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and Commissions
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
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