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Recent Works

2025

Afterland
Symphony Orchestra
Duration: 5 minutes
Commissioned by Capella Edina

World premiere Sunday 12th October 2025, Usher Hall, Edinburgh
Concert tickets available here


2024

Missa prima pro campanis (Orbis factor)
Carillon (two octaves, fully chromatic)
Duration: 18 minutes

(never) abandon 
Version for an Octet (Open Score Octet incl. Keyboard) 
Duration: indeterminate

Solstice
Organ solo, site-specific work for Newcastle Aubertin organ, King's Hall, Newcastle University
Duration: 20 minutes

Orbit / Adrift
Symphony Orchestra
Duration: 12 minutes
Commissioned by Capella Edina

Watch the premiere recording below (Live at the Usher Hall, Edinburgh, 16th January 2025)

Quiet Fortress
Pipe Organ 
Duration: 45 minutes
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Le Passage
Pipe Organ
Duration: 30 minutes


2023

bloom and splinter
Flute, Viola and Harp
Duration: 5 minutes


Ordinary Light
Carillon recitals with parallel quadraphonic sound installation
Duration: 30 minutes per cycle
Read more about the project here


in the air of remembering 
Woodwind Duo
Duration: 8 minutes

Still Earth, Unstill
Classical Guitar
Duration: 15 minutes


Monkchester Prelude
Carillon (two octaves, fully chromatic)
Duration: 5 minutes
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Prayer Without Words
Carillon (two octaves, fully chromatic)
Duration: 6 minutes
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Cast in stone, cast in water (version for Carillon)
Carillon (two octaves, fully chromatic)
Duration: 4 minutes
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Fantasia on the Name of the City Carillonneur
Carillon (two octaves, fully chromatic)
Duration: 5 minutes
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Three Birds Over Penshaw
Carillon (two octaves, fully chromatic)
Duration: 3 minutes


Abandon I
Acousmatic work based on Viola fragments from (never) abandon
Duration: 10 minutes


Abandon II
Acousmatic work based on Flugelhorn fragments from (never) abandon
Duration: 10 minutes

String Quartet No. 2, 'Paralysed City'
String Quartet
Duration: 30 minutes


A Beautiful Disintegration
Acousmatic work
Duration: 20 minutes
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all that is lost
Acousmatic work
Duration: 8 minutes



2022

Pallidus
Soprano solo, Alto solo, Violin and Viola
Duration: 11 minutes


all illusions, all again
Acousmatic work
Duration: 11 minutes


Consider the Wounds
Acousmatic work
Duration: 30 minutes
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The Dying Earth Prayers
String Trio
Duration: 5 minutes


Not Coming Back III
Soprano solo and Piano
Duration: 4 minutes


(never) abandon 
for a Trio (Open Score Trio incl. Keyboard) 
Duration: indeterminate


Prelude (IMP) on 'Of the Father's Love Begotten'
Pipe Organ
Duration: 3 minutes




2020

Rearranging Furniture 
Classical Guitar

not only the birds herald the new dawn...
Bass Flute, Tape and Live Electronics

A View From Helvellyn
Large Orchestra
Duration: 30 minutes


Night Journals
Fl Ob Cl Bssn Hn Hp Pno 2Vln
Duration: 11 minutes

 
Two Songs of Isolated People
Tenor, Clarinet, Harp and Violoncello
Duration: 10 minutes




2019

String Quartet No. 1
String Quartet

Four Renderings
Prepared Piano

Evening Service in G minor
SATB + Organ

Inscriptions for a Silent Dawn
Large Orchestra

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