Classical Music

Gemischter Chor (Doppelchor zu 8 Stimmen), Basso continuo

In 2005, ji-nashi shakuhachi player Kiku Day approached me to write a piece for her, as part of her mission to increase the use of the shakuhachi (Japanese bamboo flute) in Western classical music. Wh...

Celebrating the life of Robert Van Allan (20th October 1979 - 21st June 1999). Commissioned by Rosemary Pickering, the Norfolk and Norwich Festival, and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Firs...

When Jeffrey Skidmore of Ex Cathedra approached me to write this piece, he specified that it should be remembering the first World War and, if at all possible, the words should be by or about a woman....

Written for SATB choir and piano, with optional audience participation, Pas de deux is a work consisting of five movements by Paul Smith, the co-founder of VOCES8 and author of The VOCES8 Method. The...

An opening movement for SATB choir, piano and timpani (with solos for soprano, tenor and alto). A calm opening leads to a dramatic conclusion with text by Cicero and Ovid in praise and recognition of...

A standalone work for SATB choir and SATB solo quartet, painting a picture of the different characters of a dream. This movement is both comforting and confusing, and is inspired by the Palestinian po...

A New World is a musical story across five movements with texts by authors from Cicero and Ovid to George William Russel; from nursery rhymes to war poets. Each movement may be performed as part of th...

A New World is a musical story across five movements with texts by authors from Cicero and Ovid to George William Russel; from nursery rhymes to war poets. Each movement may be performed as part of th...

A New World is a musical story across five movements with texts by authors from Cicero and Ovid to George William Russel; from nursery rhymes to war poets. Each movement may be performed as part of th...

A choral work inspired by the photograph of the same name taken from lunar orbit in 1968, considering the positive and negative sides of the human race's mastery and control of the world. The work was...

The Promised Child for SATB Choir and Piano by Julian Philips.

An Introduction to Hark, the Glad Sound for soprano saxophone, mixed voice choir and organ by Judith Bingham.

This choral version of the song Sometime I Sing was made at the suggestion of Jeffrey Skidmore, who directed the first performances with the Ex Cathedra choir at their Christmas Music by Candlelight s...

When Twickenham Choral commissioned this work for their centenary celebrations it made sense to choose a local poet. Alexander Pope (16881744) is regarded as one of the UKʼs finest, and with the money...