He is best known for his arrangements on CDs for Jamiroquai, Björk, BT, Duncan Sheik, Madness, Incognito, Supergrass, The Beautiful South, George Benson, Josh Groban, Charlotte Church and Robin Gibb.

He has released one solo CD, East Fifteen, written for piano, trumpet/flugelhorn, tenor saxophone, percussion and strings.

The concert was entirely improvised, including all the orchestral parts, written live on stage by Simon and John Metcalfe.

He orchestrated the Lincoln Center Theater production of the new musical Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, that opened on 4 November 2010 at the Belasco Theatre on Broadway.

He received a Grammy nomination in 2015 for his contribution to the Sam Smith album In the Lonely Hour and also arranged and orchestrated Writing's on the Wall, the theme song for the James Bond film Spectre.