After an enormously protracted wait, I’m extremely happy to be releasing these fine recordings into the universe. Please download and enjoy this collection of my earliest piano works, performed by the ever-amazing Adam Swayne. For the next month this EP is available on a pay-what-you-like basis, so make the most of it! Get your copy …

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Last year I worked with the amazing Joby Burgess on ‘Freeze-Frame’, a new piece for vibraphone, commissioned through Sound And Music’s ‘Portfolio’ scheme. Here’s a recording we made of the piece earlier this year.

I am curating a series of articles for the British Music Collection called ‘How I Compose’, where I’ll be inviting different composers over the coming months to talk about their working process in relation to a composition of theirs. Here’s a little introductory blog I wrote as a kind of mission statement…

Here’s a score video for my piece ‘Incendiaries’, performed by the fantastic Workers Union Ensemble in February last year at Friends Meeting House, Sussex Uni.

Here’s an interview I did not too long ago with The Cross-Eyed Pianist: https://crosseyedpianist.com/2016/06/23/meet-the-artist-lee-westwood-composer-guitarist/

Hugely excited that the premiere of my new piece ‘Intraversing’ is just around the corner! Written for three bassoons, it was commissioned through the LSO Soundhub, and will receive its first outing at LSO St Luke’s on 19th June, in the capable hands of Dan Jemison, Joost Bosdijk and Dominic Tyler, with Darren Bloom conducting. …

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Next up, the score video to my second choral work ‘The Architect’. This piece was commissioned through Sound and Music’s ‘Portfolio’ scheme in 2013, and was premiered by the London-based experimental choir Musarc (to whom the piece is dedicated) in December 2014 at Christ Church, Spitalfields, which this recording is a document of.

Here’s a score video to my choral work ‘On Waking (Morning)’. This recording is taken from the premiere performance, by the amazing Chapel Choir of Selwyn College, Cambridge, which took place at St Bride’s, Fleet Street, in March last year. The work was selected for performance through the annual JAM call for scores. Nicholas Cleobury …

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I’m over the moon to have been selected (out of 218 applicants) as one of 2 composers who will be writing a new piece for the Riot Ensemble, to be performed later this year. The instrumental lineup I’ll be working with consists of flute, piano, toy piano, hand-held percussion, guitar, viola and harp, which is a …

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Here’s a little informal promo video I made for the Argentinian-based Aguilera Guitars – ‘Plainte’ by Marco Pereira – Not a perfect performance or video, but that’s ok. For more information about Aguilera Guitars, visit http://www.aguileraguitars.com/