very beautiful.this is greate  composition.I love it!

I like the pitch bends, they work really well!

I love this, it's got the feeling of Steve Reich's 'Music for 18 Musicians'

this is great Patrick. Was lovely spending our time at YCM :)

Jay Campbell, multi-tracked cello, recording/mixing
excerpt from the middle of a 2 1/2 hour realization, 2020

Descensus Trio Jay's version (excerpt) 2020

This piece is the first of my own take of Pauline Oliveros "13 changes"
Stay tuned for the 12 others

Standing Naked In the Moonlight - Music Washing The Body / O vis Eternitatis

Ensemble Schallfeld

Elisa Azzarà, bass flute
Johannes Feuchter, bass clarinet
Myriam García Fidalgo, cello
Margarethe Maierhofer-Lischka, double bass

Davide Gagliardi, audio engineer

impuls Festival 2021
Graz, Austria
August 20, 2021

in praise of shadows [2020] – Ensemble Schallfeld

Trio Abstrakt

Salim Javaid, soprano saxophone
Marlies Debacker piano
Shiau-Shiuan Hung, percussion

impuls Festival 2021
Graz, Austria
August 25, 2021

near dark [2020] – Trio Abstrakt

Reading session conducted by Giuseppe Famularo

«¿Qué le voy a hacer? En mitad del gran desorden me sigo creyendo veleta, al final de tanta vuelta hay que señalar un norte, un sur. Decir de alguien que es un veleta prueba poca imaginación: se ven las vueltas pero no la intención, la punta de la flecha que busca hincarse y permanecer en el río del viento.»
JULIO CORTÁZAR

Milan, Italy
April 12th, 2022

Image: "Floating garden" (2013) by MOTOI YAMAMOTO

y permanecer en el río del viento - for orchestra [reading session]

KLINE. (2022) is a work for orchestra that draws on the visual art style of American abstract artist, Franz Kline (1910 – 1962). Kline’s work is distinguished by large, non-representative abstract paintings made almost exclusively of broad black and white streaks and gestures, imbued with a strong sense of motion. While his works were executed with a spontaneous fluidity
comparable to that found in Japanese calligraphy, their composition and proportions were meticulously planned. - RC

KLINE. (2022)

Recorded at St Ann’s Church, Dawson Street, Dublin on 14th March 2023.

Music Network commissioned Ed Bennett to write a new piece of music for the Music Network March 2023 tour. 
'Imbolc Meditation' is performed by Grammy-nominated violist Maxim Rysanov, multi-award-winning violinist Nikita Boriso-Glebsky, and rising star cellist Dóra Kokas and premiered in St. Ann's Church on Dawson St, Dublin.

Maxim Rysanov - viola
Nikita Boriso-Glebsky - violin
Dóra Kokas - cello

Performed in Cork, Dublin, Kilkenny, Wicklow, Leitrim, Donegal, Galway.

Music Network is committed to providing opportunities for Irish composers through its programmes. Commissioning is a vital part of the work we do to nurture music and musicians in Ireland.

Every year we commission a number of new works by Irish composers which are performed by renowned Irish and international performers for audiences across the county as part of our national touring programme.

Imbolc Meditation - Ed Bennett - Music Network Commission (2023)

for Paetzold contrabass recorder and accordion

Commissioned by Tabea Debus and Samuele Telari, with funding from Beauftragten der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien as part of NEUSTART KULTUR.

Recording from 2022 - Sam Stadlen (Stadlen Productions)

Tabea Debus (contrabass recorder)
Samuele Telari (accordion)

As part of 'Sounds of Now: Rotations' at Music in the Round, Sheffield
Film here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpV8ClWuDAo

slowly, turning (2022)

THINGS AS... (2023) for eight voices (SSAATTBB) was created as part of Cheltenham Music Festival Composer Academy 2023. Performed by The Carice Singers, directed by George Parris.

The text comes from a phrase that recurred obsessively in my mind for several days, often with the words ‘are’ and ‘were’ being interchanged; drifting over one another arbitrarily. The rest of the phrase remained rigid in its structure. This is reflected in the music through economic use of musical materials which are interchanged, and overlapping layers of contrasting textures that are incessant and largely static. – RC

THINGS AS... (2023)

different gravities
mov. II of IV

written for & performed by Longleash
recorded at the Loretto Motherhouse, Lebanon, KY

different gravities, mov. II

The text for the piece is taken from The Ruin, an Old English poem which depicts a fallen Roman city. The poem is part of the Exeter Book, a large collection of verses and riddles which dates from the 10th century. The only existing copy of the book was damaged in a fire, affecting what survives of The Ruin. In light of this, I only used extracts of the poem from which words have been lost. In a similar way, some of the musical material has been dismantled to reflect this.

