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New England etudes
No full textFor percussion sextet, duration 15 minutes.
This work was premiered in Boston on 6 February 2023 by the New England Conservatory Percussion Ensemble. It was co-commissioned by the New England Conservatory, Colin Currie Group, Conservatorium van Amsterdam, Eastman School of Music, ensembleNEWSRQ, Geneva Percussion Ensemble, The Juilliard School, The New World Symphony Percussion Consort, and the Southern Methodist University
Five memos
No full textFor violin and piano, duration 18 minutes. This work was commissioned by London Music Masters, supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England, The Idlewild Trust, and Fidelio Charitable Trust.
The premiere was given by LMM Award Holder Hyeyoon Park and Huw Watkins on 10 May 2015 at St Mary’s Church, Kintbury as part of the Newbury Spring Festival. A recording of this work is available on NMC here: https://nmc-recordings.myshopify.com/products/mark-bowden-sudden-ligh
False start
No full textFor solo cello. Premiered by Danushka Edirisinghe as part of the Royal Academy of Music Bicentenary project
Tiny creatures in long grass
No full textFor alto sax, trumpet, electric guitar, and piano.
Premiered by Noszferatu at The Forge, London
Morpheus wakes
No full textConcerto for flute/alto flute and orchestra, duration 15 minutes.
Commissioned by BBC Radio 3 and first performed at the BBC Proms on 27 July 2014 at the Royal Albert Hall by Emmanuel Pahud and the BBC National Orchestra of Wales conducted by Thierry Fischer
The yellow wallpaper
No full textFor orchestra, soprano soloist, and chorus of six female voices, duration 30 minutes. This work was commissioned by BBC Radio 3 and first performed at Hoddinott Hall, Cardiff, by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales with Elizabeth Atherton and members of the BBC National Chorus of Wales, conducted by Thierry Fischer
Who put Bella in the wych elm?
No full textChamber opera, duration 45 minutes. For baritone, soprano, violin, and piano soloists, and chamber ensemble with live electronics. This music-theatre piece is based on the true story of the discovery in 1943 of the decaying body of a 35-year-old mother stuffed down an old wych elm in Birmingham. It was premiered at the Aldeburgh Festival in June 2003 by Andrew Slater (baritone), Rachel Nicholls (soprano), Rolf Hind (piano), and David Alberman (violin), with the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group conducted by Alexander Briger. Three other (separate) pieces by Simon Holt are linked to this work: 'The other side of silence' (2004) for piccolo, viola and harp (see https://researchonline.rcm.ac.uk/id/eprint/1422/), 'The coroner's report' (2004) for large ensemble (https://researchonline.rcm.ac.uk/id/eprint/1421/), and 'The sharp end of night' (2005) for solo violin (https://researchonline.rcm.ac.uk/id/eprint/1417/)
Minotaur games (1993, rev. 2008)
No full textFor orchestra, duration 16 minutes. Commissioned by the St. Magnus Festival with subsidy from the Scottish Arts Council, this piece was first completed in 1993 and revised in 2008. It is the second part of the '3 for Icarus' trilogy which also includes Part 1 'Icarus lamentations' (https://researchonline.rcm.ac.uk/id/eprint/1436/), and Part 3 'Dædalus remembers' (https://researchonline.rcm.ac.uk/id/eprint/1438/)
Black lanterns (1984, rev. 2004)
No full textFor solo piano, duration 8 minutes 30 seconds. This piece has been recorded by Rolf Hind on NMC Recordings (NMC D128): https://nmc-recordings.myshopify.com/products/simon-holt-a-book-of-colours. A recording of Black Lanterns also appears on the NMC album 'New Music Collections: Piano' (NMC D207): https://nmc-recordings.myshopify.com/products/various-new-music-collections-piano