Thursday 23 January 2020, 7.30pm Queen Elizabeth Hall, London; Kensington Symphony Orchestra, Samson Tsoy An opportunity to hear me perform the ravishing cello solo in the third movement of Brahms’s Piano Concerto no. 2 Sunday 16 February 2020, 3pm Lancaster Hall Hotel, 35 Craven Terrace, London Afternoon recital with Madeleine Mitchell and Philip Pilkington, programme to ... View Post

I have known composer Francis Pott for many years now, and 2019 saw the first musical fruits of our friendship. Francis writes music of great lyricism and complexity, and I had the extraordinary experience of giving two performances of Francis’s Cello Sonata, on consecutive days. The work is epic in its emotional scope and has been defined in the press as one of the finest British chamber works of ... View Post

My quest for repertoire for cello and piano that needs a wider audience continues. I have recently been working on a CD for EM Records of works from the 1920s. All decades are arguably equally ripe for exploration, but the 1920s were a period of musical ferment. The Great War had inevitably left its mark, and in the cello repertoire we see engagement with the modernism prevalent on the Continent, ... View Post

A number of years ago, I recorded two chamber works by Alan Rawsthorne: the Studies on a Theme by Bach for string trio, and the unpublished Oboe Quartet no. 1. The disc on which they appeared is sadly no longer available, but I am delighted to say that Steve Plews of Prima Facie Records has rereleased those works on a new Alan Rawsthorne portrait disc. I took the opportunity to record ... View Post

This year also saw the release of a disc of works by Richard Causton and Kenneth Hesketh, which includes the premiere recording of Hesketh’s IMMH, written in memory of Michael Harrison, former director of the Kettle’s Yard gallery in Cambridge. It has been described as an ‘imagined shamanic ritual’ and makes extraordinary demands on the performer, including a fair amount of vocalizing and drumming ... View Post