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for eight instruments and fixed media | 2019 | 6’
I started this project from a very pure place, just using the voice of Miss M. M. Williams (recorded 1959 in Idanfryn, Anglesey) singing of love and loss. ‘under the earth’ for eight instruments and tape explores the relationship between my world and one of the past.
Any combintaion of solo instruments (original scored for viola and violoncello) | 2017 | 2’ (minimum)
‘music that never ends’, originally written for viola and violoncello, is a flexibly-scored work of thirty counterpart cells each denoting an article from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948).
for flute, viola and harp | 2022 | 5’
‘ayre’ weaves fragments of Dowland’s synonymous Lachrimae of the 16th-century with the often unceasing rhythmic flow of a more urban sensibility. This work was commissioned by Gillian Green and the Fishguard and West Wales International Music Festival for Trio Anima in 2022.
for solo mezzo-soprano, SATB choir, percussion, timpani, and string orchestra | 2024 | 16’
Commissioned by the Three Choirs Festival, messages is a series of five movements which explore the ways in which messages have permeated our collective history, from one culture to another, one generation to another.
for SATB choir (divided) | 2020 | 2’
Written for National Youth Choirs of Great Britain Fellowship 2019-20, as part of the National Youth Choirs of Great Britain Young Composers Scheme 2019-20, ‘This was mine’ is one of five short choral works from ‘Morals + Interludes’ about love, loss, and isolation.
for SATB choir | 2021-22 | 4’
nova! nova! is a choral setting of the Salutation Carol of the Angel Gabriel, based on Luke 1:26-38, and is sung for the annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary. This work was specially written for the Choir of Royal Holloway for performance in their 2022 Lessons & Carols service at Royal Holloway.
for SATB choir | 2020 | 1’
Written for National Youth Choirs of Great Britain Fellowship 2019-20, as part of the National Youth Choirs of Great Britain Young Composers Scheme 2019-20, ‘stay away from clocks’ is one of five short choral works from ‘Morals + Interludes’ about love, loss, and isolation.
for SATB choir (divided) | 2019 | 12’
This work - ‘3 postcards’ - was developed for Swansea Philharmonic Choir as part of the Adopt-a-Composer scheme, funded by the PRS Foundation and the Philip and Dorothy Green Music Trust, and run by Making Music UK, in partnership with Sound and Music and BBC Radio 3.
for SATB choir (divided) | 2019 | 12’
This work - ‘3 postcards’ - was developed for Swansea Philharmonic Choir as part of the Adopt-a-Composer scheme, funded by the PRS Foundation and the Philip and Dorothy Green Music Trust, and run by Making Music UK, in partnership with Sound and Music and BBC Radio 3.
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for chamber SATB choir | 2020 | 4’
Hymn, after O’r galon
for string orchestra | 2020 | 5’
Return Journey
for flexible instrumentation | 2020 | 5’
for eight instruments and fixed media | 2019 | 6’
I started this project from a very pure place, just using the voice of Miss M. M. Williams (recorded 1959 in Idanfryn, Anglesey) singing of love and loss. ‘under the earth’ for eight instruments and tape explores the relationship between my world and one of the past.
for fifteen instruments and film | 2023 | 8’
‘The day following’ is a work that allows us to reflect on memory, and specifically the memories of those whose communities have been taken from them. The music comes and goes. Snippets of old tunes are heard and buried. Distant hymns and church bells wash over us.
for solo mezzo-soprano, SATB choir, percussion, timpani, and string orchestra | 2024 | 16’
Commissioned by the Three Choirs Festival, messages is a series of five movements which explore the ways in which messages have permeated our collective history, from one culture to another, one generation to another.