A setting of Gillian Clarke's poem 'Winter', for soprano, clarinet, harp and double bass. Performed by The Hermes Experiment on the 8th March, 2018.

Winter

Breath of the white dragon,
a first flake of snow.
Another, another, feathers
dissolve on the tongue of a ewe,
cwtched in the lee of a crag.
 
Then more, faster, swarming, till world is blind,
silent, walled in, wall-eyed, the flock a drift
against stone, fleece under fleece of snow.
The ice-moon’s breath turns all to glass.
Where is warm? Where is grass? Where is light?
 
All the short hours of day, hunger-driven,
hoofing the frozen ground
she grazes for a scrape of green,
the one place bare of snow
where she has lain.
 
Inside the snow, the fleece. Inside the fleece,
something beating in its house of bone.
Cold draws on every organ but the womb.
Rocked in its cradle in the blood-loud dark.
the foetus, safe in its rose-red room.

Where She Has Lain - soprano, clarinet, harp and double bass

Performed on 25th April 2018 in the Angela Burgess Recital Hall, Royal Academy of Music.

Conducted by Adam Hickox.

Night Bazaar - large ensemble

Rehearsed by the Royal Academy of Music Symphony Orchestra on 27th September 2018. Conducted by Christopher Austin.

Scherzo for Orchestra

Performed by the Academy Symphonic Winds in the Duke's Hall, Royal Academy of Music on 8th February 2019.

Conducted by Keith Bragg.

Vanishing Points for Symphonic Winds

Performed by the London Metropolitan Brass in the David Josefowitz Recital Hall, Royal Academy of Music, on 5th March 2019.

Seven Pieces for Brass Quintet

Performed by Timotheé Gesland in the David Josefowitz Recital Hall, Royal Academy of Music, on the 29th April 2019.

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