Well actually, neither had I until I saw his name on the programme by the Cambridge Chorale at Queen's Chapel on Sunday.

As far as I am concerned (and I say this as a lover of Monteverdi, Purcell, Rossini, Handel and Vaughan Williams, whose music also featured in a splendidly varied and attractive programme), Mr Dubra upstaged them all.

Cambridge Chorale are to be congratulated on their choice of three motets by him - and on their performance of them. The music was challenging, yet immediately comprehensible, composed, as conductor Michael Kibblewhite said, with a sting in the tail of each movement.

But Mr Dubra's music does not rely on gimmicks for its effect.

It is solidly crafted, almost certainly liturgically effective and genuinely thought out in terms of voices - not forcing the singers to sound like demented woodwind instruments who've got lost and make you wish the same fate on the composer.

The music and commitment of the performances made one want to find out more about the 32-year-old composer.

Mr Kibblewhite's choir is certainly proving quite a force in Cambridge music-making. This was a concert to relish - especially the Baltic contribution.

Cambridge Weekly News, 7th February, 1996