2019Conductor
The Fish that became the Sun, World premiere
Large-scale World Premiere performance
Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival
With a host of collaborators, Octandre Ensemble gave the World Premiere of Frank Denyer’s epic The Fish that Became the Sun (1991/96). Waiting nearly 30 years for its premiere, the piece has a legendary status in British new-music circles.
“Denyer's hour-long masterpiece … had a gripping flow that was sometimes thunderously aggressive, … sometimes beguiling and often disturbing. I will be searching out the recording (Another Timbre) made by these excellent performers — the Octandre Ensemble directed by Christian Mason and Jon Hargreaves.”