SHARD

Awarded 1st Prize by judge Jo Kondo as part of 2023's Toru Takemitsu Composition Award. Performed by the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra and conducted by Kosuke Tsunoda.

Selvedge (Tokyo Philharmonic Performance)

Performed by the Royal College of Music Wind Ensemble, conducted by Simon Channing. 

Flute - Daniel Scott
Bass Flute - Alenka Bogataj
Oboes - Emma Gibbons, Felicity Cowell
Clarinet - Melissa Youngs
Contrabass Clarinet - Alex Card
Bassoons - Izabela Musial, Kristina Hedley
Horn - Helena Jacklin
Trumpet - Lewis West
Trombone - Nicolas Kent
Tuba - Oliver Brooks
Percussion - Hyun-Gi Lee, Nick Cowling
Double Bass - Lucy Keller

Programme note: This piece consists of two main elements, firstly a gently breathing ‘spine,’ and melodies which interweave with the respiring core. The melodies are settings of some of the victims who died in the recent Germanwings tragedy in the French Alps on 24th March 2015. Over the course of the piece the harmonies of the breathing core gradually shift shining new light on the melodies with which they coexist.

Silent Voices

Performed by the London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Fabien Gabel

Ebbing Tides

Performed by Ose! Orchestre Symphonique, conducted by Daniel Kawka, in the Archipel Festival, Geneva on 26th March 2017.

Swirling Tides (Orchestral Version)

Forever Flowing Down Slowly

Piece written within the framework of [‘tactus] Young Composers' Forum
Ensemble Musiques Nouvelles
Cond. Jean-Paul Dessy

Lambent Fires (revised version for 9 players)

Piano, Késia Decoté
Recording, James Albany Hoyle

Commissioned with funds provided by the RVW Trust.

Wax Candles

Accordionists - Marko Trivunović, Đorđe Vasiljević. Recorded at the 2019 impuls festival, Graz, Austria as part of the Composers Meet Accordionists + Special Program.

Woven Together

International Ensemble Modern Academy (IEMA) conducted by Musashi Baba.

Caught in the Breeze is a large ensemble piece structured in four movements. Each movement takes as its starting point the idea of air currents moving through space over specific, short periods of time. Each movement explores a different sensation.

The first movement consists of ‘air’ sounds passed around the ensemble giving a
semblance of being caught in a breeze that occurs in a windswept,desolate wilderness that is exposed to the elements.

The second movement centres around oscillating vibraphone chords which are gently coloured by the rest of the ensemble. A sheet of aluminium foil is placed loosely on the Vibraphone creating a soft, rattling sound. A gentle breeze rustling the leaves on trees.

The third movement is more animated. Sharp, crystal like shards of sound emerge above a gently bubbling central line. This movement gives the sensation of fast moving air currents that occur high up in the earth’s stratosphere.

The last movement consists of oscillating 6-note chords which pulsate intensely.
 Short conversations emerge between the strings and woodwinds over the course of the movement. The overall texture of this movement relates to murmuring sounds distorted by currents of wind.

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