compositions and arrangements


solo/chamber


Piano Sonata no.1 (2007)
50'

Piano Sonata no.2 (2008)
16'

Piano Sonata no.3 (2010)
14-20'
London, 2010

Noisy (2008)
piano       
for James Sherlock    4'
on tour, 2008

Additive (2007)
organ     for Oliver Lallemant    3'30"
on tour, 2007

HOPE (2008)
organ     for Shean Bowers    7'
recorded, Liverpool, 2008

Nocturne (2007)
piano        4'

Dance music (2009)
organ      for Richard Lea        7'

Etude-Variations (2011)
cello, piano         for Nancy Redman        4'
London, January 2011

Five Sketches for Piano Trio (2011)
for James, Tim and Bartosz        12'

Sonatinette (2010)
Allegro//Lento//Presto
piano duet        8'
Crowthorne, May 2010


SMS (2010)
a telephonic rhapsody for four flutes        for the Lea Singers        2'
Harpenden, September 2010

Bhangra (2011)
three flutes        for Tempest        5'
on tour, September 2011

Three Studies (in progress)
for James Sherlock

Motivic variations (2011)
trumpet, violin, viola, 'cello        5'

Livery Dinner-Time for Teddy Bears
a civic fantasy for two to attempt        piano duet        for the Lord Mayor of London        5'
Goldsmiths Hall, November 2011


vocal

 
Amoretti - Set One (2004-2005)
The sovereign beauty//One day I wrote her name upon the sand//Coming to kiss her lips//Most glorious Lord of life
text: Spenser                tenor, piano            for John McMunn            12'

Millay Sonnets (2005)
I, being born a woman//Only until this cigarette is ended//I think I should have loved you presently
text: Edna St Vincent Millay        mezzo-soprano, piano        14'

Carry her over the water (2007)
text: Auden           
medium voice, piano        for Amy Alden            2'

Amoretti - Set Two (2008)
Sweet warrior, when shall I have peace with you?//The glorious image of the maker's beauty//Weak is the assurance//Fair is my love/My hungry eyes
text: Spenser                medium voice, piano            for Ben Williamson        16'
Bedford, May 2008

Odes (2006-2009)
On a Grecian Urn//To a Nightingale//To Psyche
text: John Keats         soprano, piano            for Sonya, Dave & Becks, and Susanna        30'
London, February 2009

Le colibri (2010)
text: Leconte de Lisle       
high voice, piano            for Ellie Martin         4'
London, June 2010

Songs of Sara Teasdale (2010-2011)
I hoped that he would love me//Swans
//There will come soft rains//Joy//Pierrot//I would live in your love//Paris//Buried Love
text: Sara Teasdale           medium voice, piano        18'

Henry King (2011)
text: Hilaire Belloc            medium voice, piano         for Kate Symonds-Joy        2'
Wigmore Hall, September 2011

Canzonetta: Of his Lady Dancing (2011)
text: Dante Gabriel Rosetti            baritone
, piano        for Nicholas Morris        5'

Cantus Troili (2011)
text: Chaucer           
medium/high voice, piano            for Alice Rose Privett    4'
Hastings, June 2011

Caedmon's Hymn (2011)
text translated by the composer           
high voice, piano        for Natalie Perez           3'


choral sacred


Advent/Christmas


Annunciation (2009)
English text: Rilke        SATB        5'

Carol of the Birds (2009)
English text unison, piano/organ        2'

From Heaven above (2006)
text: from Luther            3-voice canon, piano        for Tring Park Prep Choir        3'
Tring, December 2006

Susanni (2009)
Macaronic text    SATB, organ/piano        2'

There is a child (2006)
SA, piano            for Tring Park Chamber Choir        4'
Tring, December 2006

Thou art my son (2010)
English text from the Bible        SATB        2'

Thou art my son (2011)
English text by the composer        SATB        4'

Three Antiphons (2010)

Lux fulgebat//Puer natus est nobis//Surge, illuminare
SSATBB            5'

Today (2010)
text by the composer        SATB        for Voce        4'
London, December 2010

Tomorrow shall be my dancing day (2005)
English trad.        AATTBarBB        for Collegium Regale        6'
on tour, March 2006


Lent/Passiontide/Easter

Media vita (2010)
SATB, cello        for the Lea Singers        15'
Harpenden, March 2010

Tremble, O thou earth (2008)
Biblical text adapted by the composer        SATB, organ            for St Paul's Cathedral Consort            4'
London, April 2008

Upon the crucifix (2011)
text: Alabaster        MS solo, SSATBB, organ        5'

Veronica (2011)
text: St Veronica Giuliani, W.B. Yeats        SATB, cello, organ            for Voce            5'30"
London, April 2011

Pentecost

Blow ye the trumpet in Sion (2008)
M-S solo, SATB, organ            for the London Festival of Contemporary Church Music            5'
London, May 2008

Glossolalia (2010)
macaronic text adapted from the Coptic Gospel of the Egyptians, the Bible, and mediaeval sources        SSAATTBB        7'30"

Ascension

Omnes gentes plaudite manibus (2009)
SATB            for Cantum Barbum            3'
Dartington, August 2009

Trinity/Ordinary time

An Hymn of Heavenly Beauty (2008)
text: Spenser        SSAATTBB, soli, organ        for Purely Choral        16'
Liverpool, October 2008

