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Forces: Chamber Orchestra (1.1.1.1. 1.1.1.1. 2perc 1.1.1.1.) Duration: c. 10 minutes Written for the Philharmonia Orchestra, this piece responds to Tim Key's lockdown poetry (from the collection Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush). Premiere performance 7th May 2023. |
Poems of 1912-13 - Elegies for Emma
(Thomas Hardy Song Cycle) Forces: mezzo-soprano & guitar Duration: c. 18 minutes (5 songs + interlude) A cycle of songs setting Hardy's Poems of 1912-13. This is one strand of my Thomas Hardy project, which also includes new arrangements of Hardy songs from across the 20th Century, other new song commissions and a string quartet with voice. |
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Dorian (dance piece)
Forces: small ensemble, electronics and video Duration: c. 25 minutes This is a dance piece in development. The narrative is inspired by the tale of Dorian Gray and the music builds on ideas in my chamber work Suite for Dorian which was developed as part of the LSO Soundhub Showcase scheme in 2022. |
Patrick (and his amazing viola)
Forces: viola + electronics and orchestra Duration: c. This piece is in an early development stage |
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Forces: Chamber Orchestra (1.1.1.1. 1.1.1.1. 2perc 1.1.1.1.) Duration: c. 10 minutes Written for the Philharmonia Orchestra, this piece responds to Tim Key's lockdown poetry (from the collection Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush). Premiere performance 7th May 2023. |
String Quartet no. 1: Afterwards - Elegies for Tom
Forces: string quartet + optional mezzo-sop Duration: c. 14 or 19 minutes Year: 2022 Written for the Ligeti Quartet and Lotte Betts-Dean. A response to Thomas Hardy's late poem Afterwards. The version with singer places four interludes between movements setting Larkin's The Mower (which riffs on Hardy's piece Afterwards). Premiere at Bristol New Music and Stoke Newington Music Festival May, 2022 |
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Suite for Dorian
Forces: fl. (picc.), cl. (b-cl.), perc., cello, el. and video Duration: c. 15 minutes Year: 2022 This is an instrumental suite developing ideas for a dance-piece inspired by the tale of Dorian Gray. |
Tympanum Overture - A Celebratory Overture
Forces: orchestra (2,2,2,2, 2,2,2,1, perc (2), harp, strings) Duration: 3 minutes Year: 2021 Written for the University of Bristol Symphony Orchestra. |
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Three Duets; Responses to Paintings by Liz Larkin
Forces: violin & viola Duration: 12 minutes Year: 2018 Written for Mandhira de Saram & Richard Jones. Commissioned as a gift for Liz Larkin's birthday. |
Organ Voluntary - a fanfare to celebrate signing the register
Forces: organ Duration: 3.5 minutes Year: 2021 Significant revisions to a piece from 2016. Written for Phillip Burnett for Rachel and Dave's wedding. |
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Fanfare for Brass Quintet
Forces: brass quintet (trumpet (Bb)x2, horn, trombone, tuba) Duration: 1.5 minutes Year: 2021 Written for the Bristol Brass Consort. |
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Haiku for Tom
Forces: oboe Duration: 2 minutes Year: 2021 Part of a series of responses to haiku. |
They Will Call Him Brave
Forces: harp & percussion Duration: 5 minutes Year: 2019 Written for Sticks & Strings Ensemble. Premiere Rochester, NY 27th July 2019. |
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Thaw
Forces: flute, harp, viola Duration: 7 minutes Year: 2018 This piece is a response to Imtiaz Dharker's poem Thaw. It was written for Trio Alexander, who premiered in Rochester, NY, November 2018. |
Concerto for Orchestra and Percussion (Solo or Quartet)
Forces: orchestra & percussion (solo or quartet) Duration: 23 minutes Year: 2016 Written for Drew Worden. |
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Tuesday Miniature
Forces: string quartet Duration: 2 minutes Year: 2017 Written for the Ligeti Quartet after a challenge issued by them at the Cheltenham Festival Composer Academy! |
Haiku for Calumet St.
