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5-10 July, Ludlow UK Directing this course for consort singers, featuring treasures of the Spanish Renaissance: Cristóbal de Morales, Tomás Luis de Victoria, Philippe Rogier,… Read More »Lacock Choral Course

Saturday 27 June, 7.30pm, St Paul’s Church, Blandford Road AL1 4JP Soprano, Erin Rossington; Tenor, Robert Forrest Verdi, Les Vêpres Siciliennes – OvertureVerdi, La Traviata:… Read More »St Albans Symphony Orchestra

Concert, 30 May, 6-7pm, St Saviour’s Church, Sandpit Lane, St Albans AL1 4DF, UK I will be directing this reunion concert of the 2025 Norfolk… Read More »Voces del Camino

I am delighted to be the judge again for this UK-wide competition. The standard of the entries in 2025 was very high. Good luck to… Read More »Judge: Independent Schools Association Composition Competition, May 2026

Saturday 14 March, 7.30pm, St Albans High School for Girls, Townsend Avenue AL1 3SJ De Falla, Three-Cornered Hat (Suite No.2)Damase, Flute Concerto with soloist, Hattie… Read More »St Albans Symphony Orchestra

Saturday 7 March, The Coton Centre, Tamworth B79 9AA, UK Directing the Midlands Early Music Forum in an exploration of four of Schütz’s great psalm… Read More »Schütz Psalmen Davids

Thursday 1 January, 7.30pm, St Albans Cathedral. Tickets. Celebrate the passing of the old to the new in the mighty nave of St Albans Cathedral.… Read More »New Year’s Day Concert

Saturday 15 November, 7.30pm, St Albans Cathedral. Tickets. Biannual celebration in the St Albans musical community. Aeolian Singers, Radlett Choir, St Albans Chamber Choir, The… Read More »St Cecilia Festival 2025

17-27 Sept, Mall Galleries, London. Details and admission here. Guild of Ships is glad once again to be invited to the Private View at the… Read More »Royal Society of Marine Artists Annual Exhibition

6-11 July 2025, Skipton, UK Repertoire from The Baldwin Partbooks. Composers include Sheppard, White, Mundy, Tallis, Byrd and Parsons.

Saturday 5 July 2025, 7.30pm, St Saviour’s Church, St Albans AL1 4DF. Tickets. Walton – Portsmouth Point OvertureGrieg – Piano Concerto with soloist Gabrielė BekerytėShostakovich… Read More »St Albans Symphony Orchestra

Saturday 7 June 2025, 7.45pm, Princes Hall, Aldershot, GU11 1NX. Featuring Fleet Choral Society. Tickets. Fauré, Cantique de Jean RacineChilcott, The Snow is FledBeethoven, Meeresstille und glückliche fahrtProkofiev, Violin… Read More »Farnborough Symphony Orchestra

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Norfolk Pilgrimage 4-11 May 2025 Performances in St Peter Mancroft, Wymondham Abbey, Walsingham Shrine Church and Binham Priory. Repertoire including del Encina, Guerrero, Victoria, Lobo, Padilla, Morales,… Read More »Voces del Camino

January-March 2025 I’m working on a string quartet, Op. 9, and finalising plans for the summer expedition (Faroes, Iceland, Lofoten) for The Sea of Trees… Read More »The quiet months

Wednesday 1 January 2025, 7.00pm, St Albans Abbey, Sumpter Yard, AL1 1BY. ‘Music from Stage and Screen’ Williams: ET, Superman, Star WarsE. Bernstein: The Magnificent… Read More »St Albans Symphony Orchestra

Saturday 16 November 2024, Princes Hall, Aldershot, GU11 1NX Soloist: Mimi Doulton (Soprano) Tchaikovsky – Fantasy Overture ‘Romeo and Juliet‘Lutosławski – Silesian TriptychLutosławski – LacrimosaShostakovich… Read More »Farnborough Symphony Orchestra

