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 a catalogue of work to date

SOLO/DUO

Three Wandering Lines (2023) for solo clarinet - 6 minutes

Feathered Air (2022) for solo piano - 6 minutes

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Pirouettes (2022/) for solo double bass - 9 minutes

Myopic Sequence I (2021) for solo saxophone - 6 minutes

Myopic Sequence II (2021) for saxophone and piano - 4 minutes

Chameleon (2020) for solo piano - 3 minutes

Stormfield Songs (2020/) for solo violin

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Tree Pieces (2020) for solo piano - 6 minutes

Listen as trees wave slowly performed by Francessca Hurst

Score, and more information about the Twenty piano project including album recording by Daniel Chappell

Lattice Study (2019/) for solo harp - 9 minutes

Beam (2019) for percussionist and two woodblocks - 4 minutes

Monody (2019) for solo violin - 1 minute

Five Fragments after Kuhlau (2019/) for two flutes

Speak, Rose (2018) for solo mezzo-soprano

Old English (2017) a collection of miniatures for solo piano, 9 minute

SMALL ENSEMBLE (3-8 players)

String Quartet (2018/23) - 15 minutes

Pine (2022) for flute, viola, harp - 5 minutes

Garlands (2021) for soprano, clarinet, viola, harp, cello - 6 minutes

Beacons (2019) for clarinet, cello, piano - 5 minutes

Written at Dartington composition course, and winner of Musicon, Durham's anniversary call for scores

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Confluere (2019) for violin, cello, piano - 5 minutes

Written for Trio Sonorite, commissioned by Illuminate Women's Music

Tableaux (2018) for oboe and string trio - 4 minutes

Juggernaut Island (2018) for string quartet - 5 minutes

Written for the Ligeti Quartet, supported by the Centre for New Music, Sheffield and Arts Council England

The Peacock Tree (2017) for wind quintet - 4 minutes

LARGE ENSEMBLE (9+ players)

Crossing Songs (2022) for sinfonietta and high soprano - 9 minutes

A Britten Pears Arts Commission

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Of Far Flung Skies (2019-20) for brass band (with optional learner band parts) - 12 minutes

Written as part of the Adopt a Composer Scheme run by Making Music in association with Sound and Music supported by the PRS Foundation and the Phillip and Dorothy Green Trust and later broadcast on BBC Radio 3

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Audio postcard

The Time Being (2019-20) for sinfonietta - 6 minutes

Written as part of the Britten Pears Young Artists Programme Contemporary Composition Course (2019-20)

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Lullaby Adrift (2017) for string orchestra and soloists - 5 minutes

Written for the European String Teachers Association, supported by Cardiff University

Mercury (2017) for flute choir - 5 minutes

Commissioned for the Opal Flutes and Sharon Moloney

Published by Forton Music

Counterbalance (2016) for flute choir - 5 minutes

Written for the Opal Flutes and Sharon Moloney

The Rambler (2015) for string orchestra - 6 minutes

A finalist in the Yorkshire Late Starters Strings composition prize 2015

ORCHESTRA

Samara (2018-19) for orchestra - 12 minutes

Commissioned by the Aldworth Philharmonic Orchestra

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Hatch (a concertino) (2018) for orchestra - 12 minutes

Commissioned by the Cambridge, Heidelberg, Montpellier Youth Orchestra

A Common Language (2017) for orchestra - 10 minutes

Written for the Cambridge, Heidelberg, Montpellier Youth Orchestra

CHOIR

O Nacht! (2023) for choir (SSAATTBB) - 4 minutes

Commissioned for Daniel Collins and the choir of St Mark's Hamilton Terrace

IMPROVISERS

Exquisite Distance (2020) a collaborative work with multiple sections, each page composed by a different member of the Hooting Cow Collective  - flexible number of performers, flexible duration

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From a ground floor flat [probably gardenless] (2020) a text piece with optional video projection, silent,

flexible number of performers, flexible duration

Score (with mandarin translation by Yue Zhuo)

In Tiled (2019) for tile keeper, players, and audience - flexible number of performers, flexible duration

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Points, clicks and whistles (2019) for voices - flexible number of performers, flexible duration

Solitude/Trailblazer (2018) for solo violinist in a crowd

TRAX (2017-18) for mixed ensemble - flexible number of performers, flexible duration

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Scores and recordings available on request, please get in touch for more information

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