"The opera "Jonah" (libretto by Michael Irwin (author)) was commissioned by the Canterbury Festival and first produced in Canterbury Cathedral in 1996; the dramatic cantata "Gethsemane" was premiered by Florilegium at the Spitalfields Festival in 1998; the Brunel (opera project), featured on BBC Radio 4's "Setting Brunel to Music" in October 2003; the community opera "On London Fields" (libretto by Alasdair Middleton), winner of a Royal Philharmonic Society Award in 2005, was described by Stephen Pettitt in the "Evening Standard" as "unafraid of complexity, even when writing for very young performers.