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Work in Progress
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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 Dorian Suite which was developed as part of the LSO Soundhub Showcase scheme in 2022. |
Wessex Love Songs : Thomas Hardy Song Cycle Project
Forces: mezzo-soprano & guitar Duration: c. 18 minutes (5 songs) A cycle of songs setting Hardy's Poems of 1912-13 alongside new arrangements of songs (that set Hardy texts) by Bax, Finzi, Betty Roe and Britten. We are also commissioning two further new works setting Hardy. Part funded by RVW Trust, Paul Hamlyn Foundation and Lennox Berkley Society. |
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Patrick (and His Amazing Viola)
Forces: viola + electronics and orchestra Duration: c. This piece is in an early development stage |
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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 |
Dorian Suite
Forces: fl. (picc.), cl. (b-cl.), perc., cello, el. and video Duration: c. 18 minutes Year: 2022 This is an instrumental suite developing ideas for a dance-piece inspired by the tale of Dorian Gray. |
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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. |
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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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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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. |
Haiku for Tom
Forces: oboe Duration: 2 minutes Year: 2021 Part of a series of responses to haiku. |
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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. |
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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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! |
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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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 |
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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Bristol Fanfare, A Pocket Portrait
Forces: three trumpets (either Bb or C) Duration: 2 minutes Year: 2016 |
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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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 |
Snareata
Forces: snare drum Duration: 4 minutes Year: 2013 Written for Jonathan Godsall. For solo snare drum |
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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 |
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 |
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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 |
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 |
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Elegies for Emma (song cycle)
Forces: mezzo-soprano, guitar Duration: c. 18 minutes Year: 2022 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 |