The Animato Kwartet have given numerous performances of my String Quartet No. 1 “Katabasis” in Holland, after premiering the work this summer at the NJO Muzikzomer festival. Most recently they performed it during the finals of the Storioni Toonzaal chamber music contest.

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The first review of Confession is in, courtesy of John Marley. Visit Jazz In York to read it in full.

Confession is released on Wednesday 10th February and is available to pre-order now.

Available from 10th Feb on ASC records.
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Courtesy of Dave Smyth.
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Back in the UK after six weeks at the MacDowell Colony, New Hampshire, USA, where I worked on a number of new pieces – mainly a groovy string quartet.

‘Full of crazy rhythms, shakes and shimmies redolent of 1920s’ jazz updated by Mark-Anthony Turnage, a selection of vaudeville characters for the ears, before becoming ghostly, a reminiscence of the night before…’
Sinful Sinfonies, along with new works by Sergio Cote, Paulina Zalubska, and Peter Longworth, was premiered on 10th June by members of the LPO and the Foyle Future Firsts. Read the review from Classical Source here