Available on BBC Sounds from March 7th 2020 Rehearsals at Alexandra Palace - the old theatre there... A reunion with dear Will - we worked together first on ...

So finally through last year I started to recover fully from the throat and tongue cancer that I had in 2018. Suffice to say my treatment has worked and the...

I was in Normandy with The Normandy Memorial Trust for the D-Day 75 Events on 6th June 2019. Early morning sunrise and commemoration of the new Normandy Memo...

A Musical based on the book Angela's Ashes - details here - which I start work on in a few weeks. So excited to be working with the brilliant Jacinta Whyte a...

I had some very nice projects through 2018. A fun concert with Michael Parkinson and the BBC Concert Orchestra back in April, recorded at The London Palladiu...

2017 ended with Miss World in China! With Manushi who will be a great Ambassador for Miss World this year. During this year's event I had the great honour of...

Baku 2017 Ceremonies were amazing and I am very proud to have been Music Director for the whole venture. Here are some links to follow - with some details of...

Jan 3rd to 19th 2017 75 piece RPO led by Duncan Riddell - my view in Abbey Road Studio 1 The culmination of many months of sorting, editing, writing, arrang...

So during my summer and continuing on to this beautiful autumn I have been visiting Baku monthly in the quest - along with Malcolm Newton & Marc Tritschler -...

A Very Special Day - Link to Excerpts: HERE July 31st 1966 - England won the World Cup at Wembley! July 31st 2016 - a few intrepid presenters, actors and mus...

LAMENT FOR THE INNOCENTS - a project by Mike Dixon and John Theakston Back in May John Theakston and I recorded a song that we had written in an attempt to d...

Will we come out of Europe? Well anyone who looks occasionally at my Twitter feed will know where I stand on that question. I've been very pro Europe all m...

Well, first and foremost, how I wish that Mrs Henderson Presents was going to continue in the beautiful Noel Coward Theatre. However, sadly the show must co...

A very exciting & challenging 10 days have just gone by. Concerts in Holland with The New London Chorale followed by overnight flying to Baku for the first P...

Since 1999 I have had the pleasure of conducting many, many Friday Night Is Music Night programmes for BBC Radio 2 and even though most of these programmes a...

About 18 months ago I was contacted by a young man called Josh Barry who was putting together an article all about Variety. Because I have worked on TV with...

I spend most of my work life working with other people's music. The number of times I have had the 'dubious joy' of recording or conducting my own music is ...

I have spent the last couple of days starting a project that will be completed some time in the summer - complex new and extremely witty songs sung by some o...

Well the Oliviers have razzamatazzed - our Mrs Henderson Presents hopes of glory faded but we still have the kudos of the four nominations. Emma and Tracie...