FOR CLIVE BARKER
THE FIRST ALBUM OF MATTHEW’S PIANO MUSIC PLAYED BY KATE LEDGER IS OUT NOW!
Matthew Lee Knowles is a prolific composer, poet, pianist, performer and teacher based in London, who had the honour and pleasure of teaching alongside Michael Finnissy at a CoMA Summer Course a few years ago. Looking back over recent compositions, it seems they could have been written by several people, as they cover some ground, from highly conceptual instructional music, quizzical and direct to complex and virtuosic work, specific and scattered, with graphic notation along the way, through durations of a few minutes to several hours, for solo instruments and large ensembles. Compositional methodologies range from Cageian chance operations to hexachordal rotational transpositional arrays, collage, quotation and homage. Interests include sequence, repetition, allusion, exact and crippled symmetry, theme and variation, duration, freedom, subtle and blasé theatre, silence, extreme editing, superimposition, impossibility, endurance, pointlessness, ridiculousness, mathematics, mesostics, codes, authority, the everyday, newspapers, cosmology, physics and generally just being an experimentalist. His works have been heard in concert halls, on TV and radio and he has performed, among other things, Satie’s Vexations, Ligeti’s Poeme Symphonique, Stockhausen’s gruelling Goldstaub (BBC/Sonic Arts Network), Cage’s demanding 45′ For A Speaker (Stoke Newington Contemporary Music Festival, 2012) and Lecture on Nothing on several occasions and in Sardinia with Neil Luck, a unique eighty-minute work for two performers and tape, in a field of twenty microphones (Critics, Academics, Geeks, Miniere Sonore, 2009). Matthew wrote and performed live, the music for a video by Brandon Labelle, (Cloudy, Wilton’s Music Hall, 2009), which incorporated both classical and rock for solo piano. He has written several theatre scores (the first when he was seventeen), including Inherit The Wind, The Winter’s Tale and The Gut Girls, the latter which he also performed live at the piano. Since 2007, Matthew has engineered small and large scale happenings [more details], the most prominent featuring over a hundred performers lasting three hours (The Nothing and the Nothingness, Louise T. Blouin Institute, 2008). Other happening locations have included; a cemetery, a field, a library, a street and a concert hall stage. Ejected Material (Jerwood Room, Oxford University, 2010), was a collaboration with George Chambers, leading to an exhibition featuring instructions tied to balloons, thousands of chads (leftovers from hole-punchers), fans and burnt scores in jars. six_events (2008), sixty_six_events (2010, a collaboration with Andy Ingamells) and 666_events (2012) were global happenings encouraging people to interpret instructions and record their performances. Each event produced performances in dozens of countries across the world and the final event in the series, 6666_events took place in June 2014. Matthew has written two opera libretti including the libretto for squib-box’s first opera, Shadow Prophets, which was premièred in Sardinia in 2011. He has written several hundred poems ranging from single sentences to forty-thousand word epics, which he sees, mainly, as extreme edits of the work of others. Alongside these works, there are also several hundred instructional scores, straddling the gamut of possibilities from the absurd to the mundane. Several pieces have been published in part and in full in magazines and Matthew regularly reads at poetry events. Improving The Remarkable (2009) was written specifically for a public art development in central London and the text has been permanently installed on huge vanes attached to a new building. Matthew was chosen from a selection of globally prominent and established artists due to his connection between poetry and music. Other creations include a play (Kidnapped, 2010), a Beginners Guide To Music (2011), more than five hundred paintings and small sculptures and several limited edition booklets. At the end of 2009, INTO Magazine published an article entitled Making Things Happen, in which Matthew discussed how he works and gave advice to other composers/artists. Spokenwordmusic was released on the Squib-Box label in 2012. In 2015 Matthew wrote a 2,000 word joke and recited it from memory (Weisslich, curated by Louis d’Heudieres)
In November 2014, after nearly three years of writing, Matthew completed his 140 Spectacles for clarinet, piano and silent orchestra, a five and a half hour work, with an accompanying 3000 word essay. A few months later, an opera, A Catatonic Romance, with a libretto by Lucy Hutchinson, was completed, after almost a decade in the planning. It is set on a deathly drop, near a pleasant amble and concerns Milly and Winston, who, defeated and desperate, contemplate their bitter ends, but they are not alone as there are those who have their ways to defend; Life with her pet lizard and Death with his limitless cunning. But the question that begs to be solved: Will Milly and Winston one day eat pie together? Another opera followed in 2021, Dialogue Between a Priest and a Dying Man. Around fifty pieces have been written for specific people with their names in the title and many others carry dedications. Matthew has also made hundreds of electronic works, especially exploring the idea of phasing. At the start of 2021 Matthew finished a four year project, turning a novel into music resulting in a final single-movement work lasting 26 hours over more than a thousand pages called For Clive Barker – this work now stands as the longest single-movement non-repeating piano composition ever written. A collection of thirty songs was written in April which will be recorded this year. In February the incomparable pianist Kate Ledger premiered For Alan Turing playing for seven hours without a break and the success of this was commented on by many prominent composers and performers leading to the release of an album of solo piano music in 2021.
