Choral Works

For SATB Choir, Flute and Cello (November 2024)

Duration - 7'30"

Setting a brief section of 'The Death Of Cuthulin' from The Poems of Ossian, collected and translated by John Macpherson. The piece focuses on harmony and line created by clusters, and the interaction between solo instruments and choir, especially the texture to be created by the parts.

For SATB Choir

Duration - 10'

Setting 'Fish heart old man sea world' by Scottish poet Maggie Lawson. The work is in three movements, covering different stanzas from the poem. The first movement, 'The Friends and The Rocks' is about reflecting on the past, on the water and on the sky. As such its quite conservative and wistful, using contour within gestures to emulate a shoreline. The second movement, 'The Ripples and The Stars', is more focused on aspects of the water and the sky, about the rippling nature of water and about the stars. It has much more rhythmic interest and more changes in velocity. The final movement, 'The Old Man and My Heavy Heart', is about the reader, about the cleansing aspect of the water and the realization of the reader’s nature. 

The second movement of the work, 'The Ripples and The Stars', was premiered by the Fulham Chamber Choir on the 17th of February 2024 at St John's Church, conducted by Gerardo Gozzi. A recording of this excerpt can be found here.