I do. I'm just putting the finishing touches on my first piano sonata, and I've written numerous smaller works for piano. I would dearly like to better understand orchestration, so that I can branch out into larger forms and write for different forces.
I love the stride piece-sound very classic! You play well! Are you mostly self-taught or were there some formative teachers who you thought influenced your technique in particular?
A sonata sounds quite ambitious, I have never got round to getting my teeth into a longer-form, all my pieces are relatively short but I guess that is partly due to commercial constraints. I would love to write a concerto and have had some ideas knocking around for ages but whether I will ever find the time?!!
I learn't orchestration the hard way!! basically my publisher wanted some orchestral tracks, I said yes and before I knew it I was scoring for the RPO!!
I would say that my teachers were very influential indeed, no-one famous I'm afraid and they have nearly all passed on now but in my early teens, Melvyn Weston was my private teacher and Mike Hurren my school music teacher (there is a tribute to him here;
https://clactonconcertorchestra.com/news/mike-hurren/and then of course at Uni I guess the most significant to me was Prof. Cecil Lytle who introduced me to Coltrane, Miles Davis, George Duke etc. etc. and Peter Seivewright who was my piano coach. I loved working with him on Bach and Beethoven, he had such insight and was able to get across the importance of detail and how the slightest change of articulation or weight could completely alter the affect of a phrase in the same way that the stress on a single word can change the meaning of an entire sentence. ( Although of course all my teachers were important!!).
Anyway, I ramble!! Good luck with the sonata! Do you have any recordings posted up?