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Thank you Richard Morrison for your wonderful 5 star review in The Times (7 April). Your kind words are much appreciated…! “This charming production – wittily staged, vividly designed and meticulously choreographed by Thomas Lebrun – perfectly captured the inconsequential élan of the original….The voices were young, but stylishly deployed, and in the pit Jonathan Williams encouraged spirited playing from the RCM Baroque Orchestra. Hébé must have been richly entertained, and so was I.” Read the complete review here (behind…

Here’s a beautiful post from my terrific former St Hilda’s colleague, Dr Kathryne Beebe. Katy has been working on Felix Fabri’s accounts of his pilgrimages to the Holy Land in the 1480s. His day-by-day accounts were read by enclosed nuns so that they might make an ‘imaginary pilgrimage’ to Jerusalem and beyond without leaving their cloisters. Katy and I had a wonderful time putting together text, images and music for a performance to illustrate the real and imagined journeys, which…

Very excited to be orchestrating Charles Ives songs for Emily van Evera, Andrew Parrott and the Lake Superior Chamber Orchestra. What extraordinary music…!  

HORIZON ZERO DAWN, Sony’s new blockbuster PS4 video game, is here! And I can at last say that I am lucky enough to have composed some of the fabulous soundtrack! Invited by lead composer and old friend Joris de Man, I wrote and recorded the four choral tracks during the summer of 2016. Three are for men’s voices and are sung by the Mesa City priests during their sun worship rituals, and the fourth is for the three female singers at…

Thank you Revd John Paton for inviting Consort Iridiana to Christ Church on Thursday, not only to sing in the Cathedral but to join you for dinner in the sumptuous surroundings of Christ Church’s dining hall. To be able to sing Britten’s Ceremony of Carols and Missa Brevis as part of the Eucharist is one of the highlights of our year. Special thanks go to everyone who made our visit possible, and to Rachel Wick (harp) and Will Wallace (organ) for coming to making music…

Rejoice indeed! And many congratulations to Ealing Choral Society’s 100 singers for a wonderful performance of Bach’s Christmas Oratorio on Saturday. Thank you Sinfonia Britannica (and especially leader Miles Golding and manager Philippa Brownsword) and thank you lovely soloists for coming to make music in Ealing and for inspiring us to new heights. What a fabulous way to start the festive season…!