Welcome to my website. I am an Eastbourne-based music teacher, composer, pianist and organist.
From time to time, I try my hand at composition. I studied it privately and at university and have taught composition at KS2, KS3, GCSE and A Level.
Please contact me if you would like a copy of anything for your personal or public use. I'm currently composing a responsorial psalm setting each week, for use in our church services.
This is the earliest composition on display here. I created the incidental music for a production of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night in my first school teaching role.
The suite was revised and expanded in 2004 for a production at another school.
This setting of the Ave Maria was composed for a choir I worked with around 25 years ago.
In 2022, the director invited me to perform the piece as organist with his current choir. It was fun to rework the harmonies in line with my current musical tastes.
These responses were composed for a cathedral visit by a parish church choir in 1998.
I’ve revisited and revised them since then and they have been sung at one of the RSCM area festival services, as well as by church choirs in the UK and USA.
Whilst working as Director of Music at a church in London, I composed this piece for our choir.
It's a relatively straightforward setting of a lovely traditional carol.
I composed this in response to a commission from a choral society in 2010. The style is neo-Romantic and melody dominated.
By way of a contrast, I juxtaposed the Christian Song of Simeon (in Latin) with a poem by John Clare.
This is the first movement of incidental music composed for a church Christmas pageant in 2017.
It’s essentiallly a set of variations on the medieval carol Angelus ad Virginem.