Teaching and Writing
He is a visiting professor of piano at the Royal Academy of Music in London and the International Chair of Piano Studies at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester.
He joined the Roman Catholic Church when he was 19. He has written about his homosexuality and its relationship with both his music-making and his religion. He has also published The Bible as Prayer: a handbook for lectio divina.
In 2008 he won the Sixth International Poetry Competition.
He has a blog at the Telegraph newspaper's website.
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