2021. a snapshot.
2021 has been another challenging year for everyone.
Like many, this year has personally thrown a lot at me and I am starting 2022 a stronger person for it. Despite this and reflecting on the life my music has been given by performers, I have been bowled over with the generosity and jaw-dropping talent of those I have collaborated with in 2021. My music has reached further than ever before and that's all thanks to you.
Thank you to all my friends, family and followers who have supported, loved and inspired me. As a quick whistle-stop tour through the year, here I share some of the highlights and celebrate the supporters and collaborators who have shown their love in 2021...
Here’s to a successful 2022, filled with love, laughter and music-making!
Much love, Nx
January 2021
📀 The #albumrelease is here!
Teary to realise that I am being released on a label that I have been listening to since my teens - NMC Recordings - and that I am sharing it with such a special team of friends who have become a little foster family for the past year!
The culmination of my residency with National Youth Choirs of Great Britain is OUT THIS FRIDAY, with stonkingly good music by Amy Bryce, Joe Bates, Lisa Robertson and yours truly.
📺 Full video of me chatting about the collaboration here: https://youtu.be/hYzcL1BdCVo
February 2021
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September 2021
October 2021
November 2021
December 2021
looking forward to 2022
Duo Melus present a captivating programme featuring new works and classical treasures. The concert will include a new work by Nathan James Dearden, William Mathias’s Sonatina op. 98, Francis Poulenc’s Sonata, a traditional arrangement of Lisa Lan by Stephen Goss, Huw Watkins’s Capriccio, and Debussy’s iconic Prélude à l’aprés-midi d’un Faun.
Celebrating a woman and her beloved gay best friend, Andrew Matthews-Owen has curated a programme that interleaves Robert Schumann’s song cycle on a woman’s life and love, Frauenliebe und -leben, with songs and words by LGBTQ+ composers and poets, including Bernstein, Britten, Copland, Jonathan Dove, Nikita Gill, Jennifer Higdon, Poulenc and Rorem, and new works by Nathan James Dearden.
Brecon Choral Festival’s 2025 theme will focus on the great Welsh religious poet R.S. Thomas. Entitled 'R.S. Thomas: Music, Man...Machine', the festival will explore Thomas' verse as inspiration for composers, and consider what choral music and the natural world might offer us in an age increasingly mediated by machines and technology.