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Michael Price @michael--price.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The stunning red-brick Gothic Revival church was built in the 1880s by J. L. Pearson, and had major structural restoration after being hit by several WWII doodlebug bombs.

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Michael Price @michael--price.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The third single from The Seasons is out on 16 October — A Clearer Light, performed by the glorious @connaughtbrass It’s the first movement of Summer in London, 1914, and was recorded in the beautiful St John the Evangelist, Upper Norwood.

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Michael Price @michael--price.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The third single from The Seasons is out on 16 October — A Clearer Light, performed by the glorious @connaughtbrass It's the first movement of Summer in London, 1914, and the first music you hear on the album, written after Alice Meynell’s poem “Summer in England, 1914”.  🎹💙

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Michael Price @michael--price.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

And in the Quiet we Rose, the second single from The Seasons (1914–18), is out on 25 September, performed by the wonderful @solemquartet. This solemn, hopeful work is the last music you hear on the album.

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Michael Price @michael--price.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The second single from The Seasons is out on 25 September — And in the Quiet we Rose, performed by the wonderful @solemquartet. It's the last movement of Autumn in Paris, 1918, written after May Wedderburn Cannan’s poem "Paris, November 11, 1918”.

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Michael Price @michael--price.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

When we arrived the bells were being rung, a beautiful sound, but not ideal for a recording. We asked what the occasion was, and the Tower Captain said they were ringing a ‘full peal’ (3 hours) for one of their number who had recently died. You can see them ringing in the 1st shot of this vid.

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Michael Price @michael--price.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

For Spring in Steep, 1915, with the Galliard Ensemble, we went to St Bartholomew’s Church, in Orford, Suffolk, where Benjamin Britten recorded and premiered many of his later works. The church still has a green slate memorial set in the floor of the nave in memory of him.

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Michael Price @michael--price.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

The Flowers Left Thick, the first single from The Seasons (1914–18), is out on 4 September. Each of the Seasons was recorded in a different church, chosen for its history and acoustics.

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Michael Price @michael--price.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

The flowers left thick at nightfall in the wood This Eastertide call into mind the men, Now far from home, who, with their sweethearts, should Have gathered them and will do never again.  #contemporaryclassical #newmusic #EdwardThomas #Poetry

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Michael Price @michael--price.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

The first single from The Seasons is out on 4 September — The Flowers Left Thick, performed by the wonderful Galliard Ensemble. It's the first movement of Spring in Steep, 1915, written after Edward Thomas's poem "In Memoriam (Easter 1915)".

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Michael Price @michael--price.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

 If you really zoom in, you’ll see the texture from the printing and the beautiful imperfections it brings.  One moving detail of many - the white ‘leaves’, which could also be snowflakes, are shaped like soldiers’ helmets.

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Michael Price @michael--price.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

All the artwork for The Seasons is by Oli Bentley of Split Design, based at Salts Works, Shipley.  Oli is a letterpress and traditional print master. These designs began digitally, were made into a ‘forme’ and hand-printed, then scanned to become what you see here.

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Michael Price @michael--price.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Haha! Suprisingly long legs ... 🎹💙

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Michael Price @michael--price.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

My new album, The Seasons (1914-18), has a release date - Nov 6th, for Remembrance Sunday, with 3 singles starting Sep 4.  Here’s a pic with the lovely @thegesualdosix.bsky.social gang, back in Nov 2025, at the first recording in a freezing St Michael’s Church, Highgate. Wintery it was.

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Michael Price @michael--price.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Something for the whole family for decades, I hope. Can't get our little lad off it for long enough to have a go myself!