Forces: harp Duration: 3 minutes Year: 2016 Written for Rosanna Moore as a gift to Nat & Shari, responding to a Haiku by Basho |
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Line Drawings
Forces: alto flute/picc., clarinet (Bb), piano, cello, double-bass Duration: 6 minutes Year: 2016 Written for Ensemble Variances for the festival Bristol New Music |
Impromptu
Forces: oboe & vibraphone Duration: 5 minutes Year: 2016 Commissioned by the CMV series of concerts |
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Three Rituals on Metal
Forces: percussion quartet playing metallophones Duration: 13 minutes Year: 2016 Commissioned by the CMV Series of Concerts, revised in winter 2015 with help from the Eastman Percussion Quartet. |
Short (&) Suite
Forces: cello Duration: 4 minutes Year: 2015 Suite for solo 'cello, written for Pauline Fairclough. |
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Five Violin Duets
Forces: violins (2) Duration: 10 minutes Year: 2014 Five short duets based on pictures in the Bristol Museum & Art Gallery |
Study for Horn & Chamber Ensemble
Forces: horn solo, flute, clarinet (Bb), Sax (alto), bassoon, perc (one player), violin, viola, cello Duration: 8 minutes Year: 2014 Written for Bristol New Music Ensemble |
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Bristol Fanfare, A Pocket Portrait
Forces: three trumpets (either Bb or C) Duration: 2 minutes Year: 2016 |
Into My Heart (A Shropshire Lad)
Forces: soprano, piano, electronics (stereo output) Duration: c. 12 minutes Year: 2013 Staged song cycle for soprano, piano, tape & electronics |
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The Interrogation of Adam Pollo
Forces: tenor, clarinet (Bb), cello, percussion, computer (with operator) Duration: 35 minutes Year: 2012 Chamber opera in four scenes. Premiered at Tête à Tête: The Opera Festival |
Snareata
Forces: snare drum Duration: 4 minutes Year: 2013 Written for Jonathan Godsall. For solo snare drum |
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The Hardy Tin Soldier
Forces: percussion (2), violin (3), viola (2), cello, double-bass Duration: 13 minutes Year: 2012 Ballet for two dancers based on the Hans Christian Andersen fairytale |
The Map Was Stitched With Threads of Thought
Forces: open scored for 10 players Duration: c. 9 minutes Year: 2012 Written for CoMA South-West |
If I Were So Sure
Forces: prepared piano, clarinet (Bb, dbl. b. cl.), violin (dbl. viola)
Duration: 5 minutes
Year: 2014
Written for Gemini Ensemble
Forces: prepared piano, clarinet (Bb, dbl. b. cl.), violin (dbl. viola)
Duration: 5 minutes
Year: 2014
Written for Gemini Ensemble
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Elegies for Emma (song cycle)
Forces: mezzo-soprano, guitar Duration: c. 18 minutes Year: 2023 A cycle of songs setting Hardy's Poems of 1912-13. Written for (and with) Lotte Betts-Dean. |
String Quartet no. 1: Afterwards - Elegies for Tom
Forces: string quartet + optional mezzo-sop Duration: c. 14 or 19 minutes Year: 2022 Written for the Ligeti Quartet and Lotte Betts-Dean. A response to Thomas Hardy's late poem Afterwards. The version with singer places four interludes between movements setting Larkin's The Mower (which riffs on Hardy's piece Afterwards). Premiere at Bristol New Music and Stoke Newington Music Festival May, 2022 |
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Three Poet's Cats (song cycle)
Forces: mezzo-soprano, tenor, electronics (mono or stereo) Duration: 10 minutes Year: 2021 A song cycle for Lucy Schaufer and Chris Gillett commissioned by Wild Plum Arts and Old Possum's Practical Trust setting poems about cats. Texts by Christopher Smart, Emily Dickinson and anon (9th C Irish). The Life of St. Aemilion
Forces: female choir, electronics (live feed, stereo output) Duration: c. 5-7 minutes Year: 2021 Written for the Schola Cantorum (dir. Emma Hornby), premiere Bristol, April (cancelled) |
Noster Cetus
Forces: soprano solo, small female choir (4+ to a part) Duration: 14 minutes Year: 2012 (revised 2016) Commissioned by the CMV Series of Concerts. |
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Dorian Suite
