ENSEMBLE & ORCHESTRA

if this is all we have

for chamber orchestra 

2023  | 5’


1.1.2.1— 2.1.0.0. — Strings 7.7.5.4.2.


Commissioned by Kammerakademie Potsdam with funding from the Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung

Premiered by the Kammerakademie Potsdam, conducted by Finnegan Downie Dear, Potsdam 09. December 2023

(were the ruins still there)

for ensemble 

2023  | 12’


fl, a. fl, 2cl (1=b.cl), 2tpt, perc, 2vn, 2va, 2vc, db


Commissioned by ACHT BRÜCKEN / Musik für Köln and the Podium Gegenwart of the German Music Council for the European Workshop of Contemporary Music

The signs of erosion and weathering in our inner and outer landscapes speak of our forgetting 

and of an absence. 

Chords shifting.

Swaying.

(N)ever-changing. 

The holes, the spaces that take hold in our memories. 


“…was the ruin still there where you hid as a child…”

Samuel Beckett That Time


European Workshop of Contemporary Music, Rüdiger Bohn (cond.) at:

-  ACHT BRÜCKEN Festival Köln, April 2023

- Warsaw Autumn Festival, September 2023

The field is woven

for orchestra

2018  | 13’


2fl (1=picc, 2=a.fl), 2cl (2=b.cl), bsn, c.bsn - 2hn, 2tpt, tbn, b.tbn - 2perc - strings


Commissioned by BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra with funding from the PRS Composers’ Fund


SCORE

In a 1963 review of Agnes Martin’s recent paintings, Donald Judd wrote:


    the horizontal lines go through, but the irregular vertical gaps between the rows of dashes are dominant. The field is woven.


Embedded in the meaning of woven and weaving is a sense of movement in and out, and repeatedly from side to side. 

The field is woven explores the delicately shifting dynamics of intimacy and space within the orchestra.


Performances:    

- BBCSSO & Ilan Volkov (cond.) at Tectonics, Glasgow 2018 (premiere)

- Stavanger Symfoniorkester & Ilan Volkov (cond.) at Only Connect, Stavanger, Norway 2019

- Orchestre Philharmonique Luxembourg & Ilan Volkov (cond. )at Rainy Days Festival, Luxembourg 2019

- WDR Sinfonieorchester & Manuel Nawri (cond.) at  Funkhaus Köln, Germany 2022

- HfM Saar Orchester & Manuel Nawri (cond.), 2022

Between

for ensemble

2017  | 5’


fl, cl, perc, vln, vla, vc, db


Commissioned by the Crash Ensemble

with funding from the Arts Council of Ireland

my way is in the sand flowing

between the shingle and the dune…

Samuel Beckett


Between was written for the Crash Ensemble’s 20th anniversary project, CrashLands. It was first performed at a former prison on Spike Island, just off the coast of Cork. 


Performances:    

- Crash Ensemble, Safe Harbour Festival, Cork, Ireland 2017 (premiere)

- Metapraxis, London, UK  2019

Always again

for two pianos and ensemble

2014  | 14’


2pf - 1.1.1.0. - 1.1.(= flugelhorn)1.0. - 3perc - 1.1.1.1.1.


Commissioned by Kate Halsall with funding 

from the RVW Trust


NB. there is also a version for two pianos and one perc

Premiere:  

-Kate Halsall & Fumiko Miyachi (pianos), Chimera Ensemble & James Whittle (cond.) hcmf//, Huddersfield, UK 2014


CD: a recording of the version for two pianos and percussion is available on Miniaturised Concertos

ukuðr   

for ensemble

2007 | 8’


cl, hn, perc, pf, vn, vla, vc, db


Commissioned by Heidelberger Frühling Festival

Performances:     

- Heidelberger Frühling Festival, Germany 2007 (premiere)

- Kammerensemble Neue Musik, Berlin, Germany 2012 & Villeneuve d’Avignon, France 2013

Obstinare   

for ensemble

2003 | 6’


fl, ob, cl, hp, pf, vn, vc

Performances:     

- London Sinfonietta, London, UK 2003 (premiere)

- Ensemble Linea & Philippe Wurtz (cond.), Festival Musica, Strasbourg, France 2007

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