Orchestra & Ensemble

Unmentionable Scenes (2025)

for soprano and orchestra | 20’

Text adapted from the Proceedings of the Old Bailey

One-woman opera / cantata

Written for Péter Eötvös Foundation with generous support from the Vaughan Williams Foundation

World premiere: 16 January 2026

Sarah Defrise, Savaria Symphony Orchestra conducted by Gabriel Hollander

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Like The Nightingale (2023)

for 13 instrumentalists with obbligato oboe d'amore | 10'

Premiere: Budapest Music Center, Hungary

Danubia Orchestra Óbuda, conducted by Sebastian Black

Scherzo in La Maggiore (2020)

for orchestra | 1'

Premiere: Michael Fowler Center, Wellington, New Zealand

Orchestra Wellington | Marc Taddei

To Shimmer, To Quiver, To Quake (2024)

study for 12 players | 6’

for the International Ensemble Modern Academy and Lucerne Festival Academy

World premiere: Lucerne Festival, 31st August 2024

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What Does The Harp Suggest? (2022)

for oboe, clarinet, horn, cimbalom, piano, percussion, double bass | 13'

Premiere: Budapest Music Center, Hungary

Ensemble ARS NOVA, Gabriel Hollander

The Mosaique of the Aire (2019-20)

for soprano and ensemble | 15'

Premiere: New European Ensemble | Mahler Festival 2025 | Amsterdam, Netherlands

Commissioned by Mahler Foundation, with generous funds from William S. Richter (California), for Het Concertgebouw's Mahler Festival

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Vocal

These Harmonious Colonies (2024)

for choir and ensemble | 17'

Texts taken from the following sources: a letter to the editor of The Daily Southern Cross (September 1843), and articles taken from the same newspaper (July 1843) and from the Nelson Evening Mail (May 1933)

Premiere: Karl von Bismark Saal im WDR Funkhaus, Cologne, Germany

WDR Sinfonieorchester Chor- und Orchesterakademie

With generous support from the Vaughan Williams Foundation

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The Mosaique of the Aire (2019-20)

for soprano and ensemble | 15'

Texts by Oliver Cromwell, Andrew Marvell, William Wordsworth, from the Book of Ezekiel, and by the composer

Premiere: Mahler Festival 2020 | Amsterdam | Netherlands

[cancelled due to COVID-19]

Commissioned by Mahler Foundation, with generous funds from William S. Richter (California), for Het Concertgebouw's Mahler Festival

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I Heard Nothing But The Roaring Sea (2021)

for solo baritone | 7'

Texts from The Seafarer and The Epic of Gilgamesh

For Smorgaschord Festival 2021 | Hugo Herman Wilson, baritone

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Solo & Chamber

Clarinet Quintet (2025)

for clarintet quintet | 11'

For Jonathan Leibovitz and Quatuor Agate

Commissioned by Ipswich Chamber Music Society for their 100th anniversary

Bunte Blätter (2023)

for wind quintet | 8'

Premiere: European Creative Academy | Église Sainte–Bernadette, Annecy, France

Ensemble ARS NOVA

We Dance, We Dance (2021)

for solo clarinet | 5'

for CEME Festival 2022

World premiere: Studio Annette, Tel Aviv, Israel

Nir Marom, clarinet

Rameau: Entrée (2023)

for string quartet | 6'

Transcription of the 'Entrée' from the fourth act of Les Boréades by Jean-Philippe Rameau

Cantastoria (2022)

for solo cello | 10'

For Smorgaschord 2022

World premiere: Holywell Music Room, Oxford

Tim Posner, cello

I Heard Nothing But The Roaring Sea (2021)

for solo baritone | 10'

Text from The Seafarer and The Epic of Gilgamesh

Premiere: Smorgaschord 2021

Hugo Herman Wilson, baritone