As You Like It

Composed: 2006

Voices and jazz ensemble

Texts: William Shakespeare

1. Under the Greenwood Tree
2. Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind
3. What Shall He Have That Killed The Deer
4. It Was A Lover And His Lass
5. Hymen's Song

Duration 14 minutes

Commissioned by North Staffordshire Operatic Society

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

Texts: William Shakespeare

1. Under the Greenwood Tree
2. Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind
3. It Was A Lover And His Lass

Duration 9 minutes

First performance: Gregory Wiest (tenor), Movimento, Neuhauserstr, Munich, Germany, 5.6.11
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Sounds, And Sweet Airs (Four Songs)

Composed: 2009-11

Four songs from 'The Tempest'

Baritone, clarinet, horn, cello and piano

Texts: William Shakespeare

1. While You Here Do Snoring Lie
2. That When I Waked...
3. I Shall No More To Sea
4. 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

Three Shakespeare Songs

Composed: 2009-12

Published by Universal Edition

Medium voice and piano

Texts: William Shakespeare

1. O Mistress Mine
2. Come Away Death
3. 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
Performance credit: Greg Hallam, Robert Thompson

At Last He Sleeps

Composed: 2011-12

​Published by Universal Edition

Baritone and piano

Texts: Edward Thomas

1. The Cherry Trees
2. In Memoriam
3. A Private

Duration 7 minutes

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

Winter Pass

Composed: 2015; revised 2020

High voice and piano

Texts: Edward Thomas

1. Snow
2. Rain
3. Thaw

Duration 13 minutes

At Last He Sleeps

Composed: 2015

Version for voice and orchestra

Texts: Edward Thomas

1. The Cherry Trees
2. In Memoriam
3. A Private

Duration 8 minutes

Sounds, And Sweet Airs (Be Not Afeard)

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
Performance credit: Donna Lennard, Benjamin Graves

In Memoriam - five songs

Composed: 2018

​Published by Universal Edition

Soprano, flute, clarinet in A, violin, cello

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

1. Here we lie dead
2. In Memoriam
3. War
4. Sunsets
5. Flanders

Duration 14 minutes

First performance: Mimi Doulton (soprano) and Cambridge University New Music Ensemble: Catriona Bourne (flute), Ben Graves (clarinet), Leo Appel (violin), Dan Gilchrist (cello), cond. Patrick Bailey, Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, 22.11.18
Performance credit: Mimi Doulton, Catriona Bourne, Ben Graves, Leo Appel, Dan Gilchrist, Patrick Bailey

Marvellous Sweet Music (Songs from The Tempest)

Composed: 2016-20

For 2 sopranos, 2 clarinets, 2 cellos

​Texts: William Shakespeare

1. Come unto these yellow sands
2. Interlude: Be not afeard (part 1)
3. Full fathom five
4. Interlude: Be not afeard (part 2)
5. While you here do snoring lie
6. Interlude: Be not afeard (part 3)
7. I shall no more to sea
8. Epilogue: Be not afeard (part 4)

Duration 22 minutes
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