Jan 11, 2023 | News and events, Uncategorized
My new short piano piece ‘Escape’ is one of three new works commissioned by pianist Nancy Cooley for her concert in support of the charity Freedom From Torture on 5 February. The recital was a sold-out success raising £3500 for the...
Nov 26, 2022 | News and events
I have just rewritten the slow movement of my first string quartet for string orchestra as ‘Threnody’. An intense piece that alternates calm and lamentation. Hear it on Soundcloud
Nov 10, 2022 | News and events
On 18 November the Leto Ensemble (flute, clarinet and piano) gave the first performance of my Adding Up – four movements each of which uses a different interval + its inversion (1+8, 2+7, 3+6 and 4+5). ‘Adding Up’ was originally written only for flute and...
Oct 17, 2022 | News and events
On October 28th the Piatti Quartet performed my ‘Fuzon’ string quartet. Based on the fiery character in Blake’s ‘Book of Ahania’, the quartet was written for the Piatti in 2012 and their recording of it can be seen on YouTube. The new...
Oct 10, 2022 | News and events, Uncategorized
My brass quintet ‘A Walk with Ingres’ Wife’ is now available from Edition Skellton. Why the title? The first issue (June 1914) of the Vorticist movement’s journal ’Blast’ included an article by it’s editor Wyndham Lewis claiming that the wife of classicist...
Oct 3, 2022 | News and events, Uncategorized
On November 4th the Stane Street Sinfonietta played my ‘Another Orpheus’ for string orchestra in Horsham where the poet Shelley was born. The concert is part of a series devoted to the 200th anniversary of Shelley’s death. The title comes his drama ‘Hellas’...
