As with many of his British-Isle generation, affinities with such figures as Britten, Tippett, Maw, McCabe, Dodgson, and the brothers Colin and David Matthews are readily apparent in his music, as are more traditional influences from Walton, Vaughan-Williams, Ireland, and Finzi, as well as more continental (and chromatically adventurous) sonorities inspired by (for example) Bartok and Berg.