Born in
Bedford,
England to
Greek and
Bosnian Serb immigrants, he moved to
London in 1988 where he studied at
City University. During the 1990s he regularly performed and recorded as a
jazz and
classical pianist with a number of new music ensembles including the
London Sinfonietta and the
Steve Martland Band. Since 2000 he has been regularly composing stylistically varied works for various instrumental combinations including music for classical soloists, chamber and orchestral ensembles and works for live performers with
computer generated sound sources. Since 2010 his activities have broadened further to include curating music/art events regularly in London, and performing/recording with a range of new ensembles and bands including: Vicious Circus and the
Colin Currie Group. Into the 2020s he has relocated to rural Scotland, broadening his experiences by also connecting directly to the
biodiversity crisis through rewilding from both an artistic and a practical perspective. Amongst the musicians that he has composed for are the percussionist
Colin Currie, guitarist
Fred Frith, contrabassist Mich Gerber, trumpeter
Håkan Hardenberger, jazz trio
Phronesis (band), pianists
Katia and Marielle Labèque and violinist
Viktoria Mullova. Many of his works have been
choreographed to and he has created scores for a number of full evening
dance pieces including adaptations of
Ibsen's "
Ghosts" for the
Royal Opera House and
Dickens' "
A Tale of Two Cities" for
Northern Ballet Theatre. He has also worked with
Paris-based film makers Cserhati and Lartigue on scores for short and feature
film projects. A selection of his earlier works are published by
Norsk Musikforlag A/S. ==Key works==