After an undergraduate degree at Cambridge University he studied with Julian Anderson at Guildhall School of Music and Drama and with George Benjamin at King’s College, London. He won the Royal Philharmonic Society Composition Prize in 2010, followed by the first Verbier Festival Academy Composer Prize in 2013; his song cycle A Pretence of Wit was shortlisted for the vocal category of the 2013 British Composer Awards. Recent performances have included: To Dance on Sands, premiered at the 2014 Verbier Festival; Concerto, performed by the Mahler Chamber Orchestra at Aldeburgh Festival 2015; Lifesize Gods, toured by Britten Sinfonia in 2015; and In spite of the mere objectiveness of things, premiered by BBC Symphony Orchestra at Maida Vale Studios, London, in 2016. He is currently working on a new orchestral piece for Melos Sinfonia to be premiered in 2017.