The Harp of Wales

Played on my LP Standard, Tom Anderson Hollow Drop Top, and the stock profiles of a Kemper Profiler.

VERY HERO (WOW)

David John Roche: The Harp of Wales for Solo Guitar performed by David John Roche

This track was submitted as part of NMC's Big Lockdown Music Survey. You can find more information about this on the NMC Website - https://www.nmcrec.co.uk/big-lockdown-music-survey

David John Roche: The Harp of Wales

This is a fun piece for solo ukulele. It's tough!

SCHOLASTICS | solo ukulele

Performed at the Tanglewood Music Centre / Summer 2022

2022-08-13 1100AM CD1

Every Montage in the Universe

Performed at Seiji Ozawa Hall at the Tanglewood Music Center by the amazing 2023 Tanglewood Music Center Double Bass Fellows and Armand Birk (conducting).

THOUSANDTH HYMNAL was commissioned by the Tanglewood Music Center with the generous support of the Merwin Geffen M.D. and Norman Solomon M.D. New Commissions Fund. It is dedicated to John Metcalf (with additional thanks to double bass players Ashley John Lewis and Callum Duggan).

2023-07-08 0600PM CD1

THOUSANDTH HYMNAL for seven double basses

Performed at the Mostly Modern Music Festival by the American Modern Ensemble. Generously support by a Mostly Modern Fellowship.

Summer Classic | Chamber Ensemble

Ozartmay, for orchestra, by David John Roche.

This is an excerpt, bars 1-62. If you'd like to hear more let me know!

Performed by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales on 25/02/2016 (conducted by Frank Zielhorst) and 27/04/2016 (by Jac Van Steen)
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/article…/composition-wales

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View the score here:
pdfsr.com/pdf/ozartmay-conduct…3-14042016-completed

Ozartmay bars 1-62

This is second performance. 

This work was created as part of Sound and Music’s Portfolio programme and
premiered in collaboration with London Graduate Orchestra, conducted by Claire Lampon. The project was funded by Cockayne; The London Community Foundation; Esmée Fairbairn Foundation; PRS for Music Foundation; and Arts Council England.

My Mind Directs My World

Performed by the Orion Orchestra at Cadogan Hall, February 2018. Commissioned by Dyson and the Orion Orchestra.

Acoustical Anatomy

An excerpt taken from the final movement of True Great. A piece of music about growing up in South Wales.

Performed by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales (https://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcnow) as part of Composition Wales 2019, conducted by B Tommy Andersson.

True Great (excerpt taken from movement 3)

This is my piece Kaizo, for orchestra. Hopefully this MIDI realisation will give you some insight into how this piece will sound when it's premiered later this year!

KAIZO for Orchestra

Roche - Wind Of God

The Harp Of Wales

Waves Of Love (for orchestra)

Prayers Of Method for solo piano

www.davidjohnroche.com

David John Roche’s music is direct, determined, and loud. Strongly influenced by heavy metal, lush orchestral music, and his working-class Welsh background, he has been marked out as a “clear-minded and class-conscious artist” (Culture Matters) and “one of the most energetic, driven, and successful of Wales’s millennial generation of composers” (Tŷ Cerdd). David’s work has been described as “exquisite” (Adam Walton, BBC Introducing Wales), praised for its “ingenious scoring” (The Arts Desk), and complimented for its “passages of intense expressive power” (Thomas Adès). His compositions have been broadcast, televised, and written about internationally to millions of people.

A string of international performances and commissions form the backbone of David’s work: BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, Florence Philharmonic, Zhejiang Symphony Orchestra, Tanglewood Music Center, Psappha Ensemble, and the Solem Quartet, among others.  David has been nominated for an award by the American Academy of Arts and Letters and has been the recipient of an Arts Council England Developing Your Creative Practice Grant and a Lithuanian Arts Council grant. He has just completed an electric guitar concerto for Sean Shibe, Sinfonia Cymru, and Britten Sinfonia, and he is currently finishing his first symphony-length work for orchestra, funded by Aberystwyth University, Tŷ Cerdd, and the Arts Council of Wales.

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