Jenni Pinnock
jennipinnock.com
Jenni Pinnock
@jennipinnock.com
Composer (contemporary classical/musical theatre) based in South Cambridgeshire, UK. Pianist, teacher, crochet and gardening enthusiast. jennipinnock.com
Went to numerous shops today in an attempt to find either a) a long cardigan or b) a normal ish sunhat that fits my daftly small head. Apparently none of these things are currently available in shops and I'll have to look online instead. But why?
July 17, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Off to the theatre for the afternoon. I struggle with freezing in air con. As a result I'm one of few people carrying a cardigan on the tube in a heatwave. The theatre might not even have air con..
June 29, 2025 at 12:48 PM
My printer seems to think this is an appropriate size for sheet music..
June 23, 2025 at 2:22 PM
My new printer sings to me and I'm very happy about it. When I ask it to print something it plays a chord, then sings an upward scale, finishing on the major 7th and adding a trill!
June 16, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Currently doing the typical composer procrastination of ignoring the music I need to be writing because I reallyreally want to write the fun piece that just popped into my head..
June 4, 2025 at 11:42 AM
The London Festival of Contemporary Church Music might be over for another year, but you can listen to their LFCCM @ Home series online! On 13th May they shared an @ Home Organ Recital, featuring my Study in Five performed by Martyn Noble: lfccm.com/whatson/even...
May 28, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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Wrote a piece about Avril Coleridge-Taylor, her dad, and the @royalalberthall.bsky.social -- sarahwhitfield.com/2025/05/12/a...
May 13, 2025 at 2:51 PM
New gardening level unlocked: Dropping of something at someone's house and taking a moment to complement their wisteria!
May 10, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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If you're in Southampton at the end of the month, you should go to The Stage Door and hear them sing some of the songs from @firebrigademusical.bsky.social (the musical I'm writing with @jennipinnock.com and @helenarney.bsky.social !)

thestagedoor.org.uk/product.php/...
May 8, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Starting the day with a final proof read of the Shifting Seasons score (accompanied by a cup of tea!). Shifting Seasons is a new song cycle of five settings of texts by women writers, supported by the Vaughan Williams Foundation @vwfndn.bsky.social
May 7, 2025 at 8:02 AM
On Sunday 29th June Leading Voices LDN are presenting 22 songs by 22 British and UK-based writers at The Union Theatre, London - and they're including Put Out The Fire from The Cambridge First All-Ladies Fire Brigade!

See their website for more info: www.leadingvoicesldn.com
May 5, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Tonight's redrafting mainly involves adding in all the slurs.
May 4, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Happy Star Wars Day! Alas we hadn't any Star Wars sheet music today, so our wind dectet added some ET to the programme instead..
May 4, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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Happy Birthday Hertha Ayrton! Physicist, inventor, science communicator, social activist and founder of the Cambridge First All-Ladies Fire Brigade:

youtube.com/watch?v=lkiU...
The Cambridge First All-Ladies Fire Brigade - Birmingham Hippodrome New Musicals Showcase
YouTube video by Birmingham Hippodrome
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April 28, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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Today is International Workers' Memorial Day. In the 1870s many lost their lives in the coprolite diggings of Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire and South Cambridgeshire. There is no memorial to them. #IWMD2025
www.cracked-voices.co.uk/poo-and-pick...
April 28, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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The great Hertha Ayrton was born 171 years ago today. She developed a carbon arc light that eliminated the flickering of previous models, then used her knowledge of fluid dynamics to develop an anti poison-gas fan that could have saved thousands in WWI.

tinyurl.com/a29cy3kz

#WomenInSTEM #HistSci 🧪
She Sang the Arc Electric: Hertha Marks Ayrton
Sometimes, simplicity dooms.  In World War I, chlorine gas hailed down upon the British soldiers trudging through their semi-lives in the trenches, killing thousands outright and leaving tens of thous...
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April 28, 2025 at 2:44 PM
A peaceful walk in the woods to start my composing day right.
April 22, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Remembered to prune the wisteria at the right times and it is far happier for it. Best show of flowers yet!
April 20, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Busy working on the children's musical theatre education today.
April 16, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Two of my pieces will be performed as part of the London Festival of Contemporary Church Music next month. Organist Martyn Noble will perform Cassiopeia and Tanquinto as he opens the Festival's organ recital series on Friday 9th May, 6.45pm at St James's Sussex Gardens. lfccm.com/whatson/even...
Organ Recital by Martyn Noble
The London Festival of Contemporary Church Music was founded in 2002 with the aim of showcasing contemporary liturgical music in both service and concert. It has now grown to include more than seventy...
lfccm.com
April 12, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Today I've written some waltz-like piano parts, some very moto perpetuo style piano parts, and have finished off the day with some incredibly stabby piano. Less piano tomorrow maybe?
April 11, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Adding to @helenarney.bsky.social 's "Sometimes writing a musical involves.." series - You know you're writing a musical when at 11pm you both have ideas on how to fix two bars of a piece, and then you have to sit down at the piano to sort it out.. (while giving @mackenwells.bsky.social earworms!)
April 9, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Solidarity to all others trying to juggle their work with the children over the Easter break. My house is significantly louder than it would normally be and finding brain space is even more of a challenge - even with older kids!
April 8, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Very excited that @helenarney.bsky.social , @mackenwells.bsky.social and I are part of Lincoln Art Centre's Innovate Artists 2025! Looking forward to stoking more embers as we continue developing the show, and especially excited to be working with students at the University of Lincoln's MT dept!
Sharing brilliant news that @jennipinnock.com and @mackenwells.bsky.social are part of Lincoln Arts Centre's 2025 Innovate Artist intake!

Can't wait to work with local talent to bring @firebrigademusical.bsky.social to life here - one of our Fire Fighters is Lincoln-born Charlotte Scott! 🔥🔥🔥
April 7, 2025 at 7:58 PM