Composing
Commissions as a composer include the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Salisbury Festival, Southern Cathedrals Festival, English National Opera, Childrens Music Workshop, Bangladesh Festival, Station House Opera, Jack De Johnette, The National Forest Project, and the Anvil. He has written a Requiem with the flamenco guitarist Paco Peña and, most recently, a large scale oratorio for children's chorus, orchestra and solos that opened the 2005 Lichfield Festival.
Compositions
- Music for As You Like It for the Derby Playhouse
- Nonino! (premiered in the 2008 Salisbury International Arts Festival)
- Moving Music (for the Scottish Chamber Orchestra 2008)
- Watching it Spin and Turning Stones (arr. David Jackson, used as film music)
- Weigh me the Fire (double choir motet for the Southern Cathedrals Festival)
- Salisbury Proverbs (music theatre piece for Station House Opera/Salisbury Festival)
- Snapshots (theatre piece, partly devised with young people for the Anvil)
- Requiem (Children’s Music Workshop/ENO Bayliss project)
- String quintet (John Surman String Project)
- Suite for a Better World (brass, percussion and sax for Jack de Johnette/London Brass)
- All Change (musical for the Anvil with writer Ian McMillan)
- Dhabi (devised musical for the Bangladesh Festival, dir. Stephen Langridge)
- Songs of the Forest (Oratorio for Lichfield Festival 2005, CMW/Viva)
- Requiem Flamenco (written with Paco Peña)