Saturday 9 November 2024, 2pm and 3.30pm, St Paul’s Church AL1 4JP. Family Concert: ‘Adventures Outdoors’ Extracts from: Ravel – Ma mère l’oye (‘Mother Goose’)… Read More »St Albans Symphony Orchestra

Saturday 12 October 2024, 7.30pm, St Paul’s Church AL1 4JP Moberg – ‘Sunrise’ from Sunrise Orchestral SuiteArutiunian – Trumpet Concerto, with soloist, Shannon Harper Sibelius… Read More »St Albans Symphony Orchestra

Mall Galleries, 19-28 September 2024 The Royal Society of Marine Artists returns to Mall Galleries for its annual exhibition of sea-related work. Thrilled that RSMA… Read More »RSMA Annual Exhibition

Tuesday 9 July 2024, Royal Albert Hall Students and staff from Sherbourne Fields Special School and Baginton Fields Academy created an original piece about renewable… Read More »‘Precious Energy’

1 – 6 July 2024, Zaragoza, Huesca, Burgos Imperial College’s Symphony Orchestra, Imperial College Sinfonietta and Imperial College Choir jointly toured Eastern and Northern Spain,… Read More »Imperial College Tour of Spain

Saturday 29 June 2024, St Saviour’s Church, St Albans Saariaho, Forty HeartbeatsSibelius, The DryadLiszt, Piano Concerto No. 2 in A; soloist – Bradley NgSmetana, Ma… Read More »St Albans Symphony Orchestra: ‘Five beats for nature’

Sibelius Violin Concerto and alumni reunion, Sunday 9 June 2024 Jason Bae gave a thrilling performance of Sibelius’ Violin Concerto to a packed auditorium in… Read More »Imperial College Sinfonietta

Commissioned by Harry Woolhouse Charitable Trust to celebrate 25th anniversary of Imperial College Sinfonietta. Premiered 9 June 2024, Great Hall, Imperial College, South Kensington For… Read More »New work: ‘Carrownagappul’

Saturday 8 June 2024, Princes Hall, Aldershot. Family Concert – ‘Fantasy Worlds’ Humperdinck, Hansel and Gretel OvertureMussorgsky/Rimsky-Korsakov, Night on a Bare Mountainarr. Miklós Rózsa The… Read More »Farnborough Symphony Orchestra

An incredible opportunity for established artists, and ‘young innovators’ (aged 18-24) Sail aboard the wonderful Excelsior as part of an immersive residency, 23 May to… Read More »North Atlantic Islands Residency

Sunday 10 March 2024, 7.00pm, Great Hall, Sherfield Building, Imperial College, London SW7 2BB Smetana, Ma Vlast – VltavaProkofiev, Piano Concerto No. 3 with soloist, Tsz… Read More »Imperial College Sinfonietta

Saturday 9 March 2024, 7.30pm, St Mary’s Church, Thame OX9 3AJ Beethoven, Overture – CoriolanMendelssohn, Violin Concerto with soloist, Yunus Eshekh-AlonsoMozart, Symphony No. 41, ‘Jupiter’ Tickets

Tuesday 30 January 2024, 1.00pm-2.00pm, online Join John Scott Martin FRSA, President of the Royal Society of Marine Artists (RSMA) and me to discuss Eco… Read More »Royal Society for Arts: Central Coffeehouse Event

Monday 1 January 2024, 7.00pm, St Albans Cathedral, St Albans AL1 1BY Johann Strauss II: Overture – Die Fledermaus; Im KrapfenwaldJosef Strauss: Moulinet Polka; Plappermäulchen… Read More »St Albans Symphony Orchestra: New Year’s Day Concert

Sun 12th November 2023, 2:00pm – 3:30pm, St Saviour’s Church, St Albans AL1 4DF Wood, Hornpipe from Fantasia on British Sea SongsSullivan, Overture – HMS… Read More »St Albans Symphony Orchestra: Family Concerts

