Born in Bedford, England to Greek and Bosnian Serb immigrants, he moved to London in 1988 where he studied at City University.
[1] During the 1990s he regularly performed and recorded as a jazz and classical pianist with a number of new music ensembles including the London Sinfonietta and the Steve Martland Band.
Into the 2020s he has relocated to rural Scotland, broadening his experiences by also connecting directly to the biodiversity crisis through rewilding[4] from both an artistic and a practical perspective.
Amongst the musicians that he has composed for are the percussionist Colin Currie,[5] guitarist Fred Frith,[6] contrabassist Mich Gerber, trumpeter Håkan Hardenberger, jazz trio Phronesis (band), pianists Katia and Marielle Labèque and violinist Viktoria Mullova.
[7] Many of his works have been choreographed to and he has created scores for a number of full evening dance pieces including adaptations of Ibsen's "Ghosts" for the Royal Opera House and Dickens' "A Tale of Two Cities" for Northern Ballet Theatre.