I love writing music. I’ve been fortunate to have some big opportunities over the years - writing for the likes of the BBC Singers, Manchester Collective, London Sinfonietta, LSO, LCO, BBC NOW, the Brodsky Quartet, Opera North, Mahogany Opera, Hungarian Radio Choir, Aldeburgh Music, Streetwise Opera and incredible voices like Allan Clayton, Olivea Chaney and Heloise Werner. I’ve also always run my own community and collective projects, like the Camberwell Composers’ Collective, Mandel, Stroud Fringe Choir and The Caw. I’ve also won some prestigious prizes including the Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award for Artists, the Genesis Opera Prize and the Royal Philharmonic Society Composition Award.

In my twenties, I wrote 5 operas, none of them traditional in form. Opera got me into song, which has remained a passion of mine and led me to many wonderful collaborations with writers and singers including a trilogy of song cycles with author Toby Litt, on love ("Befalling"), motherhood ("Life Cycle") and death ("Rest”). I have written many songs for a children’s music group, Playcircle and I sing and play fiddle in on those recordings. I rarely say no to a commission - I love the challenge of writing for musicians and new combinations of instruments.

I work alongside my composing as a Music Therapist in Gloucestershire.

I am represented by Manners Faber.