Solo piano (2013) Listen to an excerpt: Written for Huw Watkins and commissioned by the ‘Wednesdays at The Forge’ concert series, the music is written in the same character as the anonymous medieval text from which it takes its name, recounting a fathers grief for his lost daughter. The third in a series of ‘Pearls’, […]
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Solo harp (2012) Written for harpist Olivia Jageurs, this suite was partly conceived as a harmonic exploration of the harp, which moves between a virtuosic stand in some places, and a more vacant intimacy in others. The five movements are linked by a through running ‘rhythmic theme’, whilst the harmonic language moves through different levels […]
Solo piano (2013) Listen to an excerpt: Commissioned through the Royal Philharmonic Society Composition Prize and the Alan Horne Memorial Prize, Pearl (II) was written for pianist Clare Hammond and the 2013 Presteigne Festival. The second of a number of ‘Pearls’, the music is written in the same character as the anonymous medieval text from […]