"... most approachable... "

for voices

Rossetti Requiem

Christmas Cantata: Brighter than the Sun

Mass for Four Voices

A Meditation on a Ruin

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"...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..."

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

for instruments

"...no descent into cliché.. "

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

Recent instrumental pieces

short story

Speed Matters
'du barocque...'

Music for 4 Bassoons

Concerto Cubico

 

Three string quartets and a piano quartet

for orchestra
Opening Chapters
Symphony

Chamber Concerto

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for theatre

chamber opera -

Caedmon

for school / community -

The Button Moulder

The Dream That Hath No Bottom

All in the Mind

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

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

"...strikingly imagined..."

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

for Channel Four:
The Greying World
Eureka! Ancient Egypt
 

for tv