Upon entering a painting was written in 2008/09 and it was commissioned with funding from the Britten-Pears Foundation and the RVW Trust by Piano 4 Hands (Joseph Tong and Waka Hasegawa) to whom it is dedicated. The inspiration of the piece was the kind of painting which as you gaze at it seems to draw the onlooker into the frame indeed into the very paint itself. The specific trigger for the idea of the piece was the Rothko Exhibition at Tate Modern in 2008 Rothko has long been a favourite painter of mine even though his creative world is very different from my own. However there were one or two paintings in the exhibition in which I felt strongly this sense of beingdrawn into the inner life of the painting especially when I was able to incur the wrath of the curators and step close to the paintings and examine the surface in detail. The opening and closing sections of the piece with their gradual thickening of the harmonies and (at the end) equally gradual thinning reflect this sense of stepping forward into and backward out of the works. The inner life of the faster sections while apparently very un-Rothko-like reflects the extraordinary teeming inner life of the brush-strokes.

An anthology of fourteen varied performance pieces for four hands at one Piano. Includes popular works as varied as Blue Danube Waltz Op.314 and Londonderry Air. An excellent repertoire resource.

The six Nursery Rhymes For Piano Duet were first published in 1935. Included are arrangements of popular songs such as Polly Put The Kettle On and Yankee Doodle. Cyril Scott (1879-1970) was a British composer pianist and poet. His most popular works which he is largely remembered by today were written in the years preceding the Second World War however he continued to compose prolifically in the face of indifference from the outside world right up until his death at the age of 91. His music is predominantly in the Romantic style and serves as a tasteful reminder of a bygone age.

The first performance of Two Scenes from Edward II arranged for piano-duet took place on 19th March 2013 at Bishopsgate Hall London for the City Music Society played by Joe Tong and Waka Hasegawa.

The Garden Of Forking Paths by Justin Connolly is a piano duet based on Jorge Luis Borges' story exploring the idea of different temporal experiences.