I finished writing a new opera yesterday. We're going to be putting it together over the next couple of months and doing a workshop performance. At 2000 bars long, with my own words and music, it's probably the most ambitious thing I've ever made. I will try and share updates from the process here!

See you at this next week?

Being YouTube video by Lewis Coenen-Rowe

Some more music: youtu.be/JKqQiTEoeM4. This one's part of a set of three where the titles are all anagrams of each other. The title Being refers to the fact that it's basically just the same theme the whole way through in different forms.
Video by Zip Tie Studio.

Stand Behind The Yellow Lines Please! YouTube video by Lewis Coenen-Rowe

I recorded a bunch of my piano music recently and will be sharing a few pieces on here. Here's one inspired by a guy making announcements at a train station: youtu.be/VCsfASIxmvw

Thanks to Zip Tie Studio for the video!

15 socially engaged arts leaders from across Europe join our inaugural Fellowship Meet the 15 leaders of socially engaged arts organisations joining our inaugural Fellowship programme.

Excited to be doing this cool thing! I'm on this fellowship with the Alliance for Socially Engaged Arts for the next year and a half and looking forward to learning a lot from these cool people. www.allianceforsociallyengagedarts.org/15-socially-...

HSBC Says It’s Time to End ‘Negative Bias’ Toward Fossil Fuels The new head of sustainability at HSBC Holdings Plc says the time has come for banks to stop penalizing clients that have a large carbon footprint.

HSBC Says It’s Time to End ‘Negative Bias’ on Fossil Fuels - Bloomberg

Spotlight Gig: Any Enemy (soundfestival 2024) YouTube video by Sound Festival

The video from the gig I did with Any Enemy last October at Sound Festival in Aberdeen is up and it looks great! youtu.be/p_cuBXQzy0E You can hear my piece 'I take comfort in' from about 36 minutes in. Score here for anyone who likes dots: www.lewiscoenen-rowe.com/_files/ugd/6...

I made a thing for some reason. Happy Christmas!

Call on your MP to go fossil free! We are calling on all MPs and Peers to sign the Fossil Free Parliament pledge, committing to cut fossil fuel interests out of our politics and to reject the industry’s donations.

Parliament breaks for the Winter hols this week - can you take 2 mins now to ask your MP to gift* you a promise to go Fossil Free?

🎅📝Write to them here: fossilfreeparliament.uk/pledge/pledg...

'Tis the season for calls for scores, so 'tis the season for some #RealTalk about the impact your well-intended call is having on composers.

Ensembles: thank you for being interested in new music, and in discovering composers you aren't familiar with yet.

'Butterfly Heads', pen and ink, 2022. One of a whole series of weird drawings I've done over the years.

I'm trying to share more music on here, so here's the opening bars from the four movements of my string quartet: 'stuff i like in nature' (2018) Score here: www.lewiscoenen-rowe.com/_files/ugd/6...

I was really pleased with my newest opera STUMPED, which had a run at the Fringe this year and had a great response! I can only share the video privately, but here's the score: www.lewiscoenen-rowe.com/_files/ugd/6...

Cool yeah, why not! I can't promise loads of time for it right now but I can do a bit at least

Maybe! What's it involve?

Ooh this is a good idea! I'll send some stuff

I'm new here! Interested mainly in following people involved in climate change or contemporary classical music (especially opera). Would love some recommendations of who to follow here.

I'm worried about the person with Earth Song at the very top of their playlist. There's no need for that kind of behaviour.