He has studied composition with Anthony Gilbert and Sir Harrison Birtwistle at the Royal Northern College of Music, with Michael Finnissy at the Royal Academy of Music, Jo Kondo at the Elisabeth University of Music in Hiroshima (where he lived between 1999 and 2002), and Simon Holt at the Royal Holloway University of London.
In 1995, with composers Paul Whitty and Sam Hayden, he co-founded, a collection of musicians and composers dedicated to collaborative inter-disciplinary performance. Recent appearances include Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Glasgow"s Centre for Contemporary Art and Trinity Laban"s Wired Up festival. In 2004 he formed the electric guitar duo Exquisite Corpse with guitarist David Arrowsmith.
He currently is a Professor of Composition at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and Trinity Laban, in London and is an Associate Lecturer in the Music Department at Oxford Brookes University.
