1970-81 Junior Exhibitioner - Royal Academy of Music.

1993 Commission from Cheshire Libraries and Arts.

1994 "THE PRINTMAKERS SUITE" - celebrating the role of Women in Jazz - Commissioned by ‘The Creative Jazz Orchestra’ (featured on Radio 3)

1996 Winner of the ‘John Dankworth Special Award’ - British Jazz Awards.

1996 "ALMA VENUS" - for soprano sax and piano – Commissioned by Rob Buckland and Peter Lawson

1996 "THE SPIRIT OF BRADFORD" - a large scale folklore piece for Choir and Big Band - featuring Barbara Thompson – Commissioned by ‘Yorkshire Youth and Music’.

1998 "NINE SWALLOWS - NO SUMMER" - for large ensemble - celebrating the work of Barbara Hepworth – Commissioned by the ‘New Perspectives’ ensemble.

1999 "A GENTLE PRAYER" – for Jazz Orchestra - Commissioned by The London Sinfonietta.

1999 "IN ALL MY HOLY MOUNTAIN" – for large ensemble - with poet Roger Garfitt – Commissioned by ‘New Perspectives’

2001 "FIRE AND ICE" – a suite for Jazz Quintet inspired by the short stories of A.S Byatt – Commissioned by ‘Sheffield Jazz’

2002 "ECHO" - a setting for large ensemble and voice of the Christina Rossetti poem - Commissioned by ‘New Perspectives’.

2000-2008 Commissions - The Associated Board of The Royal Schools of Music . Many arrangements and original composition in the piano,horns and flute syllabus. (ABRSM publishing)

2002 Commission – ABRSM Ensemble piece ,for “Jazz Works” (ABRSM Publishing)

2002 Award International Association of Jazz Educators Award for outstanding services to jazz education (California '02)

2005 Commission - Tim Garland's Northern Underground Band “Red Ellen”

2005 Commission - Faber Music 3 pieces for "Fingerprints", the new edition of Contemporary piano pieces

2006 Three Commissions - Faber Music for “Fingerprints”, new editions of contemporary pieces for flute, cello and alto sax.

2006 Nomination for an Arts Foundation Fellowship Award for Composition

2007 Commission – Oxford University Press. A contemporary piano duet for four hands.

2007 Nomination for Parliamentary Jazz Awards 2007

2007 Nomination for Paul Hamlyn Award for Composition