First Impressions
Ever since wanting to be a composer I have always enjoyed that moment when you first hear the piece, with one or two exceptions that is!...
New Recording 2019
The 21st September 2019 was a date which brings to a close a recording project that has taken almost two years to put in place, and it is...
The Great War and Music
Within the Arts, the First World War is perhaps best known for the major poems and poets of the time, much of the horror and desolation...
A True Age of Wonders
As I sat in the sun outside my office last Friday I felt quite emotional with the CD launch today - it feels very much the end of an era;...
'The footsteps, neither near nor far away.'
How does one recover from making a large-scale funding application, I find that there is little positive about that use of creative time?...
Coming Together: The Right Time to Collaborate
Some months back I went to a meeting of administrators, connected with the commissioning of new works. One speaker said something which I...
Shaping the Landscape: The Question of Style and New Music
Although it is a subjective opinion, I have never regarded myself as a ’modern’ composer, or I should say, a composer of particularly...
The importance of ‘Form’ in my writing
Of all the main elements that make up a piece of classical music, melody, harmony, rhythm, etc, I am inclined to say that for me, the...
New CD, New Blog, In Our Time
The CD of music from my opera Jesse Owens, together with some preludes for piano are to be released shortly by Stone Records. This will...
