
gordon downie
piano piece 1 was commissioned by Julian Jacobson with funds provided by the Ralph Vaughan Williams Trust, and premiered at Bath Spa University, UK in 1993. Subsequently the work was given its Italy premiere at Teatro dell'Aquario di Roma, by Ciro Longobardi as part of the Nuovi Spazi Musicali Festival, Rome, October 1995, and broadcast on RAI, supported by the British Council. In 1996 the work was performed by James Clapperton in Studio 1, BBC Broadcasting House, Cardiff, UK and by Ian Pace on BBC Radio 3’s Hear and Now in May 2001.
Ian Pace, BBC Radio 3 Hear and Now, May 2001.