Composition

Recent compositions

  • Stella Maris for Cor Anglais / Oboe & Piano (revised, extended, version 2024), a musical tribute to Sally Mays ◉

  • Leeward Ranch (a wedding gift for Rachel Cooke and Andy Cornwell) for Baroque Flute, Harpsichord, Flute, Piano & Strings (or Electronics) (2024) ◉

  • Ayres Within The Round Horizon for Solo Piano (2023), dedicated to Gill Waldron ◉

  • Vision Quest, for Solo Piccolo (2023), three movement work commissioned by, and dedicated to, Sarah Miller ▼◉

  • Cwém, for Bass Flute / Alto Flute / C Flute, Cor Anglais & Bass Clarinet (2023), dedicated to rarescale, premiered at Colourscape Festival, Waddesdon Manor, June 2023 ▼◉

  • Truly Awake, for Oboe & optional percussion, 2022

  • A Still Point in a Sleepwalker’s World, for Solo Piano, 2020-21

  • Stella Maris, for Cor Anglais / Oboe & Piano, 2020 (original version)

  • Pragma, for Oboe & Piano (2017), premiered 2017, Llandovery College

  • Hohler Fels, Concerto for Bass Flute / Alto Flute / C Flute / Piccolo and Wind Orchestra. Commissioned by Karin de Fleyt (Stockhausen Estate), premiered and recorded November 2013. Released on CD (Metier Label) 2016 ◉

  • Pluto, Charon, Eris, Ceres (2016) for two flutes (doubling bass flutes and piccolos) 23 solo strings, marimba and piano or two soloists and electronic accompaniment. Commissioned by Karin de Fleyt and Carla Rees ▼ ◉

  • Bright Clearing, (2015), Triple Concerto for Oboe, Marimba, Piano & Chamber Orchestra. Commissioned by Xi’An Conservatoire, China ◉

  • Piano Sonato, (2015), four-movement work commissioned by Yasmin Rowe ◉

  • at the speed of days and nights (2015), for Soprano, Alto Flute, Cor Anglais, Bass Clarinet, Viola, Cello, Guitar and Piano. Premiered by Lynne Dawson, rarescale and RNCM professors, 2015 ◉

  • Crown Point, (2014), six movement work for flute trio (doubling bass flutes, alto flutes and piccolos) dedicated to Carla Rees. Workshop performances 2016, public premiere 2019 ▼ ◉

  • Duo Concertante, (2014), five movement work for oboe and piano

  • VRUSP, Miniature for Violin, Oboe and Piano. Written for the School of Composition’s RNCM 40th anniversary concert, premiered March 2013

  • Oboe Etudes. Two premiered 2012, Warehouse, London; two premiered 2013, Valbonne, France; two premiered Cantiere Internazionale d'Arte, Montepulciano, Italy 2014; two premiered Xi’An, China, 2014. Each study explores an aspect of contemporary performance e.g.:

  • A Light in Your Sovereign Darkness, quartertones

  • Briza Media, ghost notes and timbral trills

  • Blue Moon, first part - sounds produced without the reed, second part - multiphonics using dance rhythms ◉

  • Maxine, Jazz arpeggios

  • Penumbra, colour trills and double trills

  • Air, playing combined with vocalisations and other effects produced by the mouth

  • Bramble, extreme intervals

  • Manganese, a reworking of a Gillet study including quartertones

  • Tachyon, a virtuosic moto perpetuo including double trills and multiphonics

  • Las Seis Cuerdas, Trio for Alto Flute, Cor Anglais & Guitar, commissioned by rarescale, premiered 2012, London ▼ ◉


    Publishing & Recordings

    ▼ Published by Tetractys. All other works published by the composer
    ◉ Extracts of these works may be found on the Recordings page

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