For violin and piano.

First performed by Duygu Ince (violin) and Ben Smith (piano), 15 May 2017, Guildhall School of Music & Drama Music Hall.

Relentless, reserved, brittle, frantic, fragile. Edge explores some of the outer musical limits of the violin and piano in five short movements. The instruments frequently play the same or similar musical material, often in dialogue, yet sometimes rivalling each other as they reach their extremes.

Edge (2017)

For clarinet, vibraphone, electric guitar, violin, cello and two tape recorders.

Performed and recorded by Plus-Minus Ensemble, as part of a GSMD Masters Programme. 30 June 2017, Guildhall School Music Hall. 

Everything fades. By using two tape recorders, musical fragments slowly become erased, obscured and distorted through re-recording and the evolving musical material. A faint trace of the original remains however, set against the backdrop of the constant and independent electric guitar line.

Traces (2017)

For soprano and piano

Performed by Patricia Auchterlonie (soprano) and Ben Smith (piano) at St George the Martyr, Southwark on 20 February 2018, as part of Borough New Music and 2021 concerts.

Text from the poem 'Escape at Bedtime' by Robert Louis Stevenson.

Escape (2017)

For mezzo-soprano and piano
Poem by Sharena Lee Satti

Composed for the Leeds Lieder Festival 2018. 
Performed by Rosalie Warner (mezzo-soprano) and Jingle Gawley (piano), at the Leeds College of Music, 21 April 2018.

Clare Elton

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