In Medias Res for Ensemble

Part VIII

Part VI

Part IV

Part VII

Part I

Part II

When the pianist Pablo Marquine asked me for a symphonic poem for piano and orchestra I was left with the question: "What is the difference between a concerto and a symphonic poem?" This work is my answer. Pablo is an exquisitely sensitive performer.  Although this is an excellent computerised version, worked with my friend,  Dr Michael Hill, it falls far short of the nuance that Pablo would bring.  Nonetheless, it is more than worth the listen. Please enjoy.

Pablo's Symphonic Poem - refined computer version.

Written in October 2025. Violin and orchestra.
Idyll: love and life, Rayner Hoff.

Violin Concerto 4 (iii)

Trying my hand at jazz, please let me know if it eats.

Under the Tree

for Alto Flute, Trumpet, Electric Guitar, Percussion, Cello, and Fixed Electronics (2023)

Performers: NYKY Ensemble
Jānis Vītols (alto flute), Ranja Salonen (trumpet), Sampo Harju (electric guitar),
Anja Goller (percussion), Kaisa Suninen (violoncello)

Conductor: Marija Baniulytė
Sound Technician: Saku Liimatainen

Premiered and recorded at Ung Nordisk Musik Festival, August 2025, Helsinki, Finland.

LIGHT HAS VELOCITY, AND ITS ABSENCE IS CONSTANT AND ETERNAL

In the worlds dominated by the Lords of the Chaos, the reality is subverted by random creativity and oddness.

Prince Gaynor: In the Magical Realm of Chaos

Into The Ether

Le Sacre des Frères Fêtants portrays the paradox of the secular spirit who, free from religion, still seeks refuge in ritual — driven by a longing for ecstasy and communion with nature and its elemental forces. The work embodies the spirit of the winter solstice, when darkness reaches its peak and light hesitantly returns; a moment when humanity’s desire for renewal and transcendence takes form in sound.
The composition opens in turmoil: strings, almost inaudible beneath the surge of brass and basses, conceal a seed of the central chorale theme. From this chaos the theme rises in the horns, then undergoes an ‘alchemic’ transformation — distilled, fused, destroyed and reborn — through variations that oscillate between mysticism and ecstasy. The ‘little pagan symphony’ culminates in a moment of clarity and liberation: a consonant final chord in which order emerges from chaos. Ordo ab Chao.

Le Sacre des Frères Fêtants

Written in October 2025. Violin and orchestra.
The old shawl, Janet Cumbrae Stewart.

Violin Concerto 5 (i)

Colony of Penguins

Snowman's Waltz

Biblioteka Szelakowych Fortepianów

Medieval Melancholy

Orchestral Composer-Conductor
Latin & Orchestral Percussion, Drums, Marimba & Vibraphone, Jazz-Flugelhorn/Trumpet, Piano and Bass Guitar player
Music and Rhythm Psychology Practitioner & Body/Mind Therapist

Australian composer, born 1960, married to Clare Maclean (New Zealand/Australian composer). The first series of paintings used on my Soundcloud sight were by my father, Barry Carroll. I have used other painters since then. There is a wide variety of music here: recent compositions, pieces written in my thirties, student works, and pieces written in my teenage years. Its mostly based on Finale versions of my scores. There is a full list of my Soundcloud pieces at https://john-carroll-poems.com/soundcloud-recordings/

Soon after I started learning piano I began composing. At university I studied with Peter Sculthorpe (1978-81) [and earlier, with Martin Wesley-Smith, Moya Henderson and Eric Gross]. My style was modernist (In Terra Pax, Sonata for Two Pianos and Horn, Qui Tollis). After my studies I felt drawn to tonality. Many of my pieces were written during my thirties. My style is often tonal, sometimes using the structures of classical music, sometimes incorporating traditional melodies, aiming to express a sense of the timeless goodness in existence. I became a pastor. There was a twenty year exile from composition, during which time I started writing poetry. 

In 2018 I began composing again. Over 1920 new works have been written, each one canonic - using Plainsong, Jewish cantillation, Scottish pibrochs, Icelandic music, early transcriptions of Aboriginal music, Breton and Northumbrian melodies, Gaelic psalms, Irish and English tunes, Welsh folk songs, and my own melodies (and an extended series of works that accompany paintings) "joining our voice to a great communal voice that calls out across the centuries" (Ben Myers). Bruckner greatly influenced me when I was young. May I also create melodies that "arc from heaven" (Colin Davies). 

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100025651981505
Poetry: https://john-carroll-poems.com/ 
Email: yomechad7@gmail.com
Thesis: https://john-carroll-poems.com/lament-and-homecoming-1/

JSA Productions
Jeffrey S Arnold -Film composer from Rochester New York
BA Music Plattsburgh State University
Master of Music Crane School of Music

Heyy! I write all my music myself, and i just want more people to feel the emotion of my music and not need lyrics to do so 😎😎 

Finally my album "SUMMER" Is OUT NOW on all streaming services!

“They Call Him Sunlight, They Call Him the Eagle”

Adam Majdecki-Janicki (1985) has been writing poetry, lyrics, composing, playing, and recording since 1998. His most important achievements to date include his debut poetry collection “Siva in Rags” (Kendra Steiner Editions, USA, 2008), the vinyl and CD “Second Hand Man” (Mimics Cool, Poland, 2011), the CD-R and vinyl “Stoned Gypsy Wanderer” (Kendra Steiner Editions, USA, 2014 / Ramble Records, Australia, 2021), the experimental/ambient album “Eimi” (Snow in Water Records, France, 2020), the vinyl album of his group Säure Adler (Ramble Records, Australia, 2021), and countless other physical and digital releases worldwide.

New tracks tagged #Contemporary Classical