Composer of music, Coffee Bitch, Schnauzer dad, ‘still very much alive’ Composer-In-Association @BBCNOW / @IvorsAcademy & @RoyalPhilSoc winner / views-R: me_own
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Guys, I’m over the bloody moon my Concerto Grosso won a Sky Arts Award yesterday. And even better the award was designed by @graysonperey ! It’s completely bonkers and I love it. Huge thanks to the team @SaxophoneLil @TredegarBand @BBCNOW @bbcproms @BBCRadio3 #skyartsawards
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Excited to announce that my next project with the brilliant @gavhiggins is our cantata 'His Salt Skin' for @ThreeChoirs at Worcester Cathedral on 27 July. And lucky us, #RoderickWilliams is singing!
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I think - and I’m not being hyperbolic - yesterday’s @SinfoniaOfLondn prom may have been the best prom I’ve ever seen. Just mind blowing stuff, never heard anything like it (nice to see some banders up in the rafters too!) Will live with me a long time @BBCRadio3 @classicjacko
American arrogance is truly a thing to behold… I sacrificed three goats today to the football gods praying for a Belgian win
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The white working class aren’t oppressed because they’re white. They are oppressed because they are working class.
They are oppressed by millionaires in slick suits and 5 houses, like Nigel Farage.
We simply do not value the arts anymore in the UK. More grim news. What are @UKLabour @lisanandy actually doing to support the creative industries in any meaningful way, or have they just given up entirely?
Royal Shakespeare Company head of music Bruce O’Neil has taken redundancy as the company presses ahead with axeing its music department, The Stage understands.
Read more 👉 thestage.co.uk/news/rsc-head…
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Over the past week, the Tourette’s community has come together in a way we’ve never seen before.
Read more here: facebook.com/share/p/1EK4EDn…
It’s been a very strange week for those of us in the Tourette’s community. I can only hope that, as a result, more people have a better understanding of the condition than they did a week ago. Some of the commentary on here (and TV) has been appalling.
Here’s John’s post.
A man with Tourette’s thanking people for their support after a week of global humiliation. A man apologising for hurt he never intended, while refusing to apologise for having a neurological condition he cannot control.
The continued harassment of him by Hollywood for his condition is sickening.
These are the same multimillionaires who scream about inclusion from red carpets and podiums, who clap for the sanitised movie version of disability, but recoil when confronted with the real, involuntary reality of it. They invited a man with Tourette’s into the room and then acted shocked when Tourette’s did what Tourette’s does.
That’s not inclusivity. That’s hypocrisy.
Johnny has shown more integrity and decency in one Facebook post than that entire virtue soaked industry managed all week.
Following the BAFTA’s I spoke to the Guardian about Tourette’s - still a very misunderstood neurological condition. Whilst acknowledging the hurt caused it’s important to remember tics are involuntary. Empathy both ways please. #baftas #tourettes
theguardian.com/society/2026…
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BBC plans David Attenborough celebration for 100th birthday bbc.in/4aAI5Jv
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My rip off degree of Old and Middle English led directly to #HorridHenry and millions of books sold, and kids becoming readers. Oh, and I was on one of those visas Reform vows to revoke
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Super thrilled to have won a @londoncritics award last night! Massive congratulations to the other winners @L_vd_Heijden @Mishkapianist @WelshNatOpera @DandyJessica @ccorderoy #johnfindon - very happy composer! @BBCNOW @NYO_GB @NYBBGB @bengoldscheider @classicjacko
Wot a lovely weekend @BBCRadio3 @bbcproms with @BrittenSinfonia performing Rough Voices. Here’s a clip of me ‘banging on’ about class again (but seriously, we need to talk about class) - thanks for having me! @MeurigB @classicjacko @ThangamDebb
Bristolians! Wot you doing this Saturday? Nothing, good! You should come this @BBCRadio3 @bbcproms Prom with @BrittenSinfonia where they’re playing my piece Rough Voices! Come and say hello! bbc.co.uk/events/ezzv9r
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The fees at the public school attended by Jeremy Clarkson are over £40,000 a year. Every time he tells us how well he's done despite his poor A-levels, he's just confirming what we already know about the class system.
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We were so delighted to have the composer @gavhiggins in the audience at All Saints' Church, @HovinghamV
@northyorksc #ACESupported
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Very excited to announce I’ve just been appointed as the inaugural Associate Composer for @ThreeChoirs - I can’t wait to get stuck in and hope to see some of you along the way! @philharmonia @BBCNOW @BBCRadio3
Lovely to hear Naga Munchetty introducing Cortége for a Coal Mine on @BBCRadio3 round up of 25 for 25. @BBCSO & @Lee_Reynolds_ sounding glorious! Very interesting to hear all the pieces next to each other like this. bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002f7…