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
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...
Jun 30, 2020 | News and events, Uncategorized
Great review of the Simplicius CD in MusicWeb International! “A varied and affecting programme of music by a rarely recorded contemporary British composer … Claudio Records has come up with a winner here. The music is involving and interesting, the...
