He was president of the International Society for Contemporary Music from 1990-1996. He was awarded an FRCM in 2008. As a recitalist he has created more than two hundred new works, mainly by British composers, including Elisabeth Lutyens, Judith Weir, Laurence Crane, James Dillon, Oliver Knussen, Chris Newman, Howard Skempton and Andrew Toovey. His music is performed worldwide, and commercially recorded on English, Dutch, German, Norwegian, American, Australian, Canadian and Japanese CD labels.