'The Three Sonatinas Op.2 were originally written in the mid to late 1980s. Some of these pieces are more or less unchanged from this time, having received the mildest of editorial handling. Other movements have retained their original themes but have undergone a certain amount of rewriting. I view my Three Sonatinas as belonging to the tradition of Schumann's Kinderscenen. These pieces offer an innocence that is rare in music today; my aim was to make them simple but not simplistic, nostalgic but never sentimental. After having been tucked away in a drawer for many years, the Sonatinas were revised in 2007. They were then given their premiere by Phillip Fawcett on 27th June 2008 at the University of Cumbria, Lancaster.'