Fingers, Fragility and Freedom: Christian Wolff’s Pianist: Pieces, in Divergence Press, CeReNeM, University of Huddersfield
‘Abstruse Bagatelles: Music for Solo Piano by Christopher Fox’, in Rose Dodd (ed.), Perspectives on the Music of Christopher Fox: Straight Lines in Broken Times
‘The Music of Laurence Crane and a Post-Experimental Performance Practice’, Tempo (January 2016)70/275, pp.5-21
Piano Music…Immersion…Fixity and Openness Sound American, 2014
‘Understanding Indeterminate Music through Performance:Cage’s Solo for piano‘, Twentieth Century Music (2013) Vol.10/01, pp.91-113
‘For Pianist: the solo piano music’ (pp.51-92), and ‘Playing the Game?: Five Reflections on Performing Wolff’s music’ (pp.211-18) in Changing the System: the music of Christian Wolff, co-edited by Stephen Chase and Philip Thomas, published by Ashgate Publications (2010)
‘A Prescription for Action’ in The Ashgate Research Companion to Experimental Music ed. J. Saunders (Ashgate, 2009)
‘Determining the Indeterminate’ Contemporary Music Review (2007) 26/2 pp.129-140
‘Berio’s Sequenza IV: approaches to performance and interpretation’ Contemporary Music Review (2007) 26/2 pp.189-206
‘Interpretation and Performance in Bryn Harrison’s être temps’, Musicae Scientiae (2005) 9 pp.31-74
Conferences
2009
‘Abstruse Indeterminacy: Christian Wolff’s For pianist as extreme performance practice’ Sixth Biennial Conference on Music Since 1900, University of Keele
2006
‘Hung up on the number 64’ International Cage Conference, University of Huddersfield: ‘Choosing the moment – performing the late works of John Cage’
2005
Fourth Biennial Conference on Twentieth Century Music, University of Sussex: ‘A performer’s view on Christian Wolff’s Music’
2003
Third Biennial International Conference on 20th Century Music, Nottingham University; ‘Interpretation and performance in Bryn Harrison’s etre-temps‘ (with Bryn Harrison and Professors Nicholas Cook and Eric Clarke)
Selected Programme Notes (Click on title to download)
2016
Michael Finnissy profile, written for the 2016 Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival
2015
Jürg Frey: (per)forming sound and silence
profile of the Swiss composer for the hcmf 2015 programme book
2014
Howard Skempton Oculus; Christian Wolff Sailing By; Michael Finnissy Beat Generation Ballads
Programme notes for world premiere performances, hcmf 2014
Christopher Fox Works for piano
liner notes to hat[NOW]art192
Morton Feldman Two Pianos and other pieces 1953-1969
liner notes to another timbre at81x2
2009
Something new Something Old Something Else (2): Laurence Crane
featuring new work Piano Piece No.23 ‘Ethiopian Distance Runners’ alongside works by Finnissy, Harrison, Skempton and White.
Something new Something Old Something Else (2): Markus Trunk
featuring new work ah, he likes to write, likes to get writing done, likes to get things on paper alongside works by Arnold, Cage, Frey, Newman and Saunders.
2008
For Pianist: the solo piano music of Christian Wolff
Three concerts of Wolff’s music, alongside music by composers who have been influential upon or influenced by Wolff
2005
A concert presenting music written by musicians more normally known as improvisers, and composers influenced by improvisation. Includes music by Beck, Burn, Cage, Cardew, Fell, Finnissy, Obermayer, Wolff.
2004
Something New Something Old Something Else: Christopher Fox
featuring new work Republican Bagatelles alongside Fox’s Prime Site and works by Beethoven, Linda C Smith, Sharman, Ives and Webern.
Lucier and Cage: works for piano and electronics
2003
Something New Something Old Something Else: Richard Emsley
Featuring new work for piano 13 alongside Emsley’s Flow Form and works by Bach, Ives, Clementi, Finnissy
Croft, Lachenmann, Taylor, Zimmerman
2002
Four concerts presenting the piano music of Morton Feldman, alongside newly commissioned works by Harrison, Parsons and Saunders.
2001
John Cage and Twenty-First Century Britain
A 3-concert survey of piano music by John Cage alongside music by Richard Ayres, Chris Burn, Stephen Chase, Richard Emsley, Christopher Fox, Michael Parsons and Howard Skempton