Ensemble

Written in 2002-4, The Grand Design Quartet is dedicated to Paul and Charlotte Houlton by way of thanks for a holiday in France. The title takes its name from their Graphic Design company in Croydon....

The theme on which 'In Retrospect' is based comes from a work written in my teens and first performed in the early 1940s by the strings of Cape Town Municipal Orchestra. Since both my children have gr...

As in my earlier Miniature String Quartets the objective has been to write music that stems from the kinds of passage-work that will be familiar to players of an intermediate technical standard. This...