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- ↑ Goldsmiths, student and graduate profiles
- ↑ Lucian Randall. Disgusting Bliss: The Brass Eye of Chris Morris (2010)
- ↑ Robert Simonson. 'Don't Trust Your Ears: This Play Is Not a Musical', in The New York Times, 1 May 2007
- ↑ Marla Carlson. Affect, Animals, and Autists: Feeling Around the Edges of the Human in Performance (2018), p. 36
- ↑ Composer biography, Chandos
- ↑ War Horse: Original London Cast Recording, Cordafonia Records CORDAF01 (2008)
- ↑ 'Sutton, Orchestral Works', reviewed at MusicWeb International
- ↑ 'I've never been so productive': the composer who wrote a concerto during 12 lots of chemo', in The Guardian, 20 June 2023
- ↑ Chandos CHAN 20349 (2024), British Music Society