Number Of Short Pieces (Provisional Title)

Dystopian Prelude One

Prelude One for Guitar Duet

Prelude Two for Guitar Duet

Chance Encounters

Mimi is a three day event horse ridden by my daughter Sahnya Shiels. We spent the whole of the summer of 2010 looking for the right horse before we found her.

Song and Dance For Mimi

The second movement from a String Quartet. The two violins and viola appear to be in conflict. Later they are drawn together through the intervention of the cello whose theme serves to draw the others towards unity.

Differences Reconciled (2nd movement from String Quartet 2012)

A short piece for Lily Clarke. I wrote it for Clarinet and Guitar, but it could work with Violin and Guitar.

Bagatelle For Lily

Subtitled Introduction & Consolation To Blue, this has three distinct sections. The first a rippling fast moving Intro. The second a slow section where I imagine someone trying to console a friend, followed by the third, a blues.

Comments good, bad or ugly please, this is a work in progress!

City String Quartet – First Movement

Suite For Horses

This came about as an experiment in mixing together two clarinets with a single violin and tuba.

There are four movements. Score available as a pdf.

Lonely Memories
An old horse rests in her stable

Dances In Spring
Foals play in the spring sunshine

Lullaby

Dancing Stallions Are Interrupted
Stallions parade around the mares but their displays are interrupted by a thunderstorm


Suite For Horses

Written for my dear friend Katya who so often finds herself in anguish.
For prepared piano and two violins.

Anguish

For prepared piano, two violins, gongs and fluid-filled glasses

Expansive

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Award-winning Irish composer.

Andrew Shiels

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