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Spotify YouTube CD available One Claire Edwardes Tall Poppies score available from Rhythmscape program note This piece is an exploration of rhythmic ratios. Some of these, like 2:3, are standard syncopations but others, such as 5:8, are quite unusual and even sound somewhat ‘wrong’. This is the ‘lemon’ factor. The irony is that in order … Read more
score available from Wise Music note: this solo is also part of a larger collection – Occasional Pieces program note Curves on the Great Ocean Road was commissioned by Matthew Hindson as part of a collection of one-page violin miniatures written about, or inspired by a person, place or thing connected with Australia. I decided … Read more
Instagram reel score available from Wise Music program note i. Arlanda Express: fields of snow, seen through the window ii. Stockholm Central: snow falling outside the station iii. Nynäshämn: snowdrift on the platform iv: The Baltic Sea: dissolving in the mist v: Visby: on the waterfront This set of five miniatures was written with emerging … Read more
Spotify CD available From Earth to Sky Marianne Rothschild Salisbury Records, SR 171119, 2020 score available from Wise Music program note This short violin solo was composed in memory of Dorothy Kathleen Greenbaum (Brusey): 12 February 1929 – 13 November 2018. Dearly loved wife of Geoff, mother of Penny, Jenny and Anne-Louise, Sarah-Kate and James. … Read more
Spotify YouTube (live excerpt) recording available Electric Confession Stuart Greenbaum Salisbury Records 310721 2021 Barrie Webb, trombone score available from Wise Music program note In Transit (view from a window) is programmatic only in a very general sense. The ‘viewer’ might be looking back at Earth from a space shuttle, or sitting in an aeroplane … Read more
/ 049 CD available Mercurial Marianne Rothschild, violin Reed Music score available from Wise Music note: this solo is also part of a larger collection – Occasional Pieces program note This small violin solo was written at 24 hours notice for the funeral of a friend. A first draft was discarded, not for musical reasons … Read more
Spotify score available from Wise Music program note The soft, rough strike of matches. Black space interrupted by a single yellow flame, joined in turn by others. Illumination established, a subtle breeze stirs an ebb and flow, bending simple arcs of flame, flickering through deep tunnels of night. Moments of reverie drifting back into consciousness … Read more
Spotify CD available Flash Claire Edwardes, marimba Tall Poppies score available from Rhythmscape program note April Revisited was written especially for Claire Edwardes. Based on an earlier piano solo written to celebrate the wedding of a friend, this new piece exploits the deep sonorous warmth of the 5–octave marimba. We workshopped a draft of the … Read more
Facebook reel score available from Wise Music program note This soprano saxophone solo is written for Amy Dickson. Who has been reaching out to composers during the COVID-19 crisis. In March 2020, I was in Sweden at the Visby International Centre for Composers when we got the call to ‘get home now’. Which prompted me … Read more