Energeia
Energeia is an Aristotelean term which can be found in the Physics. The root of energeia is ergono - deed, work, or acto from which the adjective energon is derived and used today to mean energy or...
View ArticleColours in White
'Colours in White' was commissioned by Philip Sawyer for performances on 2nd and 3rd May in Karuizawa, and 9th May 2010 in Tokyo, Japan. Starting at: £4.89
View ArticleString Quartet No.2
This set of pieces originated in a short movement celebrating the 90th birthday of my friend the composer Minna Keal: this was premiered by the Bingham Quartet at the Royal Academy of Music in March...
View ArticleSonata
So far my only work in this particular genre, it consists of three movements played attacca - an initial, quite extensive contrapuntal invention interrupted with chorales, an exuberant toccata, and a...
View ArticleTitrwm Tatrwm
Commissioned by the University of Birmingham 2016 CrossCurrents Festival with funds kindly provided by the Hinrichsen Foundation. First performance on 20 February 2016 in the Elgar Concert Hall,...
View ArticleOut of Nowhere
Out of Nowhere draws upon material from the traditional Irish air Pórt Na BPúcaí (known in English as Song of the Fairies), a ghostly and beautiful tune believed to have originated in the Blasket...
View ArticleOf Laughter and Forgetting
'Of Laughter and Forgetting' is a monodrama in one act for piano featuring Arabic instruments and orchestra. It portrays a Levantine woman's internal conflict - her yearnings, joys and laments, from...
View ArticleBlodeuwedd
This song cycle does not seek to tell the Blodeuwedd story programmatically, but rather reflects upon the themes which surround it and which appear both directly and obliquely in the poetry of the...
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