Clarity & Hart Agency
Communications and website design for the Eco Sail sector. Farewell C&H. Welcome Guild of Ships! I set up Clarity & Hart (C&H) in 2020 as… Read More »Clarity & Hart Agency
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Knoydart: Striations and Horizons
Knoydart Peninsula August 2020 Knoydart is the uppermost of the peninsulas that make up the Rough Bounds in Northwest Scotland, an area intruded by deep… Read More »Knoydart: Striations and Horizons
I Musicanti: Beethoven Violin Concerto
Introducing lunchtime concert series at Imperial College, London 5 November 2020, 12.45pm Concert available on YouTube. Bill gives an introductory talk (starting at 00:48) about… Read More »I Musicanti: Beethoven Violin Concerto
RAH! Podcast at Manchester Metropolitan University
Science and Art: Climate Change and The Singing Glacier Manchester Metropolitan University June 2020 Part of the Science and Art series. Poet Helen Mort and… Read More »RAH! Podcast at Manchester Metropolitan University
Farnborough Symphony Orchestra
Farnham Maltings, Farnham 14 March 2020, 7pm Glinka, Ruslan and Lyudmila Overture; Prokofiev, Violin Concerto No. 1 with soloist, So-Ock Kim; Stravinsky, Firebird (1945). An… Read More »Farnborough Symphony Orchestra
‘Lamb’ at Future Sun: Nashashibi/Skaer
S.M.A.K. Gallery, Ghent, Belgium 30 November 2019 – 16 February 2020 ‘Lamb’ is a new film by Nashashibi/Skaer with a soundtrack created by Bill, mezzo… Read More »‘Lamb’ at Future Sun: Nashashibi/Skaer
Mountain Hare (2021)
Finzi Scholarship piece inspired by Mountain Hares in the Cairngorms. Classical orchestra version (2,2,2,2; 4,2,0,0; timp; strings) and potential chamber version (violin, cello, piano, clarinet). Bill also wrote a travel essay.
The Singing Glacier
For baroque ensemble. Collaborative response to glaciers, commissioned by The Little Baroque Company. In 2016 Bill and the poet Helen Mort climbed in East Greenland.
Icicle
Part of the project, ‘The Singing Glacier’. For violin, viola and glockenspiel.
Circus
SATB, solo piano, solo sop. Commissioned by King’s School, Worcester. On Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania, Bill watched white-necked ravens duetting.
Particles 1, 2 & 3 (2017)
Cl, vln, vc, pno. Also in version for solo vln and orchestral sections (dbs, vlas, second vlns). Inspired by the viscosity of air. It sparkles and dances around us, pushes up against the objects we see, or swathes the night with light.
London Life
A suite of five movements for clarinet, violin, guitar, double bass, harpsichord and timpani. Written as sound-tracks for short films produced by Sands Films. Now available as a concert suite.
Lamb (Nashashibi/Skaer)
Short film by Nashashibi/Skaer with sound-track by Bill, mezzo-soprano Olivia Ray and Rosalind Nashashibi. Footage of a lambing shed from the Island of Lewis and Harris shot by Lucy Skaer.
Composing with Hares
Photograph © Bill Carslake (Cairngorms, 2018) Place writing In 2018/19 I took two solo camping trips in the Cairngorms and one in the Peak District… Read More »Composing with Hares
Stravinsky and why a composer composes
Photograph © @ruralexplorer Parallel Worlds – notes on the historical context and music of The Firebird by Igor Stravinsky Article As part of the ‘lockdown’… Read More »Stravinsky and why a composer composes
Elizabeth
Music Director for the Royal Ballet productions in 2016 at the Linbury Theatre and in 2018 at the Barbican Theatre.
Farnborough Symphony Orchestra
Musical Director of Farnborough Symphony Orchestra since 2018. Recent programmes have featured works by Charlotte Bray and David Matthews. The inaugural Farnborough Symphony Orchestra Young… Read More »Farnborough Symphony Orchestra
Imperial College Sinfonietta
Musical Director of Sinfonietta since 2013. The orchestra champions innovative programming and staging dispositions and tours annually. A very welcoming orchestra, it is open to… Read More »Imperial College Sinfonietta
Royal Oman Symphony Orchestra
Guest conductor for various programmes from 2009 to 2012. This also afforded the opportunity to explore the Al Hajar mountains.
Wolsey Orchestra
Bill has a long and fruitful relationship with Wolsey Orchestra, performing with world-class soloists in the grand old Corn Exchange in Ipswich, and the stunning… Read More »Wolsey Orchestra
St Albans Symphony Orchestra
Bill has collaborated with SASO on large-scale programmes including Mahler, Symphony no. 5 and Elgar, Symphony no. 1.
Junior Royal Academy of Music and Junior Guildhall School of Music
Bill taught and coached for seven years at JRAM and now teaches conducting occasionally at JGSMD.
Benslow Music
Adult education course Bill has run this wonderful baroque music course with Theresa Caudle since 2010. Open to all amateur baroque enthusiasts – with bursaries… Read More »Benslow Music
Jackdaws Music Education Trust
Music projects in Somerset Co-leading the annual ‘Song Story’ and ‘Summer School’, composing and arranging music inspired by a different composer each year, working with… Read More »Jackdaws Music Education Trust
SEN projects with Patrick Stockbridge
Creating stories with music since 2011 In this unique professional partnership Bill and Patrick create immersive musical performances with students in Special Educational Needs schools… Read More »SEN projects with Patrick Stockbridge
Private coaching
Coaching in conducting, composition, singing, theory and writing. More about private coaching
Lockdown Lyrics
Photography ©Bill Carslake A response to ‘lockdown’ in the UK during the COVID-19 emergency Poetry For nine consecutive days from 24 March 2020 Bill wrote… Read More »Lockdown Lyrics