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SOLO VOICE
Envoi (song cycle for high voice with string orchestra: poems by Elizabethan authors) c. 12 mins
Both Beauties (song cycle for high voice and piano: poems about music by various authors) c. 10 mins
The Unknown Bird (song cycle for baritone with flute, viola and harp: three poems by Edward Thomas) c. 10 mins
Voices from the Sea (song cycle for tenor with string orchestra: words by merchant seamen) See recordings.
The Bed Bug (for soprano, 2 cl, vla, vcl, CB: words by Tony Harrison. Written for and first performed by The Composers Ensemble) c. 3 mins
Gospel and Collect (for Soprano and Organ: words from the Book of Common Prayer c.3 mins) First performed in the London Festival of Contemporary Church Music May 9th 2006
CHORAL
I Know What I Like (an imitative history of music in variations on Schubert's 'An die Musik') SATB
The Seafarer (cantata for tenor soloist with SATB choir and chamber orchestra (fl/ob/cl/bsn/hn/tpt/timp/strings) The libretto contrasts words from the Anglo-Saxon ‘The Seafarer’ and ‘Letter Unsigned’ by George Garratt. This, the final part of my Sea trilogy, is still looking for its first performance, but I have extracted one section ['Fate is More Strong'] as an anthem for unaccompanied SATB choir, and this was sung by the choir of Westminster Abbey.
Sense and Nonsense (SATB choir: poems by Mervyn Peake)
This World (for double choir, including two soprano soloists, with 2 trumpets: words from William Blake and the Book of Job) c. 9 mins. Broadcast by the BBC Singers.
Perhaps in Hope (anthem for Remembrance Day for SATB choir: words by Penny Britten)
‘For These...’ (for SATB choir: words from the Te Deum and Edward Thomas) commissioned and performed many times (including at Liverpool Cathedral) by the Manchester-based choir Alteri. Available from Freehand Music.
Another New Year (for SATB choir) c. 3 mins First performed by the Petrus Singers 2004.
Virtue, Denial, The Call and Doomsday (Poems by George Herbert) SATB c. 7 mins. First Performed by Alteri 2004
OPERA
Echoes chamber opera for two sopranos, mezzo-soprano, and chamber group (flute, clarinet, trumpet, horn and harp). Libretto by Anne Harris. c.25 minutes. Commissioned by and performed in Covent Garden's 'Garden Venture' series.
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