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Music by Chris Brammeld
 
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Sonatina for Clarinet and Piano

Composed: 2006-07

1. Allegretto grazioso
2. Molto calmato
​3. Giocoso


Duration 8 minutes

First performance: Glendower Duo (Hannah Morgan, clarinet and Thomas Besnard, piano), Penkhull Festival, Staffordshire, 25.9.09

​Published by Forton Music
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Micro-Suite for Saxophone Quartet

Composed: 2007

1. Prelude
2. Fanfare
3. Dance
4. Intermezzo
5. Romance
6. Scherzo
7. Postlude

Duration 7½ minutes

First performance: Equinox Saxophone Ensemble, dir. Alistair Parnell, Hertfordshire Chamber Music Series, Rickmansworth, Herts, 5.10.13

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​Published by Forton Music
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Two Pieces for Alto Saxophone and Vibraphone

Composed: 2008-09

Duration 6½ minutes

Romanza for Clarinet (or Alto Saxophone) and Piano

Composed: 2009

Duration 3 minutes

String Quartet No. 1 ("The Spaces Between")

Composed: 2011

1. Unsettled, tense
2. Flowing

Duration 17 minutes

First performance: Ensemble 2021: Grim Kwon, Yoonah Na (violins), Soomin Lee (viola), Jungran Lee (cello), Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea, 9.5.16

UK premiere: Tippett Quartet: John Mills, Jeremy Issac (violins), Lydia Lowndes-Northcott (viola), Bozidar Vukotic (cello), Penkhull Festival, 19.9.19
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Performance credit: Tippett Quartet

Three Inventions

Composed: 2012

Solo soprano saxophone

1. Espressivo; rubato
2. Dolce sempre
3. Playfully

Duration 7 minutes

First performance: Amy Dickson, Presteigne Festival of Music and the Arts, St Andrew's Church, Presteigne, Wales, 24.8.12

​​​​Published by Forton Music
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Piano Trio

Composed: 2012-13

1. Lento e rubato - Meno mosso - Tempo I - Piu mosso - Energico
2. Delicato, affetuoso - Piu mosso - Poco piu - Poco piu - Meno - Tempo I
3. Allegro agitato - Adagio - Meno - Tempo I - Maestoso

Duration 17 minutes

First performance: Bedriska Trio (Manuel Arellano Bover, violin; Miriam Wakeling, cello; Panaretos Kyriatzidis, piano), Gloucester Music Society, 26.11.16

​​​​​Published by Forton Music
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Four Inventions for two cellos

Composed: 2013

1. Poco andante
2. Moderato
3. Lento
4. Quickly

Duration 10 minutes

Four Little Pieces for clarinet and cello

Composed: 2014

Duration 5½ minutes

Four Serial Pieces

Composed: 2015

Oboe, clarinet and bassoon

1. Moderato
2. Poco presto
3. Lento
4. Poco allegro

Duration 5 minutes

String Quartet No. 2

Composed: 2015; revised 2017 and 2020

1. Ritmico - Quite slow
2. Andante moderato
3. Slow - Molto agitato

​Duration 16 minutes

Try Tones

Composed: 2016

Flute
Clarinet in A
Horn
Viola
​Cello
​Contrabass

​Duration 7 minutes

First performance: Britten Sinfonia, cond. Richard Baker, University of Cambridge, 5.3.16

Soliloquy

Composed: 2016

​Solo oboe, flute or saxophone


Duration 8 minutes

Fanfare for a Moment

Composed: 2016

For three trumpets

Duration 2 minutes

First performance: Sam Ewens, Shane Brennan, Alex Cromwell, Shendish Manor, Hertfordshire, 7.8.16

La musique (after Matisse)

Composed: 2017

For piano trio


Duration 5 minutes

​Commissioned by the Piano Trio Society for the inaugural Intercollegiate Piano Trio Competition. Funding for the event was generously provided by the John Ireland Trust.

First performances:
​Junior Section: Piano Trios of Junior Royal College of Music, Junior Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, Junior Trinity Laban Conservatoire, Yehudi Menuhin School*, Junior Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, Junior Royal Northern College of Music, Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, 4.2.18.
Senior Section: Trio Doyenne, Valette PIano Trio, Trio Opal* (RAM), Meridies Trio, Mithras Trio, Kosyakov Trio, Daphnis Trio, Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, 29.4.18
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* denotes winners of the junior and senior sections

Three Dances from 'The Piper'

Composed: 2020

For brass ensemble (4 trumpets, 2 horns, 2 trombones, bass trombone, tuba)

I. Dance of the Rats
II. Dance of the Piper
III. Dance of the Villagers

Durations 6½ minutes

DeadBeat

Composed: 2021

For mixed chamber ensemble of six players

Duration 7 minutes

Commissioned by Bancroft's School
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