Saturday 11 November 2023, 7.45pm,Princes Hall, Aldershot, GU11 1NX Bacewicz, Overture (composed 1943)Gregson, Tuba Concerto with soloist, Charlie JonesStrauss, Serenade for WindsBrahms, arr. Schönberg, Piano Quartet in… Read More »Farnborough Symphony Orchestra

Saturday 14 October 2023, 7.30pm, St Saviour’s Church, St Albans AL1 4DF Sarah Frances Jenkins, And the Sun Stood StillNielsen, Helios OvertureSibelius, Nightride and SunriseRachmaninov,… Read More »St Albans Symphony Orchestra: ‘Sun and Dance’

Appointment as Artistic Director, following Tom Hammond I’m honoured to have been appointed Artistic Director of St Alban’s Symphony Orchestra (SASO). SASO is a wonderfully… Read More »St Albans Symphony Orchestra

I’m delighted to be talking with Resonance FM, 3.00pm – 3.30pm on 19 September I’m very happy to join John Scott Martin, President of the… Read More »Resonance FM interview about Royal Society of Marine Artists exhibition, and sail cargo

I’ve just returned from a week bivouacking on one of the most significant raised bogs in Europe: Carrownagappul, East Galway, Ireland. I was honoured to… Read More »Carrownagappul Bog: fieldwork

Sunday 11 June, 7.00pm, Great Hall, Sherfield Building, Imperial College, London SW7 2BB Ravel, Piano Concert in G Grieg, Peer Gynt Suite No. 2 Dvorak, Scherzo Capriccioso Plus… Read More »Imperial College Sinfonietta

Sat 10 June, 7.45pm, Princes Hall, Aldershot GU11 1NX Elgar, Froissart OvertureBritten, Serenade for Tenor, Horn and StringsElgar, Enigma Variations Soloists: Alison Wyld (French Horn) and… Read More »Farnborough Symphony Orchestra

Sat 20 May, 7.45pm, Drill Hall, Ware SG12 9HP Nielsen, Helios Overture; Beethoven, Leonore Overture No. 3; Grieg, Morning Mood; Schumann, Symphony No. 3, ‘Rhenish’  Tickets

A ‘circular’ masterpiece Cesar Franck was one of the great organ improvisers – and an inspiring teacher to a generation of French composers. It’s probable… Read More »Imperial College Sinfonietta – Sat 11 March, 7pm, Great Hall, Sherfield Building, South Kensington

Lark Ascending, Farewell to Stromness, Czech Suite and more… Saturday 29 October, St. Mary’s Church, Thame, 7:30pm It’s a delight to collaborate again with Crendon Chamber Orchestra.… Read More »Crendon Chamber Orchestra

Bogs, glaciers and swans I’m over the moon to be collaborating with a wonderful professional orchestra on a project featuring my compositions. More on that… Read More »News! News! News!

Imperial College Touring Orchestra, 4-10 July What a joy this was. So good to be making music abroad again! Fantastic to be part of the… Read More »Tour to Prague

7.30pm, St Saviour’s Church, Sandpit Lane, St Albans AL1 4DF Two days short of Independence Day, SASO will celebrate with two American classics: Dvorak, Symphony… Read More »St Albans Symphony Orchestra, Saturday 2 July

A new work for Imperial College Sinfonietta, to feature current members and alumni. I am delighted to have been commissioned by the Harry Woolhouse Charitable… Read More »New commission from the Harry Woolhouse Charitable Trust

Great Hall, Imperial College, Sunday 12 June Imperial College Sinfonietta was joined by alumni from the past 25 years for a festival weekend, culminating in… Read More »Imperial College Sinfonietta 25th Anniversary Concert

Princes Hall, Aldershot, Saturday 11 June FSO gave a beautiful performance of Mahler’s Symphony No. 1 in Princes Hall to mark the end of our… Read More »Farnborough Symphony Orchestra: Mahler Symphony No. 1