Premiered by Susanna Fairbairn (soprano) and Matthew Schellhorn (piano, commissioned by the 2014 Harwich Festival of the Arts with support from the RVW Trust.

Pretty Stories (and Funny Pictures)

For Simon Desbruslais (trumpet) and Clare Hammond (piano). Premiered with the English Symphony Orchestra and Kenneth Woods. Due for release on Signum Records in 2016.

The Art of Dancing

Commissioned for the London Festival of Contemporary Church Music.

Preserve Us, O Lord

For Edward Higginbottom and the choir of New College Oxford.

The Sweete Roose

Written for the Sacconi and Navarra Quartets with Guy Johnston, performed at the Wigmore Hall.

Written for the Oxford Leider Festival, performed by Anna Dennis (soprano), Dan Norman (tenor) and Andrew West (piano).

Heidenröslein

The Dreadful Story of the Matches

The Story of Cruel Frederick

The Story of Flying Robert

The Story of the Thumbsucker

"Breakbeat"

"Trance"

"Drum & Bass"

"Acid House"

"Garage"

Premiered by the London Oriana Choir with the London Mozart Players, conducted by Dominic Peckham (2014).

Love and Harmony

Reverie performs a new commission by Toby Young to launch its choral partnership with the London Youth Choir. Performed live at St. Mary-at-Hill Church, London (May 2013).

A Song For St Cecilia's Day

Toby Young is an award-winning composer and producer who creates innovative and genre-defying contemporary music. His work is rooted in the theatricality of opera, the energy of electronic dance music and the emotion of film scores, and has been played around the world at venues ranging from the Royal Albert Hall to Glastonbury Festival.

Toby’s concert music has been commissioned by ensembles and orchestras including the London Symphony Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Academy of Ancient Music, and Rambert Dance Company. He has also co-written several chart-topping hits with drum and bass artists Chase & Status, and collaborated with artists such as the Rolling Stones, Duran Duran, Florence Welch, Kano, Snow Ghosts, MOKO, and Jacob Banks. 

Toby is the Music Supervisor of Punchdrunk, one of the world’s foremost immersive and site-specific theatre companies, for whom he has written soundtracks to a variety of TV and stage works including BAFTA-nominated productions for HBO and Sky Arts. As a producer he has created recordings for some of the country’s leading artists including Danielle de Niese, Stephen Hough, Nicola Benedetti, and Jess Gillam.

A deeply committed educator, Toby is Professor of Composition at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and holds a doctorate in music and philosophy from the University of Oxford. He is a passionate advocate for social justice in the arts, and frequently works with marginalised communities to support and empower them through music.

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