upcoming commissions for Manchester Collective and The Bach Choir
2020
Presto Pasta
violin & viola
commissioned by Spitalfields Music Festival
duration: 5’
premiere: 14 November 2020 – Miller-Porfiris duo – Spitalfields Music Festival
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Coronasolfege for 6
AATTBB
commissioned by The Gesualdo 6
duration: 5′
premiere: Autumn 2020
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The Orange Vendor
mezzo-soprano & baritone
words by Ali Lewis
commissioned by Helen Charlston & Michael Craddock
duration: 5’
premiere: 29 July 2020 – Helen Charlston & Michael Craddock – City Music Foundation broadcast series
Recording coming out on Delphian Records, March 2021
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Inside Shifts
soprano & cello
duration: 6’
premiere: 4 July 2020 – New Music Show, BBC Radio 3 – performed by Héloïse
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Inside Shifts (ii)
soprano & cello
duration: 4′
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Kingdom Animalia
mezzo-soprano & piano
words by Aracelis Girmay
commissioned by mezzo-soprano Grace Durham
duration: 10’
premiere: date tbc (2021)
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… a lockdown tune…
solo soprano
commissioned by Stephanie Lamprea
duration: 1’
premiere: May 2020 – Stephanie Lamprea – Tiny works for Quarantine Vol 2
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Postcard from home
soprano & cello
duration: 1’30
commissioned by Nonclassical
premiere: April 2020 – online – performed by Héloïse
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For Fenella
solo violin
commissioned by Fenella Humphreys
duration: 1’
premiere: March 2020 – Fenella Humphreys – Fidelio Café, London
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coronasolfege
solo voice, performed by Héloïse
ongoing since March 2020…
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2019
Phrases
soprano & piano
words by Arthur Rimbaud
funded by Hinrichsen Foundation & written during a Made at the Red House residency organised by Wild Plum Arts in partnership with Britten-Pears Foundation
duration: 10’
premiere: November 2019 – Héloïse Werner & Natalie Burch – The Red House, Aldeburgh
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Confessional
solo soprano
duration: 4’
(reworking of sections from The Other Side of the Sea)
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Le Coeur Crucifié
mezzo-soprano & piano
words by Philothée Gaymard
duration 4’
commissioned by Marielou Jacquard
premiere: May 2019 – Concert Jeunes Talents, Petit Palais, Paris – Marilou Jacquard & Kunal Lahiry
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2018
The Other Side of the Sea
solo opera (soprano & cello)
words by Octavia Bright
funded by the Michael Cuddigan Trust & developed in partnership with Snape Maltings
duration: 45’
premiere: July 2018 – London & Aldeburgh – performed by Héloïse
(3rd performance at Kings Place in April 2019 as part of Venus Unwrapped)
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2011
O Clavis David
SATB choir
duration: 3’30
winner of the Clare College Carol Competition
premiere: December 2011 – Clare College Choir, Cambridge