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...
Apr 16, 2020 | News and events, Uncategorized
In these locked-down days, many are choosing to hear music streamed to save the postman! I’m glad to say that both my CDs (‘Voices from the Sea’ and ‘Simplicius’) are available streamed as well as on CD. For instance these sites can be...
Feb 26, 2020 | News and events, Uncategorized
The Manchester choir Altèri commissioned a setting of the WWI war poet Edward Thomas’s ‘For these’ from me. [“For these I ask not, but, neither too late/ Nor yet too early, for what men call content,/ And also that something may be sent/ To be...
