Version for bassoon Dedicated to Mavroudes Dakis Troullos Program Note: as they fall into the sea originated as a transformation of materials from my ESOlo project, which involves creating individual solos for principal players in the English Symphony Orchestra (ESO). These solos serve as the foundation for an orchestral composition, with each musical idea contextually…
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For Violoncello Programme Note: born of flesh, bone and brain continues and transforms material from my ESOlo project, which involves creating individual solos for principal players in the English Symphony Orchestra (ESO). These solos form the basis of an orchestral composition, with each musical idea contextually linked through transformative processes. This approach fosters cohesion in…
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Program Note: as they fall into the sea originated as a transformation of materials from my ESOlo project, which involves creating individual solos for principal players in the English Symphony Orchestra (ESO). These solos serve as the foundation for an orchestral composition, with each musical idea contextually linked through transformative processes. This approach ensures cohesion…
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for double bass Written across two sets, outpourings from a noisy brain is a series of double bass solos designed to be performed in several iterations. First, parts 1 and 2 can be played as complete through-composed solos. Second, any number of sections within parts 1 or 2 or drawn from parts 1 and 2…
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Program Note: The ESOlo project involves creating individual solos for principal players in the English Symphony Orchestra (ESO). This approach allows me to collaborate closely with the orchestra, making them familiar with my work before tackling a larger piece. Each solo, lasting 8-11 minutes, is an intense exploration of ideas, interconnected as iterations and transformative…
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Program Note: The ESOlo project involves creating individual solos for principal players in the English Symphony Orchestra (ESO). This approach allows me to collaborate closely with the orchestra, making them familiar with my work before tackling a larger piece. Each solo, lasting 8-11 minutes, is an intense exploration of ideas, interconnected as iterations and transformative…
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Five Pieces for Harpsichord. Bill Stickers Will Be Prosecuted! Cold Air Baffles Slippery When We Slow! Loose Chippings Heavy Plant Crossing This piece is composed for a five-octave, double-manual instrument. Colouration is at the discretion of the performer. I wrote these pieces over several days while living on the Isle of Skye in December 2001.…
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For Clarinet in Bb dedicated to Szilárd Benes Program Note: This piece was composed in response to a call from clarinetist Szilárd Benes for short solo pieces as part of his ‘Rucksack Project’. Excited by Szilárd’s prodigious playing technique, I set out to write a solo based on new and transformed materials from my ESOlo…
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ESOlo IV For Violin dedicated to Zöe Beyers Program Note: The ESOlo project involves creating individual solos for principal players in the English Symphony Orchestra (ESO). This approach allows me to collaborate closely with the orchestra, making them familiar with my work before tackling a larger piece. Each solo, lasting 8-11 minutes, is an intense…
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ESOlo III dedicated to Joely Koos Program Note: The ESOlo project involves creating individual solos for principal players in the English Symphony Orchestra (ESO). This approach allows me to collaborate closely with the orchestra, making them familiar with my work before tackling a larger piece. Each solo, lasting 8-10 minutes, is an intense exploration of…
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ESOlo II For Flute dedicated to Laura Jellicoe Program Note: The ESOlo project involves creating individual solos for principal players in the English Symphony Orchestra (ESO). This approach allows me to collaborate closely with the orchestra, making them familiar with my work before tackling a larger piece. Each solo, lasting 8-10 minutes, is an intense…
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ESOlo Idedicated to James Topp Program Note: The ESOlo project involves creating individual solos for principal players in the English Symphony Orchestra (ESO). This approach allows me to collaborate closely with the orchestra, making them familiar with my work before tackling a larger piece. Each solo, lasting 8-10 minutes, is an intense exploration of ideas,…
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outpourings from a noisy brain: part 1 Dedicated to Aleksander Gabrys for double bass Written across two sets, outpourings from a noisy brain is a series of double bass solos designed to be performed in several iterations. First, parts 1 and 2 can be played as complete through-composed solos. Second, any number of sections within…
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Dedicated to Fabio Fabbri Duration: 27 minutes There is no programmatic intention in what unfolds as sound in this piece: any or no relationship to the title and the sounding music is forged at the discretion of the composer, performer and listener. Nevertheless, an unfolding of material manifests through contrasting music sections to provide the…
