Commissioned by the Bournemouth Sinfonietta Choir with funding from Respect Organics and logistical support from the Soil Association. The World Premiere was on 18 November, 2006 at Sherborne Abbey, Dorset, with a second performance at the Soil Association Annual Conference in Cardiff in January 2007. FIVE SEASONS grew out of their residencies at five different organic farms across Britain, in Dorset, Cumbria, Lincolnshire, North Wales and on the Isle of Mull. The result is an exciting and innovative cantata for 34 voices and string quintet plus oboe and harp, which takes a refreshing look at the pastoral tradition.

Type: Cantata,Choral,Orchestral

A darkly comic opera that makes an ecological point, commissioned and performed by W11 Children’s Opera, as their millennium production. First performed at St. James Norlands, London in 2000. DEEP WATERS was specially written for a cast of over 80 children of widely-varied musical experience. The action begins with a wild, raging storm. Four children fall overboard to the bottom of the sea. In this supernatural, aquatic world, where the fish play havoc with each other in a bid to survive, the children find that they can now breathe. With a ghastly sense of impending doom, they realize that it was no accident that brought them here. They have a dangerous task to perform. An opera that is witty but with a dark edge, it has a serious issue at its heart – over-fishing. Later performed elsewhere.

Type: Children,Opera,Orchestral

For orchestra, 7 narrators, countertenor/mime, rap artist and children’s voices, based on children’s playground rhymes. Commissioned by London Musici and HAPA (adventure play for children with disabilities and special needs). First performed at St. John’s, Smith Square, 1999, PLAY GROUND is a chanted-not-sung cantata. At its first performance, the narrators were played by Humphrey Burton, Susannah Simons, Edward Petherbridge, and Lady Solti, among others.

Type: Cantata,Orchestral,Solo,Rap