I have been commissioned, with funds from the William Alwyn Foundation, to write a piece for the Britten Sinfonia for their 2014/15 season. The piece, scored for string orchestra, will be premiered in March 2015 in concerts at Cambridge's West Road Concert Hall, Norwich's Theatre...

I have been commissioned by the Bangor New Music Festival to write a chamber orchestra piece for the Orchestra of the Swan conducted by their director David Curtis. The piece will celebrate the 450th anniversary of Shakespeare's birth, and will be performed during the festival...

For the past 10 days I've been in Aldeburgh at the Contemporary Composition course, working with Oliver Knussen, Colin Matthews and Michael Gandolfi. I've been writing a short piece for 15 players entitled 'Rainbow-Shooting Cloud Contraption', after one of the inventions in Luigi Serafini's Codex...

Ahead of the premiere of Four Perpetual Motions by members of the Philharmonia Orchestra a week on Thursday, I have written a blog post for the Royal Philharmonic Society, who commissioned the work. It's on flippancy and music – and how I attempted to write Four...

The ever-wonderful Trio Atem will perform a selection from my 'Seven Face Pictures' at the Nip & Tipple bar in Manchester this Sunday the 2nd June. Scored for mezzo-soprano, flute and cello, the piece is a song cycle on the poetry of Caroline Bird, and...

The April edition of the Tempo journal, published by Cambridge Journals, contains an article by me entitled 'Pierre Boulez's Sur Incises: Refraction, Crystallisation and the Absent Idea(l)'. It's an analytical study exploring how Boulez's extraordinary piece for three pianos, three harps and three percussionists relates...

An update on various bits of news – I had brilliant workshops of works-in-progress with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and the Philharmonia on the 18th and 25th of March, and I've also got one more workshop with the BBC, on the 22nd April. It's such a...

Enmîmés sont les gougebosqueux, premiered earlier this year by Gemini, will receive its second performance on the 9th December at the Great Hall at King's College London. It's being played by Area21, a new ensemble directed by Mischa Tangian, a fellow student of George Benjamin...

I've been developing a piece as part of the Britten-Pears Young Artist Programme 'New Music New Media' course at Aldeburgh this week, using motion capture technology and electronics. The course is run by Rolf Wallin, Tansy Davies and Alexander Refsum Jensenius, with Juice vocal ensemble...

I'm delighted to have been awarded the Royal Philharmonic Society Composition Prize. I'll be spending some time on the Philharmonia Orchestra's Young Composers Academy, working with members of the orchestra and with Unsuk Chin, who is the director of the Philharmonia's 'Music of Today' series....