Perotin – arr. 3 Saxophones, 4 Horns, 3 Trumpets, 3 Trombones I arranged this joyous 11th century Organum for a concert at the Royal Academy of Music in 2012. The arrangement is written with much regard for the changes in syllable (and thus colour) of Perotin’s original. The music is also given an extra ‘swing’ […]
Tag Archives: large ensemble
Solo Violin and Double String Orchestra (2017) First planned as a lyrical piece for solo violin and strings, my initial concepts for the music soon accompanied the experience of becoming a father. The piece then became a lullaby, and soon grew to reflect the particular fatigued and emotional state of those first few weeks. The […]
Double String Orchestra, String Quartet (2 Vla, 2 Vc), Organ pedal (2015) “…August, in short, is the month of Nature’s perfect poise, and I should like to see it represented in painting by a Junonian woman, immobile, passionless, and happy in a cool-leaved wood, and looking neither forward nor backward, but within…” “…All bending in […]
12 Trumpets, 2 Percussion, Piano, Organ, SATB soli, SATB chorus, 2 Db (2015) The idea to set Edgar Allen Poe’s four part poem The Bells came from a number of ideas that I had brewing at the time, and my choice of text was in fact the final piece of the puzzle which served to […]
Violin & Orchestra (2015-16) Listen to an excerpt: Written on the 2015-16 LPO young composers scheme, this concerto is dedicated to violinist Vesselin Gellev, who premiered the work on 4th July 2016 at the Royal College of Music, conducted by Magnus Lindberg. The initial aspiring and collapsing gesture in the orchestra exposes all of the […]