Below is a timeline of key moments on my composing journey, framed by where I was working. 日本版はこちら。
The timeline in my career as an academic.
April 2018-present: Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
2023:
First Performances: Trio Concertante (6 May), Shigeru’s War (24 June), Berceuse (30 September).
Recordings Released: CD – Trio Concertante (released 24 May + YouTube).
Works Completed: Op. 16-2 Love Came Down at Christmas, Op. 17 The Ocean in Summer, Op. 18 Shigeru’s War, Op. 19 Sinfonia Concertante,
2022:
First Performances: Four Songs of Love and Loss and Summer Songs (26 June 2022); New Year’s Eve Bell (20 November 2022).
Recordings Released: Summer Songs Salon Concert (YouTube); New Year’s Eve Bell (Joya no Kane) (YouTube).
Works Completed: Op. 15 Summer Songs and Op. 16-1 Music on Christmas Morning.
2021:
First Performances: String Quartet in C (Chofu International Music Festival).
Works Completed: Op. 13 String Quartet in C and Op. 14 Joya no Kane.
2020:
Works Completed: Op. 12 Four Songs of Love and Loss.
2019:
Works Completed: Op. 11 Trio Concertante.
2018:
Recordings Released: CD Philip Seaton – Chamber Works (19 September).
Other: Music website created. AndArt Music established.
2004-2018: Hokkaido University
2017:
First Performances: ABC (April).
Recordings Released: A Christmas Carol (YouTube)
Works Completed: ABC (commissioned work); Op. 10 A Christmas Carol.
2005-2016:
Largely inactive as a composer.
2000-2004: DPhil at the University of Sussex (at the University of Tokyo from April 2002)
2004:
First Performances: Concerto Grosso (January);The Greatest is Love (March).
2003:
First Performances: The Mill Suite and Bitter Suite (May/June, Mill Hill Music Festival).
Works Completed: Op. 7 The Mill Suite (commissioned work), Op. 8 The Greatest is Love, and Op. 9 Concerto Grosso (commissioned work).
2002:
First Performances: Requiem (March).
Works Completed: Op. 6 Bitter Suite (revised version).
1998-2001: Nagaoka University of Technology
2001:
Works Completed: Op. 5 Requiem.
2000:
First Performances: Reflections (revised version), Memories of Japan and Rainy Day (December).
Works Completed: Op. 3 Memories of Japan and Op. 4 Rainy Day.
1998:
Works Completed: Op. 2 Reflections (revised version) and Bitter Suite (original unperformed version for string octet).
1994-1998: JET Programme in Hyogo & MA at the University of Sussex
Largely inactive as a composer.
1991-1994: University of Cambridge
1993:
First Performances: Reflections (original version).
1992:
Works Completed: Op. 2 Reflections (original version).
1985-1990: Mill Hill School
1990:
First Performances: Serenade for Solo Violin and String Orchestra (May).
1989:
Works Completed: Op. 1 Serenade for Solo Violin and String Orchestra.
1985?:
First Work Completed: Berceuse.