Music

 ABOUT  THE  MUSIC

 a catalogue of work to date

ORCHESTRA / LARGE ENSEMBLE  (mixed instrumentation)

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

A Britten Pears Arts Commission

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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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Samara (2018-19) for orchestra - 12 minutes

Commissioned by the Aldworth Philharmonic Orchestra

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Hatch (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

SMALL ENSEMBLE  (mixed instrumentation)

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

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

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

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

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

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SOLO / ENSEMBLE  (by instrument type)

STRINGS

Five movements for violin 'Stormfield Songs' (2020/2024) for solo violin

Listen movement I as first performed by Fenella Humphreys in her 'homemade concerts' broadcast via YouTube in June 2020

String Quartet (2018/23) - 15 minutes

Monody (2019) for solo violin - 1 minute

Listen  Performed by Christopher Jones with an interruption on piano by Joseph Havlat.

Recorded Live at Dartington International Summer School 2019.


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

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

Listen - workshop recording by the Ligeti Quartet

The Rambler (2015) for string orchestra - 6 minutes

A finalist in the Yorkshire Late Starters Strings composition prize 2015

WINDS / BRASS

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

Myopic Sequence I & II (2021)

I for solo saxophone - 6 minutes

II for sax and piano - 4 minutes

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 Peacock Tree (2017) for wind quintet - 4 minutes

Mercury (2017) for flute choir - 5 minutes

Commissioned by the Opal Flutes

Published by Forton Music

Counterbalance (2016) for flute choir - 5 minutes

Written for the Opal Flutes

PERCUSSION

Wolf (2024) for solo percussion - 5 minutes

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

PIANO

Feathered Air (2022) for solo piano - 6 minutes

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Chameleon (2020) for solo piano - 3 minutes

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

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

Listen recorded by Ana Beatriz Ferreira

VOICE

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

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

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

A Britten Pears Arts Commission

Listen performed by the Emily Thorner and the Britten Pears Contemporary Ensemble conducted by Jonathan Berman at Aldeburgh Festival 2022

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

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

Speak, Rose (2018) for solo mezzo-soprano - 3 minutes

IMPROVISERS, OPEN SCORE and INSTALLATIONS

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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