LIST OF WORKS
send me an email if you would like to see any scores [or hear any recordings that aren’t public online]
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THE DISSOLUTE SOCIETY COMPRISED OF ALL SORTS / piano / 35’ / 2021 / ︎
a suite based on Biber’s Battalia, for Joseph Havlat, premiered at Dartington
SLOW DAY NO. 5 / piano / 2’ / 2020 /︎/ ︎ / ︎/
a song without words, intentionally very playable
SONATA / piano / 8’ / 2018 / ︎/ ︎
a sort of microsonata
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I WISH I COULD SPEAK TO YOU / medium-high voice, piano / 3’ / 2021 / ︎
sweet and sad, text by Dan Sociu
DEAD HORSES / solo voice / 12’ / 2021 / ︎/ ︎
lots of good words in this, text by me, RAM200 commission, for Lotte Betts-Dean
MONTREAL SONGS /medium voice, piano / 14’ / 2021 / ︎
three folk song arrangements in French, English and Yiddish
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
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THE DEVIL’S DEN / four singers, fifteen players, side of morris dancers / 70’ / 2024
folkloric tale of superstition featuring a Devil, Rabbit, Child and Druid, Shadwell commission
WITH GLORY AND HIS SCISSORS GLINTING / countertenor, bcl, vcl, perc / 11’ / 2022 / ︎ / ︎
a “barbershopera”, text from clickhole.com, for Shadwell Opera, recorded in binaural audio
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
🎺️🎻🪕
YOU’RE A PIANO QUINTET / piano quintet / 12’ / 2024
about listening
WHAT SHALL WE DO / alto flute, clarinet [Bb+Bass], perc., piano, string quartet / 9’ / 2023 /︎
based on an improvisation session with two nine year olds - the shanty “Drunken Sailor” was a starting point, AMFS commission
VALEDICTIONS / flute, clarinet, horn, cello / 4’30” /2022
a little farewell
FRIENDS / kalimba, trumpet / 10-20’ / 2022
bathroom music for Van Gogh House in London
STRANGE ISABELLA / wind quintet, piano / 2’ / 2022
peeling piano chords and important horn part, Stomping Ground commission, programmed alongside Isabella Leonarda
LURID CUPOLA MOSS / violin, viola, cello / 10’ / 2022 / ︎
earthy and airy, all harmonics, Nash Ensemble commission, premiered at Wigmore Hall
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
BOWED AND BLOWED / clarinet, violin, cello / 6’ / 2022 / ︎
quite jaunty, lullaby in the middle, Listenpony commission, written for a trio from Explore Ensemble
AYBROOK STREET / six sight-reading violinists of any ability / 12’ / 2017 / ︎
a made-to-order piece, premiered at The Ditch, Shoreditch Town Hall
🎺️🎺️🎺️🎻🎻🎻🎻🪕🪕🪕🪕🥁🥁🥁🥁🪈🪈
FOUR MORRIS INTERLUDES / orchestra / 2024
morris dance interludes from ‘The Devil’s Den’, AMFS commission
LADY SKIMMINGTON / orchestra / 3’30” / 2024
gentle rough music, written through the Panufnik scheme for the London Symphony Orchestra
VALEDICTIONS / orchestra / 9’ / 2023 / ︎
phantom ventifact, impluvious psithurisms, written in Aspen
🛠️
something for orchestra
a cadenza for a mozart violin concerto
a solo cello piece
maybe some other things
🎹
THE DISSOLUTE SOCIETY COMPRISED OF ALL SORTS / piano / 35’ / 2021 / ︎
a suite based on Biber’s Battalia, for Joseph Havlat, premiered at Dartington
SLOW DAY NO. 5 / piano / 2’ / 2020 /︎/ ︎ / ︎/
a song without words, intentionally very playable
SONATA / piano / 8’ / 2018 / ︎/ ︎
a sort of microsonata
🎤
I WISH I COULD SPEAK TO YOU / medium-high voice, piano / 3’ / 2021 / ︎
sweet and sad, text by Dan Sociu
DEAD HORSES / solo voice / 12’ / 2021 / ︎/ ︎
lots of good words in this, text by me, RAM200 commission, for Lotte Betts-Dean
MONTREAL SONGS /medium voice, piano / 14’ / 2021 / ︎
three folk song arrangements in French, English and Yiddish
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
🎭️
THE DEVIL’S DEN / four singers, fifteen players, side of morris dancers / 70’ / 2024
folkloric tale of superstition featuring a Devil, Rabbit, Child and Druid, Shadwell commission
WITH GLORY AND HIS SCISSORS GLINTING / countertenor, bcl, vcl, perc / 11’ / 2022 / ︎ / ︎
a “barbershopera”, text from clickhole.com, for Shadwell Opera, recorded in binaural audio
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
🎺️🎻🪕
YOU’RE A PIANO QUINTET / piano quintet / 12’ / 2024
about listening
WHAT SHALL WE DO / alto flute, clarinet [Bb+Bass], perc., piano, string quartet / 9’ / 2023 /︎
based on an improvisation session with two nine year olds - the shanty “Drunken Sailor” was a starting point, AMFS commission
VALEDICTIONS / flute, clarinet, horn, cello / 4’30” /2022
a little farewell
FRIENDS / kalimba, trumpet / 10-20’ / 2022
bathroom music for Van Gogh House in London
STRANGE ISABELLA / wind quintet, piano / 2’ / 2022
peeling piano chords and important horn part, Stomping Ground commission, programmed alongside Isabella Leonarda
LURID CUPOLA MOSS / violin, viola, cello / 10’ / 2022 / ︎
earthy and airy, all harmonics, Nash Ensemble commission, premiered at Wigmore Hall
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
BOWED AND BLOWED / clarinet, violin, cello / 6’ / 2022 / ︎
quite jaunty, lullaby in the middle, Listenpony commission, written for a trio from Explore Ensemble
AYBROOK STREET / six sight-reading violinists of any ability / 12’ / 2017 / ︎
a made-to-order piece, premiered at The Ditch, Shoreditch Town Hall
🎺️🎺️🎺️🎻🎻🎻🎻🪕🪕🪕🪕🥁🥁🥁🥁🪈🪈
FOUR MORRIS INTERLUDES / orchestra / 2024
morris dance interludes from ‘The Devil’s Den’, AMFS commission
LADY SKIMMINGTON / orchestra / 3’30” / 2024
gentle rough music, written through the Panufnik scheme for the London Symphony Orchestra
VALEDICTIONS / orchestra / 9’ / 2023 / ︎
phantom ventifact, impluvious psithurisms, written in Aspen
🛠️
something for orchestra
a cadenza for a mozart violin concerto
a solo cello piece
maybe some other things