Selected Works

Echoes in the Void began as a meditation on negative space - the rests between notes, the silences between phrases - and grew into something far larger than its origins. The work unfolds in three continuous sections, each exploring a different relationship between presence and absence.

Fractured Hymns sets fragments of anonymous medieval liturgical texts alongside invented pseudo-liturgical material, exploring the relationship between sacred form and secular doubt. The work is in seven short movements, each titled with a liturgical term that it then subverts or deconstructs.

Beneath Still Waters is a single-movement work for string quartet that explores the tension between surface calm and underlying turbulence. The piece draws on images of still lakes whose depths are unknowable - serene from above, in constant motion below.

Phantom Light takes its name from the optical phenomenon in which the eye perceives light that is no longer present - an afterimage burned into vision. The work is in four short movements, each representing a different quality of remembered light: dawn, noon, dusk, and the light we carry inside after dark.

The Weight of Silence was composed during a period of enforced quiet - a six-week residency in rural Iceland with no internet and limited human contact. The piece unfolds as a single, slowly evolving arc, moving through a series of delicately shaded passages, as if the music is searching for something it cannot quite name.

Nocturne for the Lost is a short meditation for solo violin, written in memory of those whose names we no longer remember. The work is built almost entirely from a single melodic idea that returns, transformed, at each reappearance - sometimes barely recognizable, sometimes hauntingly clear.