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I have been selected to take part in the Britten Sinfonia’s Magnum Opus programme for 2026. This involves two new commissions, a chamber piece to be premiered in April and a concerto to be premiered in November, as well as the opportunity to be embedded with the orchestra for the year. I can’t wait to…

My piece for unaccompanied solo horn, Three Dream Songs, has won the British Horn Society Composition Prize 2025. The premiere performance, by the excellent Tommaso Rusconi, coincided with the announcement of the award on 30th November 2025 as part of the British Horn Festival and the publication of the piece by edition db. The piece…

I’m thrilled that my song cycle for tenor and piano, Imaginary Lover, to texts by Armenian poet Vahan Terian, will be performed again on 19th July in Yerevan, Armenia in a concert at the Komitas Museum-Institute, with tenor Berj Karazian and pianist Arpine Kalinina. The piece was commissioned for Arpine’s “British and Armenian Musical Bridge”…

Some exciting things happened over the last year, from the London premiere of My Lover Spoke at JAM’s season launch concert in March to the world premiere of Movements for Philip Sharp by its dedicatee at the University of Glasgow. It was also a genuine honour to have my Canzoni et ricercari, which won the…

I’m pleased to be sharing a recording of my piano piece Movements for Philip Sharp online, performed by the dedicatee himself. This piece is particularly personal for me, as it reworks material from a piece I wrote for Phil when we were both still at school. You can listen to the piece below, or on…

The Academy of St Martin in the Fields will be performing my string ensemble piece Canzoni et ricercari in London on Saturday 6th July. The concert, titled “Summer Serenade”, also features music by Elgar, Walton, Ruth Gipps, Philip Herbert and Britten, and takes place at 7.30pm in St Anne’s Church, Limehouse as part of the…