Matthew’s first album of his songs “This is a Warning and a Threat” recorded by Sarah Parkin and Dominic Irving is now available on Bandcamp by clicking here. Sarah and Dominic also recorded Invisible Heart which can be found here.
Kate Ledger and Matthew released an album of Matthew’s piano music after running a successful Kickstarter campaign in September 2021, the album is called FOR and is in two parts; ACCRETION and DEBRIS. Jude Cowan Montague interviewed Matthew about this in April 2022 and the recording can be heard here. Matthew was also interviewed live on Radio Humberside in March 2022.
In January 2021 Matthew took a break from composing to write a novel. As of November 2024 he has written the sixth draft and when completed it will be a breathtaking compendium of violence and cruelty. The title is 36.
Remixing pop songs has become a pleasurable side hobby and these can be heard here:
Below is an extract of For Alan Turing, an epic several hour long composition for solo piano, which has been premièred in part at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, and Cambridge University to celebrate Turing’s centenary and it was commented on by someone who had known Turing that when he heard my music he could hear Turing speak.
List of Works
The following list is not comprehensive.
[Title links to a score]
[R links to a recording]
Contact me at matthew[{at}]matthewleeknowles or on social media to talk
about performance/commission
2024
- For Morgan [piano]
- For Marat Ingeldeev [apple seeds and manuscript paper]
- For Tove [piano]
- Womb Music [piano]
- Angels Are Not Here [baritone and one hand piano]
- Concert Etude [piano]
- Three Bach Chorales Recomposed [4 pianos]
- For Errollyn Wallen [piano and singer]
- For Ben Gaunt [piano] {R} {R}
- For Samuel Pradalie [piano] {R} {R}
- Auschwitz on TikTok [piano] {R}
- Four Bean Salad [bass clarinet, trumpet, violin and cello]
- An Afternoon in Paris [voice and piano]
- the first and fourth notes of an every bar of an organ sonata [solo organ]
- Dead Skin – A Suite for Harpsichord
- Lion Snapping at a Butterfly [piano]
- Untitled Fro Organ [organ]
- Stanza 13 [mezzo soprano and piano]
- Ghost Food [solo voice and open instrumentation]
- one tuesday more with him and I would scream myself to sleep [violin, piccolo x7, cor anglais x5, contrabassoon x6] {R} {R}
- you’re the only one who can rip my electronics [4 bassoons] {R}
- Song For Scunthorpe [voices and piano] {R} {R}
- HAMMERHEAD [15 graphic scores]
- HUMMINGBIRD [16 musicians, 122 graphic scores]
- HIPPO [9 graphic scores]
- Reefer Madness: a film score [piano] {R}
- Thank You Dom & Abi [piano] {R} {R}
- For Patrick Ellis [piano] {R} {R}
- For Utsyo Chakraborty [piano] {R} {R}
- The Daemon Songbook, VOLUME II: Ur Feminine, Drops (Haiku), Wounds and Remains, No Man’s Land, Adopting The Monster [voice and piano]
- Rearranging Mozart’s First String Quartet for String Quartet {R}
- Toy Symphony [children’s instruments]
- Democracy Manifest [male voice and piano]
- Piano Piece in the style of Chopin
- Häxan: a film score [piano] {R}
- Now [voice and piano]
- For Morgan Hayes on his 51st Birthday [piano] {R}
- For Clem [piano] {R}
- For Peggy [piano] {R}
- For Francis Bacon [piano]
- Oboe and String Quartet
- For Philip Guston [violin and piano]
- The Earth Makes A Sound [4 speaking voices and 40 balloons]
- Separating the Quick from the Dead [100 voices]
