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Compositions

All compositions are published by European-American University Press except where indicated.

Inscape
Song-cycle in five movements for mezzo-soprano and piano
1. Ribblesdale
2. Inversnaid
3. Spring and Fall
4. The Sea and the Skylark
5. God's Grandeur
Texts: Gerard Manley Hopkins
f.p. St George's, Bloomsbury, June 2008

Two songs to lyrics by Phillip Tyler
1. Awakenings
2. Sea song
f.p. St Anne's, Kew, August 2007

Bathsheba
Song-cycle in five movements for mezzo-soprano and piano
1. His balcony looks over mine
2. Dazed with love
3. Joab looks at me with scorn
4. Oh God, you took my child away
5. My second son, my Solomon
Texts: Sarah Tyler (Kay Plowman)
f.p. St Anne's, Kew, August 2006

Hedges
Song for mezzo-soprano and piano
Text: Phillip Tyler
f.p. St John's, Manthorpe, October 2006

Sharing the Dream
Duet for mezzo-soprano, tenor and piano
Text: B. Curtis
f.p. St John's, Manthorpe, October 2006

Serenade
Piano solo
f.p. St Anne's Kew, August 2006

Set me as a seal
Song for mezzo-soprano and piano
Text: Song of Solomon
f.p. St Anne's, Kew, August 2006

Cruces et Talea - fantasia
Organ solo

Meditation on a Theme by Grieg
String quartet

Leo
Piano solo

Alma Mater  - The Song of Ansted University
Unison voices and orchestra
Text: Ansted University
published by Ansted University Press
f.p. Ansted University Convocation, London Metropolitan University, 2003

Overture 'Pride and Prejudice'
String orchestra

Fuga after J.S. Bach
Organ solo

For S, on her birthday
Large orchestra

Two cadenzas for Mozart's Piano Concerto in C minor, K491
Piano solo
published Royal College of Music (part of dissertation), 1995

Numerous arrangements of popular repertoire for string quartet, completed at ages 15-16, have been performed professionally around the world.