I am a Glasgow-based composer of primarily opera and chamber music, having written and performed four operas, Collision (2016), The Storm (2017), Last Thursday  (2018) and STUMPED (2022) as well as vocal music and other music with words. Most of my music deals either with exaggeration, irony and the combination of clashing styles, or with decay and degeneration. 

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My compositional studies began with a music BA, with Dr Deborah Pritchard at University College, Oxford, followed by an AHRC-funded MSt with Profs Robert Saxton and Martyn Harry at St Hilda's College, Oxford, and an LAHP-funded PhD at King's College London, with Profs Silvina Milstein and George Benjamin.

 

My music has been performed across the UK at events including Grimeborn Opera Festival, the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Collision Festival, Sound Festival and Sound Thought. STUMPED was the only opera opera selected for inclusion in the Made in Scotland Showcase 2024, while The Storm was runner-up for the Ivan Juritz prize. 

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As a musicologist, I have written on the analysis of modern and contemporary classical music as well as ecomusicology and intersections of musicology and environmentalism. I have presented at the Royal Musical Association annual conference and at Society for Music Analysis annual conferences among others.​

 

Having previously worked teaching composition at Glasgow University, I am currently working at environmental arts charity Creative Carbon Scotland. I am also a member of the working group for Classical Declares Emergency and a board member for New Music Scotland. 

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