- For Keith Burstein [piano] {R}
- For Ábel [piano] {R}
- For Joy [piano] {R}
- Threnodic Quietus [organ] {R}
- For Dominic on his 37th Birthday [piano] {R}
- For Ashley [piano] {R}
- Peach Tree [voice + piano]
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- And I Will Watch [SATB] 2022
- The Unnamable [concerto for celeste, crotales, baritone + orchestra] 2022 {R}
- Requiem Ballet [13 players] 2022 {R}
- If I Could I Would Fill Your Entire Room With Pineapples [4 speaking voices] 2022
- Practical and Spiritual Spheres Evolve and Transform Themselves [string quartet] 2022
- Start With The Little One [five violins] 2022
- All That Remains Is A Shadow In The Flesh [string quartet] 2022 {R}
- For My Parents 2022 [piano] {R}
- For Ivy-Rose [piano] 2022 {R}
- For Thomas [piano] 2022 {R}
- Concerto For Piano and Strings in Five Movements 2022 {R}
- For Dominic Irving on his 35th Birthday 2022 [piano]
- Looks So Nice 2022 [mezzo soprano + piano]
- Seventy English Folk Songs 2022 [piano] {R}
- For Jude Cowan Montague 2022 [piano] {R}
- For Sam [piano] 2022 {R}
- For Jeremiah Runnels [piano] 2022 {R}
- For My Nanna [piano] 2022 {R}
- For Didi [piano] 2022 {R}
- For Gail [piano] 2022 {R}
- For Hannah Pentith [piano] 2022 {R}
- Saturday [piano – collaboration] 2022
- The 1,000 Little Ants [voice + piano] 2022
- For Connor Fogel [piano] 2022
- For Ella Jarman-Pinto [piano] 2022 {R}
- Phew. [suite for toy piano] 2022*
- For Matthew King [piano] 2022
- For Kieran [piano] 2022
- For Percy [piano] 2022 {R}
- For Max Syedtollan [speaking pianist] 2022
- For Kate Ledger [piano] 2022
- Sister [piano + singer] 2022
- Everything’s Just A Result Of The Sun Eating The Earth [piano] 2022 {R}
- The George Miles Cycle: (1) Closer (2) Frisk (3) Try (4) Guide (5) Period [piano + baritone] 2022
- Over His Head, A Milky Way [piano] 2022
- Forget [mezzo soprano + piano] 2022
- For Laonikos [piano] 2022
- For Damian [piano] 2022
- We Dreamed in Analogue [singer + piano] 2022
- These Sounds [graphic notation, voice] 2021/22
- The Daemon Songbook: (1) Dandelion Acid (2) Daemon (3) Partners Shove (4) Planning Phase (5) We Never Had A Ball (6) Big Hands (7) Masada (8) Masturbating Whilst Meditating (9) Ambi-Valent (10) Your Star (11) Claw It Back (12) Birdsong (13) The Chosen (14) Fish Story [voice + piano] 2021/22 {R}
——————————————————————————————————— - Invisible Heart [song] {R} [lyrics]
- For Ralf [piano] 2021 {R}
- Calhoun’s Song 2021* {R}
- Three Miniatures [solo piano] 2021
- Flowers Are Never About Flowers [piano + baritone] 2021
- Why Do I Sound Like This? [piano + baritone] 2021
- Contorted Ropes [string quartet + speaker] 2021
- For Lily [piano] 2021 {R}
- For Marc Yeats [strings] 2021 {R}
- Oppenheimer [four speaking voices] 2021
- For Ryan Latimer [strings] 2021 {R}
- Moods, Impressions, Souvenirs, Recollections, Dedications [44 short pieces for piano] 2021
- Dust [song] 2021
- Happy Birthday, Laurence Crane! [solo piano] 2021 {R}
- FOR [six piano pieces to say THANK YOU!] 2021 {R}
- Music for a Warm House [2 pieces for piano] 2021
- For Jesse [piano + voice] 2021
- Life Begins To Pulsate [piano + light display] 2021
- My Mother Took A Feel Of Me [string quartet + soprano] 2021
- In my mother’s opinion I should have drowned thirty-eight times [flugelhorn + viola] 2021
- Raining Maggots [2 players] 2021
- Six Movements For An Insomniac [flute, celesta + violin] 2021
