Orchestral recordings made at performances of the Oxfordshire Festival Orchestra, of which Matthew was a founding member and composer-in-residence for its 4 years of existence (2014-2017).

Holmes: OFO Recordings

Live recording. Oxfordshire Festival Orchestra with Stuart Beard (Narrator) and Edward Liebrecht (Conductor). Words by Robert Browning.

The Pied Piper of Hamelin [2017] - Matthew Holmes

Live recording of Eclipse for solo tuba and orchestra. Oxfordshire Festival Orchestra with Stuart Beard (tuba), conducted by Edward Liebrecht

Eclipse [2016] - Matthew Holmes

Composed by Matthew Holmes, June-August 2014

Oxfordshire Festival Orchestra, October 15th 2014
Conducted by Edward Liebrecht

Sinfonia in Memoriam is an expression of emotion and literal pain of soldiers and their friends/families in WW1. It describes the whole span of the war from the trigger to the conclusion. The idea first came to me when reading some programme notes about Robert Simpson’s Symphony No. 1 where I discovered that it revolved around 2 key centres a tritone apart. The powerful dissonance and conflict between the 2 keys was the main stimulus for Sinfonia in Memoriam. I took each of the keys, C and F#, as a different side in a war and throughout we hear them fighting for dominance.

Symphony No.1 "Sinfonia in Memoriam" [2014] - Matthew Holmes

A Chamber symphony in 4 movements. Performed and recorded by the Oxfordshire Festival Orchestra in their Autumn concert (11/9/15). Conducted by Edward Liebrecht.

A Chamber Symphony [2015] - Matthew Holmes

Composer // Trumpeter // Pianist - Alumnus of RCS (BMus) and RNCM (MMus)