Cadenza Music

Commissioned by Okeanos with funds from the RVW Trust and the David James Music Trust.

Alessandro Ponti’s In Fuga da Verona for solo harpsichord is thriller in music, set in medieval Italy. The underlying story of the piece is like a ‘spin-off’ of Shakespeare’s tragedy. One could imagin...

Folk music is based on 'Goralski' folk music from the Polish Tatra Mountains. The piece begins with deconstructed material which finally emerges in its full form in the final part of the work. Folk Mu...

Commissioned by Jeremy Huw Williams with support from the Britten-Pears Foundation.

Commissioned by Sarah Leonard with funds from the Britten-Pears Foundation and RVW Trust.

Dark Inventions was commissioned by the New Chamber Players with funds provided by Southern Arts. The first performance was given in the Holywell Music Rooms, Oxford, during the Queens college Contemp...

Composers' Note: Written for Anthea Gifford who had visited Essex University (while I was a fellow there) and she has recorded them on a National Trust disk called 'A Classical Guitar Recital at Cough...

Guitar Music was commissioned by Tom Kerstens for IGF (International Guitar Foundation) with the financial assistance of the PRS Foundation.

Music for Parakeets was written for Lionel Handy and Nigel Clayton and first performed by them on October 28th 2008 at Birmingham Conservatoire.

This commission by North London Chorus was possible through a generous donation by Helen Brown, in memory of her husband, William Brown (1948 - 2009).

This work recalls my childhood in a small village outside Launceston, in Tasmania. I spent many hours swimming in the nearby river, the North Esk. There, while swimming, I often dreamed of being a com...

Less Fighting is conceived as a plea for peace. Naive and simplistic certainly, but I am struck by the optimism and idealism and strong sense of morality in children, and I wanted to give them a tune...

Extended Play was commissioned by Decibel with the kind assistance of the Britten-Pears Foundation. The piece is dedicated to Ed Bennett and the members of Decibel.

Pulpable Music was first performed by Birmingham Contemporary Music Group. Conducted by Nicholas Collon, at a BCMG Family Concert at the CBSO centre, Birmingham on February 7th 2011.

September Music was first performed by Orkest de Ereprijs on the 29th October 2009 at Musis Sacrem in Arhnhem. The piece was commissioned with the financial assistance of the City of Apeldoorn.