- The First Trees [3 violas] 2021
- Expansion Kills Night [string quartet] 2021 {R}
- Impulse 2021
- For Harriet Vine [piano] 2021 {R}
- Distracted By An Avalanche [cello + piano] 2021
- Puddle [organ] 2021 {R}
- Marble [brass quartet] 2021
- SONGBOOK: Limit, Warning, Answer, Waves, He, Windshield, Club, Cave, Appointment, Spirit, Roll, Abscessed, Spacewalk, Boy, Submit, Demons, Foggy, Becoming, Permission, Star, Tower, Thriller, Bone, Antichrist, Walrus, Remain, Wallow, Clouds, Threads + Anxiety [singer + piano] [LYRICS] 2021* {R}
- Chaos Reigns [full orchestra] 2021
- look there that’s their ghost boy [solo piano] 2021
- Trains Moving In Another Timeline [bass voice + organ pedals] 2021
- Green vines leaving a gap in the Highway [woodwind quartet] 2021 {R}
- A Quarte Of Petulant Pervasive Carp Morphs [string quartet] 2021
- She Knew The Answer [solo piano] 2021 {R}
- Hendecagony [solo piano] 2021
- Axiom of Constructibility [solo violin] 2021
- The Constructible Universe [string quartet] 2021 {R}
- For Bebe [solo piano] 2021 {R} {R}
- A Grateful Statue Dreams Brave [solo piano] 2021 {R}
- Dialogue Between a Priest and a Dying Man [opera] 2021
- Carrying Your Own Universe [solo piano] 2021
- an instant PUNCH of trauma [solo piano] 2021
- Nothing to Report, Life is Almost Dead [cello trio] 2021 {R}
- Twenty One Heathens [solo piano] 2021
- folding through blueish wisps [cornet + piano] 2021
- The Can [TTBB] 2021
- enduring an infinite twisting [b. cl., tuba, pf, d. bass] 2021
- breathing with the flowing of the perfect throbbing of the ecstatic light [percussion quintet] 2021
- floating sweet apparitions of forest fern green [WW quintet] 2021
- bent branes in plastic purple collisions [solo piano] 2021
- strands of an untouchable phantom [viola sextet] 2021 {R}
- False Loops and Broken Backs [trombone + harpsichord] 2021
- demagnifying the demonic forgiveness [solo piano] 2021
- Eaten Alive By Time [4 double bass] 2021
- in safety we run motionlessly [cor anglais + cello] 2021
- hideousness in the blackest green [SATB] 2021
- rotating into the devouring cold aperture of the universe [violin + piano] 2021
- Worse [SATB + organ] 2021 {R}
- For Matt Geer [solo piano] 2021 {R} {R} {R}
- it is not irritating to be where one is [sop. + organ] 2021 {R}
- A Thing For Leo Grant [2 guitars] 2021
- For Sofia [solo piano] 2021
- For Daniel Derakhshan [solo piano] 2021 {R}
- For Paul Burgess [solo violin] 2021
- For James McIlwrath [instructional performance score]* 2021
- For Daniel Adams [cello + piano] 2021
- For Christopher Fox [solo piano] {R}
- For Michael Wookey [solo piano] 2021 {R}
- For Ian Parsons [solo piano] 2021 {R} {R}
- For Andrew Toovey [solo piano] 2021 {R}
- Happy Valentine’s Day, Dickhead [voice + piano] 2021
- For Michael Wolters [4 pianos] 2021
- For Kate Harrison-Ledger [solo piano] 2021 {R}
- For Gary Fisher [solo piano] 2021 {R} {R}
- For James Erber [5 violins] 2021{R}
- Cosmic Concerto [the universe] 2021
- For Jeremy Bines [keyboard] 2021{R}
- For Laura Bowler [voice] 2021
- Per. Ta. [open instr.] 2021
- For Tim Parkinson [2cl., 2vn] 2021
- For Jonathan Ferrucci [solo piano] 2021 {R}
- He Died Yesterday, Yesterday Afternoon [solo piano] 2021
- I can block out the present and the past now [solo piano] 2021
- For Abdulaziz Shabakouh [solo piano] 2021
- Time, Do As I Wish [ten flutes/recorders] 2021
