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AWARD WIN at THE IVOR NOVELLOs

13th November 2025

The Ivors Academy’s Ivors Classical Awards took place on 11th November, with nine winners announced. Created to celebrate ‘outstanding new compositions’ by British, Irish and UK resident composers, the Awards recognised the achievements of eight composers and librettists across six categories, as well as three Gift of the Academy Awards recipients. Ivors Academy CEO Roberto Neri said: ‘The Ivors Classical Awards celebrate the art and importance of composition in all its forms, honouring the imagination, skill and dedication that go into creating new music. Each Ivor Novello Award is a unique moment of peer recognition for the most important people in music - its composers. These awards show why it’s essential that composers are supported, valued and fairly rewarded for their work.’ 

The six categories are judged anonymously by a jury of 30 composer judges from The Ivors Academy with Jonathan Dove receiving his fourth Ivor Novello Award alongside librettist April De Angelis for Best Community and Participation Composition for their work Uprising, a community opera co-commissioned by Saffron Hall Trust and Glyndebourne, for which Dominic was thrilled to be part of the creative team as Chorus Director. 

Read more about the 2026 Ivor Novello Awards here. 

Main stage debut with OHP in 2026

12th November 2025

Opera Holland Park have announced their 2026 season complete with an excceptional line-up of productions and special performances, including the return of Will Todd and Maggie Gottlieb's award-winning 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' conducted by Dominic, marking his main stage debut. 

First seen al fresco in 2012, this free-wheeling, tongue-twisting adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s surreal children’s classic for Opera Holland Park gives voice to the curious and curioser characters of the Cheshire Cat, the Mad Hatter, the Dormouse, Humpty Dumpty, Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee, and a positively terrifying Queen of Hearts in music that darts from a coloratura showpiece for a singing Bottle to the smoky blues of a Caterpillar with no work ethic. With designs adapted by Ceci Calf from Leslie Travers’s original sets, and lighting by Jacob Gowler, Martin Duncan directs a new production of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland devised for the main stage of the theatre. Dominic conducts a cast led by Alys Mererid Roberts (A Christmas Carol 2024) as Alice, while James Cleverton, Robert Burt (Itch 2023 and 2025) and Victoria Simmonds (Itch 2023 and 2025) return to the roles they created in 2013 as the White Rabbit, Queen of Hearts and Mad Hatter. 

The production features the company debut of the celebrated cabaret and opera singer Le gateau chocolat as the Caterpillar, alongside Fleur de Bray as the Bottle, April Kodejo-Audiger as the Dormouse and Humpty Dumpty, and Madeline Robinson and Eleanor Broomfield as Tweedles Dum and Dee. Acclaimed across the press for its skilful blend of charm, sass and stylistic variety in its outdoor performances at Holland Park and indoors at the Linbury Studio of the Royal Ballet and Opera, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is scrumptious tea party for the senses, with a subversive streak of the absurd.

For more information and to book tickets click here. 

Dominic and Chamber Choir of London collaborate with CLS

26th October 2025

From the many favourite congregational carols to contemporary classics from John Rutter, Eric Whitacre and Master of the King’s Music Errolyn Wallen, this is a compendium of music to warm the spirits and celebrate the coming of Christmas in song. Dominic conducts the City of London Sinfonia and the Chamber Choir of London in this unmissable Christmas celebration.

Book ticket for this special event here.

IVORS Award Nomination for 'Uprising'

20th October 2025

Jonathan Dove and librettist April de Angelis' community opera Uprising has been shortlisted for the Best Community and Participation Composition award at The IVORS Classical Awards 2025. The opera was commissioned by Glyndebourne, where it received its premiere in February, with subsequent performances at Saffron Hall with The Royal Scottish National Orchestra for which Dominic was Chorus Director, bringing together multiple ensembles for this unique collaboration.

The project looks at the climate emergency through the eyes of the young, whom it will affect the most, and was initiated by Jim Potter and generously supported by Jim and Hilary Potter.

Watch clips from this incredible new opera here. 

Rave reviews for first Wagner outing

1st July 2025

Stormy weather and an enthusiastic audience mark Julia Burbach’s The Flying Dutchman as it proves a smashing success to open the 2025 season of Opera Holland Park. With 5 stars from Broadway World and critical acclaim across the board, the Cast, Creatives, Orchestra and Chorus with Dominic returning as Chorus Master brought the company's Wagner debut to the unique setting of OHP's theatre with rousing success. 

Read more reviews here

Rare Verdi masterpiece with City of London Sinfonia

1st February 2025

Written between 1886 and 1897, Verdi’s Ave Maria, Stabat Mater, Laudi alla Vergine Maria and Te Deum would be his final sacred works, ranging in style from intimate a cappella antiphons to the glorious sound of chorus and orchestra. Dominic conducts the Opera Holland Park Chorus and City of London Sinfonia.

Guest soloists include Eleanor Dennis, José de Eça and Blaise Malaba who will perform a range of arias from Lucia di Lammermoor, Otello, Don Carlos, Il trovatore, and Norma. 

 

 

 

Theatre Royal Drury Lane Debut

1st December 2024

To celebrate the release of Rachel Fuller's book-and-album project The Seeker inspired by Hermann Hesse’s 1922 novel Siddhartha, a special concert takes place on 6th November at London's Theatre Royal Drury Lane, featuring performances by Pete Townshend and Layton Williams, alongside The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and Chamber Choir of London with Dominic as Chorus Master. 

Award-winning British actor and singer Alfie Boe also is part of the concert’s cast. Boe’s credits include Classic Quadrophenia, an orchestral version of The Who’s 1973 album Quadrophenia featuring arrangements created by friend and collaborator Rachel Fuller.

Listen to the album here 

Album release of ground-breaking commissions

1st July 2024

Celebrating its 50th Anniversary, London Oriana Choir and Dominic presents an album of recordings of nine a cappella commissions written for the Choir’s ground-breaking Five15 initiative promoting women composers, with works by composers-in-residence Cheryl Frances Hoad, Rebecca Dale, Jessica Curry, Anna Disley-Simpson and Hannah Kendall.

Listen, stream and download here