1961: born London, 7th October
1966 summer: asks to be taught the piano; almost immediately starts composing
1971: first public concert appearance
1975: chosen to play to Fanny Waterman at master-class, Aldeburgh Festival
1977 – 79: concertos, eg with local and national youth orchestras; ARCM Performer’s Diploma; Regional Finalist, BBC ‘Young Musician Of The Year’ Competition; Open Scholarship to read Classics & Modern Languages, and subsequently Music, at the University of Oxford
Studies piano with Prof. Alexander Kelly (Head Of Keyboard at Royal Academy of Music, London); by now producing compositions still acknowledged
1980: plays to Jorge Bolet at master-class, Edinburgh Festival
1984: performs at Almeida Festival, London; begins writing for periodical Tempo
Mid-1980s: studies composition with Howard Skempton, and, subsequently, Horatiu Radulescu; piano with Susan Bradshaw
1986 — : teaching eg at universities of London and Oxford, and for the Workers’ Educational Association; gives pre-concert talks at Wigmore Hall
1992: critically acclaimed first CD-release
Featured Composer at contemporary-music festivals in Oxford (1992), Cardiff (‘Explorations’, 1999) and London (2000)
1997: first publication of music; performs at Conway Hall, London
1997 — : increasingly close collaboration with visual artists leads to invitations to exhibit in own right, in London (1998 – 99) and Amsterdam (2002, under the aegis of the British Council)
1999 — : performances in Cologne, Moscow, Bratislava and the US
2000s — : further publications
2010s — : performances in the Netherlands, Tel Aviv and Buenos Aires, and online
2018, 2021: further album releases, eg on UK label “another timbre”