It feels like a lifetime ago, but last month I had the enormous pleasure of travelling to Morelia, Mexico, where I joined the 20th edition of their wonderful festival – Visiones Sonoras. It was an incredibly valuable experience for me – I heard some wonderful music, met some great people, and enjoyed being back in…

Big thanks to Andrew Lewis for performing my music at Musicacoustica festival in China. I wasn’t able to travel, sadly, but have heard many amazing things about this festival… hopefully another year…

I’m SUPER proud that my latest piece ‘Unto the Sea’ has been selected for the finals at the Métamorphoses composition competition. The finals of the competition, organised by Musique et Recherches, is taking place in a public concert at the start of L’Espace du Son on 16th Oct 2024. I’m really excited to attend once…

Last week, I attended NoiseFloor in Lisbon. Although it usually takes place at Staffordshire University, this year it was hosted by the Lisbon School of Music, (Escola Superior de Música de Lisboa). It was a brilliant event – some excellent papers and pieces from start to finish. I enjoyed performing two pieces – To US.S..S……

I’m super happy to announce that TO US.S..S… has been selected as a finalist at the MA/IN awards, based in Italy. I’ve never had a chance to visit – but it looks like they run amazing concerts, in a very beautiful location, and I have my fingers crossed to be selected for the next round!!!…

I’m very happy to share the news that Berk Yagli – one of my PhD researchers at UAL – has received third prize in the Uljus Composition Competition, based in Serbia. To my surprise, they also sent me a diploma (to acknowledge my role of Berk’s tutor/supervisor) – that’s a first for me, but actually…

In 2023, several of my pieces were selected and performed at MUSLAB, in Ecuador and Argentina. From those, To US.S..S… was subsequently selected to be part of a collective release on Cero Records. The release had now been… well… released, and is available in both digital and physical formats. Here is an online link to…

Baltazar’s Adventure through the Great Machine has just been named as a finalist at PRIX CIME 2023 – the International Confederation of Electroacoustic Music’s biannual competition. With over 500 applications to the competition, I’m extremely proud to have made it to the final stages of selection… and BRAVO to Andrew Lewis for winning the main…

I’m super happy to have received First Prize at the Computer Space Digital Arts Awards for my piece Hymn without Words. Computer Space is a non-commercial international computer art forum, which includes Computer Graphics, Computer Animation, Web Design, Interactive Arts, and Computer and Electronic Music. With 33 past editions, and more than 20 000 participants (firms,…

Well, it’s a bad photo… but a beautiful certificate from the 3rd Ise-Shima International Composition Competition, where To US.S..S… received the Special Prize!