Interval Study for solo piano, using two tunes from J. Strauss' Kaiser Walzer Op. 437. Recorded in 2011.

Real Werk Satz I (2010)- Solo Piano

The first six minutes of a twelve minute piece for 9 instruments and narrator that meditates on the financial collapse of 2008, including the names of the financial workers who committed suicide because of it. It features texts from e.e cummings, Martin Amis, Slavoj Zizek, Kathleen Raine, Philip Larkin, The Bible, Douglas Adams, The Guardian newspaper, John Taylor and William Shakespeare among others.

Recorded in Cambridge on 18th August, 2014.
Narrator - Balthazar Mattar
Violin - Charlotte Fairbairn
Viola - Heather Bourne
Cello - Elisheba Stevens
Double Bass - Nick Rainsberry
Oboe - Alexander Turner
Clarinet 1 - Poppy Beddoe 
Clarinet 2 - Benjamin Picard
Accordion - Adam Busiakiewicz
Piano - Alexander Berry

Extract from 'Money' (2014)

First undergraduate attempts at a piece for Flute, Clarinet, Violin, Viola, Cello and Piano.

On Royalty (2010) for mixed ensemble

Frumpy Fools Around (2008) - Saxophone Sextet

Thou, O Spirit (2012)SATBB

Alto 1 - Robert Busiakiewicz
Alto 2 - Alex Orchard
Alto 3 - David Twigg
Tenor - Tom English

Terrence Tastes Tush (2008)

Mr Zizek Speaks (2013) - For Mixed Ensemble

Agnus Dei (2013) - SSATB

Epitaph for Solo Organ, composed for and recorded by Simon Hogan on the organ of Southwell Minster, Nottinghamshire. Composed in summer of 2014 in King's College, Cambridge and Slough.

Epitaph: After Donald Crowhurst

The final movement from '7 Short Communion Motets' written for the Choir of Christchurch Chelsea in 2009. Sung here by the Choir of King's College London in memory of David Trendell.

I am the resurrection and the life, he who believes in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live. Whosoever lives and believes in me shall never die.

Ego Sum Resurrectio - SATB (2009)

Choral Evensong is sung by the Choir of St. James Cathedral each Sunday at 4.30pm. Like all services at the Cathedral, entry is entirely free.

The Choir of St. James Cathedral, Toronto

Robert Busiakiewicz was awarded the Lord Mayor's prize for composition at Mansion House, London in 2013, and was shortlisted for the BBC Young Composers Competition (2006) and the Sibelius Young Composer of the Year (2008). He holds degrees from the University of Cambridge, UK, and King's College London. He has worked as a Tenor Lay Clerk at Southwell Minster, and a teaching assistant in Techniques of Composition at KCL. He was a choral scholar at King's College, Cambridge and his music has been broadcast on Radio 3. He currently lives in Toronto, Canada.

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