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Rika Zayasu performance 27th April
19th Apr 2012
Rika will be performing a fantastic concert featuring a range of new composers from York and London including my own piano piece "Simplest of all tongues". Come along! Tickets can be bought at the National Centre for Early Music website.

Rika Zayasu
Fri, 27th Apr 2012 7.30pm
NCEM, York

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New arrangement "The Turtle Dove"
19th Apr 2012
Well I'm back from an inspiring trip to China! While I was there I wrote a new SSAATTBB arrangement in collaboration with composer and folk singer Jon Hughes of the English Traditional folk song "The Turtle Dove". Hopefully there will be a performance soon.
Cthulhu comes!
16th Mar 2012
"Ph'nglui mglw'nath Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn" will be premiered in one of the Chimera concerts on the 22nd June 2012 by the Students of the University of York.

The Chimera Ensemble: Within Cage Without Cage
Fri, 22nd Jun 2012 7.30pm
Sir Jack Lyons Concert Hall, University of York

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Next stop: china!
15th Mar 2012
I'll be heading to china with The 24 this Sunday. We'll be touring china for three and half weeks, where I'll be singing bass and playing piano in some of the biggest venues in the country! You can follow our china blog here.
Press Mention
5th Mar 2012
"Edward Caine accompanied Isabel White singing James Whittle’s wishes for the cloths of Heaven which was endearing and tender. This was followed by Lullaby (2009) by Roger Marsh, the incumbent Professor of Music, based on a setting of Golden slumbers kiss your eyes written by Thomas Dekker who lived between 1572 and 1632. Caine followed this by his own piece based on Marsh’s setting entitled when you rise. Caine also performed a second piece, missing illustrating how ‘grief can appear to drain the colour out of the world.’ Both pieces made full use of the piano’s range and missing certainly made its point." - Alan Gillott
http://www.oneandother.com/articles/review-the-chimera-ensemble/
Performances, Tours, Repetiteurs
17th Feb 2012
Well, I've been very busy recently! Although I don't put these events individually up on this website, I have been singing various concerts with The 24, including innovative theatre project Converging Paths by Slung Low, two fundraising concerts in which I was accompanist and, this weekend, two concerts mapping the path of the Emporer Constantine from Nis to York. In March we will be heading to China for a three-and-a-half week tour.
I have also been engaged to be repetiteur for composer Cheryl Frances-Hoad's opera "Amy's Last Dive, part of the iMove Wingbeats cultural olympiad project, led by Adam Strickson, with whom I am beginning to become a regular collaborator! The music is fun and jazzy, and we've had a fun workshop day at OperaNorth. I'm very excited to be part of this project.