[1] Singer studied music at Magdalene College, Cambridge, and then with Franco Donatoni (in 1973), with Nadia Boulanger in Paris (from 1974 until 1977), and with Gyorgy Ligeti in Hamburg (1975-6).
[4] Malcolm Miller identifies in many of the choral pieces resonant sonorities akin to Pärt or Tavener...enhanced by striking synagogal soundscapes.
[5] A Singer's Complaint, a music theatre piece written for Jane Manning, won the Chandos Prize at Musica Nova in 1979.
[8] A Hopeful Place, for children's choir, string octet and orchestra, was conducted by Lord Menuhin at the Royal Albert Hall in 1996.
Dragons (1997), is a cantata commissioned by Surrey County Arts for children's choir and youth orchestra, setting poems by Nick Toczek.