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for B-flat clarinet (Solo 2: 2020) Duration circa 14 minutes Dedicated to Raymond Brien
for B-flat clarinet (Solo 1: 2020) Duration circa 14 minutes Dedicated to Raymond Brien
Dedicated to Ondrej Vesely In the arts, bricolage (French for ‘do-it-yourself’ projects) is the construction or creation of a work from a diverse range of things that happen to be available. bricolage I is no exception. Here, musical materials are transformed, recontextualised as necessary and assembled from several pre-existing pieces, particularly the guitar writing in another guitar solo, out…
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a passing colour duo for two flutes or two flute solos Dedicated to Sean Quinn Duration: circa 10 minutes (for the flute duo and each solo piece). This is a timecode-supported polytemporal composition. Program Note: There is no programmatic intention in what unfolds as sound in this piece: any or no relationship to the…
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for E-flat clarinet (2020) Duration circa 14 minutes Dedicated to Raymond Brien
For solo violin Dedicated to Peter Sheppard Skaerved Program Note: There is no programmatic intention in what unfolds as sound in this piece: any or no relationship to the title and the sounding music is forged at the discretion of the composer, performer and listener. Despite this statement, there is an unfolding of material that…
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Toy Box: 15 pieces for piano Duration: circa 40 minutes Program Note There is no programmatic intention in what unfolds as sound in this collection of piano pieces: any or no relationship to the title and the sounding music is forged at the discretion of the composer and listener. Despite this statement, there is an…
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For harp Duration circa 11 minutes Despite the title of this piece, there is no programmatic intention in the unfolding of the music: any perceived relationship between the title and the sounding material arises at the discretion of the composer or listener. Nevertheless, the work unfolds through a series of contrasting sections which, I hope,…
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For piano Dedicated to Conrad Tao. The piece lasts about 11 minutes. Program note: ‘Toy [toye]: An unpretentious piece for lute or virginals, simple in form and light in texture. More than 50 examples survive in English sources from about 1590 to about 1660. Named composers of toys include, for keyboard, Bull, Gibbons and Tomkins…
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pnuema for solo contrabass Paetzold recorder Dedicated to Sylvia Hinz. Marc Yeats · Pneuma (2020) For Paetzold Double Bass Recorder World Premiere recording by Sylvia Hinz. Online live concert. 13th February 2021. I realitätsverschwinden solo pnuema is full of cross-references, development and variants of its material held together by a fabric of rhythmic units permeating…
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For B flat clarinet | Duration: circa 14 minutes | Dedicated to Gleb Kanasevich liquid music is full of cross-references, development and variants of its material held together by a fabric of rhythmic units permeating the work as a whole. It was conceived and should be performed as a stream of consciousness; a single seldom interrupted…
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For double bass | Dedicated to Svetozar Vujic | Duration: circa 3 minutes programme note:According to witch-hunters during the height of the witch trials, the witches’ mark (not to be confused with a witches’ teat) indicated that an individual was a witch. The witches’ mark and the devil’s mark are both terms applied to essentially the…
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mencken’s history of the bathtub for percussion solo | circa 5″ minutes in duration. Dedicated to Caleb Herron setup: 2 differently pitched cow bells [high and low] [or agogo bells] metal wind chimes, as high-pitched and resonant as possible 3 low sounding gongs – no specific pitch required – organised high to low crotales –…
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Spring-heeled Jack [terror of London] | Duration: circa 1.5 minutes | Dedicated to Carlton Vickers Tempi are [probably] faster than is practical so as to encourage a sense of frantic urgency within the performance. The flautist may perform all or any part of this fragment. A few months ago, US flautist Carlton Vickers approached me…
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to Ondrej Vesely out of the dead land for solo guitar | Duration circa 14 minutes I. THE BURIAL OF THE DEAD APRIL is the cruellest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull roots with spring rain. Winter kept us warm, covering Earth in forgetful snow, feeding A little…
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‘cutouts’ violin solo [12 mins.] for Daniele Colombo cut•out (ˈkʌtˌaʊt) n. 1. something cut out from something else, as a pattern cut out or intended to be cut out of paper. 2. a valve in the exhaust pipe of an internal-combustion engine, which when open permits the engine to exhaust directly into the air. 3.…
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