Performed by Noszferatu for Frontiers Festival program 2014. A one-page-piece project organised by Birmingham Conservatoire. With improvisational elements and minimal materials, this piece exposed wide possibility of sound exploration for both controlled and free compositional style.

Finn Peters - saxophone
Tom Allan - trumpet
Joel bell - electric guitar
Ivo de Greef - piano

Rahsia Ratu Kidul

Series of Arch is a set of formulated materials of pitches as a component to visualise architectural vault and arch. The Vault 1 was composed to explore the layers of sound that responding to the individual voice within the ensemble by using the formulated pitches and rhythm. This piece was performed in a workshop by KROCK guitar ensemble (Sweden) in conjunction with Birmingham Conservatoire. 

The Vault I (from the series of Arch)

Casa Batllo: Curse of the Dragon's Bones

Performance by High Winds Ensemble (Malaysian Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra) in May 2012 conducted by Joost Flach.

Si Paku Geylang

Composed Sayyid Shafiee with electronic music pieces by Goh Lee Kwang. Composed for Soundbridge Festival 2015.

Performance by:
Meta Saxophone : Timothy O'Dwyaer
Percussion: Max Riefer
Auxiliaries: Gideon Alubakhan Chen 
Live electronics: Goh Le Kwang

Performed on: 29th October 2015, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Devious Dimension (2015)

Composed by Sayyid Shafiee in Fall 2015. Performed by Birmingham Conservatoire Orchestra conducted by Edwin Roxburgh in November 2015.

Impression Of A Tragedy (2015)

Park Guell : Mosaic Fragments for Solo Violin
From the Series of Gaudi's Architecture

This piece was constructed by working with physical arrangement of mosaic in Park Güell created by Antoni Gaudi. The materials later was developed with musical fragments designed to interpret the whole conception of Park Güell. All the fragments mirrored the original materials and build the whole piece.

Performed by Sarah Farmer
Birmingham Conservatoire
Winter 2015

Park Guell : Mosaic Fragments Part III

Park Guell : Mosaic Fragments Part II

Park Guell : Mosaic Fragments Part I

Park Guell : Mosaic Fragments Part IV

Jinsei Kouro means Journey of Life in Japanese. This piece was inspired by a contemporary Japanese dance, Butoh. Butoh was created around 1960 by Hijikata Tatsumi and later it was developed all around the world. This composition is to accompany the Butoh dance performance and also inspired by a piece by Imre Thormann from Switzerland. This piece is a portrait of a gentleman about his journey as a human.

Performed by GRUPO 20/21 - Modular Chamber Music Ensemble
Culture Centre of the Philippines,
Manila, Philippines
November 2015

Jinsei Kouro (2013)

Recorded with Samsung S7 Edge at Al Rahmah City Mosque, Wolverhampton on 16th December 2016.

Jumu'ah Prayer (Unedited)

Sayyid Shafiee (b.1987) is a Malaysian composer currently based in Birmingham, United Kingdom. His music has been performed throughout the UK, Europe and Asia. His music has also featured in number of festivals including Druskomanija (Lithuania), China-Asean Music Festival, Startford On Avon Music Festival, Malaysian Contemporary Festival, Soundbridge Festival, Frontiers Festival and Risuonanze Festical (Italy). His recent work, Jinsei Kouro was selected to represent Malaysia f!or 33rd Asian Composers League 2015 in Philippines.
Sayyid received his MMus from the University of Manchester, studied with Kevin Malone and Philip Grange and currently working on a PhD in composition at Birmingham Conservatoire, where he studied with Joe Cutler, Howard Skempton and Sean Clancy. He also studied with Tazul Tajuddin and had a chance to work with Dieter Mack when he was completing his BMus at local u!niversity in Malaysia.
He has attended master classes from composers such as Peter Maxwell Davies, Michael Finnissy, Harrison Birtwistle, Carl Bergstrom-Nielsen, Pauline Oliveros, Xenia Pestova, Erollyn Wallen, Chinary Ung, Koji Nakano, Jonas Baes and working with numerous ensemble including Psappha, BCMG, KROCK (Sweden), Quatour Danel, Fidelio Trio, Solem Quartet, Accordion Ensemble ContemporAcco (Lithuania), Group 20/21 Modular Ensemble (Philippines) Malaysian Youth S!ymphony Orchestra and Birmingham Conservatoire Orchestra.
Involved with music since 13 as saxophonist, he started his musical journey as a member of local marching band and competed all around the world including Canada, Holland, Italy and France marching band competition and awarded with numbers of medals from 2000-2009 and later on he involved with Malaysian music industry and performed all across the country including Singapore, Indonesia and Thailand. He had performed with various local and international artists from
2006-2012 before he decided to pursue his music in contemporary composition in the UK.

Sayyid Shafiee

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