concert works

Blue Electric

(2018)

Libretto: Alba Arikha

Based on Alba Arikha's acclaimed memoir, 'Major/Minor'

The Shepherd’s Song

(2018)

For my mother at Christmas
For mezzo, contralto and bass
Words: Edmund Bolton

To a child dancing in the wind

(2017)

For my stepdaughter on her 15th birthday
For mezzo, horn and piano
Words: W.B. Yeats

Thro’ midnight streets

(2017)

A setting of William Blake's 'London'

Forgotten Voices of the Great War

(2016)

Song Cycle for soprano, tenor, baritone, cello & piano (12 songs)

Words: Max Arthur

The hazard of the die

(2016)

Cello sonata

Trust your heart

(2016)

For my wife on her birthday
For mezzo and bass
Words: E.E. Cummings

The Unseen

(2015)

For flute, horn and bassoon

A Winter’s Tale

(2014)

SSA and piano
Words: Dylan Thomas

Charade

(2014)

For violin and piano

For Tennyson

(2014)

For horn and piano

Secrecy

(2014)

Libretto: Rupert Thomson

Based on the novel by Rupert Thomson
Work in progress

Soon

(2013)

Libretto: Alba Arikha

Chamber Opera

Somewhere Else

(2013)

For clarinet, violin and double bass

Soliloquy for Strings

(2012)

Messiah

(2012)

Director: Chris Swann

18th century costume drama highlighting the plight of London's abandoned children and celebrating the three great men who sought to find a solution.

What Is the Word

(2012)

A setting of Samuel Beckett's last poem scored for 2 sopranos, cello and narrator

Instructions To Four Walls

(2012)

A setting of W.S. Merwin's poem, scored for two sopranos, two contraltos, harp and glass harp

As shade to shadow

(2012)

For viola and cello

Care-charmer Sleep

(2012)

For four voices (unaccompanied)

Words: Samuel Daniel

Quo vadis?

(2011)

For oboe, clarinet and bass clarinet

Symphony No.1

(2011)

In the bleak midwinter

(2011)

SSAATTBB unaccompanied
Words: Christina Rossetti

The Heart-in-Waiting

(2010)

SSATB unaccompanied
Words: Kevin Crossley-Holland

Music in the Marble

(2010)

Symphonic work: 7 short movements inspired by 7 sculptures

Jack and the Beanstalk

English Touring Opera (2009)

String Quartet No.1

(2009)

'For Alba'

Jack and the Beanstalk

(2009)

For large ensemble and narrator
Words: Emma House
Narrator: Michael Gambon

Red Riding Hood

English Touring Opera (2008)

The Tale of Sly Ginger

(2008)

For large ensemble and narrator
Words: Emma House
Narrator: Tom Smail

Benedictus benedicat

(2008)

Trio for violin, trombone and piano

Look thy last on all things lovely

(2007)

For my mother
For 3 baritones, clarinet, horn, cello and piano
Words: Walter de la Mare

Fynnish Fantasia

(2007)

For clarinet, trombone, percussion and bass

Never doubt I love

(2007)

For 4 voices and string trio

Words: William Shakespeare

For Anna

(2006)

For flute, clarinet, bassoon, horn, harp, violin and cello

Tread lightly

(2005)

For Charlotte
For mezzo, cello and piano
Words: Oscar Wilde

Requiem for the Routemaster

(2005)

An orchestral tribute to London's Routemaster Bus

King of the dump

(2005)

Libretto: Juliet Ace

Children's Opera

Sheep like stones

(2004)

Advent carol
SATB unaccompanied
Words: Jenny Overton

For piano and horn

(2004)

Adagio for violin, recorder, horn and piano

(2004)

Wind Quintet No.2

(2004)

For Gabriel

(2003)

When days are long in May

(2003)

Words: Jaufré Rudel

Translation: Frederick Goldin

Wind Quintet No.1

(2002)

(1999)

For tenor, horn and piano

Words: Stevie Smith

The darkling thrush

(1998)

Words: Thomas Hardy