For my first post-lockdown visit to a live indoor performance I cycled through traffic-calmed streets to the Bridge Theatre, next to...

Here are the words for woman.life.song, the 45-minute cantata I wrote for Jessye Norman, whose 2000 Proms performance is being...

On a beautiful evening in South Kensington, it can be imagined how happy I was to hear my piece Forest played in the Proms by the BBC...

Kudos to Proms supremo David Pickard for inventing the ‘Proms at…’ series, thanks to which we concertgoers travel to interesting London...

Over the last year, if my reaction is anything to go by, groans have been arising from composers’ rooms around Britain and further away,...

World premiere days are lifetime occasions for composers, but the sensation of hearing your brand new work exactly as you first imagined...

​ Thursday’s Prom took place during a Tube strike, the pastoral cycle routes to the Albert Hall packed with a weighty peloton of Boris...