Dear Readers! An astonishing season lies before me, as dreams of entire percussion festivals at major international venues come alive at London's Southbank Centre in my "Metal Wood Skin" curation and at Rotterdam's De Doelen Hall where I am Red Sofa Artist in Residence.

On January 20th 2001 I gave my first full-length solo recital, in the Musashino Shimin in Tokyo, Japan. That programme was toured variously at that time, and in later seasons developed by the addition of works by Louis Andriessen and Steve Mackey.