Jun 25, 2023 | News and events
Yoko Ono included my ‘Period Pieces’ for piano in her recital on Wednesday 28th June at St Nicholas church in Brighton. The pieces follow the form of dances from a baroque suite – Allemande, Courante, Sarabande and Gigue. Hear the Gigue on...
Jun 4, 2023 | News and events
Chidiock Tichborne was only 24 years old when he was brutally executed by being hanged, drawn, and quartered for his role in the Babington Plot to assassinate Queen Elizabeth I in 1586. His ‘Elegy’, (‘My Prime of Youth is but a Frost of Cares’)...
May 27, 2023 | News and events
Yulia Drukh is a truly astonishing clarinettist with many international awards to her name so I’m thrilled that her new CD (available internationally from 9th June) includes my ‘Mimes’ for solo clarinet. Unusually, all the music on the CD is for solo clarinet and...
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...
