As Associate Composer of the BBC Singers since 2015, I drop in at intervals to their fabled residence, Maida Vale Studios. But with my...

Visiting the Purcell Room yesterday after its long refurb, I was overjoyed to find it is all still there – including this 1960s Danish...

I have several times written about the Royal Society of Musicians, whose Presidency I inherited from Sir Peter Maxwell Davies a couple of...

A few months ago I was invited into Westminster Abbey to discuss writing some music for a service being planned for the evening of...

In the past I’ve shied away from writing a concerto (not that requests for these arrive every week, of course.) I think something about...

I have spent an enjoyable year as associate composer with the Addison Singers, who are in fact three, sometimes, intersecting, choirs...

Ah! Crystal Palace, the Montmartre of South London, with its breathtaking views around the whole city plus far-reaching southern...

As previously mentioned on the blog, I’ve been writing an oboe concerto – and I still am! I sometimes think it would be interesting to...

Having just been to see the dress rehearsal of British Youth Opera’s production of my opera The Vanishing Bridegroom (heartwarming to me,...

World premiere days are lifetime occasions for composers, but the sensation of hearing your brand new work exactly as you first imagined...