streaming for Kingma Quartertone and open-holed system Alto Flutes | Dedicated to and commissioned by Carlton Vickers. Duration: circa 22 minutesTo me, the greatest compliment I can pay a composer is after the premiere, and I feel I’ve known their piece my entire life. Obviously, a rare, if not, unheard of occurrence, unless you are Marc…
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black root for solo Eb clarinet | dedicated to Markus Wenninger. An entanglement of sounds some of which lie below the surface, out of hearing. Duration: circa 12 minutes black root develops material from the works that preceded it. This follows on from a compositional trend that can be traced back over many years but…
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This 2020 performance of hȳran, given by the dedicatee, Stephen Upshaw is kindly provided by James Layton and the ‘Into the Oceans’ Project. hȳran [premiere: Stephen Upshaw 26th March at Parasol unit foundation for contemporary art, London]dedicated to Stephen Upshaw | Duration: circa 5 minutes. From 6 March to 28 April 2013, Parasol unit foundation…
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For Flute solo | duration circa. 11 minutes | dedicated to Jenni Hogan A piece that explores aspects of transformation, transmutation and alchemy in sound with a liberal helping of self-referential flux!‘a theft of cold moisture’ continues the journey away from material found in ERIS (flute part) and laterly, ‘lines and distances’ for solo clarinet,…
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For Bass Clarinet | commissioned by Sarah Watts | Duration circa 8.5 minutes Quarter-sounds is published by Metropolis Music Publishers and is available here: quarter-sounds is a study in the use of multiphonics. The piece was commissioned by the bass clarinettist, Sarah Watts to utilise her new multiphonic fingerings within the context of a piece…
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For solo B flat clarinet | Duration 9.5 minutes | Dedicated to Mark Hewitt Premiered by Markus Wenninger, July 2014, at Benedictine monastery of St.Stephan, Augsburg, Germany.
for quartertone alto flute | dedicated to Carla Rees | duration: variable We have also divers strange and artificial echoes, reflecting the voice many times, and as it were tossing it:and some that give back the voice louder than it came; some shriller, and some deeper, yea, some renderingthe voice differing in the letters or…
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For solo violoncello | Dedicated to Annemarie Borg for Antara Project | Duration circa 11 minutes Pathos: plural: patha or pathea; Greek: πάθος, for “suffering” or “experience;” adjectival form: ‘pathetic’ from παθητικός) representsan appeal to the audience’s emotions. Pathos is a communication technique used most often in rhetoric (where it is considered one ofthe…
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for solo tenor trombone Dedicated to Dirk Amrein Ethos is a Greek word meaning “character” that is used to describe the guiding beliefs or ideals that characterise a community, nation, or ideology. The Greeks also used this word to refer to the power of music to influence its hearer’s emotions, behaviours, and even morals. Early…
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θραύσμα (fragment) for solo guitar | Duration: 1 minute | Premiered by Michael Black, November 2011. London.
9 mins solo alto saxophone Commissioned by Kathryn Stott for Federico Mondelci. Premiere – mixing it – Bromsgrove Festival 2000
Tenor trombone (player to be seated) and 2 differently pitched bass drums both operated by foot-pedal. Duration circa 13 minutes. Commissioned by Dirk Amrein. First performance May 2011 – International Trombone Conference – Brazil. Prorrhesis has been composed of a particular composition and performance aesthetic. Some of the music contained in this score is intentionally impossible…
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Solo guitar. Duration – 9:00.
8 mins. bass clarinet solo. Commissioned by Henri Bok. Premiered in Rotterdam Conservatorium, February 2005
For solo Alto Flute. Commissioned by and dedicated to Carla Rees. Premiere, An Tuireann Art Centre 2003. Duration 12 minutes.
12 mins. for solo bass clarinet. Commissioned by Sarah Watts. Premiere Rotterdam, Holland, 2002 Vox Written in 2001, Vox was commissioned by and written for Sarah Watts who has subsequently performed it worldwide. Vox is a veritable showcase of bass clarinet techniques ranging from using quarter-tones, slip tongue, multiphonics, harmonics, glissandi, portamento, virtuosic rapid playing…
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5 mins. solo piccolo. Premiere – Ingrid Cauliford, Aukland New Zealand 2002.Performance on video by Christina Ledford.