Music written in memory of my parents. An emotional response to old family photographs from 1970, looking back in time to another garden, to another snowfall, where we are always together, a time there was.
Souvenir du Docteur Jamain - for piano - August 2023
Piano music inspired by Rosa Souvenir du Docteur Jamain, an old rose variety, first introduced in 1865. A perfect rose and one loved by Vita Sackville-West.
Understated, sparse piano music conveys the emotion in the idea of Svalbard.
A land of snow pierced by the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, with a Noah's Ark role, buried in a mountain covered by permafrost.
The images merge the idea of a seed with transformed versions of the extraordinary mountain top geometric telecommunications domes, near the town of Longyearbyen.
Habanera - for piano - September 2022 written in memory of Shirley Harris (1938-2022)
Facade Video Festival - Plovdiv - 20 to 22 September 2019
New Winter Sky was screened at the Facade Video Festival, an annual international video art exhibition, where videos are projected onto the walls of houses in the old town of Plovdiv in Bulgaria Festival participants
Entre la vie et le temps - Short Film / Piano Score - August 2018
The themes of this short film are time, Art, sunlight & Paris. An image of the 'Bal du moulin de la Galette' from 1876, a work by the impressionist painter Auguste Renoir is at the heart of this film.
A short film with a contemporary classical piano soundtrack Prayer flags in the mountains of Tibet, blown by the wind, sending peace, compassion, strength and wisdom.
'Summer Blue' is a serene, jazz & classical infuenced piece for piano, composed and performed by Ian Harris. Inspired by the memory of a visit to the Jardin Majorelle in Marrakech, once owned by Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Berge.
