January's Diary

Happy New Year!

So a busy January in store with a couple of new projects to get underway. 

Planning will begin for the musical element of the National Police Memorial Service 2026, this year to be held in Belfast.  It is always a honour to work on this national event and this year we hope to include even more musicians with the inclusion of a youth choir along side the other more traditional elements.

I'm very much looking forward to adjudicating the school Brass and Percussion competitions at Wilsons School in January  - I am sure there will be some fantastic music making on show!

January will also see the beginning of a very moving project that I am delighted to be a part of with the commencing of planning for a segment for the BBCs One Show concerning a new work I have penned commemorating  the 60th anniversary of the Aberfan Disaster which falls this October.  The work will form the centrepiece of a segment for the show and production meetings begin this month.