List of Works
Dynamical Systems: Pendula for Piano Quintet.
Performed by Sono Ensemble. Anothony Burgess Foundation, 14th April 2023.
Sound Sculpture No.7 for Orchestra. Commissioned by Southbank Sinfonia
Performed at St Johns Smith Square, February 2023.
https://www.nonclassical.co.uk/events/2022/12/13/nonclassical-x-southbank-sinfonia-new-beginnings
Sound Sculpture No. 6. Performed by the House of Bedlam with imagery by Fiona Brehony.
Performed at the RNCM concert hall, Manchester, 28th October, 2022 and broadcast on the BBC Radio 3 New Music Show, 28th January 2023.
Sound Sculpture No. 5. Performed by Gemma Bass, Peggy Nolan, Carl Raven and Amy Gray.
St Johns Church, London, 22nd September 2022.
What to Play and How to Play It // Commissioned by CoMA
Musical board game for flexible ensemble and audience participation
Performed at CoMA Manchester, 5/3/2022 and CoMA Glasgow 6/3/2022
Secret City // Film by Fiona Brehony
The Secret City is a 12-minute document of St Michael’s Flags and Angel Meadow Park, using moving-image, spoken word and contemporary music composition to explore a relationship between new building developments and pieces of Manchester’s social history.
Installed at the Manchester School of Art MA show, Friday 1 October — Sunday 10 October 2021
Repeat showing at Bankley Studios short film screening Manchester, November 21st 2021.
Now published on Film Geographics - https://www.filmgeographies.com/video/cities/the-secret-city/
Binding Ties // for Unheard Ensemble
10 minute piece for 16 piece ensemble and surround electronics
Premiered at the Anthony Burgess Foundation, Manchester, 12th September, 2021
‘Sound Sculpture No.3’ for Trombone // PhD research project
13 minute sound sculpture performed by Weston Olencki
Premiered at RNCM Studio 8 (multitrack spatialised version) as part of RNCM Re-unite, July 2021
‘Sound Sculpture No.2’ for Two French Horns and Electronics // PhD research project
13 minute sound sculpture.
Premiere cancelled (recording only)
‘Three Perspectives’ // PhD research project
A short 6-minute film about climate change and rising sea levels. A collaboration with climate change specialist Freya Mitchison and photographer/film-maker Fiona Brehony as part of ‘Changing Music in a Changing Climate’.
Premiered online through PRiSM, 15th October 2021
‘Monster Ballet’ for The House of Bedlam // PhD project
5 minute piece for clarinet and flute. Recorded in lockdown.
Released by Nonclassical Records on their lockdown compilation ‘I hope this finds you well in these strange times’
‘Dynamical Systems’ for 8 piece ensemble and electronics // PhD research project
5 minute piece for 8 musicians and electronics, created in collaboration with Lasse Rempe-Gillen: Professor of Pure Mathematics at the University of Liverpool
Original premiere cancelled though a recording was later made by Riot Ensemble which was shown online as part of Liverpool University's Lunchtime concert series, 13th October 2021
‘Sound Sculpture No.1’ for Five Clarinets and Electronics // PhD research project
25 minute installation/concert piece
Premiered at the RNCM, Manchester, UK, 14th February 2020
Second performance screened at the ‘Garden of Forking Paths’ Online Concert by RNCM and Leeds University, 16th March 2021
Third performance screened at Sound Thought festival (online due to pandemic), Glasgow, May 2nd 2021
Fourth performance at St Margaret’s Church, Whalley Range (two clarinet version)
‘Amplitude’ // Commissioned by Camerata Temporalis
8 minute piece for the new music ensemble // 18th December 2019
Premiered at Mon Ami, Weimar, Germany
‘O Kuku’ // for the I Solisti Wind Ensemble
8 minute film soundtrack performed live with 10 piece ensemble // 24th August 2019
Premiere at C-mine, Genk, Belgium
Etude for Saxophone, Electronics and Sound Movement
5 minute etude performed by Lennert Baerts // 6th July 2019
Premiere at Soundmine, Bilzen, Belgium
'Clouds’ for Brass Orchestra' // Commissioned by the NJFO
10 minute concert piece for the Dutch National Youth Fanfare Orchestra // 20th April 2019.
Premiered at the Bernard Haitinkzaal, CvA, Amsterdam
'I've Got Friends' // Commissioned by Frances Heap
Soundtrack for short film as part of 'Conversations Series 2' (art exhibition)
Exhibited at the Tate Liverpool, 20–24 March 2019 and Artlink Hull, 29 March – Friday 21st June, 2019
'Street Music No.2' // for Ricciotti Ensemble
3 minute miniature composed for 40 piece street orchestra // summer 2018.
Performed multiple times around the Netherlands and Cuba.
'Binding Ties' // Commissioned by Vassago Film
Electronic soundtrack for filmed dance piece // May 2018
Premiered at Light Night Liverpool
'The Acrobat and the Tightrope' for Score Collective // MA Project
Live concert composed for 20 piece contemporary music ensemble. // May 2018
Performed at Amsterdam Composers Festival. Finalist in the 2018 Kaleidoscope Orchestra Composers Competition (chosen from over 2200 entries from 76 countries)
'Seven Stages of Man' for Percussion Quartet // MA Project
Live concert piece // May and November 2018
Performed at Amsterdam Composers Festival and 'Tromp' percussion festival at the Musikgebouw, Eindhoven
Saxophone Quartet No 1. // MA Project
Live concert piece // May 2018
Performed at Amsterdam Composers Festival 2018
'Swimming in a Fish Tank' for Symphony Orchestra // MA Project
Composed for the 70 piece symphony orchestra of the CvA // April 2017
Performed in the Bernard Haitinkzaal, CvA, Amsterdam
'Barcodes' for Nieuw Ensemble and Stop Motion Animation // MA Project
A collaboration with animator Laura Spark for 12 piece ensemble // April 2017
Performed at the Muziekgebouw (Amsterdam) and Korzo, (Hague)
'Faction' - Electronic piece for contemporary dance performance // Commissioned by 'Tilt'
A collaboration with `EnCompass` ensemble // November 2015
Performed with an 8 piece dance troupe over 2 nights at the Kazimier Liverpool
'Hex Division' for Marching Band and Electronics // Commissioned by Open Culture, Light Night and Gi20
Composer and musical director for a street performance // summer 2015
An experimental band playing out a confrontation between nature and technology with sound to light technology. Winner of the 2015 Gi20 jury prize. Subsequently toured around multiple UK festivals.