Quite a bit of my time at New Music Wells was spent with students of Wells Cathedral School. Typically of Wells, I’ve read that this is...

Given that Yehudi Menuhin, and his two sisters, never went to school at all, it’s rather wonderful that the Menuhin ethos is most...

It’s now so easy, and informative, to follow the Proms on the internet that I’m in danger of becoming the musical equivalent of that...

A Canadian video artist once told me about an unusual mental exercise he performs annually; “Imagine it’s compulsory by law that you...

My visit to Covent Garden to see WNO’s production of Schoenberg’s opera Moses und Aron was dense with interest. Even reading my ticket...

After a week of unaccustomed media visibility, I was relieved to complete my broadcasting stint by recording an interview for Hear and...

The Sam Wanamaker Playhouse (a new, indoor, candlelit space at the Globe Theatre) has impressed me today by putting tickets on sale for a...

NMC have released their CD recording of my opera The Vanishing Bridegroom today. The opera is almost 25 years old – I wrote it for...

Just about everyone I know has reported the same phenomenon – expecting this year’s commemoration of the Great War to be dutiful but...

Having spent last week in several beautiful churches, I found myself this weekend in a Concrete Cathedral – the New Music Biennial at...