The Year’s Midnight

I was thrilled to conduct the first performance of my new cantata ‘The Year’s Midnight’ on 13th December 2023, with the massed voices and strings of Yehudi Menuhin School performing.

This was a very special evening with Gillian Clarke, who wrote the wonderful texts for this piece, attending in person. I thoroughly enjoyed preparing this project with the students of the school, and performing alongside them in the finale concert of our Winter Festival felt fantastic.

Above is a short sample from the performance, and alongside this I will be putting more excerpts online in the coming weeks.

Score videos online

I have added a number of extra score videos to my YouTube channel, including the festive pieces’The Oxen’ and ‘On Chrstimas Morn’, which both features on SANSARA’s 2019 album ‘The Waiting Sky’. You can hear the full album below, also. You will also find score videos below for my pieces Alma Redemptoris Mater, and O Sacrum Convivium.

New projects for 2024

I am excited for a number of projects to come to fruition this coming year, many of which I have been working on throughout December. 2024 is shaping up to include a variety of performances of my work all over the world, and I am really excited to share this information with you closer to the time!

The main projects I will be working on this year are:

Finalising the Piano Concerto and workshopping the piece with Matthew Schellhorn
A new work for Wind Quintet
A new work for string trio
An extended work for two pianos
A song cycle for soprano and piano
A set of Petrarch sonnet settings for solo male soprano
A new setting of the Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis for choir and organ

Lots of exciting opportunities and I will add more information to this blog throughout the year to show the plans all materialising!