"As with all the best setting of poetry, the words were liberated by the music" - Oliver Soden, Gramophone Magazine
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"Beautiful... Very, very atmospheric" - Verity Sharpe, BBC Radio3
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"I love the way the guitar and electronics shape-shift. At one point you hear an allusion to classical Spanish guitar, then you're in a radiophonic studio or hearing morse code in a lighthouse" - Sarah Mohr-Pietsch, BBC Radio 3
About:
I am a composer often inspired by text (from poetry and literature to twitter feeds and graffiti). You will find me working happily on vocal, instrumental and electronic music and I especially enjoy close collaboration with performers, which is at the heart of what I do.
Current projects include a collaboration with Lotte Betts-Dean exploring Thomas Hardy's influence on English Art Song and a spin-off project with the Ligeti Quartet which responds to Hardy's poem 'Afterwards'.
In 2021 I am also writing a song cycle commissioned by Wild Plum Arts and the Estate of T.S. Eliot and an overture for the University of Bristol Symphony Orchestra.
I am a recipient of the Paul Hamlyn 2020 Award for Artists.
Alongside composing I teach part-time at Middlesex University, I'm a sound engineer and I play cricket badly.
I am a composer often inspired by text (from poetry and literature to twitter feeds and graffiti). You will find me working happily on vocal, instrumental and electronic music and I especially enjoy close collaboration with performers, which is at the heart of what I do.
Current projects include a collaboration with Lotte Betts-Dean exploring Thomas Hardy's influence on English Art Song and a spin-off project with the Ligeti Quartet which responds to Hardy's poem 'Afterwards'.
In 2021 I am also writing a song cycle commissioned by Wild Plum Arts and the Estate of T.S. Eliot and an overture for the University of Bristol Symphony Orchestra.
I am a recipient of the Paul Hamlyn 2020 Award for Artists.
Alongside composing I teach part-time at Middlesex University, I'm a sound engineer and I play cricket badly.