Here are links to some blogs and articles I’ve written over the years. Click on the titles or the images to be taken to the webpages that host them…
‘Barricades’ – Remembering Cable Street
Written for: Making Music
Date: 06/10/16
About: My final blog about working with the East London Community Band as part of the ‘Adopt A Composer’ scheme.
Intraversing – An Autobiography Of The Bassoon
Written for: LSO
Date: 25/07/16
About: A short blog I wrote about my piece ‘Intraversing’ for three bassoons, which was composed for Phase I of the LSO Soundhub scheme.
‘How I Compose’ series – I – Lee Westwood
Written for: British Music Collection
Date: 21/07/16
About: In this first article for the ‘How I Compose’ series, I discuss how I went about writing ‘…and the stars were like pinpricks in the black fabric of night…’
Lee Westwood – ‘How I Compose’ series – The secret art(s) of composition
Written for: British Music Collection
Date: 20/05/16
About: Introductory article for the ‘How I Compose’ series.
Meet The Artist… Lee Westwood, Composer & Guitarist
Written for: The Cross-Eyed Pianist
Date: 23/06/16
About: An interview for the Cross-Eyed Pianist.
Meet The Composer: Lee Westwood
Written for: LSO
Date: 20/05/16
About: An interview for Phase I of the LSO Soundhub.
Carols, conductor games, & community wind bands
Written for: Making Music
Date: 14/01/16
About: My first blog for the Adopt A Composer scheme, whilst working with the East London Community Band.
Questions: After Cage, After Study, After All…
Written for: Sound and Music
Date: 18/08/15
About: This was a piece I wrote during my time composing a new work for vibraphonist Joby Burgess on Sound and Music’s Portfolio scheme ‘Aluminium Music’.
Lee Westwood on MusArc
Written for: Sound and Music
Date: 09/12/14
About: I wrote this piece in the run-up to MusArc’s premiere of ‘The Artchitect’, a piece I wrote for them under Sound and Music’s Portfolio scheme.
A Hidden Order
Written for: Sound and Music
Date: 09/06/14
About: An article I wrote for Sound and Music about my project ‘A Hidden Order’ and the relationship between Music and Geometry.
