Boxed In (2003)
An old man receives a mysterious package and becomes involved in a desperate battle of wills with a smart rodent.
Category: Music
As a child I listened to music when the lights went off as it helped me to sleep. I have been performing music since the age of 6, and started composing a couple of years later. This early exposure to music was largely choral liturgical so it’s not surprising that I began writing in this genre first. My older sisters listened to lots of different music and were a big influence on my young tastes. In the school holidays I made mix tapes of pop tunes they had passed on to me. Throughout secondary school, college and university I became friends with a number of brilliantly inspiring musicians, many of whom are now at the top of their fields. My first experience of music was as a choirboy at Bath Abbey, and then at St Paul’s Cathedral. We sang daily as part of the age-old great Anglican choral music tradition. Surrounded by the works of Howells, Britten, Stanford, Parry, Mozart, Bach, Bruckner and Byrd, my ear grew accustomed to lush harmony (especially Howells) and serene melodies, which I tried to imitate on a practice room piano at weekends. Over the years, the St Paul’s Cathedral Choir commissioned many new works by British contemporary classical composers for the English Anthems CD series, including works by William Mathias, John Taverner and Francis Jackson and Francis Grier. Often, the composers would come in to talk to the choir about the pieces before they were recorded on to disc, which was particularly inspiring for a young composer.
Choral Music
Sparrow (2010)
One man, one bird, one day…. ‘Sparrow’ – a film by Andrew Steggall
