At the beginning of 2024, I signed with Pan Macmillan to publish two novels, the first of which - The Quiet - will be released in May 2025. Find out more here.

Since 2019 I have been making video essays on music for my YouTube channel, Listening In, gaining nearly 230,000 subscribers and over 10 million views. I've made 60 videos covering music from a wide spectrum of styles and genres. Film music has become the staple of the channel, but I've also analysed classical, contemporary, and 20th Century music alongside music in art and literature as well as pop and rock songs.

As a composer, my pieces have been performed widely in the UK and internationally by groups including the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Orchestra of Opera North, the Ligeti Quartet and the choir of St Paul’s Cathedral. In 2018, my work for large orchestra, Quanta, was selected as the winner of the Toru Takemitsu Composition award and In 2017 and 2019, I received two nominations for national composing awards. The first was for my 45-minute cantata based on the story of the Temptations of Christ which was nominated for a BASCA British Composer Award, and the second was for my work for organ and electronics, Partials, which was nominated for an Ivors Composer Award.

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