recorded in April 2021 

Guildhall Orchestral Artistry students / members of the LSO 
conducted by Jack Sheen

Silk Street Concert Hall, Guildhall School of Music and Drama

TWO GREENHOUSES (bean piece 2)

Composed as part of Nonclassical's Associate Composers Scheme and premiered at a curated concert at St John's, Waterloo in London on 22nd June 2021, this piece tries to connect to different emotional states from the first year and a half of the pandemic:

Solitude
        Hope
             Connection
                    Anxiety
                           Everything Together

שמעה תפילתי, הקשיבה רינתי
Hear my prayer, listen to my joy

Singers:
Loré Lixenberg
Rosie Middleton
Fleur de Bray
Yfat Soul Zisso

Hear, for 4 Voices and Electronics

Sarah Grace Graves, the feeling of being in a body (2021) for six voices

Written for the Academie Voix Nouvelles of the Royaumont Foundation
Premiered by EXAUDI (James Weeks, conductor) September 5, 2021

the feeling of being in a body

Excerpts of 'Phant Heap Render' (2022).
Commissioned by the London Sinfonietta. Premiere at Queen Elizabeth Hall, December 2022.

Phant Heap Render

The world premiere of 'strange calligraphy', given by the Dr. K Sextet at Parabola Arts Centre, Cheltenham on 11th July, 2016. 

Recording by Roger Long.

strange calligraphy (2016) for six players

Collaboration with Sarah Boulton, performed by An Assembly directed by Jack Sheen

Bass Clarinet: Elliot Gresty
Flugelhorn: Chloë Abbott
Piano Joseph Havlat
Soprano: Patricia Auchterlonie 
Percussion: Dori Raphael 
Viola: Alex McFarlane 
Cello: Lydia Hillerudh 
Double Bass: Dan Molloy
Conductor: Jack Sheen

Performance 16.05.17

image: trample scan by Sarah Boulton

Deer tracks (2017) - An Assembly

Étude IV is a direct response to Ligeti’s third piano étude, Touches bloquées. The innovative blocked touch technique of his work is created when the pianist blocks certain keys with one hand (silently depressing them) and uses the other to articulate them. Although the notation calls for a simple stream of eight notes, the sounding result is that of wonderfully complex, unpredictable and stuttering rhythms.

In my third étude these jagged and stuttering rhythms are also generated from the performance of simple rhythms, with certain keys from the synthesizer being muted through blocked MIDI signals. This allows for additional freedom of range and texture, as both hands are able to perform independent blocked or unblocked musical material.
Signaux bloquées expands on the macrotonal tuning of 7 tone-equal-temperament. Played chromatically this tuning produces a quasi-major-scale sounding sonority, and all intervals in the equal-tempered piano attempt to emulate this ambiguity.

Étude IV: Signaux Bloquées

Cycles/Emptiness (2018)

Igor Santos, composer
Performed by Alarm Will Sound

Live at the Mizzou International Composers Festival, July 28, 2018

"...what does it mean when some tune follows you, occurs to you [...] in the middle of thoughts of a quite different kind?" - Theodor Reik (1960)

through thoughts of a different kind

for percussion trio and audio
performed by Antonin Granier, Ben Clark and Christian Drew at LOOSE, LINE, LAYER, St Mary-at-Hill, London, 13th June 2019.

“This work began as a series of open and flexible scores that drew on the rondeau Fumeux Fume Par Fumee (c.1390) by the 14th-century French composer Solage as a form of source material. Slowly, over the course of a collaboration with percussionists Ben Clark and Antonin Granier, this fixed but still very loose assemblage of the piece came to the foreground, leaving most of the source material behind as a faint trace beneath the surface.”

LIDO

This is the recording made on September 21st 2019 by Alberto Cavallaro at saxophone and Federico Tramontana as a percussionist, for the first Cd of their duo, named  Duodubois, published by Ema Vinci Records in December 2019. The title of the Cd is Sùsu and the sound engineer Giuseppe Francesco Greco. This piece was composed in summer 2018, in a moment of hard discussions, about immigration and dramatic immigrants landings on Italian ports and seashores. The horizon recalls an unknown but coveted landing, between hope and disillusionment, courage and fear: a tragic contemporary odyssey".The two players and their instruments are linked together creating  a sonic body that wants to express a universal emotional condition" where time and space are an inner dimension"

Scura e incerta la lunga leggerezza del mare_registrazione Cd Sùsu_Duo Dubois_Settembre 2019

Composer based in South-East England, doctoral composer & teaching assistant at Royal Holloway, University of London.

Photo Copyright Cathy Pyle, 2013.

strange calligraphy (2016) for six players

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