Blue Electric
Libretto: Libretto: Alba Arikha
Director: Hugh Hudson
Based on Alba Arikha's acclaimed memoir, 'Major/Minor'.
40-minute work-in-progress version premièred at RADA on August 7th 2018
(Tête-à-Tête Festival).
concert works
The Shepherd’s Song
Words: Edmund Bolton
For my mother at Christmas.
For mezzo, contralto and bass.
Sung by Arianna and me (x2).
To a child dancing in the wind
Words: W.B. Yeats
For my stepdaughter on her 15th birthday.
For mezzo, horn and piano.
Sung by Arianna (the birthday girl).
Thro’ midnight streets
Words: William Blake
A setting of Blake's *London*
Premièred by the New London Children's Choir at the Barbican in March 2017
Commissioned by the New London Children's Choir
Forgotten Voices of the Great War
Words: Max Arthur
Song Cycle for soprano, tenor, baritone, cello & piano (12 songs)
Soprano: Anna Dennis
Tenor: Matthew Long
Baritone: Simon Wallfisch
Cello: Oleg Kogan
Piano: John Reid
The hazard of the die
Cello sonata
Trust your heart
Words: E.E. Cummings
For my wife on her birthday.
For mezzo and bass.
Sung by Arianna and me.
The Unseen
For flute, horn and bassoon.
A Winter’s Tale
Words: Dylan Thomas
SSA and piano.
Sung by the New London Children's Choir.
Commissioned for the 2014 'Dylan Thomas in Fitzrovia' Festival
Charade
For violin and piano.
Premièred at the Casa dei Mezzo Festival in Crete in June 2014.
For Tennyson
For horn and piano.
Commissioned by his father for a talented young horn player.
Secrecy
Libretto: Rupert Thomson
Based on the novel by Rupert Thomson.
Work in progress.
Soon
Libretto: Alba Arikha
Chamber Opera
Somewhere Else
For clarinet, violin and double bass.
Soliloquy for Strings
Messiah
Director: Chris Swann
Words: Chris Swann (after Isaiah)
On-going film project
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
A setting of Samuel Beckett's last poem scored for 2 sopranos, cello and narrator
Sopranos: Helen-Jane Howells, Sophie Daneman
Cello: Vanessa Lucas-Smith
Narrator: Robert Bathurst
Commissioned for the Kapoor Chamber Concert Series
Instructions To Four Walls
A setting of W.S. Merwin's poem, scored for two sopranos, two contraltos, harp and glass harp.
Sopranos: Helen-Jane Howells, Sophie Daneman
Contraltos: Caroline Sartin-Smith, Diana Moore
Harp: Lucy Wakeford
Glass Harp: Anna Szafraniec
Commissioned for the Kapoor Chamber Concert Series
As shade to shadow
For viola and cello.
Care-charmer Sleep
Words: Samuel Daniel
For four voices (unaccompanied).
Soprano: Anna Dennis
Countertenor: William Towers
Tenor: Ben Breakwell
Baritone: Jonathan Brown
Commissioned for the Kapoor Chamber Concert Series
Quo vadis?
For oboe, clarinet and bass clarinet.
Symphony No.1
In the bleak midwinter
Words: Christina Rossetti
A new (punter friendly) setting of a classic text.
SSAATTBB unaccompanied.
Commissioned and sung by the choir of St. George's, Hanover Square
The Heart-in-Waiting
Words: Kevin Crossley-Holland
SSATB unaccompanied.
Commissioned and sung by the choir of St. George's, Hanover Square
Music in the Marble
Symphonic work: 7 short movements inspired by 7 sculptures.
Jack and the Beanstalk
String Quartet No.1
'For Alba'
Jack and the Beanstalk
Words: Emma House
For large ensemble and narrator.
Narrated by Michael Gambon.
Red Riding Hood
The Tale of Sly Ginger
Words: Emma House
For large ensemble and narrator.
Narrated by Tom Smail.
Trio for violin, trombone and piano
Commissioned by David Benedictus for his birthday
Look thy last on all things lovely
Words: Walter de la Mare
For my mother.
For 3 baritones, clarinet, horn, cello and piano.
Sung by me.
Fynnish Fantasia
for clarinet, trombone, tuned/un-tuned percussion and bass
A tune and a good deal of percussion for my energetic, young nephew.
Never doubt I love
Words: William Shakespeare
For 4 voices and string trio.
Soprano: Anna Dennis
Countertenor: William Towers
Tenor: Julian Forbes
Bass: Gabriel Gottlieb
For Anna
for flute, clarinet, bassoon, horn, harp, violin and cello
A lullaby to celebrate the arrival of my goddaughter.
Tread lightly
Words: Oscar Wilde
For Charlotte.
For mezzo, cello and piano.
Sung by Michaela Betts.
Requiem for the Routemaster
An orchestral tribute to London's Routemaster Bus.
King of the dump
Libretto: Juliet Ace
Children's Opera.
Sheep like stones
Words: Jenny Overton
Advent carol.
SATB unaccompanied.
Sung by the choir of St. George’s, Hanover Square.
For piano and horn
Adagio for violin, recorder, horn and piano
Wind Quintet No.2
For Gabriel
When days are long in May
Words: Jaufré Rudel
Translation: Frederick Goldin
Wind Quintet No.1
Merciless Pursuit
The Swarm
For string quartet.
Played by the Vellinger Quartet.
No more be done
For string quartet.
Played by the Vellinger Quartet.
Sleeping Beauty
Words: Emma House
For large ensemble and narrator.
Narrated by Harry Enfield.
Commissioned by The Gaudier Ensemble
Ominous
For string quartet.
Played by the Vellinger Quartet.
The Canticle of the Sun
Words: St Francis of Assisi
Translation: Adrian House
SATB unaccompanied.
Sung by the choir of St. Michael’s, Cornhill.
Carry her over the water
Words: W.H. Auden
For Sasha and James on their wedding day.
SATB unaccompanied.
Sung by Synergy Vocals.
The Villagers’ Carol
Words: Kenneth Grahame
For friends, one Christmas.
SATB unaccompanied.
Sung by Synergy Vocals.
Red Riding Hood
Words: Emma House
For large ensemble and narrator.
Narrated by Harry Enfield.
Commissioned by The Gaudier Ensemble
The Pied Piper
Words: Emma House
For large ensemble and narrator.
Narrated by Simon James.
The Gaudier Ensemble.
Not waving, but drowning
Words: Stevie Smith
For tenor, horn and piano.
Tenor: David Menezes
The darkling thrush
Words: Thomas Hardy