Cadenza Music

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.

First Performance given by the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, conducted by Martyn Brabbins at the CBSO Centre, 11 February 2006.

Escape Velocity was first performed by Milos Milivojevic (accordion) and the Oldak Quartet on the 2006 at the Dukes Hall, Royal Academy of Music, London.

In folklore the Strix was considered a bird of ill omen that fed on human flesh andblood. The earliest recorded tale of the Strix is from the lost Ornithologia. Thistells the story of Polyphonte and h...

A BBC commission for The Listening Project 'Live' First performance and broadcast: MediaCity, Salford and BBC Radio 4 - 14th December 2012 at 19.15, performed by the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra.

Composed at Papay in Orkney and Wenhaston in Suffolk, Oct 2015 to March 2016.

Composer's Note: The subtitle comes from a poem 'Exequy'' by Peter Porter which memorialises the death of his first wife. The symphony was written in 2010 while my wife Elizabeth was coping with a ter...

Co-commissioned by The Scottish and Swedish Chamber Orchestras.

Shadows of a Changing Land takes inspiration from a book of photography by Peter Freeman depicting the Lake District National Park.

First performance give by Huw Watkins and the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Oliver Knussen at the Barbican hall, London on 20 January 2017.

First performance given by the Esprit Orchestra conducted by Alex Pauk at the Koerner Hall, Toronto, Canada on 29 January 2015.

Composers Note: This Quartet takes its inspiration from Quaker sources and above all the 'Silent Worship' of Meetings. The music is retrained and simple and avoids violent rhetoric. Above all, it uses...