A huge thanks to Orkest de Ereprijs, Wim Boerman, Ana Maria Lopes, Carolina Luís, Francisca Branco, Rob Vermeulen, Martijn Padding, Richard Ayres, Ed Bennett, Anna Korsun, Silvia Borzelli, Guus Janssen, Georgia Denham, Ryan Probert, Paul Zaba, Robert Crehan, Robin Morton, Celia Swart, Paolo Griffin, Dani Blanco Albert, Hugo Bell, Sam Milan, Joe Rhodes and Stephen Plummer.

Performed by Orkest de Ereprijs, Ana Maria Lopes, Carolina Luís, and Francisca Branco on the 1st of March 2019

Conducted by Rob Vermeulen

Ruin (2019)

Patrick Ellis (b. 1994, London) is a composer, performer and curator based in Oxfordshire, UK, who has had his music presented across Europe, North America, Asia and Australasia.

In much of his concert work, he often utilises limited musical material and explores it with the use of subtle development, repetitive structures and juxtapositions. For more of his process driven and conceptual works, he takes found material from data and statistics, translating them into musical and time based parameters. Recent works have included experiments with visuals and projections, in works such as 'Fractured Motion' (2022) and 'Objects and Portrait Projections' (2021).

He has worked with many esteemed ensembles including the Residentie Orkest, Kluster 5, Orkest de Ereprijs, Xtro Percussion, The Tantrum Saxophone Quartet, The New European Ensemble, The Spaceship Ensemble, The Hodiernal Quartet, Kirkos, Thallein Ensemble, The Fidelio Trio, Decibel, Ensemble KROCK, 315 Ensemble, The Schubert Ensemble, CHROMA, Via Nova Choir and Noszferatu, and has collaborated with soloists such as Laura Sinnerton of the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Fenella Humphreys, Kathryn Williams, Alfian Emir Adytia, Chris Cresswell, Xenia Pestova, Benjamin Powell of Psappha Ensemble and Fumiko Miyachi.

Performances of his work have taken place at numerous festivals and concert series including, Gaudeamus Muziekweek, Festival Dag in de Branding, November Music, Mittelfest and Mittelyoung Festival, De Link Tilburg, Sundays at The Hugh Lane Gallery, New Music Now NL's Dag van de Componist, Kirkos Ensemble's Biosphere Festival, Union Musicale, Spring Festival The Hague, Kammer Klang, the Frequency Series Chicago, the Malaysian Composers Series, the London New Wind Festival, Ideas of Noise Festival, the Stratford-on-Avon Music Festival, Harmos Plural Festival, The Martin Read Festival, Spread York and Frontiers Festival.

In 2022, he was the Artist in Residence for the AMPA Fontys/De Link Residency programme. Previously, he has participated in the Psappha Composing For Piano Scheme in 2019-20, as well as the 25th Edition of Orkest de Erepijs’ Young Composers Meeting and Kathryn Williams' innovative Coming Up for Air Project.

Patrick's music has been broadcasted on Dutch radio stations, NPO Radio 4, Concertzender and Stranded FM (for Gaudeamus Muziekweek), as well as US station WCNY, and has been featured on releases from Birmingham Record Company and Huddersfield Contemporary Records.

As well as composing, Patrick is the artistic director of Open Union, an electric guitar and modular synth duo with composer-performer colleague Peter Bell. Described by treasured composer Howard Skempton as being, 'sometimes subtle and unstable; sometimes rich and dense', the duo aims to build up strong collaborative relationships to create new verbal and text based works. Their current collaborators are Christine Cornwell, Wilson Leywantono, May Chi and Paolo Griffin. The duo have performed at UK events Ealing Extranormal, AMOK, Birmingham Modular Organisation and CODA Festival, and in 2023, undertook a mini-tour of The Netherlands, as part of the Sounding Here concert series at Splendor in Amsterdam and Batavierhuis in Rotterdam.

Since February 2023, he has worked alongside Zygmund de Somogyi as the Co-director for the online Contemporary Music Magazine, Prxludes, where he has contributed articles featuring interviews with Sylvia Lim, Lise Morrison, Christian Drew, Laurence Osborn, Esther Wu, Celia Swart and Mia Windsor, as well features on Ivan Vukosavljević's debut album, 'The Burning', Avenue Azure's self-titled record, Ireland's most forward thinking ensemble, Kirkos ahead of their 2023 performance at Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Ailís Ní Ríain's NMC release, 'The Last Time I Died', the 2023-24 National Youth Choir Young Composers and Kory Reeder's US label, Sawyer Editions. Previous interview experience includes his own Podcast series named, 'What is a Composer?' released in 2017 and a student radio show, 'In conversation with...' that was broadcasted in 2016.

He holds a Masters degree in composition from the Koninklijk Conservatorium Den Haag (Royal Conservatoire of The Hague) and a Bachelor's degree from the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire. His principal tutors have included Martijn Padding, Guus Janssen, Andrew Hamilton, Seán Clancy, Ed Bennett, Howard Skempton and Michael Wolters.

Patrick has been nominated for the 2024 Gaudeamus Award with his work, 'Objects and Portrait Projections', that was originally commissioned and premiered by Xtro Percussion.

Photo credit: May Chi

Ruin (2019)

Patrick Ellis

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