Music should be theatrical. No, scratch that: music is theatrical, and I'm always excited by concerts that exploit this.  Aurora Orchestra are a great example, and so are High Heels and Horse Hair, who have developed a programme of new music and old united by nocturnal themes, combined with lighting design by Kai Fischer. My Nocturne is featured, alongside a commission from Judith Weir, and music by Sally Beamish, Schnittke, Bach and Biber. I'm really looking forward to taking a trip back home to see it.

I've spent the past few months in a porcelain world, on the trail of Edmund de Waal's 'kind of pilgrimage', The White Road.  His art and writing, alongside his passion for the poetry of Paul Celan, formed the backdrop for my new piece, Psalm.  It's been commissioned for the Aurora Orchestra's On White festival, a fantastic series of concerts they're producing with de Waal, which also includes Zender's arrangement of Winterreise, a particular favourite of mine.