NCEM Young Composers Award piece, performed by the Dunedin Consort at the NCEM, York. Inspired by Monteverdi. BBC Radio 3 broadcast to follow in November. Text by Tasso, translated by Fairfax.

John Butt, director and harpsichord with Mhairi Lawson soprano; Nicholas Mulroy tenor; Jon Stainsby bass; Pamela Thorby, Frances Norbury recorders; Huw Daniel, Colin Scobie violins and Alison McGillivray viola da gamba.

Live recording by David Bird, Jack Elliott and Dalia Senvaityte from the Department of Electronics at the University of York.

Why are you in such a hurry?

Kaleidoscope for orchestra. Live recording by Torbay Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Richard Gonski, 14th November 2015, St. Peter's Church, Shaldon.

Kaleidoscope for Orchestra (2015)

Why are you in surch a hurry? for soprano, tenor, baritone, 2 baroque violins, 2 baroque alto recorders, bass viol and harpsichord. Live recording by Dunedin Consort, directed by John Butt, October 2015. Broadcast on BBC Radio 3 Early Music Show, November 2015. Winning piece, NCEM Young Composers Award 2015.

Why are you in such a hurry? (2015)

This piece was written from November 2011 - January 2012 for the Academy Symphonic Wind. 

This live recording is by the Academy Symphonic Wind conducted by Keith Bragg.

Estul (2011/12)

C Hear? was written from November 2009 - January 2010.

This live performance is by the Chimera Ensemble conducted by James Whittle.

C Hear? (2009/10)

This piece was written in April 2011 for the Swedish guitarist Stefan Östersjö.

This live recording is by Stefan.


Collage (2011)

This piece was written in May 2009.

This live recording is by the Chimera Ensemble conducted by Peter Keenan.

Baritone      Graham Bier 
Clarinet       Jenny Brady
Percussion  Karl Kramer
Violin          John Cummins
Viola           Lucy Dearn
'Cello          Paul Sild




ein kurzer Liederkreis (2009)

'Long After I am Dead...' for Symphony Orchestra, Chorus, Baritone and Soprano soloists.

World premiere recording by Edinburgh Incidental Orchestra and Chorus on 5 January, conducted by Calum Zuckert, St. Cuthbert's Church, Edinburgh.

Baritone Soloist - Arthur Bruce.  Soprano Soloist - Sophie Boyd.

Texts:  'The Full Heart' by Robert Nichols, and three verses of 'To Night' by Percy Bysshe Shelley. 



Long After I am Dead...

PROCESSION for piano quartet. 
Performed by the Meridian Piano Quartet. 
23/01/13

PROCESSION

Virtuous Soul for SATB.  Performed by the Blossom Street Singers, conducted by Hilary Campbell. Text by John Goldie-Scot and George Herbert.

Virtuous Soul

Für Henze und Felix for solo double bass.  Dedicated to Felix Lashmar, in memory of Hans Werne Henze. Recording from world premiere in David Josefowitz Recital Hall at the Royal Academy of Music, London. 02/05/13.  Played by Felix Lashmar.

Für Henze und Felix (2013)

John was born in Hampshire but spent his early childhood in Kenya and Uganda. In 1999, he moved to Scotland and in 2005, was awarded a place at St Mary’s Music School in Edinburgh. Whilst there, he won the Isobel Dunlop Prize for Composition, judged by James MacMillan, whilst studying under Tom David Wilson. He furthered his composition studies at the University of York (BA) with Roger Marsh, Bill Brooks and Thomas Simaku, and at the Royal Academy of Music (MA) with Philip Cashian, passing with distinction. He is also a graduate of Darwin College, Cambridge (PGCE and MEd), where he was Choral Director. He is a winner of the Alan Bush Prize and recipient of the NCEM 2015 Young Composers Award (19-25). John’s piece, Morph, for recorder quartet, has recently been selected for the finals of the innaugral Society of Recorder Players Composition Competition 2019, and will be performed by BLOCK4 in Ushaw College, Durham.

He has taught Academic Music and Composition at the Purcell School for Young Musicians and is currently Head of Music Technology at an independent school in South London. He also teaches 1:1 composition and songwriting at JASSPA. His music has been performed by ensembles including CHROMA, the Dunedin Consort, Blossom Street Singers, the Meridian Piano Quartet, and has been broadcast on BBC Radio 3, and in concerts internationally.

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