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LIST OF WORKS

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SONATA / piano / 8’ / 2018 / ︎/ ︎
^{a sort of microsonata}

SLOW DAY NO. 5 / piano / 2’ / 2020 /︎/ ︎ / ︎/
^{a song without words, intentionally very playable}

THE DISSOLUTE SOCIETY COMPRISED OF ALL SORTS / piano / 35’ / 2021 / ︎
^{a suite based on Biber’s Battalia, for Joseph Havlat, premiered at Dartington}

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FALLING UP SONGS / soprano, vln, bcl, pft / 3’ / 2016 / ︎
^{these are good fun, secret text, send me a message if you want to find out}

MONTREAL SONGS /medium voice, piano / 14’ / 2021 / ︎
^{three folk song arrangements in French, English and Yiddish}

DEAD HORSES / solo voice / 12’ / 2021 / ︎/ ︎
^{lots of good words in this, text by me, RAM200 commission, for Lotte Betts-Dean}

I WISH I COULD SPEAK TO YOU / medium-high voice, piano / 3’ / 2021
^{sweet and sad, text by Dan Sociu}

HOW TO SING AND PLAY THE HARP / soprano, harp / 11’ / 2022 / ︎
^{quite theatrical, some text by Dan Sociu in the middle, lots of syllables either side}

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FOR PEACE AND COUNTRY [CHAMBER OPERA] / mezzo-soprano + ebcl, cl, bcl, a-sax, bn, tr, tuba, vl, vlc, pft / 16’ / 2018 / ︎/ ︎
^{libretto from a video my sister made when she was 8, the singer [Lotte Betts-Dean] plays 11 different characters (all stuffed toys) - children’s opera? sort of}

WITH GLORY AND HIS SCISSORS GLINTING / countertenor, bcl, vcl, perc / 7’ / 2022
^{a “barbershopera”, text from clickhole.com, for Shadwell Opera, recorded in binaural audio}

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AYBROOK STREET / six sight-reading violinists of any ability / 12’ / 2017 / ︎
^{a made-to-order piece, premiered at The Ditch, Shoreditch Town Hall}

HOW TO DRAW / string quartet / 6’ / 2018 / ︎
^{about lines, written for Dartington International Summer School, premiered there by the Heath Quartet}

SLOW DAY NO. 6 / piano + any other instrument, range Db4-B5 / 2’ / 2020
^{Slow Day No. 5 [see above] but with a bit more going on}

SOMETHING PRETTY / harp, piano / 4’ / 2020
^{brunch music for Olivia Jageurs and Thomas Ang, at the Fidelio Cafe}

THINKPIECE / flute, horn, cello + tape / 11’ / 2021
^{verses and choruses with some thoughts about Messiaen at the end}

BOWED AND BLOWED / clarinet, violin, cello / 6’ / 2022 / ︎
^{quite jaunty, lullaby in the middle, Listenpony commission, written for a trio from Explore Ensemble}

LURID CUPOLA MOSS / violin, viola, cello / 10’ / 2022 / ︎
^{earthy and airy, all harmonics, Nash Ensemble commission, premiered at Wigmore Hall}

BOWED BLOWED AND HIT / recorder[s], violin, double bass, marimba / 9’ / 2022
^{flexible[ish] scoring, any blowed instrument, any two bowed instruments, and any hit instrument could play this}
STRANGE ISABELLA / wind quintet, piano / 2’ / 2022
^{peeling piano chords and important horn part, Stomping Ground commission, programmed alongside Isabella Leonarda}

AND OTHER THINGS [version 3?] / clarinet [or violin], cello, piano / 10’ / 2022 / ︎
^{thinking about Charles Ives - the middle was written at Dartington in 2018, the movements either side materialised in June 2022}

FRIENDS / kalimba, trumpet / 10-20’ / 2022
^{bathroom music}

VALEDICTIONS / flute, clarinet, horn, cello / 4’30” /2022
^{a little farewell}

WHAT SHALL WE DO / alto flute, clarinet [Bb+Bass], perc., piano, string quartet / 8’ / 2023 / ︎
^{based on an improvisation session with two nine year olds - the shanty “Drunken Sailor” was a starting point}

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SUBLUNAR / orchestra - no percussion / 8’ / 2019 / ︎
^{very yearning, + there’s an Ives song somewhere in the middle}

VALEDICTIONS / orchestra / 9’ / 2023 / ︎
^{phantom ventifact, impluvious psithurisms}

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YOU’RE A PIANO QUINTET / piano quintet / premiere tbc.

OPERA / shadwell opera commission / premiere tbc.

ORCHESTRA PIECE / for LSO / premiere 2024

ORCHESTRA PIECE / for Aspen Music Festival / premiere 2024

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