- For Clive Barker [solo piano] 2016-2021
- For Martha [solo piano] 2021{R} {R}
——————————————————————————————————— - For Peter Wilson [piano, cello + clarinet] 2020
- For AE, On Their 30th Birthday [solo piano] 2020 {R} {R} {R} {R}
- For Frey [solo piano] 2020 {R} {R}
——————————————————————————————————— - Marazuka [solo piano] 2018
——————————————————————————————————— - For Leo Grant [solo piano] 2017
——————————————————————————————————— - For Five Cornets 2016
- Piano Concerto [orchestra + solo piano] 2015/16 {R}
——————————————————————————————————— - chromolithographically [nineteen people speaking] 2015
- A Catatonic Romance [a spectacular cabaret in two acts] 2006-2015
- when almost all is said and done [voice+piano] 2015
- Heisenberg [solo piano] 2015
- Aching This Wonderful Ache [two people at one piano] 2015
- paganini’s theme from the twenty-fourth caprice arranged for three theremins 2015
- The Maniac [6 celli, 6 violas + speaker] 2015
- But there it is, either you love or you don’t [four hand piano] 2014/15
——————————————————————————————————— - Twinkle [solo piano] 2014
- Drowning [idiot + piano] 2014
- Dirac [string quartet] 2014
- War Ain’t No Picnic [voices + piano] 2014
- Pasolini [solo piano] 2014
- Little Freddy Phelps [song]* 2014
- the shitty things you do to people encourage the misanthropicalisation of those people [graphic] 2014
- Agaraw Ba Dadidr Ey Fafefi Gigigo He Ke Lilililolo Mami Neni Ov Tathti Wo [voice/s] 2014
- Ai Weiwei In The Shower [solo piano] 2014
- Conversations Can Also Continue In The Bar [solo piano] 2014
- also architecture and an automated abandon [solo piano] 2014
- Strange Cabaret [SSAATTBB] 2013/14
- Go, Orange and Embers [solo piano] 2013/14
- Double String Quartet 2013/14
- Itchy Anus [voice + piano] 2013/14
- Piano Sonata for Chris Newman [solo piano] 2013/14
- Devastating Vortex [solo piano] 2013/14
- 140 Spectacles for clarinet, piano silent orchestra 2012-14
- For Daniel [solo piano] 2012/14
——————————————————————————————————— - After One Hundred And Fifty Notes By Alkan [string quartet] 2013 {R}
- Blended Together In An Inextricable Chaos [harp + cello] 2013
- Disillusioned Manatees [piano duet] 2013
- Nothing But The Larks [hi-hat+ voice] 2013
- Death for Five Voices [SSATTB] 2013
- Rifle Sue [solo piano] 2013
- Sad Secrets Fairytale Faith [solo cello + 4 alto fl., 4bs. cl., 8 timp] 2013
- Asomircal [solo voice] 2013
- Eunoia [percussion] 2013
- Like a Snail Pointing at the Wind [solo guitar] 2013
- Nine-hundred and ninety-two notes for piano 2013
- Psychopathic Suicides [solo cello] 2013
- The Theory Of Music [string quartet] 2012/13
- Four Imbrications Based On The Theme From Teletubbies [12 B flat cornets] 2012/13
- Four Circumnavigations After Paganini [solo piano] 2012/13
- Toccata [solo piano] 2012/13
- Sinusoidal Triangulation [solo piano] 2012/13* {R}
- Singing Siren, Signed Singing Softly, Singing Something Stranger [SATB] 2012/13
- Swim [soprano + flute] 2012/13
- Life’s A Beach [bass voice + viola] 2012/13
——————————————————————————————————— - Spirits That Tend On Mortal Thoughts [solo speaker] 2012*
- One Dreamed of a Substantial Seduction [solo piano] 2012
- Aristocratic Cheekbones, Slightly Surprised [solo viola] 2012
- One Dreamed of a Substantial Seduction [solo piano] 2012
- Dark Pure, Clearly Visible, Down From The Sky, To Be The Envied Man, The Star, His Sky White Satin [solo violin] 2012