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Michael Price @michael--price.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

When we were kids, our Mum & Dad saved up to give me and my brother the best musical instruments they could afford. I’ll always be grateful for that. And now they’re gone, I hope they’d approve of this new forever addition to our family home. 💙🎹 @steinwayandsons.bsky.social

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Michael Price @michael--price.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Great idea - hope you're well. (in case you want to listen again, this is the music they used: open.spotify.com/track/7m8jqn... )

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Michael Price @michael--price.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

New studio space is finished. Let the quiet & loud begin. 💙🎹

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Michael Price @michael--price.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Wonderful! Bet that brings back memories. 💙🎹

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Michael Price @michael--price.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

I managed to borrow a Korg M1 off a very generous friend once, and literally locked myself in the room with it for days!

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Michael Price @michael--price.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Haha! That was always an adventure. 💙🎹

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Michael Price @michael--price.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

That’s a terrific first tune. And that synth line still does the same now, I bet. 🎹💙

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Michael Price @michael--price.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Being in the middle of a big choir is like nothing else, right? Just a wall of human beauty. 💙🎹

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Michael Price @michael--price.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Haha! That’s beautiful. Working your way up, or down the family of instruments. 🎹💙

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Michael Price @michael--price.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Love a radio/cassette - very tactile way of playing music. 💙🎹

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Michael Price @michael--price.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Musical memories seem to go into a similar deep part of the brain as smells. They’re often some of the last to fade when we age, and that striking sense of being transported when you catch a song fragment … feels like one of core elements of being human. What’s your earliest musical memory? 💙🎹

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Michael Price @michael--price.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Definitely good to have a roadmap. Among many highlights, nonchalantly dispatching that Ligeti piano étude was right up there …

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Michael Price @michael--price.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Don’t think I breathed for 90 mins!

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Michael Price @michael--price.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

One of the highlights of the year. 🎹💙 #BBCR3 #BBCProms

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Michael Price @michael--price.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

I heard the trailer for @hannahpeel.bsky.social ‘s new Radio 3 show, brass banding, and it took me right back - Batley Grammar School band, then the Yorkshire Post, then the Albert Hall! Amazing music making, rooted in the community, and open to all. Long live the brass band. 🎺💙🎹

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Michael Price @michael--price.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

It is! Write away. I’m still working through my lovely backlog of correspondence here … 💙🎹

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Michael Price @michael--price.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

I’ve updated my blog with a couple of articles about being a composer in an AI world, and music editing for films. All practical advice from a veteran! Feel free to share with any young composers and anyone entering the film & TV music game. 🎹💙 www.michaelpricemusic.com/blog/

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Michael Price @michael--price.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Clearly the sea meets the sky in lots of places, but there is something magical about the Suffolk coast at Easter. 4th year running taking the kids to Southwold … 🎹💙

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Michael Price @michael--price.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Well said. I’m looking at the sharp downturn in music education outside private schools with horror.

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Michael Price @michael--price.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

‘Low-effort creativity’ - that’s a great phrase. Gen AI really seems to miss the investment of time and effort that brings the real rewards.

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Michael Price @michael--price.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Very good point. There are some trade offs going on, for sure.

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Michael Price @michael--price.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Absolutely. I do wonder that the difficult process of forming your thoughts so you can write them down in some way is part of what makes us human. Seems a short-sighted thing to outsource!

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Michael Price @michael--price.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Glorious sunrise up in Craster. 🎹💙

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Michael Price @michael--price.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Is using AI to write, draw or compose making us less human? 🎹💙

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Michael Price @michael--price.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Last night was the 1st real step on my new recording project “The Seasons”, with a trip to the Painted Church, Cambridge to hear The Gesualdo Six. In 2025/6 I’ll be working with some amazing chamber ensembles + recording my new music with them in beautiful locations. Do come & walk along with us.

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Michael Price @michael--price.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

We planted a weeping cherry tree in our garden before Christmas, and are just seeing it come into blossom for the first time. In case you needed something beautiful to balance out … all this. 🎹💙

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Michael Price @michael--price.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

As a cascade of AI generated art and music ‘products’ fill our feeds, is sharing a human process going to be the only thing that matters? 💙🎹

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Michael Price @michael--price.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Haha! I’ve taken to rescuing collections … this way a storage unit lies. 💙🎹

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