Commissioned by the Aurora Orchestra to celebrate the 10-year anniversary of its relationship with the BBC Young Composer Competition. This commission was generously supported by the RVW Trust.

Performed by members of the Aurora Orchestra on December 12, 2020 in Kings Place, Hall One. 

Trombone - Matthew Gee
Violin 1 - Alexandra Wood
Violin 2 - Jamie Campbell
Viola - Ruth Gibson
Cello - Sébastien van Kuijk

Points of Intersection (2020) - excerpt

Autonomy

Raiders of the Lost Ark Desert Chase John Williams mockup Nicolas Kingman

Performed at the Kalv Festival, Kalv, Sweden, August 12, 2021 by Ensemble Mosaik

Event Horizon (2021), for clarinet, viola, cello, piano, and percussion

Composed in 1996. 
Dedicated to Anton Lukoszevieze.
Studio recording made in 2004.
Apartment House: Andrew Sparling (clarinet), Anton Lukoszevieze (cello), Sarah Walker (electric organ).
From 'Chamber Works 1992 - 2009' (Another Timbre at74x2)

Chamber Works 1992 - 2009 [Disc 1]

Riis

Inspired by the number of years it takes for each planet in our solar system to orbit around the sun, I transferred each planets’ approximate orbit into a material framework that served as the foundation of piece – chords that invert at different rates according to which planet the chord corresponds to, creating an iso-rhythmic effect. The framework then became the impetus to create additional textural layers, giving the piece small changing and alternating gestures.

Performed by The Spaceship Ensemble (NL)

Conductor: Hardy Li
Piano: Ivan Pavlov
Percussion: João Pedro Borralho
Celesta: Leo Lehtinen
Harp: Liucilè Vilimaitė/Maria Palma
Harpsichord: Christina Kwon
Accordion: Kaat Vanhaverbeke
Guitar: Antonio Peršak

Recorded by Eric Moser and Li Moonyoung

Within an Orbit (2019)

Jasmine Moth

Performed at the Festival of Laurence Crane: A Tribute Concert on Monday 18th October 2021.

The title is an accidental pun on Laurence’s Bobby J for electric guitar. I was chatting with Patrick about putting the piece together and told him we might both have to muster up our best Bobby D impressions (aka Bob Dylan).

Lara Agar (violin, harmonica)
Christian Drew (guitar, harmonica)
Harry Harrison (percussion, harmonica)
Patrick Hegarty (guitar, harmonica)
Darius Paymai (harmonium, harmonica)

Bobby D

Ham is a space-face spaced out homage to the first great ape in Space, Ham, named after the Holloman Aeromedical Laboratory, who safely returned from Space in January 1961.

"he had a smile on his face -- 
but," said the experts,
"that's a sign of great distress,
that's a sign of great distress"

Dedicated to Laurence Crane on his Birthday. 

Live Recording at St Giles Cripplegate 18/10/21

Performers: 
Ben Smith - Piano 
Patrick Hegarty - Sampler
Matt Geer - Organ
Christian Drew - Guitar 
Darius Paymai - E. guitar

Piano 5-4

rihanna - unfaithful (piano cover)

Patrick Ellis (b. 1994, UK) is a composer, performer and curator based in London. His music has been described as being "focused, intense and unrelenting" (Gaudeamus Jury, 2024), with much of his work utilising limited musical materials, small developments and juxtapositions.

He has worked with many acclaimed ensembles including Terra Invisus (UK), Ensemble Klang (NL), collective lovemusic (FR), XTRO Percussion (NL), the Residentie Orkest (NL), Kluster 5 (NL), Orkest de Ereprijs (NL), The Tantrum Saxophone Quartet (NL), The Spaceship Ensemble (NL), Kirkos (IE) and 315 Ensemble (US/UK), and has collaborated with soloists such as Kathryn Williams (flute), Huw Morgan (organ), Alfian Emir Adytia (cello), Dauphine Van der Velphen (saxophone), Chris Cresswell (electric guitar) and Carson Cooman (organ).

Upcoming projects include a new multimedia work exploring burnout within the classical music industry for the ensemble Standard Issue, a new piece for electric guitar and fixed media for Chris Cresswell, as well as a long-form collaboration with the French-Canadian cellists Laurence Gaudreau and Audréanne Filion.

Patrick's music has been presented at numerous festivals and concert series across the European, North American, Asia and Australasia, including, Gaudeamus Festival (NL), Festival Dag in de Branding (NL), November Music (NL), Rainy Days Festival (LU), Mittelfest and Mittelyoung Festival (IT), De Link Tilburg (NL), Lilium SoundArt (IT), Sundays at The Hugh Lane Gallery (IE), AżTak Festival (PL), New Music Now NL's Dag van de Componist (NL), Click Fest (US), Sounding Here (NL), Kirkos Ensemble's Biosphere Festival (IE), Union Musicale (IT), Mainly Slow Organ Music (UK), Kammer Klang (UK), the Frequency Series Chicago (US), Ideas of Noise Festival (UK) and the Harmos Plural Festival (PT).

In 2024, Patrick was nominated for the Gaudeamus Award and in 2022, he was the Artist in Residence for the AMPA Fontys/De Link Residency programme in Tilburg, The Netherlands. He has also been a part of the Psappha Composing For Piano Scheme in 2019-20, the 25th Edition of Orkest de Erepijs’ Young Composers Meeting and Kathryn Williams' innovative Coming Up for Air Project.

His music has been broadcast on Dutch radio stations, including NPO Radio 4, NPO Klassiek, Concertzender,and Stranded FM, as well as on the US station WCNY, and has been featured on releases from Birmingham Record Company and Huddersfield Contemporary Records.

Patrick is also the artistic director of Open Union, an electric guitar and modular synth duo with composer-performer colleague Peter Bell. Described by the 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 works. Their current collaborators are Christine Cornwell, Wilson Leywantono, May Chi, Paolo Griffin and Seán Clancy. The duo have performed across the UK at events such as Ealing Extranormal, AMOK, Don't Mind Control, Birmingham Modular Organisation and CODA Festival. In 2025, they co-hosted a portrait concert with saxophonist David Zucchi featuring music by Paolo Griffin at the Hundred Years Gallery; earlier in the year, they supported Passepartout Duo at Centrala Space, Birmingham as part of their UK Tour, and in 2023, undertook a mini tour of The Netherlands as part of the Sounding Here concert series, where they performed at Splendor in Amsterdam and Batavierhuis in Rotterdam.

Alongside composing and performing, Patrick works as the creative director of PRXLUDES, an online contemporary music magazine, platform, and resource dedicated to the promotion of the work of emerging and early-career composers. Together, with the artistic director Zygmund de Somogyi and a team of contributors, they have written about over 125 composers, ensembles and music organisations from the UK and abroad. In 2025, they began hosting events, presenting Alex Groves' DANCE SUITE (performed by Zubin Kanga) as part of PRS Foundation New Music Biennial 2025. Recently, PRXLUDES have been awarded a multi-year partnership with The Hinrichsen Foundation in order to help platform emerging and early-career composers through a series of concerts, conversations, and commissions throughout the UK from 2025 to 2028.

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.

Within an Orbit (2019)

Patrick Ellis

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