Chester Music

This work was commissioned jointly by the Hampstead and Highgate Festival and the Presteigne Festival. First performance on 9th May 2007 as part of the Hampstead and Highgate Festival, at St John-at-H...

Written based on a poem of the same title by Octavio Paz, A Boy and a Girl is Whitacre at his finest, with the composer himself describing four measures as 'the truest nots I've ever written'. Stretc...

Solo Viola part for Rolf Wallin's Under City Skin for viola, string orchestra and surround sound.

Five sonnets for high, bel canto tenor and string orchestra, settings words by Richard Barnfield on the epiphanies, anxieties and obsessions of queer love.

Capriccio for Bassoon and Strings was commissioned by Music at Malling. The first performance was given on 24 September 2021 in St. Mary's Church, West Malling, Kent, by Adam MacKenzie (bassoon) and C...

This suite for chorus and string orchestra was commissioned by the Addison Singers, London, and dedicated to their conductor David Wordsworth. It is a setting of texts by three American poets - E E Cu...

The two violin duets entitled Danse des Flocons were first written by the composer for her daughter Aliisa, who at the time was seven years old and an aspiring violinist. The titular flocons (flakes)...

Study score. Fifteen minute work for string orchestra. Parts available on hire. The title Terra Memoria refers to two words which are full of rich associations: to earth and memory.

For solo soprano, SATB choir and string orchestra. Written in 2024. Duration: c. 19 minutes. With What Sudden Joy was commissioned by Southwell Music Festival in celebration of its tenth anniversary i...

Sorores (‘Sisters’ in Latin) is an 8-minute work for vibraphone and strings. It is in four connected sections, with a short cadenza for the vibraphone in the final part.

This concerto is one continuous movement that is clearly divided into 3 main sections. The first movement is moderately fast and rhapsodic in charachter followed by a second section with an accompanie...

A short study for solo trumpet based on musical material from sketches for the composer’s Trumpet Concerto ‘night-sky-blue’. Commissioned by the Royal Academy of Music, London, in celebration of its b...

A fanfare for three trumpets written for and performed at the ceremony to formally admit Professor Irene Tracey, CBE as the 273rd Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University.

A reflection of her inscrutable attention to detail and fine musical sensibility, HUSH is Saariaho's final concerto, written for trumpet player Verneri Pohjola in 2023 and revisiting material from the...

Odysseus weeps, a five-minute work for violin and piano, was written very instinctively in reaction to Book 8 of the Odyssey, where Odysseus is brought to tears by the tales of the blind bard Demodocu...