Feb 6, 2017 | News and events
What started a long time ago as ’50 Songs for the over 50s’ has now been more realistically subtitled ‘Seven Songs for Grownups’ ! With brilliantly wry, wise and witty words by Alison Rutherford, this is a collection of more-or-less-cabaret...
Jan 31, 2017 | News and events
Following its premiere at Chapel Royal, Brighton, my Clarinet Sonata has had several performances with Steve Dummer (Clarinet) and Yoko Ono (piano). Meanwhile I typeset my Concerto for Clarinet and Strings (written, like the Sonata in the 1970s!) which was given its...
Jan 20, 2017 | News and events
On the 20th February in Kingston will be the first performances of an extraordinary dual commission: myself and Cecilia McDowall setting the same poem. The poem, ‘The Silk Road’ by Sarah Pope, was commissioned, like the music, by violist and music...
Jan 4, 2017 | News and events
Portions of Eternity is a new song cycle. Rintrah Roars (for voice, harp and piano), an extract from William Blake’s ‘The Marriage of Heaven and Hell’, was written in 2016 and first performed by April Fredrick and the Riot Ensemble. I have now rewritten that song...
Dec 14, 2016 | News and events
The Piatti Quartet played ‘Fuzon’ at the Old Theatre Royal, Bath on Saturday 10th December in a concert which also included Haydn, Frank Bridge and...
Sep 12, 2016 | News and events
A new William Blake inspired piece, Rintrah Roars for soprano (April Fredrick), harp and piano was premiered on October 29th at a wildly diverse concert by the Riot Ensemble, including works by Lee Westwood, Laurence Osborn, Yukiko Watanabe and many members of New...
