Fractures

An excerpt from an original composition for string orchestra... yet to be performed! If you are a good orchestra and would like to play it... please contact me!

Purple Waltz

This is the opening to: Passions - a major work for string orchestra in five movements (with many parts to each movement). Many primal themes arise, unfold and are explored such as: qualities of passion and the elements, the beauty and sanctity of nature, the creative and destructive power of water as the rivers and seas, invocations to the dawn and the power within folk melodies, the spider and the mysterious weaving of creation, intensity and travelling into the underworld, the eagles flight and... time and the eternal.

Passions - Opening

This theme eventually unfolds (and takes flight!) from the opening to the First Passion. The arrangement of harmonies is a little song-like and allows the strong main melody to soar and intensify.

First Passion - Flight

First Passion - Part 3. This was directly inspired by the Ribble Valley, on the edge of Preston in Lancashire... looking out and up river towards Ribchester...

First Passion - Hymn of the Earth

Blessed love can never be despair, 
For the Creator knows the heart’s hidden prayer –
Even words the lips refuse to bear.

The thoughts of men are fleeting, vain, 
Chasing dust, a dying flame. 
But Heaven’s law stands firm, untamed – 
Like stars in a soul unstained. 

Nothing is darker, nothing as dire, 
As spurning the light of God’s own fire, 
And calling truth a fleeting shade 
That leads where all is lost, unmade.

No horror cuts so deep, so true, 
As turning from the light that’s due, 
Embracing ghosts that fade to black,
And never, ever lead you back.

If the light inside you turns to night, 
How deep then is the dark’s embrace? 
When trust in Heaven’s will takes flight, 
A blind man walks in endless waste. 

None shall see the gates of Grace 
Till the heart is cleansed, unveiled, 
Till it turns from its defiant way – 
And lets the Light inside it stay.

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𝑶𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒊𝒏𝒂𝒍 𝒎𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒄 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒍𝒚𝒓𝒊𝒄𝒔 𝒃𝒚 𝑳𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝑾𝒊𝒏𝒅
𝑨𝒍𝒍 𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒔 𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒆𝒓𝒗𝒆𝒅: 𝑳𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝑾𝒊𝒏𝒅 ® 𝑹𝒆𝒄𝒐𝒓𝒅𝒔

Blessed Love

Blessed Love (Single)

Blessed Love can never be Despair

Bonehead, op. 17
(more of a serenade than a pavane.....but who cares)😎

Pavane for Guitar and Strings in B minor, op 17

Back-to-front, upside-down and split in half – in these pieces, familiar tunes have been rearranged to present students with the fun challenge of identifying them. Individual titles give some cryptic clues. This set of six pieces is intended for string orchestra students in their first two years of learning. There are parts for violin (a single part instead of 1st and 2nd), viola, cello, and bass, as well as an integral piano accompaniment designed to support players with the more challenging rhythms. These attractive and fun pieces will entertain students and audiences alike. 

1. A Little Something (from "Six Puzzle Pieces for String Orchestra") - Matthew Hoey

2. Rats in Reverse (from "Six Puzzle Pieces for String Orchestra") - Matthew Hoey

3. A two-piece puzzle (from "Six Puzzle Pieces for String Orchestra") - Matthew Hoey

4. Beneath the Waves (from "Six Puzzle Pieces for String Orchestra") - Matthew Hoey

5. Back to the Moon (from "Six Puzzle Pieces for String Orchestra") - Matthew Hoey

6. Another two-piece puzzle (from "Six Puzzle Pieces for String Orchestra") - Matthew Hoey

Andante in A minor for String Orchestra, no. 53

Triumphant Return

Upbeat and cinematic, this short orchestral track is built on layered string textures and bright thematic writing. It’s a musical homecoming — perfect for celebratory endings, closing scenes, or narrative victories.

🎧 Finale 2008
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Triumphant Return

DASEIN for String Orchestra

Music is an instrument of expression and research; everything imaginary must disappear in it, giving way to the living and the immediate, ultimately to silence and contemplation...

Undergraduate student at Colorado State University graduating in 2026.

When i'm not playing video games....
...i listen to Music.
I get into everything: Abba to Zappa...Grindcore to Gershwin...Nine Inch Nails to Nina Simone...Mike Oldfield to My Bloody Valentine to Miles Davis
  I LIKE MUSIC....composing and listening   😎
For the record: I am a keyboardist and sometimes drummer. About 90% of  the keyboard work is me actually playing a Yamaha Midi keyboard. Now you know...

Composer:
Original Classical music for string orchestra, chamber ensembles and solo instruments (inc. piano). Original Folk music for various groups. Occasional forays into rock and jazz... renaissance and earlier…

Songwriter (singer / guitarist):
Songs of nature & myth (Celtic / Arthurian).

Artist & Designer:
Celtic Art and Design: Original designs, commissions, teaching and advice.
Original labyrinth designs and workshops.

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