Working on finishing off my two projects to complete my degree: a portfolio of my compositions, with a three-movement horn concerto as the centrepiece, and a dissertation on the composer Gyorgy Ligeti. I'm about halfway done on each, with a month to go before deadlines. I also have to revise/complete a small number of other pieces for my portfolio, and a write 2,000-word commentary on the concerto. I'm going to post some extracts from my thesis and commentary to my blog, when they're a little more presentable.

At the same time, I've got a super-heavy workload of piano practice; I'm going for a recital diploma at the end of may, as a warm-up for a teaching qualification exam in November. And I'm involved in launching a new ensemble based in my college, playing contemporary music. I'm programming a festival for the centenary of John Cage's birth for late May - my main goal here is to get dancers involved in at least some of it, as dance was a huge part of Cage's work.