Carmel Smickersgill - Charcoal

MChapter 4

Commissioned and performed by Equilibrium Quartet, a group that have been championing the work of minority gender composers for decades.

Ornament - Carmel Smickersgill

Commissioned as part of the Do We Need A New Compass collection with Birmingham Contemporary Music Group and Das Neue Ensemble (Hanover).

Brute

The music that happens at the very end of Liz Richardson's SWIM.

SWIM walk out music

Excerpt of underscore from Sam Ward's We Were Promised Honey

Chapter 3.2

Commissioned by Manchester Camerata and RNCM for string orchestra and projected text.

Birthday Card For A Stranger

Percussion quartet for Marimba, Vibraphone, Glockenspiel and Almglocken.

Turkish Police

Setting of an E.E. Cummings poem of the same title. Recording by John Holland Avery (Baritone) and Rachel Fright (piano) for BBC Radio 3. This song recently won the Ludlow English Song weekend young composition competition.

Humanity I Love You

Electro acoustic piece using a welsh/english macaronic folk song. Awen Blandford (alto)

Fractured Bird

Paintign A Blue Sea Using Every Colour But Blue

Written for the RNCM Chamber Music Festival responding to Mendelssohn's Songs Without Words.
Guitarists:
Sam Rodwell
Owen Bunting
Don Candy
Brad Johnson

Bad Weather On Canals

Struggle

Performed as part of the Brodsky Chamber music prize by Duo Reul.
Cressida McKay - Flute
Steaph Chaimbeul - Harp


I Have To Return Some Video Tapes

Millenial Mindset

Identity Unknown

Wood and Metal performed by Lizzie Brightwell-Gibbons as part of the In Focus: Tansy Davis Festival in October 2016.

Wood And Metal

SMUDGE big band performing Set Piece as part of the International Women's Day events Held By Musica in Manchester.

SMUDGE performing Set Piece

Written for the RNCM chamber music festival. First performed 12-03-2017.
Violin 1 - William Chadwick
Violin 2 - Heather Macleod
Viola - Elizabeth Lister
Cello - Awen Blandford

Thinking Space

Performed by the Gildas Quartet on 25/08/17

it's all artificial

Setting of a traditional carol text, author anonymous, performed on 1/12/17 by the Manchester Singers

O Child

Filtered Audio

Commissioned by Manchester Renaissance Ensemble. A setting of Christina Rossetti's 'Echo'.

Pulse For Pulse

Short demo to be set to the opening scene of Fritz Langs Metropolis.

Metropolis opening scene

Tied up with Strings so tight is for Amplified String quartet and two octave pedals.

Tied up with Strings so Tight

Take Me

SWIM #1

Composer based in Manchester working within the classical tradition but with strong ties to jazz and electronic music.

Carmel Smickersgill

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