My new single Turning is out today. Written for piano and string orchestra. Here it is with some of Emma Summerton's beautiful super 8 film.

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The amazing countertenor Nils Wanderer will be performing my settings of Derek Jarman’s poems onstage at The Barbican Hall on the 8th April. Please come hear Derek’s words. Link to tickets is in my bio.xx

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The final moment of Guy K Ward's beautiful telling of the Orpheus myth. Guy approached me to write the score for his film, handing me the script he explained he was building all the intricate sets and making the marionette puppets himself by hand and he'd be in touch again. A few years later....

The sublime @thegesualdosix.bsky.social singing an extract from my setting of the Nunc Dimittis - Lumen.

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My setting of Rilke’s poem Go to the limits of your longing seen here in Susan Thomson’s beautiful feature film The Swimming Diaries.

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