jazz/improv (lead sheet)
jazz/improv (lead sheet)
jazz/improv (lead sheet)
jazz/improv (lead sheet)
jazz/improv (lead sheet)
jazz/improv (lead sheet)
jazz/improv (lead sheet)
duo (2pno)
12′
Originally written to feature on a CD of works by a diverse range of Scottish composers from the baroque to the present day. Knowing that information before I started writing the piece was a blessing and a curse and I became unusually aware of lineage and heritage.
duo (vla, pno)
12′30″
jazz/improv (lead sheet)
solo guitar
3′
Most people have an emotional blind side. Some people have a literal blind side. Some people have both. When I wrote this tune I had all those types of people in mind.
jazz/improv (lead sheet)
It's the Barbican Complex in London which gave impetus to this solo flute work. Rising from the ashes of a World War II bomb-site, there's an atmosphere about the 35-acre Barbican estate which is at once unsettling and tranquil.
solo flute
7′30″
jazz/improv (lead sheet)
jazz/improv (lead sheet)
jazz/improv (lead sheet)
small ensemble (fl, ssax, pno, drkit, vln, db)
5′
small ensemble (fl, ssax, pno, drkit, vln, db)
5′
small ensemble (fl, ssax, pno, drkit, vln, db)
5′
small ensemble (fl, ssax/tsax, pno, drkit, vln/vla, db)
12′
jazz/improv (lead sheet)
trio (fl, vln, vc)
5′30″
large ensemble (2fl, cl/bcl, 2crt, tuba, SD/shaker, vib/marimba, harp, gtr, hpd, cel, 2vln, vla, 2vc, db)
13′
solo piano + pre-recorded tape
4′
saxophone quartet (ssax, asax, tsax, barsax)
6′30″
orchestra
3′
That an old photograph can awaken such pathos, it catches me off-guard: a creased and evidently oft-handled photo of my great-uncle Ivor. An amateur pigeon fancier in his younger days, he stands grinning to the camera.
solo guitar
3′30″
guitar + large ensemble (12gtr)
9′
large ensemble (picc/fl, ob, 2cl, bn, 2hn, tpt, 2vln, vla, vc, db)
8′
small ensemble (2vln, vla, vc, db) + pre-recorded tape
12′
piano trio (vln, vc, pno) + pre-recorded tape
9′30″
small ensemble (ob, bn, vla, SD/shaker)
5′
trio (3tpt)
1′
small ensemble (fl, trbn, harp, vc)
4′
trio (vln, pno, marimba/vib)
7′
small ensemble (ssax, pno, marimba, db)
4′
trio (fl, vc, pno)
11′30″
flute trio (fl, fl/afl, afl)
13′30″
guitar + large ensemble (8vln, 4vla, 4vc, 2db, org)
9′
duo (fl, congadr)
4′30″
piano quartet (vln, vla, vc, pno)
5′30″
duo (fl, gtr)
6′30″