When Lockdown began I spent an hour every day recording some of my favourite piano pieces. Here on digital download are 15 of them, from Beethoven to Bricus...

So in this weird new world that we find ourselves in, my two daughters, Lillie and Meg have roped me into their two worlds of Creative Brilliance! Lillie ask...

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...