Orchestral Music

Ellie’s Theme In reverence and celebration of children everywhere – especially the ones who live secretly inside all of us – this piece is an observation of, and a tribute...

https://youtu.be/tmGJFLRUx0E An Ordinary Tuesday This piece was inspired by a single moment in an otherwise ordinary day, when the landscape of many lives changed utterly and forever in one man’s...

Hymnus The use of horns and woodwind at the beginning evokes the sustaining sound of an organ accompanying a hymn tune in this homage to the unborn child. At times...

https://youtu.be/Vx4ha-7lfUc A Remark You Made A simple remark can have huge resonances – sometimes immediate, at other times viewed through the prism of time and distance; often replayed in our...

https://youtu.be/w2pXECfkVOE The Soul Rests Eternal This is the title track from the 2010 album of the same name. The theme of the album is loss and remembrance of those we...

Tintinnabulum I love the contrast between the sustaining sound of the strings and woodwind, and the tinkling sounds of the percussion, who keep up a ‘perpetuum mobile’ in the accompaniment...

https://youtu.be/5f08kp624dg Despite The Falling Snow Inspired by the Robert Graves poem, She Tells Her Love While Half Asleep’, it takes the last line of the poem as its title. This...

Artemis & Orion A lyrical piece for solo cello and chamber orchestra. part of the CD ‘The Soul Rests Eternal’ recorded by Caroline Dale (cello) with the English Chamber Orchestra,...

https://youtu.be/OeJGrl94t7g Elegy For A Lost Son This piece was difficult to write, but very cathartic. For anyone who has lost a child, I hope this brings some comfort. It formed...