2010 was a year packed with new opportunities for me. Highlights included the short film Losing the Plot starring Dudley Sutton, which was my first chance to score to picture. The flugelhorn duets I composed for the film were performed by Craig Wild and thematically told the story of misplaced memories and objects. I then worked at the Tricycle Theatre for the first time on the wonderful Arthur Miller play Broken Glass, starring Sir Antony Sher and directed by Iqbal Khan. The show was a triumph both at the box office and critically, and allowed me to write 16 solo cello pieces which featured as part of the play and not as incidental or scene change music. Cellist Laura Moody played the score with such courageous commitment and passion and I felt very lucky to have been part of this production. At the end of the year I wrote a new show with a new collaborator, Stephen Plaice. Our family musical Robin Hood played at the Castle Theatre in Wellingborough and charmed children and adults alike. The delightful cast performed the show with real zeal and director James Bonas and designer Carl Davies realised the production beautifully.

My musical Three Sides was performed in a concert version in Australia in advance of the full production opening in Melbourne this spring, and got rave reviews. My association with SimgRecords continued and a new Albums page on this website tells you more about the four CDs that feature songs by me.

Lastly another first for me as Samuel French published Tracy Beaker Gets Real, the musical about Jacqueline Wilson's incorrigible tearaway Tracy which I wrote with Mary Morris and which toured extensively in 2006/07. If you are a school, amateur or youth theatre group and would like to perform the musical now you can!

2011 promises to be full of new challenges and rewards and I'll reveal more about those as soon as I can!

Grant