Hommage
Hommage was my contribution to a joint project amongst staff and students at Cardiff University to write a work inspired by the instrumentation used in Henri Dutilleux’s Citations. The individual compositions were then…
Mwg
Mwg is named after an ensemble that never met, in turn named after the Welsh word for ‘smoke’. Mwg was adopted as a working title but – appropriately, perhaps – has stuck; the…
Lost Places
This highly autobiographical work explores the idea of places that are lost, either in the sense of geographical remoteness, or because they are form part of my past. Menevia Menevia…
Social Media Suite
Each of the movements is loosely inspired by elements of social media, the internet and electronic communication in general, though purely musical argument always takes precedence: 1. En Face 2.…
Parque Central en la Luz
In 2014 and 2016 I spent many happy months in Antigua, the former colonial capital of Guatemala. Sitting in the bustling central park one could often hear semi-informal street performances…
Piano Sonatina
Written for Chris Warner as my entry for the 1997 Joyce Dixey Prize (in which it was highly commended), this work was heavily influenced by Michael Tippet's 2nd Piano Sonata,…
Concerto for Flute
An older work, but one for which I retain some fondness. It is unusual in form, consisting of just two movement (slow-fast). Over the years I made a number of…
The Sacrifice of Isaac
Text by Madeleine L’Engle, from Ladder of Angels, 1979 Sacrifice of Isaac O my father, am I really to go with you?And help you with the sacrifice to the Lord?You’ve…
A Birthday
Lyrics: My heart is like a singing birdWhose nest is in a water'd shoot;My heart is like an apple-treeWhose boughs are bent with thick-set fruit;My heart is like a rainbow…
Baptismal Sentences
For George Albert William Owen Thomas Commissioned by Fr. Paul Thomas for St. James’s Church, Sussex Gardens. The texts is adapted from two sections of the 1662 baptismal service: Be stedfast…