Programme Notes
Unknown Terrors is a musical journey into the geography of the imagination and the mythology of exploration.
The Colour of Sadness is the title of a woodcut, from a suite called 'Roaming Far from Home' (1953) by the Japanese artist, Shiko Munakata.
A Little Notebook was composed in 2006 to celebrate the 40th birthday of Melissa Lane, my partner, and to fulfill a longstanding promise and wish, to compose a piece for the Fitzwilliam String Quartet.
Lonely Sits The City is based on the Book of Lamentations, a sequence of five poems from the Hebrew Bible, reflecting an ancient tradition of mourning poems after the destruction of a city.
This cycle of three songs based on poems by Miroslav Holub was composed as a tribute to Peter Lipton.
I'm composing an opera in collaboration with playwright, Fraser Grace, called Don’t Breathe A Word.