Writing

Alternating Between Flesh and Nail: Is It Possible? (Soundboard, Vol. 52 No. 1 — subscribe here)

Historical Evidence for Using the Right Hand Little Finger (nonailguitar.com)

When Mahler Found Ives (Interlude.hk)

Frederic Mompou and his Musica Callada (Interlude.hk)

Mendelssohn and His Place in History (Interlude.hk)


Concert reviews for the quarterly magazine Musical Opinion (subscribe here) and album reviews for MusicWeb International

(Read a sample of my reviews here.)


Various writings on my other site, which is dedicated to my research into no-nail playing.


There are also some longer writings on my blog, such as:

Charles Ives – Autumn

Some thoughts regarding Fernando Sor’s Fantaisie elegiaque op. 59

Erich Korngold – The Dead City

Take Three


A two-part guest post on the composer Tōru Takemitsu for the blog The Music Salon: Part 1 | Part 2


Non-Music:

My Mind to Me a Kingdom Is: Appreciating Sir Walter Scott’s Historical
Fiction
(King’s College Historical Review)

There is no wealth but life (The King’s Journal)


Some short stories:

A Better Place (Flash Fiction Magazine, under pseudonym)

The Cosmic Patriot (365tomorrows)

The Noble Horace


A blog on things Scottian