Performed by the Fellows of Tanglewood Music Center conducted by Stilian Kirov in Seiji Ozawa Hall, Tanglewood Music Center on June 30th, 2013.

Blaze, for 16 brass instruments

BBC Concert Orchestra, conducted by Hugh Brunt

Bloom - for Orchestra (2021)

Cavatina Orchestra, conducted by Max Todes, 11/9/21 at St John's Smith Square

Orchard - 3rd Movement

Concerto Grosso for Brass Band and Orchestra, performed by BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Tredegar Band, conducted by Ryan Bancroft. Premiered as part of the BBC Proms 8th August 2022

Concerto Grosso for Brass Band and Orchestra - 1st movement (excerpt)

for SATB choir, strings, harp, and percussion

Setting fragments of texts by Thomas Traherne, Richard Crashaw, John Bunyan, William Blake, and an anonymous haiku:

 Lord!
 O hear how short I breathe!
 What will Wrath's sea, so foully fierce, not dare?
 See how I tremble here beneath
 A sin! its ugly face
 More terror than its dwelling-place
 Contains, (O dreadful sin)
 Within!

 As I walked through the wilderness of this world, I lighted
 on a certain place where was a Den, and I laid me down
 in that place to sleep: and, as I slept, I dreamed a dream.

 From dust I rise,
 And out of nothing now awake,
 The Sun arises in the East
 Cloth'd in robes of blood and gold,
 Crown'd with warlike fires and raging desires,
 Leading towards the unknown;
 Hope's path carved anew.


Commissioned and performed by Bedford Choral Society and Bedford Sinfonia, conducted by Ian Smith in Bedford Corn Exchange on 21/6/25

Carved Anew - for SATB choir, strings, harp, and percussion (2025)

Edward Nesbit - In spite of the mere objectiveness of things

World Premiere
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Pierre-André Valade - conductor
Maida Vale Studios, London
24th March 2016

In spite of the mere objectiveness of things

Soloist: Benjamin Baker
Orchestra: Northern Chords Orchestra
Conductor: Jonathan Bloxham

Live at St. John's Smith Square, to celebrate Europe Day on 9 May 2017

Stranded for violin and orchestra

Salvatore Sciarrino La Maliconica

Franco Donatoni: Refrain (live)

Greedy Cummings, Leith

Performed by Martha Long (flute), Graham Mackenzie (oboe), Danny Goldman (clarinet), Elyse Lauzon (horn) and Andrew Brady (bassoon) in Seiji Ozawa Hall, Tanglewood Music Center on July 22nd, 2012.

Halazuni, for wind quintet

Matthew Kaner is a composer living and working in London. 
Photo credit foxbrush.co.uk.

Stranded for violin and orchestra

Matthew Kaner

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