- Ulcerous Acerolas and Oracular Coleuses [solo violin] 2012
- Aehnlichkeitserinnerung [piano, counter tenor, cello] 2012
- Comhistra [solo piano] 2012
- For John Tilbury [solo piano] 2012
- Glassy Schubert and the Third Reich [solo piano] 2012
- Two Short Pieces For One Pianist, Wearing A Brightly Coloured Hat [solo piano] 2012
- Quintessential Simulacrum [tuba + string quartet] 2012
- Flaming chariot for her face and figure [2picc.2fl.4ob.4bs cl.4bsn.] 2012
- Fermium and Hydrogen Peppermint [speaker + piano] 2012
- Cruel Truth Alarm [solo piano] 2012
- Stirring the Light of Debauchery and Progress [solo piano] 2012
- Madrigals, Magnificats, Masses and Motets [five voices] 2012
- Three short folk songs for two singers standing on one banana 2012
- A Couple of Etudes for Tom Lehrer [solo piano] 2012
- The sun was high strengthened by the sweet ministrations of slumber [string quartet] 2012
- Concerto For Solo Piano In Eighteen Parts [piano + assistant] 2012
- Waiting For The Occasion To Swap Roles With A Prisoner [solo piano] 2012
- The Sky Lit Up And I Saw Our Moon With A Tail [solo piano] 2012
- Album For The Young – ten pieces for solo piano 2000 rev. 2012
- A Feverishly Occupied Skipping Rhyme Mind [solo alto saxophone] 2012
- 54 Variations on the theme from Cannibal Holocaust by Riz Ortolani (performed in part) [solo piano] 2012 {R}
- A Constellation Cold with Neglect and Abuse [2bsn.2hn.2vla.2vc.2voice] 2012
- From opposite sides of the universe I see myself [solo violin] 2012
- God Is Not Great [singer + string quartet] 2012
- Concerto for two pianos and an oboe 2012
- Boys [solo voice] 2012
- Champagne Induced Suicide [speakers.voices.pno.alto sax.vla.] 2012
- Fantasies on Welsh Themes [string quartet] 2011/12
——————————————————————————————————— - For Alan Turing [solo piano] 2011* {R} {R}
- Death is My Erection and of Urinary Liquefaction [small ensemble] 2011*
- I Recalled my Liberation and Caught Myself Drifting [speaker, piano] 2011
- Linked eagle of night hints at real activity, real economical delivery, understanding, lacking reactionary excitement [solo piano] 2011*
- They are made to dance naked, as four libertines conduct [percussion quartet] 2011
- Variations on a Theme by Telemann [solo piano] 2011
- Blue Diamond, Rough Diamond [oboe, piano] 2011
- Telemann Had Two Wives [four pianos] 2011
- Shooting and Thrusting, Descending and Shuffling, Destroying my Darlings [open inst.] 2011
- Burning Whilst Sleepwalking [string octet] 2011
- A Harder Pill to Swallow [twenty speaking voices] 2011
- []somanydaysyoupassedmeby[]seethetearsstandin’inmyeyes[]youdidn’tstoptomakemefeelbetter[]byleavin’meacardoraletter[]* [mini opera]
——————————————————————————————————— - Circus – a six piece suite for solo [solo piano] 2010*
- Little Girl Variations [solo piano] 2006, revised 2010
- Homage a Tchaikovsky [solo piano] 2010
- We Need Trouble* [open instrumentation] 2010*
- Piano and Clarinet 2010
- August piano pieces 1-2 [solo piano] 2010
- August piano pieces 3-4 [solo piano] 2010
- August piano pieces 5-6 [solo piano] 2010
- Media Marketing Serious Smackers Produce Fastest Cash [percussion quartet] 2010
- Memaveeaneursajuwoprosusiverepoaralalrigadelapietancamocabegacecewovycama [pno.fl.cl.vn.vla.vc.perc.toy pno.theremin] 2010* {R}
- Improving the Remarkable [bassoon, piano] 2010
- And Who But Rumour [solo flute] 2010
- Fiona’s Violin [solo violin] 2012
