My friend Richard invited me to set Shakespeare’s famous Sonnet 116 to music on the occasion of his wedding : “Let me not to the marriage...

An upside of a composer’s life (let’s not start on the downsides) is attending your own performances and hearing additional music you...

I took this commemorative snap of the side of my keyboard having finished my latest composition a few weeks ago. If you know your Bible,...

Spitalfields Festival is 40 years old this year, and a celebration of this feat was held with a piano recital by that charming and...

How would you guess that, poised right behind the exhausting 6-lane Great West Road pouring pollution into poor old Hammersmith, lies a...

Preparing for my trip there, I learned from many people that Wells (Somerset) is either their favourite English Cathedral city, or the...

In phew-what-a-scorcher Sunday weather, it seemed only a borderline good decision to attend Evensong at 3.30pm. However, Hampton Court’s...

It seems very bad form (although ubiquitous on YouTube) for singers to photograph the conductor in mid-performance, but that’s what James...

As is the case with nearly all British composers, it’s a rare event for me to hear some of my own music in a concert hall programme by a...

Without even a moment to change into a new jumper (see previous blog photo) I rushed from Maida Vale Studios to hear the fine Oxford...