NEWS
Intermedio III for bass clarinet and live electronics has won the Prix Ton Bruynèl 2012.
New
monodrama A
FURY'S CURSES / MALÉDICTIONS D'UNE FURIE for voice, ensemble and electronics was premiered on 10 May
at the Sounds
New Festival. Click here to watch a short film about it.
'a perfect integration of
instrumental properties and electronics ... a fragile equilibrium in
which tension and virtuosic quality is felt during the entire
composition' (Jury, Prix Ton Bruynèl 2012) (Tim Rutherford-Johnson) 'John Croft's simply beautiful ...ne l'aura che trema
for alto flute and live electronics, and which the former excites the
latter into complex and erotic 'tails' of activity of varying detail
and behaviour, entrancing.'
'...a soundworld of ghostly
resonances and faint musical breaths.'
(Matthew Connolly, The Times)
'Croft
vastly expands the world within and without the instrument ...
heart-achingly beautiful ... like stepping onto another world ...'
John
Croft at Brunel University