2019 was a year of many musical highlights. During the year there were several first performances, and, very gratifyingly, many repeat performances of older ...

2018 has been a year with many highlights and I must express my huge thanks to the many people who have made it all happen over the course of the year. I’ve ...

Music of A Thousand Breaths is unique in my output: it occupies a very special place. The performance took place almost exactly one month before ago, and I h...

I am still an avid collector of CDs; I do listen to lots of music online but when I hear something I really like I will generally try to track down a hard co...

My song setting for soprano and piano ‘The Dark Gate’ is based around five poems by David Vogel. First performed in York (5th August 2017 by Peyee Chen and ...

Before we get too far into 2017 I would just like to record my sincere thanks to all of the fantastic performers who sang, played and conducted my music last...

The summer of 2016 saw two premieres of new works, both of which took place in York. In June, Tlatelolco (for the unusual ensemble of soprano, cor anglais, ...

I first heard the Albany Piano Trio in 2014 when they presented a programme comprising only the work of female composers. I was immediately struck by their ...

I first met Peter Sheppard Skaerved in the 1980s, when I was RVW Composer in Residence at Charterhouse and he was a rising star of the contemporary music sce...

It was one of those rare moments in life when, if I possessed a 'pause button' for real life I would have pressed it to stay in that moment for as long as po...

I’ve just completed a fanfare which is to be played at the investiture of York St John University’s new Vice-Chancellor, Karen Stanton, in York Minster on 17...

August is often a quiet month in terms of performances and it certainly turned out to be so in 2015. But ‘behind the scenes’ there is plenty to do: I have b...

July started with a tremendous premiere of Gentle, given by Ana Beard Fernandez (soprano) and Zoë Craven (marimba) at the Late Music lunchtime concert on Sat...

Without a doubt, the highlight of June 2015 was my trip to the Czech Republic, where Strata was being recorded by the Brno Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted ...

May proved to be a busy month, as usual. ‘Strike’ (for flute, bass clarinet, violin, cello and piano) received its UK premiere at the National Centre for Ea...