worklist
This is a list of my main pieces from recent years, together with the scoring and duration of each piece. For a complete catalogue, or for any queries about scores, recordings or performance opportunities, feel free to contact me.
Music for piano(s)
Slow Tide II (2012) for piano, MIDI keyboard and tape. Premiere: JT, Institut Français, Bonn, June 2012.
Slow Tide (2009) for two pianos and percussion. 12 mins. Premiere: David Christophersen, Vivian Choi, Peter Britton, Derek Scurll; Cambridge, December 2009.
Butterfly (2009) for solo piano. 2 mins. Premiere: Matthew Schellhorn, Cambridge International Music Festival, November 2009.
fleeting (2007) for solo piano. 3 mins. Premiere: Matthew Schellhorn, University of Bangor, February 2008.
A sense of touch (2007) for four pianos, 4 mins. Stands alone but is also first movement of Music for strings and hammers: see below.
Music for Strings and Hammers (2006-7), for four pianos, honky-tonk and celesta (i.e. six players). Two movements: 12 mins in total. Also arranged for four pianos. Premiere: Rolf Hind et al, FUSELeeds, May 2006. (Premiere of first movement, which was added in 2007: West Road Concert Hall, March 2007.)
The Will of the Tones (2004), piano solo, 9 mins. Premiere: Matthew Schellhorn, St Martin in the Fields, London, November 2004.
Plumbline (2002), piano solo [for children], 1 min. Premiere: Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, June 2002.
Tout abus sera puni (2002), piano solo, 4 mins. Joint Premiere: Daniel Propper, Art et Nature festival, Rochefort; Tom Poster, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, June 2003.
My secret music remembers me (1999), piano solo, 4 mins. Premiere: HIVT, Antwerp, 1999.
Strangers on a shore (1996), piano solo, 4 mins. Premiere: Younger Hall, St Andrews, 1997.
Solo vocal music
Unbidden Visions (2008), for tenor, horn and piano. 8 mins. Words by John Keats. Premiere: John McMunn, Alec Frank-Gemmill, Matthew Schellhorn, Cambridge International Music Festival, November 2009.
The Pedlar of Swaffham (2007), a fable for soprano and five instruments (flute, clarinet (both A and Bb instruments required), violin, cello, piano). 10 mins. Premiere: Lesley-Jane Rogers, Bergamo Ensemble, dir. Michael Downes, October 2007, Canterbury Festival.
A sudden cartography of song (2007), video-opera for four solo voices (SATB), narrator, video and live electronics. Words and video by Alistair Appleton. 28 mins. Premiere: Spitalfields Festival, June 2007.
The She-Wolf (2004), a fable for soprano, cello and piano. Words by the composer, based on a Croatian folktale. 9 mins. Also arranged for soprano, percussion (vibes, marimba: 1 player) and piano.
Ancient Stone at Twilight (2003) for soprano and string quartet. 6 mins. see chamber music
Choral music
Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis (the Caius Service) (2011) for choir and organ. Premiere: Gonville & Caius Chapel Choir, Annie Lydford (organ), dir. Geoffrey Webber, February 2012.
Bread and meat and fish and wine – carol for choir (SATB) and organ, 2010. Premiere: December 2010, Robinson College Choir, Tim Brown.
When Joseph was a-walking – carol for choir (SSATBB), 2009. Premiere: December 2009, Clare College Choir, Tim Brown.
Exultation is the going (2007), for 24 voices (SATB), words by Emily Dickinson. 6 mins. Premiere: BBC Singers, July 2007.
This is the garden (2004) for choir (SATB) and four horns. Words by e.e. cummings. 4 mins.
Of Noblest Cities (2000), an Epiphany Carol for choir and organ (SSATBB). Words by Prudentius. 6 mins.
Fearfully and wonderfully made (1995). Psalm setting for choir and organ pedals (women’s and men’s voices, in 3 groups). 7 mins.
Flos Florum (1991), for double choir (SATB x2) and solo flute. Words anon., medieval.
Orchestral music
GOAT music (2011) for beginners’ orchestra. 3 minutes.
Flare for chamber orchestra: 2 fl (2nd=picc), 2 ob, 2 clar, 2 bsn; 2 hn, 2 tpt, 1 tbn; timpani, percussion (timpanist + 1 other player); strings. 4 mins.
Premiere: Ghent University Symphony Orchestra, cond. Steven Decraene, March 2008.
Breath for mixed ensemble. 8 minutes. For full scoring see ‘Chamber Music’ below.
