Featured Performances
The Tempest
Thumb, conductor Dan Watson.
Recital Hall, B'ham, UK.
December 3rd 2012.
"...a sea change into something rich and strange..."Elemental
Birmingham Contemporary Music Group (BCMG).
Frontiers+ Festival, January 2010.
Workshop performance with Dutch composer Louis Andriessen.
Some of the pieces listed use bespoke instruments designed by Stuart Stevens. A link is provided in each case for further details. Those titles marked 31et are scored in Fokker notation and performed in 31-tone equal temperament.
| The Tempest (2012) 31-et | Tempest Part 4 (excerpt) |
Flute, clarinet, saxophone, trumpet, trombone, Tempest Chimes (details), percussion, 31-et electric guitar (details), Microtonal digital piano (details), piano, soprano, violin, viola, double bass. Duration: 20:00
Full premiere performance here
| How Do I Love Thee? (2012) |
Girl’s choir, organ. Text: Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Commissioned by Phillippa Cairns & Mark Somerville for their wedding ceremony, Dec 22nd 2012, St. Anne’s Cathedral Leeds. Duration 4:30
| Lorem Ipsum Dolor Sit Amet (2012) |
Soprano, clarinet, bassoon, slide guitar, viola, double bass . Duration 5:00
| Septimal Switchback (2012) 31-et | Septimal Switchback |
Microtonal digital piano (details). Duration 4:30
| Martlesham Heath (2011) 31-et |
Electro-acoustic (sine waves), for 12 speaker distribution. Duration 7:40
| Tear Up My Fugue (2011) |
31-squared (details), piano, soprano saxophone, viola, cello. Duration 10:00
| The Popera Star (2011) |
Soparano, piano. Lyrics by S. Stevens & G. Soames. Commissioned by Phillippa Cairns. Duration 4:15
| Genus 2: Specialist Subject (2011) 31-et |
31-squared (details) and two sopranos. In association with BBC Mastermind, filmed for webcast. Duration 15:00
| Genus 1 (2010) 31-et | Genus 1 |
For the installation thirty-one (details). Commissioned by Aldeburgh Music, Snape Maltings Suffolk. Duration 15:00
| The Greatest (2010) | The Greatest |
Soprano, piano, flute. Text: 1 Corinthians 13. Commissioned by Councillor Jane Chambers, Mayor of Ipswich, Suffolk, UK, for the Civic Service. Duration 6:00
| Piano Roll Score (2010) | VIDEO |
Waterfront Gamelan hand-held chimes (details), hand drum, percussion. For procession. Duration 30:00
| Moments In A Purple Deckchair (2010) |
Co-written by Chantelle Love. Flute, guitar. Score painted on a deckchair for Suffolk Coastal Deckchairs Project. Duration 2:00
| Fragment of Eternity (2010) |
3 sopranos, mezzo-soprano, electric cello, stylophone, percussion.
Text: Poem by Kathleen Garman (unpublished) discovered in New Art Gallery Walsall Jacob Epstein Archive Duration 12:00
| Variations on a Riff from Traffic Communist (2010) |
Flute, SATB saxophones, 3 trumpet, horn, 3 trombone, piano. In memory of David Ian St John Ashmore. Duration 4:00
