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This piece is the first half of a twin — Apollo & Dionysus — and is coming out this Friday. If you're not a philosophy or Greek mythology nerd, the titles may be a bit odd, but never fear, Wikipedia can explain… Dionysus will be released at a later date.

The idea that we are naturally pulled between the twin poles of…

My new piece, 'Apart, Together' is coming out today. It's a gentle, peaceful piece, but with a bit of an edge. I'll explore a little bit of the compositional process in the post, but if you'd like to just get on and listen to it then click here to listen to it on your favourite music service.

My new single Sleep, Wren is out today.

The height of wisdom seems to me

That of a child;

So let my ageing vision be

Serene and mild.

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I was delighted to be invited to contribute again to Bigo & Twigetti’s Perceptions series and my piece, A Heavy Heart, is out now. Click here to be redirected to your favourite streaming service or, if you’re one of my Patreons, click here for downloads & sheet music.

I wrote Delusions End over the course of about 2 weeks in autumn 2020. At the time a couple of my most valued friendships were falling apart and there was a sense that the world seemed on the brink of breakdown. At the time I really wanted to write something optimistic — I really wanted to feel optimistic — but it was never convincing. My writers block only ended when…

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I have a single out today: Wüstenlied

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It's part of an upcoming compilation put together by bigo & twigetti featuring some of my favourite artists

I have a new single out today — Black Rain.

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I could not be more delighted to share this with you: my Healing album is now available on vinyl. Some real blood, sweat and tears have gone into this and I could not be more pleased with the results: it looks and sounds gorgeous. If you already know you want it, here’s the link, or click below for more.

I’ve spent the last few months editing this book of sheet music for my friend Simeon Walker, a wonderful composer whose music is regularly on BBC Radio and who has played Latitude Festival. You can listen to Sim here and order the book here.

I have new music out today, an EP called Bartók Felt. Here are some links, or click below to read more.

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If you're contributing more than €5 to my Patreon, remember you can download it for free in my audio archive

My new piece Greenfinch is out now. Here are some links.

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Greenfinch is part of Bigo & Twigetti’s Perceptions album, which is being slowly released over 2020 and features many of my favourite musicians: Matt Stewart-Evans, Simeon Walker, Jim Perkins, Ben Crosland, Madeleine Cocolas to name a few.

A collection of my sheet music has just been published and is already garnering 5* reviews and hitting the Amazon music songbook bestseller list. It features pieces like The Frost Falls As We Sleep, Flakes Unwatched And Improvised, Suspire, and Hope, collected together for the first time in a new edition designed for learners that features helpful fingerings. Click here to order from Amazon or here to order direct from my store.

I've created a community on Patreon and have been delighted with the support I’ve received. My patrons will will always get first access to everything I release. If you join you'll see my work-in-progress and you can help me shape the music for the better. I'll play you music by other composers that I love and I think you'll fall in love with too. If you're able to support me with more than $1 a month, I'll give you access to all the music I've previously released, big discounts on merchandise and even free stuff. I hope that I'll also be able to give you something more, something that we all need, which is that sense of real connection with another person who really cares.

Like everyone, I'm struggling to figure out what to do with myself in this surreal and sometimes frightening situation. But then I remind myself that we've got through difficult times before — we can do it again. In the last days I've found a great deal of comfort, as so often before, by playing the piano. My partner Anna does the same with her art. I think this is part of what I was trying to get at with my Healing album, which was also written in response to dealing with a scary health problem. When I was first starting to talk about this album I wrote that "the strength of any person comes from their willingness to confront the darkest moments, to accept reality for what it is and to choose to move forward." Those words seem much more challenging to me now, but I still know that's what we need to do. It's what I tried to do with Healing: look the darkness in the eye and move through it.

My record label 1631 Recordings have agreed to let people download Healing for free — click here

For the first time I'm publicly sharing the full video that combines Anna's art with my music — click here.

There’s more info about Healing here.

Garreth’s new album, Healing, a collaboration with Anna Salzmann, was released on 25th October.

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I'm delighted to say that a new compilation by the record label Bigo & Twigetti will feature my piece Symmetry (if you saw me at Bristol you've seen it live; if you're one of my students you might have too!) The compilation is called Scale, and it features some of the best contemporary composers working right now. It comes out everywhere on the 31st October, but you can pre-order it now.

I'll be playing a concert at the Stalburg Theater, Frankfurt, on Sunday 8th December with my friend Clemens Christian Poetsch. Tickets are available here.

Clemens' 2019 album Remember Tomorrow is brilliant (one of my most listened to records of 2019) and has rightly been nominated for multiple awards…