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Music Dramas
Orchestral
Trembling Diamond, page 15
Rain is when the earth is television, page 16
Fury of Creation, page 73
Brass Band
Jigsaws of Resistance, page 17
The Penhill Giant (2023) 21’
a morality tale for primary school children
Narrator + 1.1.1.1 / 2.1.1.0 / 1 perc. / 4.3.2.2.1
Words by Sally Edwards
Swerf and Turf—an Opera in 17 Sequences (2022-) 80’ (in progress)
1.0.2.0 / 1.1.1.0 / 2 perc., piano, tape / nine female voices / 1.0.1.1.1
Libretto by Loré Lixenberg and Alethea Wiles
Trembling Diamond (2024) 13’
2.2.2.2 / 4.3.3.0 / 2 perc. / harp, piano / 14.12.10.8.6
Rain is when the earth is television (2023) 9’
3.3.3.3 / 4.3.3.1 / timp., 3 perc. / harp / 16.14.12.10.8
Standard Deviations (2023) 10’
3.3.3.3 / 4.3.3.1 / timp., 3 perc. / harp / 14.12.10.8.6
Flesh (2022) 18’
2.2.3.2 / 4.3.2.0 / 3 perc./ harp / 12.12.8.8.6
Fury of Creation (2022) 17’
2.2.2.2 / 2.2.0.0 / 2 perc. / 6.6.4.4.2 or 12.12.8.8.4
Ascension to the Celestial Bureaucracy (2021) 22’
For piano and orchestra (2.2.2.2 / 3.2.2.1 / 4 perc. / 12.12.8.8.6)
Between Tenses (2018) 19’
For double string orchestra of 22 musicians. To be danced to
The Damascene (2014) 10’
3.3.3.3 / 4.3.3.1 / timp. / harp / 16.14.12.10.8
World Cinema (2001-11) 39’
4.4.4.4 sax.4 / 4.4.4.2 / timp. doubling sampler keyboard / 6 perc. / 2 harps / piano / children’s choir / 16.14.12.10.8. In ten episodes:
Double Helix
Ode to Joy
Parallax March
Samples in Series I
Cantileno
Just Chords
Samples in Series II
Alice
Perpetuum Mobile
The Beach of Iwashiro
Jigsaws of Resistance (2023) 6’
Soprano cornet, 9 cornets, flugelhorn, 3 tenor horns, 2 baritone horns, 2 euphoniums, 2 tenor trombones, bass trombone, 4 basses
Chamber and Solo
Box, page 69
Centrifugal Bumblepuppy, page 7
Information Pack, page 55
Breaking News (2024) 10’
Flute, bass clarinet, violin, cello and piano
Fascinator Folly (2023) 2’
Piano solo
Aphorisms (2023) 4’
Cello and piano
Earworms (2023) 10’
Marimba and vibraphone
Benny (2023) 7’
Flute solo
Box (2022) 17’
1.1.1.1 / 1.1.1.0 / xyl., pno. / 1.1.1.1.1
2020 (2020) 25’
Piano solo
Information Pack (2020) 18’
Clarinet, bass clarinet, marimba, percussion, two pianos, violin, viola, cello
Communion (for four musicians) (2020) 5’
Flute, bass clarinet, violin, cello
Rubric (2019) 7’
Solo clarinet in E flat
Twisted Biscuit (2018) 5’
String quartet
Bone Structure (2018) 8’
Flute doubling piccolo, bass clarinet, marimba, piano, violin, viola, cello
Time Is A Prison (2017) 16’
Solo percussion
Air Abacus (2016) 7’
Solo bass flute
Four Piano Pieces for Children (2011) 8’
i Daydreaming
ii Snakes and Ladders
iii Through the Looking Glass
iv The Little Cloud
Michael Finnissy plays ‘The Little Cloud’, CoMA Summer School, 2016
Cover Versions (2002) 9’
Four toy pianos (one player)
Bubblegum (2001) 11’
Alto saxophone, percussion, piano
Performance by students at the University of Leeds, 5th May 2023
Joyrider (2000) 13’
Solo piano
Centrifugal Bumblepuppy (1999) 4’
Piccolo, clarinet doubling bass clarinet, percussion, piano, violin, cello, bass
Rigmarole (1997) 5’
Three flautists and percussion
Vocal
Work / Bonk, page 44
Knots page 15
The Digital Afterlife (2023) 9’
SATB choir and wind quintet
Knots (2022) 27’
Mezzo-soprano and cello
Within a Certain Time and Place (2021) 15’
Tenor and piano
Dúlamán (2018-19) 8’
Sean-nós singer, string quartet and piano
Pocket Universe (2016) 19’
Eight (or sixteen) solo voices
Work / Bonk (2006) 8’
Four sopranos and ensemble 1.0.1.0 / 1.1.1.1 / 3 perc. / piano (2 players)/ 1.0.1.1.1
Why do you think people believe in God? / Go to Hell, World! (2004) 8’
Female vocalist and piano
Where I Live is Posh / Where I Live is Shite (2002) 7’
Soprano (or mezzo-soprano) and piano
Film
The Age of Nature (2020)
orchestrator
Take Your Partners (2016)
composer
Permanência (2014)
orchestrator
Miss Christina (2013)
orchestrator
Kahanikar (2011)
composer
Arrangements
Harrison Birtwistle: Carmen Arcadiae Mechanicae Perpetuum (2024)
Marimba, vibraphone, two pianos
John Williams: Prologue and Main Title Music from Superman the Movie (2013)
One piano (four hands)
Igor Stravinsky: Symphony in Three Movements (2013)
One piano (four hands)
Edward Elgar: Variations on an Original Theme (Enigma) (2012)
Clarinet, violin, cello, piano
Igor Stravinsky: L’Histoire du Soldat (2007)
Three additional movements for clarinet, violin and piano omitted by Stravinsky in the Suite
Aaron Copland: Appalachian Spring (2002)
Clarinet, violin, piano
Arvo Pärt: Fratres (2001)
Flute, clarinet, percussion, piano, violin, viola, cello, bass