"...strikingly imagined..."

"... most approachable... "

for voices

I have worked with many singers and choirs.

My early Mass for Four Voices was chosen by the SPNM for performance at the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival in 1984 where it was sung by Rosemary Hardy, Linda Hurst, Martyn Hill and Stephen Varcoe. It was recorded by the BBC and later broadcast in the series Music In Our Time.

Pange Lingua, written while studying with John Lambert at the Royal College of Music, is a short, virtuosic setting of the text by St Thomas Aquinas.

The Te Deum is for choir and piano in a less florid style.

A Meditation on a Ruin is a setting of the Anglo-Saxon text The Ruin in the original Old English.

There is also a group of works suitable for liturgical use and a few songs.
 

"...no descent into cliché.. "

"...twists and turns of folk music, evocative yet never quite definable; there is the pounding pulse of rock, the melodic parallels and earthy rhythms of the Middle Ages..."

"...most inventively-textured and syntactically original music..."

"...opens up the world of opera to students..."

"...there was as much work for a recorder beginner as for a violin virtuoso..."

Recent instrumental pieces

Speed Matters
'du barocque...'

Trio Sonata

Music for 4 Bassoons
 

An early piece performed at the Bath Festival
Chamber Concerto

Three string quartets and a piano quartet

for orchestra
Opening Chapters
Symphony

for instruments

"...the sung dialogue was lithe and muscular..."

"...the opera's strength lay in the toughness and economy with which it used its disparate resources..."

Christopher Fry's radio play One Thing More, with its heightened prose and poetic emotions, became the chamber opera Caedmon given by the newly-found Garden Venture of the Royal Opera House in 1989. Since revised, a recording of the original version, which starred Christopher Gillett, is archived in the Barbican Library.

Another commission followed, this time to write a piece for schools. The Button Moulder was written for a Northamptonshire comprehensive school with the title role taken by John Dobson, the famous tenor singing alongside the children. The Dream That Hath No Bottom is another full-scale community piece.

All in the Mind was for a large cast of talented teenagers which meet annually to form the W11 Opera company in West London; their productions are professionally mounted to widespread acclaim. The accompaniment is for a small band of professional players.

There are some earlier works which were written for dance.

for theatre

Two series for Channel Four: The Greying World a series of four 50-minute documentaries on the problems of ageing societies throughout the world. Each programme looked at three or four areas - the brief was that the music should provide some continuity in diverse situations, yet also adapt itself to different ethnic surroundings. Eureka! Ancient Egypt - Six 25-minute programmes for schools.
 

for tv