Variations for Orchestra
This work was inspired by Schoenberg's Op.31 Variations for Orchestra. Despite this, it shares almost no stylistic similarities with that piece, being more an amalgam of Mathias, Britten and Shostakovich…
Variation XVI, fanfare for brass quintet
Perhaps Britten’s greatest opera, The Turn of the Screw contains fifteen interludes that are variations on a single theme. This fanfare is both a sixteenth variation upon that theme and…
Oppositions I
The first of my pieces exploring the abrupt juxtaposition of contrasting thematic material. The idea was borrowed from a friend who wrote a striking work with the same title, which…
Sonnet 126
In this, the final work in the sequence of sonnets directed towards a fair youth, Shakespeare reflects upon time and decay… For SATB choir or SATB soloists.
Porch Scribbles
This setting of a poem by Allen Ginsberg was written for the vocal trio Juice for a workshop performance at Cardiff University on 27th November 2007. The music attempts to reflect the various…
Oppositions II
Second of my Oppositions pieces, each of which explores the juxtapositions of contrasting groups of thematic material. It was written for a workshop performance given by players of the London…
Oppositions III
The third of my oppositions pieces. Here ‘Oppositions’ refers to the use of groups of thematic ideas based upon a particular interval and the exploration of music with and without…
A Little Movement
A small piece written as my contribution to a project to write variations on Elgar's Enigma theme, marking the 150th anniversary of the composer's birth.
Hommage
Hommage was my contribution to a joint project amongst staff and students at Cardiff University to write a work inspired by the instrumentation used in Henri Dutilleux’s Citations. The individual compositions were then…