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

5 June 2019
From this red earth (world premiere), Lincoln’s Inn Chapel

19 July 2019
Kokoschka's Doll, Champs Hill

27 July 2019
Piano Trio, St Andrew’s Church Corbridge


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