Composers Andrew Lewis, Felipe Pérez Santiago, Michael Mathews, and Francisco Colasanto along with bassoonist Wendy Holdaway and members from the Dark in the Song ensemble will take part in the first Encuentro Internacional de Instrumentistas y Compositores on May 7 - 9, 2012 at Centro Mexicano para la Música y las Artes Sonoras in Morelia (Mexico). This first event is dedicated to the bassoon and new technologies.

Acousmatic pieces by Andrew Lewis (including one premiere), Adrian Moore, and David Berezan (including two UK premieres) and mixed works by Hans Tutschku and Chikashi Miyama, amongst several others, will be presented during the MANTIS Festival Fall 2011 from October 28 to 30, 2011 in the Cosmo Rodewald Concert Hall of The University of Manchester (UK).

Pianist Xenia Pestova will perform three works written for her on September 29, 2011 at Powis Hall, Bangor (Wales, UK): Schattenklavier for piano and processing by Andrew Lewis, the British premiere of On the Impossibility of Reflection for piano and processing by Scott Wilson, and the premiere of John Young’s X for piano and tape. The programme will also include works by Messiaen, Mompou and Ravel.

Bangor New Music festival, held under the auspices of the university’s School of Music, celebrated its 10th anniversary with its most ambitious programme to date, and no concert signalled the event’s energy and range better than the one given by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and featuring three firsts.

The school boasts three notable composers – Pwyll ap Siôn, Andrew Lewis and Guto Puw – and works by them made up the challenging first half.

Ap Siôn’s Gwales, dating from 1995, pays homage to the late William Mathias, under whose aegis music flourished at Bangor. Building on fragments quoted from Mozart’s Requiem, the work depicts a journey towards the mythical island of Gwales.

In the first of the new pieces, Andrew Lewis also took us on a journey, this time in and out of consciousness. Number Nine Dream explored the first movement of Mahler’s Ninth Symphony through the hazy veil of the contemporary electroacoustic sound-world, making for an absorbing aural experience.

Hologram, by Guto Puw, BBCNOW’s resident composer, exists emphatically in the present, with his ascetic approach to structure balanced by a sensuous engagement with sound. It was delivered with startling clarity by the conductor Grant Llewellyn.

Wales is the spiritual home of the composer Adrian Williams, and the contemplative, questioning vein that its landscape has permitted him to articulate was reflected in his Cello Concerto, premiered here by Raphael Wallfisch. The concerto seeks to reconcile in its single long span an introverted, blues-inflected expressiveness with a freer, unselfconsciously flowing idiom. It was indicative of Williams’s instinctive ability to communicate directly that this was so warmly received by the audience.

The Birmingham ElectroAcoustic Sound Theatre (BEAST) will present a series of 5 concerts on Travels in Time and Space on May 29 — 31, 2009 at CBSO Centre in Birmingham (England, UK). On May 30, Andrew Lewis will give a solo concert during which he will present his works Danses acousmatiques, Benllech Shells (available on Miroirs obscurs) and Ascent. Another concert the same evening will present Jonty Harrison’s work Phantom Power and Hans Tutschku’s Zwei Räume.

Andrew Lewis’s Benllech Shells which appears on the disc Miroirs obscurs will be presented on February 6, 2009 at Sonic Spatial Perspectives in Leeds (UK). The keynote address will be presented by Jonty Harrison.