Recorded at Guildhall School of Music and Drama 30/01/15

Bb Clarinet: Heather Ryall
Bass Clarinet: Ausiàs Garrigós Morant

Hero and Leander

Music: Colm Molloy
Text: Arianna Firth and Colm Molloy

Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjYN8NcVyaI

Performed at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama on the 14th July 2015 with Arianna Firth (Soprano) and Carl Vallin (Violin)

Who In The World Am I?

Pin-Up Broad (From the new musical 'Forbidden Fruit')

Singer: Shamariah Bennett
Piano: Colm Molloy

Recorded at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama

Pin-Up Broad (from 'Forbidden Fruit' - 2016)

Forbidden Fruit (From the new musical 'Forbidden Fruit')

Sung by the cast of Forbidden Fruit
Piano: Colm Molloy
Reed 1: Michael Madigan
Reed 2: Issie Barrett

Recorded live at Theatre Utopia, Matthew's Yard on the 21st August, 2016

Forbidden Fruit (Live, from 'Forbidden Fruit' - 2016)

Queer Boy's Blues (From the new musical 'Forbidden Fruit')

Singer: Olivia Wylie
Piano: Colm Molloy
Reed 1: Michael Madigan
Reed 2: Issie Barrett

Recorded live at Theatre Utopia, Matthew's Yard on the 21st August, 2016

Queer Boy's Blues (Live, from 'Forbidden Fruit' - 2016)

Workshopped and recorded with musicians from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama

Actor: Bex Sian-Jane Evans

Orestes' Trial, A Concerto For Actor (Excerpt)

EXAUDI
James Weeks, Director

Informal Workshop Recording
Workshopped at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, 25th January 2018

Watt will not 
abate one jot 
but of what

of the coming to 
of the being at
of the going from 
Knott’s habitat

of the long way
of the short stay
of the going back home 
the way he had come

of the empty hearts
of the empty hands
of the dim mind wayfaring 
through barren lands

of a flame with dark winds 
hedged about
going out
gone out

of the empty heart
of the empty hands
of the dark mind stumbling 
through barren lands

that is of what 
Watt will not 
abate one tot

- Samuel Beckett, 23rd Addendum from Watt (1953)

bʌt ɒv wɒt

Joan Collins says wearing jeans is 'tragic' as she is unveiled as the new face of Valentino

Written as part of NEWSFEED, Adam Lenson Productions

Singer: Gabriella Margulies
Piano: Colm Molloy

Let Me Dress You - Demo

The last time I did this, you all begged for more-obscure and lesser-known references (read: I lie; no one, in fact, begged). Well here you are: NINE Sondheim references lie in plain sight to celebrate the deity turning NINETY. If anyone gets all nine, I might just cease and desist. 

"I'm a cult figure; my kind of work is caviar to the general."

Happy Birthday, Stephen Sondheim.

Happy Birthday, Steve (Sondheim, 2020)

Colm is a composer-lyricist living and working in London. He is a recent graduate of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, where he studied Classical Composition BMus (Hons) under Matthew Kaner, and is now Musician-in-Residence at St. Dunstan’s College. He previously studied applied and devised theatre at the BRIT School of Performing Arts and Technology.

Colm works predominantly as a composer-lyricist of musical theatre; his song-cycle World in Progress previewed at The Other Palace, London before having a successful run at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2018. His works have also been performed in other London venues such as Theatre Utopia, the Phoenix Artist's Club, Theatre Royal Stratford East, Battersea Barge and more. In 2017, he collaborated as a librettist with composer Molly Lawes on an immersive opera, Tourists, which was premiered by workshOPERA at the London Transport Museum. He also collaborated with playwright Joyce Lee on Revolution for the Socially Uninformed as part of Theatre Royal Stratford East's Musical Theatre Workshop, led by Fred Karl and Robert Lee from NYU Tisch School of Arts. Colm also works as a concert composer; his music has been workshopped by numerous ensembles whilst in training at Guildhall including EXAUDI Vocal Ensemble, Guildhall Symphony Orchestra and guest musicians, and he has scored music for the 1926 silent film The Adventures of Prince Achmed, which was performed at the Barbican Centre. He has also collaborated with the theatre departments at Guildhall and the BRIT School, and has written music for their theatre productions including the The Cherry Orchard (Milton Court Theatre) and A World of Discovery (BRIT School; Camp Bestival). 

In 2017, he founded Merde! Theatre Company in an effort to champion new and exciting writing and theatre. Inspired by experimental theatre, it follows in the tradition of work by Augusto Boal, Antonin Artaud, Bertolt Brecht, and Joan Littlewood. His play The Plains of Delight, which he directed, was produced by Merde! at Theatre Utopia and The Bread and Roses as part of the Clapham Fringe. In 2018, they took the new song-cycle World in Progress, which featured a cast of actor-musicians, to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

Colm is also an experienced classical pianist and music-director, having musically-directed a number of productions including Loserville (Union Theatre, Southwark), One For My Baby (Edinburgh Fringe Festival; Tristan Bates Theatre, London), as well as productions at Imperial College London, 13 and A Wild, Wild Party.

Colm Molloy

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