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 was to see whether I could bring my music installation piece ‘Belonging Here’...

Talking to climate scientists

So, it’s 10.20pm in January 2019 and I’m sitting checking my recording of a conversation I’ve just had with the brilliant Professor Julia Steinberger and I’m reflecting on a couple of things she said. It is pretty humbling to be told by a...

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 emotional core of how this might be affecting all of...

JANUARY 2018

So much going on.  Just spent a buzzy day looking at over a hundred scores with stimulating fellows and then bumped into the legendary artist Christian Marclay!  Before Christmas, two disparate and unusual things happened: I reconvened with my band from 2005 –...

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 richness of sound and its impressive, monumental stance, whilst also making it a...