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!
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...
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’...
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
