Jun 14, 2021 | News and events, Uncategorized
On June 21st, the wonderful Siân Philipps played my ‘Nocturne’ and ‘Cortège?’ for violin and piano in Brighton. Both pieces are reflections on poems by García Lorca. She also played works by Vaughan Williams, Sally Beamish...
May 18, 2021 | News and events, Uncategorized
Sadly, pianist Karen Kingsley had to cancel the June concert including my three ‘Marcel Morceaux’. The concert will be rescheduled!
Apr 19, 2021 | News and events
Last year I wrote four pieces for keyboard in the form of a baroque suite (Allemande, Courante, Sarabande and Gigue). I have now recomposed them for string trio. You can hear the Sarabande in Soundcloud.
Feb 18, 2021 | News and events
‘Nocturne’ is a short new piece for violin and piano, a partner for my ‘Cortège?’ – both prompted by poems by Lorca. In this case it is the bizarre, threatening ‘Nocturne, Brooklyn Bridge’ written by Lorca in the 1920s when he...
Feb 18, 2021 | News and events, Uncategorized
Fellow composer Julian Broughton and I have suggested changing our identities (and shaking up our ideas) by using each other’s compositional ‘f’ingerprints’. We have teamed up with clarinettist Steve Dummer to try to raise funds to commission and...
Jan 18, 2021 | News and events, Uncategorized
The bassoon is an awkward, athletic, melancholy, rambunctious instrument! There aren’t many solo pieces for it – so I’ve just written...
