Dressing the Stone
Work for soprano, percussionist and sound track featuring sounds from a working mill. Commissioned by Common Ground. Premiere December 1999, Sturminster Mill. Performances at the Oper festival in Dusseldorf, Maastricht and the Wimborne Festival Autumn 2000.

The Ring
Work for string quartet, singer, trapeze act, synchronised swimmers and chorus. Commissioned by Sea Change. Premiere Norwich and Norfolk Festival, October 1999.

Downstream
Work for Bournemouth Sinfonietta wind nonet and sound track. Commissioned by Common Ground. Premiere June 1999.

Grind and Dissolve
Work for Watershed trio. Commissioned by Common Ground. Premiere June 1999.

Whistling in the Wind
Two half-hour experimental radio programmes with oral historian Helen Weinstein. Broadcast May 1998 and repeated June 1999. Commissioned by BBC Radio 4.

Memory Like Shells
Collaboration with octogenarian Norman Winchester. Work for string quartet and narrator. Premiere Jan 1998, Sinfonia 21, Bexhill Pavilion. Second performance E.N.O. May'99. Joint commission Age Concern and E.N.O. Performance at the Imperial War Museum by the Allegri String Quartet and narrator, and documentary feature, BBC Radio 4, 10 November 2002.

Pois Chiches
String quartet. Commissioned by the Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Premiere March 1998.

A Little Bird Told Me
Full-scale opera for Black Dyke Mills Brass Band, chorus and soloists. Commissioned by Enterprise Opera.

The Wedding Party
Music ­theatre work for young people. Scored for wind and brass quintet, string orchestra and percussion ensemble. Premiere November 1996. the Watermill Theatre, Newbury. Commissioned by the Watermill Theatre and Southern arts.

Flights of Fancy
Multimedia work for Manchester airport. Composer in Residence at the Royal Northern College of Music, June 1995. Commissioned by Opera North.

Romeo and Juliet
Settings of Irish poetry for a Solent People's Theatre Production British Tour February-April 1995. Commissioned by Southern Arts.

Dragon Pageant
Choral work. Bournemouth Sinfonietta and the Norwich Festival Chorus Premiered October 1994, St.Andrews Hall, Norwich. Commissioned by the Norfolk and Norwich Festival.

Black Diamonds
Full-scale opera for the Dearne Valley, South Yorkshire. Grimethorpe Brass Band, men, women and children chorus, string quartet and jazz orchestra. Premiered August 1993. Outdoor setting, Thurnscoe, South Yorkshire. Commissioned by English National Opera and Gardengates Production

Moby Dick
Royal Shakespeare Company opening October 1993, Stratford Upon Avon. The Barbican Centre, London March 1994

There Are So Few Angels That Sing
A cappella work for six voices. Premiered October 1993, Ultima Festival, Norway. Commissioned by Vocem.

The Song of the Falling Angel (In memory of Lockerbie)
Choir, harp, sax, soprano and child soloist. Premiered 1991. STV Broadcast networked December 1991. Commissioned by the Edinburgh International Festival.

Blood Wedding
Guest composer/musical director with the Clarence Brown Theatre, University of Tennessee, USA. January-March 1991. Song cycle premiere Vocem, the Purcell Rooms May 1991. Fringe first, Edinburgh Festival 1989. Commissioned by Communicado.

Jock Tamson's Bairns
Music theatre production for the opening of Glasgow Year of Culture. Composer and musical director. South Bank Show Broadcast March 1990. Commissioned by Communicado Theatre.

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