Piano Sonata No.3

Youtube audio streaming score available from Wise Music program note A light-year is not a span of time, it’s a distance: 5.88 trillion miles. A distance so vast it is hard to imagine. But as we have become increasingly aware of the fragile state of the Earth’s atmosphere and climate, it’s natural enough to wonder … Read more

Sonata for Alto Saxophone and Piano

Spotify YouTube (2nd movement) recording available Mercurial Barry Cockcroft (alto saxophone), Adam Pinto (piano) Reed Music score available from Reed Music program note This Sonata was composed in fulfillment of the 2001 Albert H Maggs Composition Award. It was written specifically for Barry Cockcroft and Adam Pinto to premiere at a concert featuring my saxophone … Read more

Sonata for Bassoon and Piano

YouTube Spotify score available from Wise Music program note i. The Abyss of Time ii. Deep Time iii. Ghosts of the Anthropocene While viewing a strata unconformity at Siccar Point in 1788, when geology was first emerging as a science, John Playfair wrote: “The mind seemed to grow giddy by looking so far into the … Read more