- Foreman’s Harmony [voice, violin, guitar, cello, piano] 2010*
- Muzio Clementi [solo piano] 2010
- Talking Bungalow [mixed performers/instruments/speakers] 2010*
- Here’s To Nell Gwyn [soprano and piano] 2010
- Eighteen Months On, I Still Fucking Hate You [septet] 2010
- 22 Variations on a Theme by Andy Ingamells [solo piano] 2010
- The Best Treatment for the Nature of his Difficulties [string quartet] 2010*
- Night and Day has no Place in this Way [SATB] 2010
- The Defendant got a Little Simplistic [two flutes] 2010
- Piano, Clarinet and Violin 2010
- The Flood [open instrumentation] 2010
- Five Squared [solo piano] 2010*
- For Hannah [solo clarinet] 2010
- They’re Not Bats! [voice, piano] 2010
- For Rus Pearson [double bass, voice] 2009/10
——————————————————————————————————— - Silly Flying and Shopping [trumpet, piano, soprano, sticky assistant] 2009*
- Salve Regina [SATB] 2009
- twenty6 [solo bass clarinet] 2009
- Here. A Ten Song Cycle [tenor, piano] 2009*
- The Dead Spot of a Racquet [cello, bass, guitar, violin] 2009*
- Kotrab Aleb Art-secror-of-orec-noc [4 French horns] 2009*
(Performance Directions) - I Know [speaking pianist] 2009*
- For Naomi [solo clarinet] 2009*
- …get out as early as you can… [solo piano] 2009
- Fit Lady. Fit Baby [3 guitars, voice] 2009*
- This Is The Shit That Killed Elvis [cello, bass, guitar] 2009* {R} {R}
- The Gut Girls [theatre score] 2009*
- In Memory of Kevin [solo piano] 2009* {R} {R}
- Please Love Me [speaking actor, piano] 2009
- (A SEEmEd hEArt:ShowEd of mirror) (thE ShoCk wAS:of firSt mEdiA) (or iS hE:yEStErdAy thE dEliBErAtEly) [bass clarinet, cello] 2009* {R}
- Caged: Disturbed Mind [solo piano] 2009* {R}
- Dim Noose – Lack of Vodka [open instrumentation] 2009
- Bursting Dancing Cascading Spreading Daring [solo oboe] 2009*
- Brush up on your Bruch [solo violin] 2009
- All but two and six [solo voice] 2009
- Son, I’m O.D., 1-2 [solo violin] 2009
- Stoneware with a modern twist, 1-2 [solo cello] 2009*
- This Be The Verse [solo voice] 2009
- A Place at the Table [theatre score, song] 2009*
- Let the exertion begin, Had enough of this dodgy finger, The smell of paraffin cancelled my senses, My soul now has a steady linger [Piano, open instrumentation, performance directions] 2009*
- Leave Things Alive And Mysterious [piccolo ensemble] 2009* {R}
- For Richard Baker [piano, actor] 2009*
- After Beethoven, Debussy, Liszt, Mendelssohn, Reinecke and Schumann [six pieces for solo piano] 2009
- For Three Flutes 2008/9
- Edkovsky [open instrumentation] 2008/9
——————————————————————————————————— - Piano, for Laurence Crane [solo piano] 2008
- The Story of a Magnificent Banquet [speaker, harpsichord] 2008* {R}
- Diana of the Ephesians – part 1, 2, 3. [concerto for solo soprano] 2008* {R}
- Gershwin Transcription 1 [solo piano] 2008
Gershwin Transcription 2 [solo piano] 2008
Gershwin Transcription 3 [solo piano] 2008
Gershwin Transcription 4 [solo piano] 2008
Gershwin Transcription 5 [solo piano] 2008 - Something will cloud her glittering footsteps [Sop.1, Sop.2. Alto1, Alto 2. Tenor1, Tenor 2. Bass1, Bass 2.] 2008* {R}
- For Richard Glover [solo piano] 2008 {R}
- Food for the ears, feeling at peace with myself, can’t hold back the tears, my biscuits are back on the shelf [guitar, violin] 2008*
- For Paul Burgess [solo violin] 2008*
- Composition For Solo Double Bass 2008
- This is Fluxus [speaker, piano] 2008* {R}