Search Engines (2002-6), for orchestra: picc., 2 fl; 2 ob, c.a; Eb cl, 2 cl; 2 bn; 4 hn, 2 tpt, 1 tbn; timps, xylo; hp; strings (approx. 14, 12, 10, 8, 6). 12 mins. Premiere: BBC Philharmonic, conducted by James Macmillan, BBC Manchester, February 2007.
Search Engines is also available for chamber orchestra: 2*, 2*, 2*, 2; 2, 2, 0, 0; timps/xylo (1 player); harp; strings (approx. 8, 6, 4, 4, 2). (* 2nd player doubles picc, c.a., Eb clar. respectively). 13 mins.
Piano Concerto (2000, rev. 2006), for piano and chamber orchestra: 2, 2, 2, 2; 2, 2, 0, 0; timps; strings (approx. 8, 6, 5, 5, 3); no ww doubling. Three movements. 35 mins.
Solo and Chamber music
Ouija (2012) for solo violin and electronics. Premiere: Peter Sheppard Skaerved, Sidney Sussex Chapel, Cambridge, May 2012.
Ladder of the escaping eye (2011) for solo recorder. 6 minutes. Premiere: Robert de Bree. Also exists in film version.
Primavera (2011) for violin and piano. 7 minutes. Premiere: Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London: Guy Button, Mark Austin.
Properties of Light (2009) dance-piece for septet (cl, hn, tpt, marimba, vn, vla, cello) and six dancers, choreographed by Isobel Cohen, for CCD’s Light Matter. Premiere, Senate House, Cambridge, December 2009.
Slow Tide (2009; for 2 pianos and percussion: for more info see Piano music above).
Orion (2009) for horn, violin and piano. 13 mins. Premiere: Alec Frank-Gemmill, Florence Cooke, Daniel Tong, Ludlow, February 2010.
Fantazia (2009) for string quartet (Homage to Purcell). 4 mins. Premiere: Fitzwilliam String Quartet, Kings Place, London, May 2009.
That Second Realm (2009) dance-piece for fl, ob and string qtet, and seven dancers, based on Dante’s Purgatorio, choreographed by Susie Crow, premiere: CCD Experience Dante, May 2009.
Luce sì vivace (1996, 2009) for solo flute with organ (or piano), or solo flute and 2 violins. 3 mins.
Nesting (2008) for wind quintet. 5 mins. Commissioned by the Stratford upon Avon Festival. Premiere: Circle of Fifths Wind Quintet, Stratford, October 2008.
In a Quiet Room (solo violin) 2008. 4 minutes. Premiere: Catherine Myerscough, HK Baptist University, Hong Kong.
String Quartet (2008). In three movements; c. 17 minutes.
Premiere: Fitzwilliam String Quartet, Maverick Summer Music Festival, Woodstock, NY, July 2008.
Ancient Stone at Twilight, for string quartet (with soprano, optional). This is the first movement of the String Quartet, which was originally written in 2003 as a separate piece, and can be performed on its own. 6 minutes.
Wheels within wheels (2003-8), for cello and piano. 8 minutes. Premiere: Oliver Gledhill and David Christophersen, West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge, February 2008.
Breath (2008) for mixed ensemble: alto flute, oboe, cor anglais, soprano sax, clarinet, marimba (4 octaves); strings: either 4 violins, 2 violas, 0 cellos/basses; or string quartet. 8 minutes.
Premiere: Ensemble CB3, West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge, cond. Downes, January 2008.
Animals (2006) for wind sextet (fl, ob, cl, bass cl, bsn, hn). Premiere: Aquilo, Cambridge Festival, November 2006.
Man-cockerel meets the donkey-bird (2006), six miniatures for five players: cl (= b. cl.), vn, vc, pc, pf ; 11 mins. Premiere: Curious Chamber Players, Stockholm, May 2006.
An innocent abroad (2003), for bassoon, clarinet and piano; 5 mins.
When the magus reads the night sky (2003), for cello and piano; 6 mins. Premiere: Oliver Gledhill, David Christophersen; West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge, 2003.
see also Music for Strings and Hammers in ‘Music for pianos’ above.
Wind Band
Swings and Roundabouts (2008), 7 mins.
Organ
Lob sei Gott (2010) 3 mins. Chorale prelude written for the Orgelbüchlein Project. Premiere: Gregory Drott, Emmanuel College, Cambridge, November 2010.
Rising Dough (1999), 7 mins. can be played on its own or preceded by:
Dry-Stone Wall (2003, rev 2007), 3 mins. (Again, can be played on its own or as a prelude to Rising Dough). Premiere: Mark Hindley, St Giles Cathedral, Edinburgh.
