0611 [Omri and Joanna]

recorded in April 2021 

Guildhall Orchestral Artistry students / members of the LSO 
conducted by Jack Sheen

Silk Street Concert Hall, Guildhall School of Music and Drama

TWO GREENHOUSES (bean piece 2)

TEST EVER / GREEN HOUR 

soprano, flute, fixed audio track 

performed by Gabriella di Laccio and Lucas Jordan as part of DONNE Women in Music's Autumn 2021 concert series.

TEST EVER / GREEN HOUR

Recorded at the live premiere at Tectonics Festival, Glasgow, 30 April 2022. The BBCSSO, conducted by Ilan Volkov.

from the trees and from my friends (bean piece 3)

0611 [with I;N Collective]

0611 [O+J]

michelle, bella, emily, oscar, lucy, hugh, me

glasses, utensils, voices, little synth, clarinet

castell de llaés, 14.04.23

CASTLE IMPROV

from Young Composers Meeting 2023.

All compositions are performed by Orkest De Ereprijs and singers from the Royal Conservatory of The Hague.

Conducted by Gregory Charette.

Recorded 03.03.2023 at Gigant Apeldoorn.

MARIGOLD SMILES (bean piece 7)

Performed by EXAUDI at Exposure 2023, Milton Court. 

Premiered at and commissioned by the Norfolk and Norwich Festival 2022.

score: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EzOcKKEIpiuy6A7KJAcvdnwgzMBzUeV9/view

LIVING ON ICE-CREAM AND CHOCOLATE KISSES

Fixed audio track for performance/recording of 'Playing frisbee, May 2022', for trombone quartet

Score:

Playing frisbee, May 2022 AUDIO TRACK

Mezzo-soprano Lotte Betts-Dean
Piano Bradley Wood

THAW

This is a short experimental piece I wrote whilst travelling in Australia for the ensemble of flute, oboe, violin and cello, with inspiration drawn from the American traditional song Shenindoah.

This piece has since received Honorable Mention in the Frost School of Music Ensemble Ibis International Composition Competition.

away

messing around having fun in audacity again.

variations // where's the kate bush cds?

This is the piece I submitted for my first year free composition module. 

Written for string quartet, French horn, clarinet and trumpet, it draws on an Allen Ginsberg poem as a source of inspiration in a fairly abstract way. This manifests itself as an exploration of contextualising a melody using textural and timbral subtleties. The piece is made up of several sections which, whilst distinct in their context, flow into each other and overlap.

Since We Had Changed

My setting of the text Senex puerum portabat, comissioned by Owain Park for Cambridge Chorale and premiered in their Hymns to the Mother of Christ concert in March 2017.

She Adored

ginsberg -- the musical saw -- train travel -- pretty classic joanna influences. 

just messed around with some sounds I've recorded over the past few months to make this spacey / angsty ambience ~

the sky contained my garden

this is a live recording of my recent piece 'unfinished skyscrapers', performed at the Heong Gallery by Anahita on violin and myself on electronics.

unfinished skyscrapers

extremely excited to be able to share an excerpt of my piece 'to think at the sun', which was composed over several months. This work was created as part of Sound and Music’s Next Wave 2 programme. It was recorded and premiered in collaboration with Sage Gateshead and NMC Recordings. Next Wave 2 was funded by Arts Council England, PRS for Music Foundation, the Leverhulme Trust and The Angus Allnatt Charitable Foundation 


Recorded by Quinta (saw, violin, and viola) and members of the Royal Northern Sinfonia, conducted by Jack Sheen.

Released on NMC Recordings on the 26th of January 2018, and premiered live at Sage Gateshead on the 27th of January. 

Available to pre-order: https://www.nmcrec.co.uk/recording/next-wave-2
tix for the concert (you get a day ticket which features lots of other cool new stuff!!): http://sagegateshead.com/event/new-year-new-artists47104/

to think at the sun - excerpt

A setting of the text 'Ave Regina Caelorum' for SATB choir. 

Performed by the Jesus College Choir as the introit for Sunday evensong, 29/04/18.

Hail, O Queen

// orchestral miniature for the RNS Young Composers Competition 2018

some kinda programme note:
this piece is a personal celebration of the wonderful part of the world that is the the north east of england.
I make a textural soundscape using actual music from the area, well known folk songs and snippets I’ve picked up from cumberland arms sessions, as well as music that evokes my most vivid memories. of being freezing cold on the beach at tynemouth every week before my piano lessons, of bring drunk at 4am eating chips at monument as the sun rises in summer, of crying on the train as it pulls away over the tyne. of being confused and sad and really angry about why the north east is disregarded and disrespected by my peers and our government, and desperately wanting to just go home.

i love the N.E. <<3

This work was created as part of Sound and Music’s Next Wave 2 programme. It was recorded and premiered in collaboration with Sage Gateshead and NMC Recordings. Next Wave 2 was funded by Arts Council England, PRS for Music Foundation, the Leverhulme Trust and The Angus Allnatt Charitable Foundation

Released on NMC Recordings on the 26th of January 2018, and premiered live at Sage Gateshead on the 27th of January.
Recorded by NMC Recordings November 2017. 
Performers: members of the Royal Northern Sinfonia, Quinta (violin, viola, saw)
Conductor: Jack Sheen

Next Wave 2

to think at the sun

i bump into things (i spin around in circles)

written for the Cambridge Mahler Orchestra's Lunchtime Concert 29/01/19 in West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge

conducted by Ed Liebrecht

Pia Scattergood - flute
Caroline Grint - clarinet 
Francis Bushell - Bassoon
Toby Hession - piano
Tess Jackson, Charlotte Connal - violin 1
Hermione Kellow, Susanna Pointer - violin 2
Alex Gunasekera, Tom Baycroft - viola
Josh Ballance, Sam Weinstein - cello
Ella Collier - Bass

I was told that the theme of this concert was ‘dance’, and so I made a playlist of my favourite music to dance to to inspire me. The rhythms that recur throughout come from some of these songs, patch-worked together with moments from other songs which are distorted, refracted and disembodied to achieve layered intertextualities. The structure is additive, with sections repeating to create some 21st century version of a theme-and variation that never comes to a satisfactory close, instead stopping and re-starting until its sudden end.

i bump into things (i spin around in circles)

Anthem for upper voices, commissioned for the women of Jesus College choir by Richard Pinel.
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see the score here: https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/7fc924_ebce013e18a44c16bb503c43ebebf871.pdf

Gloria tibi trinitas

violin, cello, flute, clarinet, tape //

premiered 04.10.19, William Goodenough House //

COURTYARD is a kind of distorted reflection of the 1968 song of the same name, by Bobbie Gentry. It’s gentle and introspective, turning over similar ideas again and again in order to reflect on simple sounds and murmured words.

COURTYARD

(WE'VE GOT) HONEY LOVE

written for EXAUDI as part of my Masters at GSMD

recorded by EXAUDI with James Weeks 06.10.20

(WE'VE GOT) HONEY LOVE

sound maker / score maker.

see video work here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJQL8RUY9nYBSI1rrMzEpQg/videos

Joanna Ward

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