Composing Ecology project
Over the past few years I’ve focused quite frequently on ecological themes and subjects in my work. Since 2025, with my Durham University colleague Eric Egan, I’ve been developing a...
New winter song
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I wrote a song. It’s called Natural State and was commissioned by the wonderful soprano Rebecca Lea for her New Winter Songbook project. She performs it with equally brilliant pianist...
Autumn Premieres 2025
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Two big, long-gestated projects reach their first performances this Autumn – with a combined run-time of over four-and-a-half hours this is certainly the most music I’ve unleashed on the world...
Letting go, letting fly
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One of my oldest and closest new-music buddies is Juliet Fraser, soprano extraordinaire. We set out on this path more-or-less together, co-founding EXAUDI in 2002 when barely out of University,...
Gombert…and me?
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In the early Summer of 2024 I was approached by Simon Reynell, founder of Another Timbre, to make an album of instrumental versions of motets by Nicolas Gombert (1495-1560), with...
Vicentino and me: on Primo Libro
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A post about my 31-ET madrigal book, Primo Libro, recently recorded by Ekmeles and released on New Focus Recordings. My first encounter with the microtonal madrigals of Nicola Vicentino (1511-1575/6)...
Autumn performances 2023
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Some great musicians performing my work this Autumn. Pictured are the super-excellent New York vocal sextet Ekmeles, who’ve taken my 31-ET madrigal book Primo Libro to new heights recently in...
BBC Singers – Open Letter from Composers
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The world’s composers stand with the BBC Singers as they face closure after 99 years. The letter has been signed by around 800 composers, and includes some of the biggest...
Remembering Alastair Putt
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I’ve written the following on behalf of my ensemble EXAUDI, with whom Alastair had a long and close relationship as a singer, composer, supporter and friend. ****** On Monday morning...
Walking with Nan Shepherd
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Last year I was asked to write a piece for mezzo-soprano Lucy Goddard and pianist Siwan Rhys. Lucy and Siwan have a wonderful duo partnership that has already seen numerous...