A selection of some of my work can be found below. For more, please see my Bandcamp page, or my Soundcloud page.

Pieces for Dance

Vocals aside, Dover Beach (words by Matthew Arnold) was created using a single field recording of seagulls and lapping waves. The Goose and Common is an elaborate round based on a 17th Century English folk poem, and Desire Lines is entirely made up of manipulated sounds of dancers moving on pebbles on a beach near Lowestoft.

Rippling of Rivers (words by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) and Whisper Your Name (words by Dancing Strong director, Adesola Akinleye) are both based on rounds I’ve written. For more songs like these - including much simpler rounds for choirs(!) - please see Rounds and Canons.

Folk Songs for Choir

Down in the River to Pray is an African-American spiritual, sung by Eleanor Rastall; Cradle Spell of Dunvegan is a Hebridean lullaby, sung by Louise Eekelaar, Eleanor Rastall and myself; The Birch Tree is my interpretation of a Russian folk song, again sung by Eleanor Rastall; and Sakura (“Cherry Blossoms”) is a Japanese folk song, sung by Louise Eekelaar and Eleanor Rastall.

For more songs like these, please visit the Choir Arrangements page on this site – many of the pieces, especially in the "Folk Songs and Others" section, have real recordings associated with them, which you can access by clicking on their YouTube links.

Songs for The Sea Kings

Here are a couple of songs I wrote for my folk band, The Sea Kings. Strays of St Ives is about the town I grew up in, and Lyonnesse uses words from a poem by Thomas Hardy. For more songs by The Sea Kings, please visit our Soundcloud page.

Elms Close

Elms Close is a collection of electric cello music that I released in 2016. A lot of this music was also written for contemporary dance, and much of it is based on folk songs (The Lover's Ghost, and Strawberry Leaves). This album was created using sounds derived exclusively from my cello and my voice.