You Never Think To Write

Think Like A Cat

Lucy's Song

Deborah's Song

7 Let Me Grow Song

2 Influencer Bingo

1 Opening

8 Masterclass

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Commissioned by Lyric Chamber Orchestra, funded by Elmgrant Trust.

Summer's End Ashburton 9 Nov 2025

Commissioned by Lyric Chamber Orchestra with funding from Elmgrant Trust. Soloists Sophia Jackson, Patricia Calnan.

Concertino Ashburton 9 Nov 2025

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Dart/Change: a Sonopera music, poetry and sound project funded by Devon LDP Music Service in partnership with Dartington Arts

This piece, a 20-minute journey from the very top of Dartmoor to the sea, told in music, poetry and sound, gives a flavour of this project. Join us as we journey from the sources of the Dart, both West and East, merging at Dartmeet and tumbling down past Buckfast Abbey. Take the steam railway at Staverton, where we travel back to a time when chocolate was in short supply. We return to the present day on arrival at Totnes, before rejoining the river as it makes its way finally to the open sea at Dartmouth. 

Created and performed by:
Year 5 children from Totnes St John’s 
C of E Primary School
Year 10 students from 
King Edward VI Community College
Facilitated by
Lucy Merrett and Janet Raby 
(teachers at Totnes St John’s)
Nicola Hansford (teacher at Kevicc)
Elfyn Jones (composer)
Kip Pratt (violin, ukulele)
Ruth Atkinson (cello)

This term, the children at Totnes St John’s C of E Primary School have created poetry inspired by the river Dart. They have also investigated how Devon was affected by the Second World War on residential at Slapton. These topics have been developed into musical ideas in a series of four workshops led by Elfyn Jones.

Meanwhile the year 10 students at Kevicc have been creating vocal and instrumental music inspired by the idea of change in a series of four workshops led by Elfyn Jones and Kip Pratt.

Thanks to everyone at Kevicc, Totnes St John’s C of E Primary School, and Dartington Arts for supporting this project.

DartChange Live Performance Totnes Civic Hall 9 June 2018

Songs of a Spinning World

Tapestry of Time

In this excerpt from The Trial of Jean Rhys, the author is an alcoholic 76-year-old living in a condemned bungalow in Devon, about to finish her masterpiece Wide Sargasso Sea. Her third husband Max Hamer is dying in hospital, and Antoinette, the heroine of Wide Sargasso Sea, is setting fire to the house in which she is being held captive.
http://www.tete-a-tete.org.uk/the-trial-of-jean-rhys-2/

Trio from Jean Rhys

Dr Elfyn Jones is a composer based in Devon.

Composer of Summer's End, Concertino, Lyric Chamber Orchestra commission, 2025.
Composer, writer, INFLUENCE, Exeter College 2023/4.
Composer, writer and sound designer, BOAT, Exeter College 2022/23.
Composer, writer and sound designer, TRIPTYCH (Her Face was of Flowers, Vicky and Albert, The Trilobite, Or The Fall of Mr Williams) for PhD (Goldsmiths 2022). 
Composer/Musical Director, BFG, Sterts 2020.
Composer/Musical Director, Fantastic Mr Fox, Sterts 2019.
Musical director, The Day We Played Brazil by Nick Stimson, Northcott Theatre Exeter/Exeter City Football Club 2014.
Musical Director, Sailors and Sweethearts by Nick Stimson (People's Company, Theatre Royal Plymouth 2013).
Director, Musical Director, Great Scott! by David Burke and David Jensen (Plymouth schools production for Plymouth Youth Music Service 2012)
Composer/Musical Director, The Trial of Jean Rhys, libretto Eleanor Knight (presented by World's End Opera at Tête à Tête: The Opera Festival 2012)
Composer/Musical Director/Pianist for Episodes 4, 5, 6 of Nine Stories High (WNO commission 2011/12)
Composer/Musical Director 'Fair and Softly Goes Far' for Summerdance 11 (National Dance Company of Wales/WNO commission 2011)
Composer/Musical Director My Very Own Story by Alan Ayckbourn (Cygnet Theatre at Exeter New Theatre 2011)
Composer/Musical Director The Fair Maid of the West by Thomas Heywood (Creative Cow at Exeter New Theatre 2011)
Arranger/Musical Director The Shaughraun by Dion Boucicault (Crediton Arts Centre 2011)
Pianist, BBC TV Military Wives 2010
Elfyn has worked for Opera Circus, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, National Youth Music Theatre, ENO Baylis, Welsh National Opera and Opera North amongst others. His first two operas (The Nightjar, 1999 and Jacko's Hour, 2009) attracted national critical acclaim at their first performances. His third, The Trial of Jean Rhys, libretto by Eleanor Knight, was developed through Royal Opera House's VOX2 programme. It was featured at Tête à Tête: The Opera Festival in August 2012 and excerpts were showcased at Linbury Studio and the Opera Europa conference in 2011 and 2012. His Symphony No 1: The Journey was premiered in May 2011. Commissioned work includes The Firebucket for ENO Baylis (1998), The Nightjar for Tete a Tete (1999), The Dead of Night for Opera North (2003), Fair and Softly Goes Far for National Dance Company of Wales/WNO (2011), and Nine Stories High for WNO (2012).

Elfyn Jones

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