Dec 11, 2020 | News and events, Uncategorized
These SATB settings are of four vivid poems by Mervyn Peake. They alternate between the nonsensical and the heartbreakingly tragic. 1. ‘O Love!, O Death!, O Ecstasy!’ 2. ‘And I Thought You Beside Me’ 3. ‘The Trouble with Geraniums’ 4. ‘Out of the Chaos of my Doubt’...
Oct 25, 2020 | News and events
In 1991, director Wilf Judd at Covent Garden developed a wonderfully imaginative scheme (The Garden Venture) to commission short chamber operas. Mine, titled ‘Echoes’, had a brilliant libretto by Anne Harris whose skills – developed writing for television...
Aug 11, 2020 | News and events
I wrote ’Crossings’ for viola and guitar this year for violist Patricia McCarty and guitarist Bill Zito. Their first, video, performance was streamed online from the InterHarmony International Music Festival: https://www.interharmony.com/ The concert is posted on the...
Aug 3, 2020 | News and events, Uncategorized
A new slow, winding, passionate introduction is added to my Toccata for two violins which has a dizzy ending! Hear it on Soundcloud
Jul 15, 2020 | News and events
Written in lockdown, these four short keyboard pieces follow an imagined baroque suite in form (Allemande, Courante, Sarabande and Gigue) but not in style: not quite old and not quite new! PDF available from me. Hear the Gigue on Soundcloud
Jul 5, 2020 | News and events, Uncategorized
Fenella Humphries included a superb performance of my ‘BoBop’ for solo violin in her lockdown concert on 5th July, together with pieces by Biber and Schubert and the premiere of ‘Caged Bird’ by Alison Berry. See it all on YouTube at...
