12 Years

My new recital ’12 Years’ is now ready for touring and I’d like to send it as far and wide as possible. Please get in touch if you know where I could perform or show…Read more

Belonging in Parliament?

Yesterday I went to the Houses of Parliament (HoP), for the first time in my life.  I’m nearly 45.  I was totally excited about going, both for the sake of it and also because it…Read more

2019 begins

Happy New Year 2019!! I am currently working on an entirely new ‘eco-recital’ which will hope to address climate change through the fictionalising of the real news we’re all hearing, to get to the…Read more

Designing a Future Piano

I am looking at how the piano, a historic and iconic instrument, can be made to fit more appropriately into our modern lives. It seeks to retain the acoustic grand piano with all of its…Read more

Library of Water, Iceland: a residency

Freezing to boiling, falling, melting and everything in between, Iceland is about water. Looking at it, being in it, being awestruck by its many magical and hugely powerful forms. It surrounds, heals and enters your…Read more

Co-commission from OCM & Ashmolean Museum

I spent several months imagining a piece for the 6-floor atrium of Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum in March 2017.  Becca Ellson was my collaborator for the piece, which we called ‘Belonging Here’. Here is a beautiful…Read more

Jan ’16 Podcast from BBC Radio 3

Here’s the podcast of my January In Tune appearance on BBC Radio 3 with Sarah Walker.

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Moments of Weightlessness trailer

Take a look at the trailer for Moments of Weightlessness, Sarah’s first solo show (with the immense Inside-Out Piano), my theatre show which toured in 2016-17 to Oxford’s North Wall Arts Centre, the Universities of…Read more

Why my piano is special

I’ve designed the ‘Inside-Out Piano’ to make playing the inside of a piano easier. This means doing things like plucking a string, knocking on the wood and playing harmonics by pressing lightly on a string…Read more