practice in earnest and to compose. Around that time I worked on the
INVICTUS games choir, an incredible experience but an emotional one. I
moved from that to work with
friends of the victims of the Grenfell Tower fire: another life changing and life affirming project.
Before beginning my next challenge I took some time out. My wife had
our third child and I was able to be at home, play the piano and write
music for myself and my family
as she recuperated. This has been a very important and healing time.
The music is a personal journey through the year and is inspired by
my own feelings about each month: birthdays of loved ones, marriages,
funerals are all in this music.
I wanted to include the sound of a beautiful piano in a natural
acoustic with the warmth of a choir and the energy of a string quartet.
This music helped me to heal.”