- After Marc Chan [solo piano] 2008
- She fixing with her eye … a distant bell … as she hastened towards it [alto saxophone, desk bells] 2008
- Post PH (Hong) creates purpose carries about art, neither abstract, only plane minutes then recently into music suggested [alto saxophone, piano] 2008*
- For Morton Feldman [solo piano] 2008 {R}
- Lecture on Chopin [piano, 2 page turners, speaker] 2008* {R}
- Post Re, S1-6 MW:LTH TP* [solo piano] 2008
- Rearrangement of a Beethoven Sonatina [solo piano] 2008* {R}
- Welsh Folk Song Transcriptions, 1-5 [SATB] 2008* {R} {R} {R} {R} {R}
- Hoic(K) [cello, piano, viola, clarinet, marimba, violin] 2008*
- Palestrina [piano, midi keyboard electronics] 2008* {R}
- Procession March [solo piano] 2008
- Writing in Praise of the Solitary Act [keyboard, vocals, percussion] 2008
- The picture was taken the moment the firing squad’s bullets struck the victim [keyboard, vocals, percussion] 2008
- Recently my desire in sky left art to another young forgotten poem, but never in someone only recently suggested [piano, alto saxophone, violin] 2007/8*
——————————————————————————————————— - a great tiger could buiLd it and It never falters. perhaps it is Gory, but I rEstrict iT, not unLike a tree [clarinet, horn, trombone, oboe, piano, trumpet] 2007* {R}
- Post CN, 8b 23:54, TP [solo piano] 2007
- [19/80] [8/40] [11/48] [14/72] [11/45] [22/77] [9/44] [percussion quartet] 2007*
- Piano Pieces for John Lely 1, 2, 3, 4 [solo piano] 2007
- Piano 02:(5):12 for Joshua [solo piano] 2007
- A little more than nothing but not yet something [oboe, clarinet, piano} 2007*
- Outrageously fulfilling and confused, hello to bizarre gay shit and whoosh! goes an illogical imagination [concerto for soprano and ensemble] 2007* {R}
- Inherit The Wind [theatre score] 2007* {R}
- The Winter’s Tale [theatre score] 2007* {R}
- A Treat For Five Persons Who Can Play The Piano [piano] 2007?* {R}
- A tribute to Erik Satie and Morton Feldman [clarinet, cello, piano] 2007* {R} {R}
- Who are you and what are you doing here [choir] 2007* {R}
- Nothing, Something, Everything, Anything [flute, viola, pack of cards] 2007*
- Do You See? [violin, cello] 2007*
- Red on Maroon [small ensemble] 2007*
- Average 10 [piano] 2007 {R}
——————————————————————————————————— - Nothing Implied [string quartet {violin, violin II, viola, cello}] 2006* {R} {R}
- Dawning: Blue, black, red [soprano, piano, cello] 2006* {R} {R}
- Squiggle [orchestra] 2006* {R}
- Ten Pieces For Laurence Crane [piano, speaker, percussion] 2006 [VI*]
- Five Movements for a Woodwind Quintet 2006* {R} {R} {R} {R} {R}
- For Piano, 1-11 2005/6
——————————————————————————————————— - Space Dikhotomia [orchestra] 2005*
- Instances [3 celli, flute, harpsichord] 2005* {R}
- Mad About the Boy [soprano, violin, alto saxophone, bassoon] 2005* {R}
- Isa 5 [percussion quartet] 2005*
- Petut de Murt [2 trumpets] 2004/5*
- Raston Ca Bands [string trio] 2004/5*
——————————————————————————————————— - Solo For Alto Saxophone 2004* {R}
Pre 2004
- Nocturnal Fantasie in Db Major [solo piano]
- String Quartet in C# minor
- Brass Quartet
- A Message from Tenerife in 12 parts [tenor horn]
- Le Sonate Ombragé [solo piano]
- Waltz in D Major [solo piano]
- Wyrd Sisters [theatre score]
- Two Contrasting Confusions [solo piano]
- A Nocturne in E [solo piano]
- Theme + Variation on Dido/Eminem [solo piano]
- Fantasie [solo piano]