1979 to 1981
Studied studio composition with composer Jonty Harrison.
1st class honours degree, Birmingham University, Music/English.
1981 to 1983
Joint winner of Young Composer's Award, New Music, Huddersfield.
Ralph Vaughan Williams Trust Award.
1983 to 1986
MA Degree, University of San Diego, California. Studying with
John Silber, Anthony Braxton, Kenneth Gaburo,
shaman and dancer Hi-ah Park, music sculptor Arthur
Frick. M.A.thesis, "The Understanding of an Improvised
Music through Dream Symbolism".
1986 to 1992
Freelance musician/composer living and working in Scotland.
1987 to 1992
Composer and musical director for the Communicado Theatre Company.
Founded The Cauld Blast Orchestra.
1991 to 1992
Leverhulme Trust Award for private study in Paris. Composing Black
Diamonds (an opera for the Dearne Valley).
1992 to 1998
Freelance musician/composer living in London.
1992 to 1997
Director of the Westminster Opera Team at English National Opera.
1998 to 2001
Composer in Residence on the Confluence Project, Common Ground.
2002 to 2005
Freelance composer and performer. Currently playing with Zaum, Misbehavin'
and the Cauld Blast Orchestra.