Coeli ennarant (2009)
text: Psalm 19, Vulgate        SATB        8'

Give the king thy judgements (2005)
text adapted by the composer        SSAATTBB, organ        for Chichester Cathedral Choir//to the High Sheriff of East Sussex and Mrs Alexandra Tregear        6'
Chichester Cathedral, October 2005

Magnificat & Nunc dimittis (2008)
English text         AATTBB        for St Paul's Cathedral Choir            9'
St Paul's Cathedral, March 2008

Mass (BCP) (2006)
SATB        c. 12'

O bone et dulcissime Jesu (2010)
SATB        4'   

Oculi omnium (2005)
ATTBB        for Collegium Regale        2'
on tour, 2005

Oculi omnium (2006)
[writing as Robert de la Barbe]
AATTBB        for Collegium Regale        4'
on tour, 2006

Preserve us, O Lord (2008)
SATB, optional organ        for the London Festival of Contemporary Church Music        1'30"
London, May 2008

Requiem (2010-2011)
Latin text        SATBarB        30'


'Twas in the year that King Uzziah died (2008)
ST soli, SATB, organ            for the Choir of St John's, Palmers Green        4'
London, June 2008

A new commandment (2010)
upper voices        for St Alban's Abbey Choir            c. 3'

Benedicite (2011)

SATB div.        for the New Cambridge Singers        5'
Cambridge, July 2011

Saints' days

A Hymn to Saint Werburgh (2010)
text: Henry Bradshaw    SSATB        for the Ebor Singers    4'
York, May 2010

O quam gloriosum (2010)        SSAATTBB        5'

To St Michael in Time of Peace (2010)
text: Chesterton        SATB with divisi, organ        for St Paul's Cathedral Consort        5'
St Paul's Cathedral, August 2010

choral secular

Angel of the North (2007)
text: by the composer        SSSSAAAATTTTBBBB, organ        for Purely Choral        5'
recorded: Manchester, February 2007

Epithalamion (2008-2010)
text: Spenser        SATB (optional S div.)        for Il Suono and Rubythroat        12'
various venues in Spain, 2008-2010

Fragments (2009)
text: Manley Hopkins        SSS    7'

Music at the Villa Marina (2010)
text: Stevenson    SSAATTBB        5'

Songs of Innocence (2007)
text: Blake        for Tring Park Junior Choir        upper voices, soli, piano        12'
Tring, May 2007

Speak, Parrot (2011)
text by John Skelton        SSMATTBB        for Cries of London        3'30"
Queen Elizabeth Hall, June 2011

Thule, the period of cosmography (2010)
SSS        for Galen        4'30"
Brighton Early Music Festival, October 2010

Voyez, voyez, le pomme du terre (2005)
text: John Hegley, Edward Saklatvala and the composer    for Collegium Regale        ATTB        2'
Cambridge, June 2005

Old Macdonald had a farm (2010)
arr.        SAATBB        4'
on tour, 2010

Beati immaculati, or Philip Sparrow (2011)
SSTB soli, SAATB chorus        for Il Suono        17'
Le Boulou, September 2011

Birdsong (2011)
text: by the composer    SATB with occasional divisi, piano/ensemble        5'



orchestral

Fantasia on LUDE (or Pre-Ludes and Lude-Fugues) (2011)
2.1.1.bcl.1. 1.0.0.0. pno, guit., 3.1.2.0    for the Tunnell Trust        7'
Blair Atholl, June 2011

The Wedding Day (2009)
text: Longfellow (from The Courtship of Miles Standish)        chorus, chamber orchestra w/optional organ        c.16'

Highland Festival-Overture (2009)
3.2.2.3 4.3.3.1 hp, cel., 2 perc., timp., str.        6'30"

Motivic Variations on Non piu andrai (2006)
1.2.2.1 2.2.0.0 timp., str.     for the Chamber Musicians of Cambridge        4'30"

Concerto for piano and string orchestra (2002)
18'


opera

Ophelia (2006)
text: John Robb, freely adapted from Shakespeare        SBar, piano (or chamber orch.)        13'

Genesis (2011)
text: the York Mystery Plays        SMTB soli (Eve, Lucifer, God, Adam), SATB choir, piano duo        for Sloane Square Choral Society        40'

Alcina (2011)
opera in one act after Handel        mixed ensemble, recorder, clarinet, accordion        for Barefoot Opera        55'


arrangements

spirituals

Joshua
Bosom of Abraham
I gotta home in Gloryland

folk songs

The dashing white sergeant
Mairi's wedding
Loch Lomond
Londonderry Air
The leaving of Liverpool


swing

Come fly with me

Bei mir bist du schoen
In the mood
All the things you are
I only have eyes for you
Fly me to the moon
Santa Baby
Paper Moon

1960s-1970s

When I'm sixty-four
In the summertime
The one that I want
Play that funky music
Son of a preacher man
Spirit in the sky

The first time ever I saw your face
Obladi oblada

later/others

Don't stop me now (Queen)
Mamma mia (ABBA)
No matter what (Boyzone)
Alice is at it again (Noel Coward)
Te amo (Rihanna)
The teddy bears' picnic (medley of ursine songs)
Kiss me (Sixpence None The Richer)
Christmas Medley
James Bond Medley
Bananaman (for Eric Whitacre)
More than Words



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