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My pieces Dream (2018, for tenor and piano) and Six Dream Songs (2014, for solo soprano) will be performed at the Komitas Museum-Institue in Yerevan, Armenia at 7pm on 11th October, alongside new music by Arpine Kalinina, James Moriarty and Alice Hunter, as well as arrangements by Britten and Komitas. This is a continuation of the British-Armenian Musical…

I am very excited to announce that I have been commissioned to write a new piece for soprano Heloise Werner and pianist Natalie Burch which will tour around the UK in late 2019/early 2020. The piece will sit alongside Britten’s Les Illuminations as well as a new piece by Heloise. I have worked with Heloise many times…

On Thursday 23rd May my new piece Cantata-Roundelay, for soprano, tenor and cello, will be premiered at the Wigmore Hall. The concert is part of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama’s Voiceworks project, featuring collaborations between writers, composers and singers. The text for Cantata-Roundelay was written by Sophie Rashbrook, and the piece will be performed by soprano Hannah…

I have some exciting projects coming up for 2019, including taking part in the London Symphony Orchestra’s Panufnik Scheme, which will involve writing a brand new piece for the orchestra. I am also currently working on a new piece for Soprano, Tenor and Cello to be premiered at the Wigmore Hall on Thursday 23rd May,…

You can now listen to recordings of three of my latest pieces, Trio-Sinfonie, SEXTET and Frammenti Ricercati online here. Each of these pieces explores the relationship between the fragmentary and the continuous in different ways, putting fragments as short as 10 seconds alongside continuous passages of up to 10 minutes.

Following the world premiere at the Liszt Academy in Budapest on 12th November, my Trio-Sinfonie will receive its UK premiere at Milton Court Concert Hall, London at 7:00pm on Friday 30th November. The 14-minute piece plays with proportion and continuity to create what could be described as a “broken structure”, and its compositional language is inclusive, letting…