Earlier
Earlier
1972 Wrote to Samuel Beckett to propose an opera based on his play Endgame
1972/3 Studied composition with Anthony Gilbert and Bill Hopkins, and had many conversations with my friend the
composer Chris Bodman, who died in 2004. I've only mentioned the composers who allowed me to go my own
way, as I've always known what I want to do.
1975 Flight for solo flute and percussion ensemble
1975 three Tenebrae by Tomas Luis de Victoria transcribed for wind quintet
1976-77 Wrote Chichikov, libretto and sketches for an opera based on Gogol’s novel Dead Souls
1977 J.S. Bach’s Prelude and Fugue XXII, Book 1, The Well-Tempered Clavier transcribed for wind band
1978-80 Composed Symphony in Three Movements
Middle movement performed by Hatfield School orchestra (1979), and
the Camden School for Girls orchestra (1980)
1978 Transcription of J.S. Bach’s Prelude and Fugue XXII performed at Ely Cathedral, and in Hertford
1979 Invited by Samuel Beckett to attend a rehearsal of his play Happy Days at the Royal Court Theatre, London,
with Billie Whitelaw as Winnie
Watching Beckett rehearse Happy Days like a piece of music, I decided to abandon my project to make an
opera out of Endgame
1980 Chichikov (libretto) performed as a play with masked actors, in a double bill with Alfred Jarry’s Ubu Roi,
Cockpit Theatre, London
1984 Wrote Haitian Summer, a book about my research trip to Haiti for the opera The Kingdom
1988 North Winds Quintet record transcription of Three Tenebrae by Victoria
1994 Regent Wind Quintet perform Three Tenebrae transcription, Highbury Church, London
1972/3 Studied composition with Anthony Gilbert and Bill Hopkins, and had many conversations with my friend the
composer Chris Bodman, who died in 2004. I've only mentioned the composers who allowed me to go my own
way, as I've always known what I want to do.
1975 Flight for solo flute and percussion ensemble
1975 three Tenebrae by Tomas Luis de Victoria transcribed for wind quintet
1976-77 Wrote Chichikov, libretto and sketches for an opera based on Gogol’s novel Dead Souls
1977 J.S. Bach’s Prelude and Fugue XXII, Book 1, The Well-Tempered Clavier transcribed for wind band
1978-80 Composed Symphony in Three Movements
Middle movement performed by Hatfield School orchestra (1979), and
the Camden School for Girls orchestra (1980)
1978 Transcription of J.S. Bach’s Prelude and Fugue XXII performed at Ely Cathedral, and in Hertford
1979 Invited by Samuel Beckett to attend a rehearsal of his play Happy Days at the Royal Court Theatre, London,
with Billie Whitelaw as Winnie
Watching Beckett rehearse Happy Days like a piece of music, I decided to abandon my project to make an
opera out of Endgame
1980 Chichikov (libretto) performed as a play with masked actors, in a double bill with Alfred Jarry’s Ubu Roi,
Cockpit Theatre, London
1984 Wrote Haitian Summer, a book about my research trip to Haiti for the opera The Kingdom
1988 North Winds Quintet record transcription of Three Tenebrae by Victoria
1994 Regent Wind Quintet perform Three Tenebrae transcription, Highbury Church, London
