025Composer Mark Simpson and writer Melanie Challenger discuss their opera, ‘Pleasure’. 7pm Thursday 23 January Folkestone New Music Kollectiv 69 The Old High St, Folkestone CT20 1RN 033
Reposted by John WoolrichLondon Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 17/01/2025‘Hoffmann’s tales induce a sense of déjà vu, tugging just enough at our readerly memory to make us experience the almost-knowing that Freud called the “uncanny”.’ Polly Dickson on E.T.A. Hoffman’s ‘traumatic tales’: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...lrb.co.ukPolly Dickson · Anthropomorphic Carrot: Tales from HoffmannE.T.A. Hoffmann’s tales induce a sense of déjà vu, tugging just enough at our readerly memory to make us experience... 073
Reposted by John WoolrichMatthew Rose @mrosesings.bsky.social · 16/01/2025Singing folk of BlueSky Please spread the word to the right people?! A bursary for 18-22 year olds, a two week world Class singing course, and a world class song festival, all Happening in Folkestone. soundsfolkestone.co.uk/initiatives/fo… 077
Reposted by John WoolrichFrancisco Goya @franciscogoya.bsky.social · 15/01/2025Modo de Volar (A Way of Flying) collections.artsmia.org/art/58302 011
Reposted by John WoolrichJonathan Cross @jonathancross.bsky.social · 14/01/2025Sad news of the death of Elgar Howarth, a great champion of new music. I was privileged to meet him decades ago at Glyndebourne when Sussex Uni gave Birtwistle an HonDMus (he was conducting The Second Mrs Kong) 0185
Reposted by John WoolrichJohn Andrews @jkaconductor.bsky.social · 14/01/2025Very sad indeed to hear of the death of Elgar Howarth. A wonderful conductor and (he would have said more importantly) composer. A dry, sometimes forbidding, Northerner with a twinkle in his eye who was a lovely colleague to be around. 2305
Reposted by John WoolrichFrancisco Goya @franciscogoya.bsky.social · 18/12/2024Twerp www.wikiart.org/en/francisco-goya/t… 031
