Michael Blake

After focusing almost exclusively on the instrumental medium for forty years, I will use the forthcoming STIAS artist residency as an opportunity to concentrate on the voice - and the choir in particular.

Globally, a moral imperative exists to ensure that all children are provided with the resources and environment necessary to enable them to reach their individual potential, and the call for investment to improve the health of children is almost universal.

My project is to write a Composition Treatise which draws largely on my six-volume set of nearly 100 piano pieces, Afrikosmos.