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Kármán line for large orchestra (2024)
The piece is titled after the boundary separating Earth's atmosphere and outerspace known as the Kármán line. In this piece I wanted to capture the drama of the transitional nature of this space in our sky, where we are home on earth and where we have crossed a threshold into the vacuum of space. Here I want to capture the human desire we have for reaching out, grasping, striving to across a threshold and break through boundaries. Sun Catcher for wind quintet (2018)
Sun Catcher for wind quintet was written for the Atéa Wind Quintet commissioned by the 2018 York Late Music concert series . A Sun Catcher is a metal object that spins in the wind capturing the sunlight and creating colourful patterns. There are also many myths and folklore tales related to how the sun was once captured, and either fixed in its proper sphere or else made to stand still in the sky. Other tales explore the idea of capturing the sun and bringing it down so darkness could prevail. Sun Catcher explores both themes, therefore essentially having two different musical ideas happening simultaneously in parts of the piece. The first is serene and expressive exploring shimmering light and colour. The second is a fast, underlating and increasingly agtitated music. This gradually infiltrates each instrument's line and captures the serene music from before, holding it hostage on a manic rampage and race to the end of the piece. |
Orbit's edge for chamber ensemble (2024)
Orbit's edge takes its inspiration from the phenomenon known as the Roche limit, with particular attention to Saturn's ice moons. Saturn previously had many more smaller celestial bodies surrounding it, but these have been lost as they became too close to Saturn and reached their Roche limit. Once this threshold is crossed, the gravitational forces holding them together are overcome and these moons are pulled apart and disintegrate to beomce the planet's iconic rings. *This is a commission from The Aspen Music Festival and School for the 2024 season. Daybreak of dusk for cello and piano 2022
Daybreak of dusk was written for the ‘Piece a day’ project at the Tanglewood Music Festival 2022. Glass dominoes for mixed ensemble 2023 Glass dominoes has been written for the Mostly Modern Ensemble. The work explores the notion of the chain reactions that split and fracture in different directions. There are gestures that cause the knock on effect of another instruments part but sometimes these flows are broken and interrupted by other forces. c. 7 minutes |
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Ligeti Quartet perform Distorted Light as part of their The Workout! A scheme where their ambition was to play and workshop 100 pieces by 100 composers to celebrate their tenth anniversary.
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RSNO workshop performance of The Louder the Birds Sing in June 2021
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Spinning Colours | Faded Time for piano quartet performed by Trio Northumbria and pianist Alison Gill
To know the dark performed by Brightwork ensemble
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Mirage for wind quintet performed by the Magnard Ensemble
Tucked Beneath performed by Daniel Klein and Felix Jarrar
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Night Airs conducted by Lindsey Jones and performed by members of USF NMC
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The Glaciate Falls as part of the Dance with the Winds project
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As the Moon Runs Red for solo trumpet performed by Simon Desbruslais
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Frozen Waterfall
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Nacreous Contours for solo clarinet performed by Dov Goldberg
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Brain Container from joberry on Vimeo. Video of Brain Container Project – Blackpool Illuminations (2014) –
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Through the Fading Hour, Concerto for viola has been written for the London Philharmonic Orchestra Young Composers Programme 2021/22 especially for violists Richard Waters and David Quiggle.
Through the fading hour explores the light qualities and colours that we see during the twilight hours, with the onsetting of darkness and the fading of light. We might also see this moment as the twilight hour of the earth, at least with our presence on it, as the realities of climate change become increasingly evident. The piece emerged from one of my own poems:
Through the fading hour
Whispers morph and mould
A flickering light gives one last breath
Before being blown into the ether
Through the fading hour explores the light qualities and colours that we see during the twilight hours, with the onsetting of darkness and the fading of light. We might also see this moment as the twilight hour of the earth, at least with our presence on it, as the realities of climate change become increasingly evident. The piece emerged from one of my own poems:
Through the fading hour
Whispers morph and mould
A flickering light gives one last breath
Before being blown into the ether