2025

Tonhain Kollektiv play SERENITY 2.0 in Berlin.

Manchester Collective tour SERENITY 2.0 across the UK.

Timothy Choi plays Tell me again in Hong Kong (CUHK).

Talk and piano recital with Maki Sekiya at St Hilda’s College, Oxford.

Toho College of Music Percussion Ensemble play Daily Affirmation in Saitama, Japan.

Hallelujah Sim. nominated for a Royal Philharmonic Society Award.

2024

Colin Currie Quartet premieres Daily Affirmation at Kings Place.

Music for the Turner Prize 2024 and Tate, showcasing the work of Delaine Le Bas.

Leo Shibanuma plays Three Studies in Toho University of Music, Japan.

Three Studies performed in Kyev by CMM Youth Music Center.

LOVE GAMES performed in Atlanta by atlanta contemporary music collective (atlcmc).

Solo violin version of BREAK-UP MANTRAS performed in Nagakute, Japan by Tatsuki Narita of mumyo (arranged by Yuri Umemoto).

BBC Singers perform BLIP in Bristol as part of the BBC Proms. “Ben Nobuto’s BLIP was not so much sung as intoned, shouted, muttered and exhaled, subversive and witty.” - The Guardian

Tell me again performed by Hyun-Mook Lim in Tokyo at Ryogoku Art Festival.

Premiere of Hallelujah Sim. for first night of the BBC Proms, with BBC Symphony Chorus & Orchestra, BBC Singers and Elim Chan. “The real novelty, though, was a new choral and orchestral piece, Hallelujah Sim., by the rising young composer Ben Nobuto. Just seven minutes long, it almost upstaged everything else.” - The Times

The Carice Singers perform Sol in Worcester as part of Three Choirs Festival.

New London Chamber Choir perform the nearness of the things at St John’s Waterloo.

Premiere of Baby Lexicon for Abstruckt quartet for Nonclassical’s 20th anniversary.

National Youth Choir perform Sol at NMC’s anniversary concert for Spitalfields Music Festival in July.

Premiere of interbeing for BCMG x Noh Reimagined in Birmingham in June. Aired on BBC Radio 3’s New Music Show in July.

Interview with BBC Music Magazine, published in their July issue. Read here.

Richard An performs Tell me again in LA for tiny backpack in June.

Trio for flute, cello, piano + electronics performed at The Ivy House, London in June.

UK premiere of BREAK-UP MANTRAS with Southbank Sinfonia at St John’s Waterloo in May, with my own arrangements of Aphex Twin, Yves Tumor, Gesualdo and others.

National Youth Choir and OAE premiere FACE ANTHEM at London Handel Festival with Sofi Jeanin - “a dance-like sampled energy, punchy and effective” - The Guardian

Tell me again performed in Detroit by Justin Snyder (director of New Music Detroit) in March. Watch the performance here.

Manchester Camerata play skip and show a film screening of [B R E A T H E] in Leeds, Settle and Kings Lynn through March - May.

ZenGPT for solo piano premiered by Siwan Rhys at CrossCurrents Festival in Birmingham in March. Later performed at City University in London in April.

Aestus Quartet play playtime in Snape Maltings for Britten Pears Arts in March.

BLIP for BBC Singers airs on BBC Radio 3’s New Music Show with Kate Molleson in February.

2023

Sol wins an Ivors Academy award in the Choral Composition category.

LOVE GAMES - for violin, toy pianos, percussion, electronics and video - premiered by Stomping Ground Collective, Kate Ryder and me at Siobhan Davies Studios in Elephant & Castle.

Released an hour-long mixtape as guest editor for Sound and Music’s The Sampler, available to listen on Resonance FM.

i carry your heart given second performance as part of YANG QUEEN, a multimedia concert hosted by Tangram’s Mantawoman at LSO St Lukes. Featuring performances by Dan Shao, Momoko Gill and myself.

SERENITY 2.0 performed by Manchester Collective at the BBC Proms in Royal Albert Hall in August, ft. a second percussion part played by me alongside the ensemble. Listen to the BBC 3 broadcast here.

BREAK-UP MANTRAS, a 20-minute piece for sextet + fixed media for Southbank Sinfonia, premiered at Anghiari Festival, Tuscany in July.

Rothko Collective perform SERENITY 2.0 at St Giles Cripplegate, London in June.

Premiere of JOY REPLICA, for alto sax, bass clarinet and piano, at The Rose Hill in Brighton in June. For Common Ground a new experimental performance series.

Emily Likes the TV performed by Aidan Chan at Brixton Unitarian Church in May.

Sol receives US premiere with the Bob Cole Chamber Choir in California in May.

Tell me again receives US premiere at the Manhattan School of Music In New York in May, performed by Nacho Ojeda

Bad Infinity, written for Zubin Kanga, premiered at Rich Mix, London in April. The piece was featured on Zubin’s album ‘Machine Dreams’ and released on Nonclassical.

SERENITY 2.0 receives US premiere at Oberlin Conservatory by Orson Abram and Eris Quartet in March.

SERENITY 2.0 wins a Royal Philharmonic Society Award in the Chamber-scale Composition category.

Live at Leighton House, for sextet + electronics, performed at Leighton House in London in January. Commissioned by Nabihah Iqbal for her series Glory to Sound.

Egress premiered by City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra at Birmingham Symphony Hall in January. To be released on NMC Recordings later in the year.

Two new choral pieces - Sol and The Nearness of Things - released on NMC Recordings with the National Youth Choir in January. The album receives a 4 star review from BBC Music Magazine. Sol is also featured on Spotify’s Classical New Releases playlist.

Wrote a short blog about my time on the National Youth Choir’s Young Composers scheme.

SERENITY 2.0 performed at the 2nd Biomechanics Multimedia Festival in Moscow in January.

2022

LOVE GAMES for amateur violinist + electronics performed by me at Artefact, Birmingham in September. A duo version for flxnflx was later performed at Unit 44 in Dublin.

[ B R E A T H E ], a multimedia collaboration with Manchester Camerata, Orchestras Live and poet Roma Havers is released in June and tours cinemas around the UK.

Interview with Zygmund de Somogyi for PRXLUDES magazine.

i carry your heart for flute, yangqin & electronics premiered by Tangram’s Dan Shao and Mantawoman at San Mei Gallery, London in May.

Three Studies for percussion + electronics premiered by Joanne Chiang in Duke's Hall, Royal Academy of Music in May.

Where Parallel Lines Meet included as part of MANTIS Festival: Sound in Words, a two-day festival exploring intersections of spoken word with electroacoustic media.

2021

LAPSE for clarinet, bassoon & electronics premiered by Sonix Duo at St Ann's Church, Manchester in December.

SERENITY 2.0 premiered at Southbank Centre as part of Manchester Collective’s Heavy Metal tour in December. Later performed in Bristol, Salford, Leeds and Birkenhead.

Interviewed by Benjamin Tassie for his show Future Classical on Resonance FM.

Where Parallel Lines Meet is played on BBC Radio 6, along with an interview by Huw Stephens for the BBC Arts Introducing show.

My Masters dissertation - Digital Maximalism and ‘the new post-everything’ - is available to read here.