Solo instruments & Ensemble
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Epitaph: After Donald Crowhurst
For Solo Organ. Commissioned by Simon Hogan in 2014. Click here to view the SCORE. Click here to LISTEN.
Rest
For String Quartet, Electronics, Mixed Percussion, Alto Saxophones, Tenor Saxophones, Piano, Nyckelharpa, Tape, Bass Guitar, and Actors. A 40 minute electronic ballet for aerialists and acrobats, based on the ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’ by Charlotte Gilman. Commissioned by the Hercinia Arts Collective in 2020. Click here to LISTEN.
Mr Žižek Speaks
For Flute, Clarinet in Bb, Glockenspiel, Snare Drum, Horn in F, Viola, and Piano. First performed by the Britten Sinfonia and Gerry Cornelius in 2014. Click here to view the SCORE. Click here to LISTEN.
The Tempest
For Accordion, Trumpet, Oboe, 2 Alto Saxophones, Percussion and Mixed Voices. Incidental music for Shakespeare’s play, commissioned by the ADC Theatre, Cambridge, in 2014. Click here to view the SCORE.
A LudDless Marriage
For Solo Organ. Commissioned by Alex Berry in 2012, first performed at King’s College Cambridge, and subsequently awarded the The Lord Mayor’s Prize for composition at the Mansion House, performed there by Jonathan Scott. Click here to view the SCORE.
Pentecost Alleluias
For Solo Organ. Commissioned by Joseph McHardy, Gareth Wilson, and the London Festival of Contemporary Church Music in 2013. Click here to view the SCORE.
Upon This Rock
For Solo Organ. Based on ‘Tu Es Petrus’ plainsong, and commissioned by Joseph McHardy, Gareth Wilson, and the London Festival of Contemporary Church Music in 2014. Click here to view the SCORE.
Three’s A Crowd
For Violin, Viola and ‘Cello. Commissioned by the Keats Trio in 2016 and first performed in Peterborough Cathedral. Click here to view the SCORE. Click here to LISTEN.
On ROyalty
For Flute, Clarinet in Bb, Violin, ‘Cello and Piano. First performed by the Lontano Ensemble under Odaline de la Martinez in 2011. Click here to view the SCORE. Click here to LISTEN.
Six Inventions After Auden
For Violin and ‘Cello. First performed by Rhiannon Randle and Joseph Davies in the chapel of King’s College Cambridge in 2014. Click here to view the SCORE.
Song of Olympia
For 2 Flutes, 2 Oboes, 2 Clarinets in Bb, Bassoon, 2 Horns in F, 2 Trumpets in Bb, 2 Trombones, Tuba, Timpani, Mixed Percussion, and Strings. Composed for the Nottingham Symphony Orchestra in 2011. Click here to view the SCORE.
Four Wall Fever
For 3 Alto Saxophones and 3 Tenor Saxophones. Recorded by the composer in 2020 during the first Covid-19 lockdown. Click here to view the SCORE. Click here to LISTEN.
Rubik’s Tune
For 2 Alto Saxophones and 2 Tenor Saxophones. Recorded by the composer in 2021. Click here to view the SCORE. Click here to LISTEN.
Heygate Variations
For 2 Clarinets in Bb, Clarinet in A, and Bass Clarinet. Competition work composed in 2010. Click here to view the SCORE.
Sonatine
For 2 ‘Cellos and Piano. Competition work composed in 2008. Click here to view the SCORE. Click here to LISTEN.
Moon River
For Piano, Double Bass, Drum Kit, Guitar, 4 Trumpets in Bb, 3 Trombones, Bass Trombone, 2 Alto Saxophones, 2 Tenor Saxophones, and Baritone Saxophone. Arrangement of Mancini’s tune for the King’s Big Band, first performed at the London Battle of the Big Bands 2011. Click here to view the SCORE.
I Try
For Piano, Double Bass, Drum Kit, Guitar, 4 Trumpets in Bb, 3 Trombones, Bass Trombone, 2 Alto Saxophones, 2 Tenor Saxophones, and Baritone Saxophone. Arrangement of Macy Gray’s tune for the King’s Big Band, first performed at the London Battle of the Big Bands 2011. Click here to view the SCORE.
Money
For Narrator, Oboe, 2 Clarinets in Bb, Piano, Violin, Viola, ‘Cello, Double Bass and Accordion. 15 minute competition work from 2014 setting various texts by Martin Amis, e e cummings, William Shakespeare, Slavoj Zizek, Kathleen Raine, Philip Larkin, and Aditya Chakrabortty. Click here to view the SCORE. Click here to LISTEN.
Frumpy Fools Around
For 2 Alto Saxophones, 3 Tenor Saxophones and Baritone Saxophone. Shortlisted by Django Bates for the Sibelius Young Composer of the Year Award 2008. Click here to view the SCORE. Click here to LISTEN.
Terrence Tastes the Tush
For 2 Alto Saxophones and 2 Tenor Saxophones. Winner of the London University ‘Battle of the Quartets’, 2008. Click here to view the SCORE. Click here to LISTEN.
Real Werk Satz I
For Piano solo. Based on J. Strauss’s Kaiser Waltzer, first performed by Rob Keeley in 2009. Click here to view the SCORE. Click here to LISTEN.