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recently hauntingly delicate like a sigh of nobody in the dark (2026) 5’for vibraphone/cymbal, viola and ‘cello
I Leave an Angel in the Vacant House (2025/6) 30’39” clothes horse, laundry basket, viola, bass guitar, bass amp, dynamic microphone, voice, toy drum, electric piano, electric organ, turntables
Improv Album recorded at Plas Bodfa
AUDIO

angels prey over sparse architectures (2025) 10’
for 4 performers: doubly-amplified bass flute, two amplified keyboard players and processing controller
premiered by NAMES — Limina Contemporary Music Festival, Salzburg, 27 November 2025
VIDEO

Resurrection of Catastrophe (2025) [Piano Drowning 3] 82’
for 4 performers, drowned piano and 12-channel dispersed fixed media
commissioned by Plas Bodfa and soundlands to commemorate Piano Drowning
premiered by Giuliana Tritto, Leandro Landolina, Zack di Lello and myself — Plas Bodfa, Llangoed, 11 September 2025
VIDEO


music-theatreResurrection of Catastrophe (2025) [Piano Drowning 3] 82’ for 4 performers, drowned piano and 12-channel dispersed fixed media
commissioned by Plas Bodfa and soundlands to commemorate Piano Drowning
premiered by Giuliana Tritto, Leandro Landolina, Zack di Lello and myself — Plas Bodfa, Llangoed, 11 September 2025
VIDEO

FIGHT, BABY, STAY, BABY, SEXY, BABY (2022 rev.2025) 20’for fixed media, solo performer and tape delay
premiered by myself — Oxford, 8 March 2023
premiere of new version — Oxford, 19 June 2025
VIDEO

grrrrrrrrrr, bby (2023) 25’
for percussionist, harpist, (electric) guitarist and fixed media
premiered by Ensemble Adapter — Limina Contemporary Music Festival, Salzburg, 1 December 2023
VIDEO

the moral rectitude of the casual passer-by (2022-3) 7’
for flute and Chinese percussion
finalist for the Henfrey Prize for Composition 2023
premiered by Tangram Ensemble — Oxford, 9 May 2023

The Christ of Agony (2022) [Piano Drowning 2] 65’
a passion for solo performer, drowned piano and 12-channel dispersed fixed media
anniversary of Piano Drowning
premiered by myself — Plas Bodfa, Llangoed, 24 September 2022
VIDEO


solo
three dreaming of love
(2023) 3’
prelude to Franz Liszt’s Liebestraum No. 3
for solo piano
commissioned by the Rhyl Music Festival
premiered by Ellis Thomas — Rhyl, 26 March 2025

à.P. (2018 rev.2020) 5-6’
for solo cello (and/or solo viola, solo bass)


chamber (2-5 performers)
hauntingly delicate like a sigh of nobody in the dark (2026) 5’
for vibraphone/cymbal, viola and ‘cello
Moro, lasso (2026) 4’30”
transcription of Carlo Gesualdo’s Moro, lasso, al mio duolo
for string quartet
premiered by Paul Rodríguez Flys, Suzune Masumoto, Mari Nagahara and myselfFrankfurt, 14 April 2026
VIDEO

angels prey over sparse architectures (2025) 10’
for 4 performers: doubly-amplified bass flute, two amplified keyboard players and processing controller
premiered by NAMES — Limina Contemporary Music Festival, Salzburg, 27 November 2025
VIDEO

The Beauty of Stone Deities (ii) (2024-5) 30’
for 2 processed bass guitars
premiered by Thomas Bruges and myself Oxford, 7 March 2025
VIDEO  premiere
VIDEO  pemiere of version for electric guitar and bass guitar

my tears are defeated by the forest (i) (2024) [lovesong no.4] 8’
for 2 performers with laptops or 2 amplified performers on keyboards

loherangrin (2023) [lovesong no.2] 11’
for untrained low voice (any gender) and viola quartet
DOCUMENTATION

the community greatly mourns the loss (2021) 5’
for vocalising prepared string quartet
chosen as one of Ligeti Quartet’s Workout! scheme, 2021
VIDEO

boddi (2021) [Piano Drowning 1] 20’
for drowned piano, 4 hands
commissioned by Plas Bodfa and soundlands to compliment Annea Lockwood’s Piano Drowning for ISSUE Project Room’s 2021 Benefit Gala
premiered by Xenia Pestova Bennet and myself — Plas Bodfa, Llangoed, 15 September 2021
VIDEO


vocal
sad songs to sing to your lover (Vol. 3) (2024) [lovesong no.3] 8’
for SSAATTBB

ensemble (8-11 performers)
my tears are defeated by the forest (ii) (2024) [lovesong no.5] 10’
for 11 performers: piccolo/alto flute, bass clarinet, french horn, trombone, percussion, bass guitar, synthesizer, two amplified vocalists, viola, contrabass
premiered by Ensemble Isis conducted by John Traill Oxford, 14 February 2025
VIDEO

talk to me softly as we wander through the trees (2023) [lovesong no.1] 10’
for 8 performers: paper ripper, trombonist, prepared bass guitar 4 hands, baritone (any gender), prepared classical guitar, prepared harp, prepared viola and fixed media
premiered by Red Lipstick Oxford, 24 November 2023

Study for Portrait (2019) 10’
after Francis Bacon’s Study for Portrait II (after the Life Mask of William Blake) (1955)
for 10 performers: trombone, harp, jazz organ (plus three assistants), viola, violoncello, contrabass and fixed media
premiered by the JRNCM New Music Ensemble Manchester, 18 May 2019
AUDIO


orchestral

Elégie (2019) 8’
transcription of Henri Vieuxtemp’s Elégie
for viola and orchestra
premiered by myself and the JRNCM Orchestra conducted by Edurado Portal Manchester, 8 February 2020


recordings and video works
11 march 10 july (2026) 2’20”
midi guitars/drumset and video
after Void Fraction - Reunion Intervals by Julie Upmeyer and Mari Rose Pritchard
VIDEO

I Leave an Angel in the Vacant House (2025/6) 30’39”
clothes horse, laundry basket, viola, bass guitar, bass amp, dynamic microphone, voice, toy drum, electric piano, electric organ, turntables
Improv Album recorded at Plas Bodfa
AUDIO

Marilyn Liebestod (2025/6) 7’36”
Isolde: Kirsten Flagstad - Wilhelm Furtwängler - Philharmonia Orchestra - His Master’s Voice, 1952
Marilyn Monroe - Cinematography: Joe MacDonald - Niagra - 20th Century Fox, 1953
VIDEO
18 july 19 february (2025/6) 1’58”
video and midi e-pianos
VIDEO

1 january 15 february (2026) 3’58”
bass guitar and video
VIDEO

14 may 14 july (2025) 5’23”
midi strings and video
VIDEO

ghosts (2021) 60’
empty house, voice, viola and fixed media improvisation
improvised as part of Plas Bodfa’s Sounds for an Empty House project Plas Bodfa, Llangoed, 26 June 2021
AUDIO