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Time flies
No full textFor orchestra, duration 20 minutes. This piece was co-commissioned by the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra, BBC Radio 3 and the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra.
The world premiere took place in Hamburg in September 2021 with conductor Alan Gilbert, and the UK premiere was given at the BBC Proms on 15 August 2022 by the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sakari Oramo
Nocturne
No full textFor trumpet and strings, duration 8 minutes. This piece was premiered on 21 September 2018 by Håkan Hardenberger (trumpet) and Musica Vitae at Sankt Andreas Church, Malmö
Symphonic movements
No full textFor orchestra, duration 18 minutes.
This work was commissioned jointly by the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra, the Oregon Symphony Orchestra, and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. It was premiered on 28 October 2017 by the Oregon Symphony Orchestra conducted by Carlos Kalmar at the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, Portland
Reflections in a dark pool
No full textFor chamber ensemble (cello, clarinet, flute, french horn, percussion, piano, trombone, trumpet, and violin), duration 5 minutes.
This piece was first performed by the Guildhall Chamber Ensemble conducted by Simon Bainbridge at the Spitalfields Festival on 18 June 1997.
It was first published by BMIC New Voices and remains a part of their collection
A le superne rote
No full textFor mixed choir, duration c.7 minutes. This work was commissioned by the Hungarian National Choir for their Dante 700 concert on 18 October 2021 in Budapest
Behind Ravel’s Boléro: the repercussions of Wellington’s Victory
No full textRavel’s Spanish pieces are often traced back to Bizet’s Carmen, perhaps by way of his own earlier Spanish pieces,
Debussy’s, and Chabrier’s España and a few others by French composers. But in fact Spanish fever in France goes
back much further, and the genre of the Boléro has been curiously ignored by writers on Ravel.
We may be celebrating the bicentenary of Wellington’s victory at Waterloo this year, but more important—crucial
in fact—for French music was his former victory at Vitoria in Northern Spain, celebrated by Beethoven in his ‘Battle
Symphony’. Wellington’s defeat of the Napoleonic regime in this battle—ending the peninsula wars— resulted in
a diaspora of disgraced Spanish intellectuals, artists and musicians moving north, many of them to Paris—these
‘traitors’ were known as afrancesados. Some fled to Paris for professional reasons, some for their lives, and some
because many Spanish intellectuals and artists had liberal leanings. During the 1830s they catalysed a fever for
Spanish music in France, leading, eventually, to Bizet’s celebrated opera and to its numerous repercussions.
The Bolero was importantly fostered by Fernando Sor, in one or two of his compositions, but also in a very
full dictionary article, although most of his music was in a more classical style. In the twentieth century, an
acquaintance of Ravel – Raoul Laparra – for the first time published a comprehensive study of Spanish folk music.
This presentation will unveil some details of this musical progression; Sor’s role in establishing the SeguidillaBolero, Laparra’s role in cataloguing the diverse musical genres of his native country, and some amusing French
interpretations of Spanish music, including a notated part for a fan. Without this background, would Ravel have
ever composed his most durable piece
Losing yourself in the dance, or lost to nerves? Performance anxiety and flow in music and dance [fact sheet]
No full textGo for it
No full textFor orchestra, duration 10 minutes. This work was commissioned by the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra for its centenary in 2020 and was premiered on 30 September 2021 at Symphony Hall conducted by Ilan Volkov
Don't be afraid, the clown's afraid too
No full textFor sextet with chorus and children's orchestra. Story and words by Dzifa Benson. This piece was first performed on 20 October 2012 at St Barnabas Church by the Highbury Grove Scholars Orchestra and St. Barnabas Choir
A violence of gifts
No full textFor soprano, baritone, chorus and orchestra, duration c.38 minutes. This work was commissioned by BBC Radio 3 as part of the composer’s residency at the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. The text, by Owen Sheers, was commissioned with funding from the Jerwood Charitable Foundation.
The premiere took place on 18 April 2015 at St David’s Hall, Cardiff, given by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales conducted by Martyn Brabbins with soloists Elizabeth Atherton & Roderick Williams.
A Violence of Gifts comprises six subsections cast in two main parts. The piece explores themes of origins: the origins of light and matter, and of life on Earth