Strange Beast for one or more double basses.  

Version for three basses, recorded by James Banner.  

Strange Beast was written for the Arc Project in the summer of 2020.

Strange Beast

Fintan O’Hare 
Archipelago
flute, bass clarinet, percussion, piano, violin I, violin II, viola, violoncello 
Recorded on July 07, 2022

Ensemble Tempus Konnex

Delphine Roche | flute
Emanuel Dantscher | clarinet
Alberto Carnevale Ricci | piano
Moritz Koch | percussion
Mariana Hernández Gonzales | violin I
Mishi Stern | violin II
Victor Guaita | viola
Nathan Watts | violoncello

Tempus Konnex, Kulturreflex e.V.  | Organization

JiYoun Doo | Executive and artistic director
doo@tempus-konnex.com

Ruth Herrmann /Lukas Keil | 
info@tempus-konnex.com

Edwin Reinhard | Camera, Editing
Filipe Pinto | Camera

Martin Recker | Audio recording, mastering
Eunike Kramer | Audio recording


Supported by Kulturstiftung des Freistaates Sachsen 
ICE WEEK 
International Composer Exchange Week 2022
The ICE WEEK 2022, hosted by Tempus Konnex and Kulturreflex e.V., provides rising composers the unique opportunity to make their work known and establish new contacts. All pieces chosen during the international call for scores are performed by the Ensemble Tempus Konnex on July 2022 at the „Alte Handelsbörse“ (Old Stock Exchange) Leipzig, with some of the works additionally being performed on international stages - - such as in New York. The festival provides exceptional applicants with the chance to learn from and converse with prestigious composers such as Annette Schlünz, Ann Cleare and Jason Eckardt. Participants also have to opportunity to meet other young composers and patrons of the arts. The week consists of roundtable discussions, rehearsals, concerts, workshops and individual meetings.

Archipelago - Fintan O'Hare (*1995)

PRESENCE 101 (2022), for clarinet and live electronics.
Tomomi Kubota, live at the Royal Academy of Music, London. 

Get album here: polsfura.bandcamp.com/album/presence-101-2

Watch video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NmrNYvHqSk

PRESENCE 101: HARMONIA

Recorded live at 'Bloom,' Bloomhouse Projects, Bloomsbury Festival, Goodenough College, London, UK.

Painting and composition, as part of the series 'Desert Rose.'
The composition is based on a previous improvisation.  The performance begins notated and transitions into an improvised period, reflecting the natural and unpredictable nature of the desert rose and flame.

Performed by Mark Rogers (piano) and Joseph Myer Dawson (cello).

Dusk Flame

Desert Rose - Dusk Flame (2023)

A piece for Flute, Paetzold Recorder/treble recorder, and oboe. 
This was performed by the wonderful Spirited Winds trio.

Caprice (for flute, Paetzold recorder/treble recorder and oboe

Seven Dirty Words 

Matthew Lee Knowles
[2015]



Seven Dirty Words [2015]

Jeremy Corbyn 

Matthew Lee Knowles
[2015]

Jeremy Corbyn [2015]

Alto recorder and live electronics.

Studio recording by Carmen Troncoso and Desmond Clarke.

This piece comprises two of the seven movements of RECORDARI.

oiseaux métamorphique (2017)

“Thickening Light” for horn quartet, two pianos, harp, and string orchestra. Performed by London Young Sinfonia (cond. Elias P. Brown) on November 6, 2019.

Thickening Light / 2019

“String Quartet” (4 excerpts)

Performed by Echéa Quartet. Recorded live at Krama Festival  2019, Athens Greece.

Recording, mixing, mastering: Eli Brown

String Quartet Excerpt 1

Three paths through a puzzle (for string ensemble)

Roy Watkins is a composer and a PhD student at the university of York.

Caprice (for flute, Paetzold recorder/treble recorder and oboe

Roy Watkins

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