Casken’s music - harmonically and texturally dense - refusing to resolve - is . . . rather vibrantly earthy, relentlessly hymning the sheer physicality of the original poem’s concept: nature, tree, cross - experiencing what the human participants in the drama endure.

Arnold Whittall, on The Dream of the Rood, The Musical Times

forthcoming performances

2 December 2018
Memorial, Whitworth Hall, Manchester

6 December 2018
Stolen Airs, Whitworth Hall, Manchester

7 February 2019
Winter Reels, St Michael’s Ancoats


more performances

The control with which Casken allows tonally-founded harmonies to rise, Alban Berg-like, to the surface, is as remarkable as the fastidiousness of his orchestration, all of which serves to hold concept and craft in ideal balance

David Fanning, on Apollinaire’s Bird , The Telegraph