Forces: fl. (picc.), cl. (b-cl.), perc., cello, el. and video Duration: c. 10-15 minutes Year: 2022 This is an instrumental suite developing ideas for a ballet inspired by the tale of Dorian Gray. |
Three Poet's Cats (song cycle)
Forces: mezzo-soprano, tenor, electronics (mono or stereo) Duration: 10 minutes Year: 2021 A song cycle for Lucy Schaufer and Chris Gillett commissioned by Wild Plum Arts and Old Possum's Practical Trust setting poems about cats. Texts by Christopher Smart, Emily Dickinson and anon (9th C Irish). |
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Lullaby Haiku
Forces: video, stereo audio Duration: 2 minutes Year: 2021 Part of a series of responses to haiku. Commissioned by Severnside Compose Alliance. |
Nocturne
Forces: guitar & electronics (stereo output) Duration: 8 minutes Year: 2015 Written for Tom Torrisi during a residency at the Eastman School of Music, Rochester, New York. |
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Hollow (an Impromptu)
Forces: bass flute, electronics Duration: c. 6 minutes Year: 2020 Written for Lisa Cella. This is a response to Vanessa Kissule's poem Hollow about Edward Colston's statue in Bristol. |
Ludo Ludamus Redux
Forces: string quartet, video, electronics (live feed (4), stereo output) Duration: 7 minutes Year: 2019 Written for the Ligeti Quartet. Premiered at the Open Circuit Festival, Liverpool, March 2019. |
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Books That Will Be Read
Forces: horn & electronics (tape, stereo + mono output) and piano resonance Duration: 4 minutes Year: 2017 (solo horn and piano resonance) Written for David Bevan, commissioned by the CMV Series |
Nocturne No. 2
Forces: percussion (mar., vib., cym. bd) & electronics (live feed, 2 mono output) Duration: 10 minutes Year: 2017 (percussion and electronics) Written for Joby Burgess for performance at the Cheltenham Festival Composer Academy |
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Diminuendi (Etude, Prelude, Response)
Forces: Saxophone (alto & soprano) & electronics (live feed, stereo output) Duration: 8 minutes Year: 2015 Commissioned by Katherine Williams. |
The Interrogation of Adam Pollo
Forces: tenor, clarinet (Bb), cello, percussion, computer (with operator, live feeds (3), stereo + 2 mono output) Duration: 35 minutes Year: 2012 Chamber opera in four scenes. Premiered at Tête à Tête: The Opera Festival |
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Echoic Memories
Forces: piano, cello, electronics (live feed (2), stereo + mono output) Duration: 10 minutes Year: 2015 Commissioned by New Music in the South-West. Premiered by the Bristol Ensemble. |
Ludo, Ludamus
Forces: Computer, four participants Duration: 12 minutes Year: 2014 A musical game for tape and four participants Available as a concert piece or installation |
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Organ Voluntary - a fanfare to celebrate signing the register
Forces: organ Duration: 3.5 minutes Year: 2021 Significant revisions to a piece from 2016. Written for Phillip Burnett for Rachel and Dave's wedding. |
Three Duets; Responses to Paintings by Liz Larkin
Forces: violin & viola Duration: 12 minutes Year: 2018 Written for Mandhira de Saram & Richard Jones. Commissioned as a gift for Liz Larkin's birthday. |
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Haiku for Calumet St.
Forces: harp Duration: 3 minutes Year: 2016 Written for Rosanna Moore as a gift to Nat & Shari, responding to a Haiku by Basho |
Short (&) Suite
Forces: cello Duration: 4 minutes Year: 2015 Suite for solo 'cello, written for Pauline Fairclough. |
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Haiku for Tom
Forces: oboe Duration: 2 minutes Year: 2021 Part of a series of responses to haiku. |
They Will Call Him Brave
Forces: harp & percussion Duration: 5 minutes Year: 2019 Written for Sticks & Strings Ensemble. Premiere Rochester, NY 27th July 2019. |
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Five Violin Duets
Forces: violins (2) Duration: 10 minutes Year: 2014 Five short duets based on pictures in the Bristol Museum & Art Gallery |
Snareata
Forces: snare drum Duration: 3-4 minutes Year: 2013 Written for Jonathan Godsall. For solo snare drum |