Tabor Pipes (three hole pipes)

I'm now supplying the Early Music Shop with tabor pipes. So far they have the d pipe, but I will be completing their order for some c and G pipes in the New Year. You can still order them directly from me.

Click here for the Early Music Shop link to my instrument

Film win!

Our film, "Liquid Gold is the Air" (see below), featuring my score, won the Light Moves Festival Prize 2015 in Limerick (International Dance Festival). Merry Christmas!

Liquid Gold is the Air

Rosemary Lee's "Liquid Gold is the Air" film will be installed in a side chapel of Norwich Cathedral throughout the Norfolk and Norwich Festival this year (8 - 24 May) - and it is free! Make sure you see this gorgeous film made after last year's mega dance performances in Milton Keynes, "Under the Vaulted Sky" with my live score.

Festival website here!

Greenwich Early Music Exhibition

I will be exhibiting D and C tabor pipes, Swedish bagpipes and Renaissance flutes at the Greenwich Early Music Exhibition next week: Thurs-Sat, 13-15 November at the Old Royal Navy College, Greenwich, London SE10 9NN

Under the Vaulted Sky performances this week

First public performance of "Under the Vaulted Sky" is this Friday. The piece is being performed at 5.00 and 7.30 Friday, then at 2.00, 4.30 and 7.00 on the Saturday and Sunday.

CLICK HERE FOR TICKET DETAILS

Late Night Klara

I was on Belgian Radio recently with a selection of pieces that I chose as being important to my musical development. A kind of "Desert Island Disks" but where you hear each piece throughout, and the show lasts for two hours...

Satie, Skempton, Glass, Dowland, Peter Gabriel, Kate Bush, Nic Jones, David Munrow, and a couple of my pieces chosen by the producer.

Listen again here:

Late Night "Last Call" Klara

Under the Vaulted Sky

Tickets are now on sale for my latest piece - the third collaboration with award-winning choreographer Rosemary Lee for the piece "Under the Vaulted Sky". It's a site-specific piece for the cathedral of trees in Milton Keynes, and uses a 100-strong cast of dancers, tuned percussion and trombones to create a unique promenade performance through the site. Click on the orange title below for times and ticket details:

Under the Vaulted Sky

Three-holed pipe

Here is the latest instrument from my workshop - a three-holed pipe in "d" made from locally grown sycamore. I will be making other keys later this year, and plan to make the tabors that go with them by next year. Please feel free to contact me for prices.

Under the Vaulted Sky

My latest commission for the brilliant choreographer Rosemary Lee is the music for a series of performances later this year to take place in the tree cathedral at Milton Keynes. This is my third collaboration with Rosemary and we have a beautiful space to fill with sound and movement. Very exciting!

Webite for The Milton Keynes Cathedral of Trees

The Long Silence...

... has been due to a year of settling in, building, organising and making connections. 

I'm now accompanying for dance classes for Adèle Thompson, the Dance Artist in Residence at Queen's College Cambridge; repairing woodwind for Millers Music in Cambridge (and others); have exhibited at the Early Music Exhibition in Greenwich in November 2012; had a piano piece published by ABRSM last autumn; and have a new commission for a choral piece using the writings of Hildegard of Bingen for the North Hertfordshire Guild of Singers to take to Bingen in Germany later this year.

Visit the luthier side of my site to see the developments there.