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{ABOUT}
- __________________________________________I am an award-nominated composer, multi-instrumentalist and writer. I graduated with a first degree in Composition from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and am currently completing my Masters at Goldsmiths College.I compose music for film, theatre and live performance, using of layers of vocals, a selection of different types of pianos, old guitars, incidental noises, poetry, string arrangements, and Ableton Live, and have lent my working habits to independent artists and unsigned/developing artists at Blang, Polydor, Northstar, Sony BMG, as well as companies like the Beeb, X and Playstation.I also write extensively about contemporary music & culture for The Guardian, Music Think Tank, Agenda Poetry Journal and Lazy Gramophone Press who are publishing my first book: Poems through the Concepts of Contemporary Music.
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{COMPOSITION}
______________________________________________LIST OF WORKS
ORCHESTRALStructures I - For orchestra
Structures II - For orchestra
Thirty-Three For string orchestra and tape
Weights and Measures - For orchestraCHORAL
Just Like Job - Text Setting of Maya Angelou for SATB and PianoHere is the Ocean - Text setting of e.e.cummings for SATB
ENSEMBLE
Architechture I - For Vibraphone, Harp, Harpsichord, and vocal ensemble
Four Songs - Four text settings of e.e. cummings and Mihai Eminescu for Baritone, Clarinet in A, 'Cello and Piano.STRING QUARTETSOLO PIANO
A Halycon SynonymBaroque Invention
Baroque Sonata MovementEchoes Travelling - Text setting of Sylvia Plath For Mezzo Soprano and PianoWhen You Are Silent - For solo voiceCLASSICAL ARRANGEMENTS/ORCHESTRATIONArabesque, Debussy - For OrchestraIntermezzo, Brahms - For string quartetLa Desinvolture et la Discretion, Poulenc - For string quartetPOP ARRANGEMENTS
In Idyll, Ambient Remixes, CargoFallen From Grace, Sam Mumford, live & recorded string sectionSatellite, Tristan Horne, live & recorded string section
The Bends, Radiohead, live string section
The Lamb, Sam Mumford, live & recorded string section
Unisonic: arrangement I, DJ Stix, recorded string section
Unisonic: arrangement II, DJ Stix, recorded string section
THEATRE
Pawnography - For The Rose Theatre
Song for a Wedding/Funeral
FILM
Ask Me Nothing, Ralitza Petrova - For the Millennium Commission
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- ______________________________________________BOOKSPoems through the Concepts of Contemporary Music, Lazy Gramophone Press, Autumn 2013POETRY
Bone Ritual, due for publication 2013
Elegy to a Eulogy, due for publication 2013
Ocean, due for publication 2013
Fissures, Lazy Gramophone Press, 2008
This Road, Make Love to Me, Lazy Gramophone Press, 2007
Cities are not Crimes, Lazy Gramophone Press, 2007
Moment’s Notice, The Lick Magazine, 2007
An Alibi, Under the Influence, Lazy Gramophone Press, London 2006PROSE
The Book of Apertures, (Contributor) Lazy Gramophone Press, London 2010
Contributor, Simon & Schuster, London 2012
Posthumous (due for publication, Lazy Gramophone Press, London 2012)ESSAYS
The Relationship between Words and Music, Agenda Poetry Journal, Spring 2013Fado and the Search for Authenticity, Lazy Gramophone Press / tIMR, 2011ARTICLESThe Untold Story of Peripatetic and Private Teaching (article series), The Guardian, 2012
The Independent Musician's Resource Blog, 2011-present
The Rise of the Independent, Music Think Tank, 2010-2011
Music Reviews (Various), Dogma Magazine (no longer in print), 2003-2005
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{VIDEO}
_____________________________________________Lion, Light and Pearl, made by Guy Armitage at Zealous:
A short video of one small, acoustic song shot in my garden last summer:
I've also rather fallen in love with performing Portuguese Fado:
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