As You Like It

Composed: 2006

Voices and jazz ensemble

Text: William Shakespeare

I. Under the Greenwood Tree
II. Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind
III. What Shall He Have That Killed The Deer
IV. It Was A Lover And His Lass
V. Hymen's Song

Duration 14 minutes

First performance: cond. Chris Brammeld, Trentham Estate, Staffordshire, 10.7.07

Sweet Lovers Love The Swing

Composed: 2006

Three songs from 'As You Like It'

Tenor and piano

Text: William Shakespeare

I. Under the Greenwood Tree
II. Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind
III. It Was A Lover And His Lass

Duration 9 minutes

First performance: Gregory Wiest (tenor), Movimento, Neuhauserstr, Munich, Germany, 5.6.11

Sounds and Sweet Airs

Composed: 2009-11

Four songs from 'The Tempest'

Baritone, clarinet, horn, cello and piano

Text: William Shakespeare

I. While You Here Do Snoring Lie
II. That When I Waked...
III. I Shall No More To Sea
IV. Full Fathom Five

Duration 14 minutes

First performance: Matt Palmer (baritone), University of Sheffield New Music Ensemble, dir. George Nicholson, Firth Hall, Sheffield, 5.4.11

O Mistress Mine - Three Shakespeare Songs

Composed: 2009-12

Three songs for medium voice and piano

Text: William Shakespeare

I. O Mistress Mine
II. Come Away, Death
III. Tell me where is Fancy bred

Duration 8½ minutes

First performance: Greg Hallam (baritone) and Robert Thompson (piano), Hertfordshire Chamber Music Series, Rickmansworth, Herts, 10.5.14

At Last He Sleeps

Composed: 2011-12

Three songs for baritone and piano

Text: Edward Thomas

I. The Cherry Trees
II. In Memoriam
III. A Private

Duration 7 minutes

First performance: Greg Hallam (baritone) and Robert Thompson (piano), Hertfordshire Chamber Music Series, Rickmansworth, Herts, 10.5.14

British Folksong arrangements - Volume 1

Composed: 2015

Medium voice and piano

​Texts: Traditional

I. Cockles and Mussels
II. Danny Boy
III. The Ash Grove
IV. Dashing Away with the Smoothing Iron

Duration 15 minutes

First performance: Thomas Isherwood (baritone) and Michelle Santiago (piano), Royal Masonic School, Rickmansworth, Herts, 2.10.15

Winter Pass

Composed: 2015

Three songs for tenor and piano

Text: Edward Thomas

I. Snow
II. Rain
III. Thaw

Duration 11½ minutes

At Last He Sleeps

Composed: 2015

Version for voice and orchestra

Text: Edward Thomas

I. The Cherry Trees
II. In Memoriam
III. A Private

Duration 8 minutes

that when I waked

Composed: 2016

For soprano and clarinet

Text: William Shakespeare (The Tempest)

​Duration 4 minutes

First performance: Donna Lennard (soprano) and Benjamin Graves (clarinet), Clare Hall, Cambridge, 18.2.17

In Memoriam - five songs

Composed: 2018

For soprano, flute, clarinet in A, violin, cello

Texts (respectively): A. E. Housman, Edward Thomas, Leslie Coulson, Richard Aldington, Willoughby Weaving

I. Here dead we lie
II. In Memoriam
III. War
IV. Sunsets
V. Flanders

Duration 14½ minutes