Ryers Down: Flute and Piano

(Boosey & Hawkes Chamber Music). Composed for Emma Halnan, winner of The Arts Club Sir Karl Jenkins Music Award 2016. The composer comments that "for the first ten years of this century, I lived and composed on the Gower Peninsula, an area of sandy beaches and dramatic cliff scenery with coastal caves; the first area in the UK to be officially designated as one of outstanding natural beauty. Living in an old mill alongside the Bury Pill stream, I wrote from a stable block, enjoying a vista ...