Sheet Music by Female Composers: A Rich and Diverse Selection

Composed for the Schubert Ensemble's farewell tour and modelled on 'Abschied' from Schubert's Schwanengesang, this four-minute piece gives each player a brief solo before the work's close. A light-hea...

A setting of four poems by Wallace Stevens, Kathleen Jamie, Norman MacCaig and Emily Dickinson for soprano, cello and piano. commissioned by Kings Place, and first performed there on 24th October 2019...

A work for soprano, flute, guitar and pre-recorded electronics. The first performance was given on 5 August 2010 at the Skálholt Summer Concerts, Iceland, by Tiffany DuMouchelle (soprano), Berglind Ma...

Changing Light was written for Edna Michell's Compassion project. In the composition the composer follows the idea of a dialogue, suggested by the text from Rabbi Jules Harlow. The intimate nature and...

This arrangement of Prospero's Vision, for tenor and string quartet, was first performed in August 2019 during the Creative Dialogue Workshop at the SIbelius Academy, Helsinki, Finland. The text is fr...

This work for soprano and string quartet was premiered at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History on the 18th November 2019 by Carola Darwin and the Gildas Quartet. Commissioned by Carola Darw...

This work for soprano and string quartet was premiered at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History on the 18th November 2019 by Carola Darwin and the Gildas Quartet. Commissioned by Carola Darw...

Commissioned by Fenella Humphreys with funding from The Marchus Trust First performed by Fenella Humphreys (violin), Ben Griffiths (double bass), Murray Grainger (accordion) and George Barton (percuss...

For mezzo-soprano voice and bass clarinet. How to Win an Election was commissioned by Ian Mitchell and premiered by Alison Wells and Ian Mitchell at St. Mary Magdalen Church, Oxford on 22 January 2018...

Scenes from Autistic Bedtimes (2012-13) is a ten minute work scored for treble, soprano, vibraphone, cello and piano, setting text by Stuart Murray

This piece for wordless voice and small ensemble was composed as part of Ellen Reid’s Soundwalk, a site-specific work created for urban parks around the world. The title comes from Christian Cooper, a...

Scored for cello, vibraphone and cymbals, this work by Ellen Reid was commissioned in 2014 by Wild Up. Duration: c.8 minutes.

Tiresias, the Blind Prophet of Thebes, is on a walk, and along comes Orlando, the title character from Virginia Woolf's novel. Orlando, who is of noble birth, has only recently been changed - inexplic...

Tiresias, the Blind Prophet of Thebes, is on a walk, and along comes Orlando, the title character from Virginia Woolf's novel. Orlando, who is of noble birth, has only recently been changed - inexplic...

Changing Light was written for Edna Michell’s Compassion project. The composition follows the idea of a dialogue, suggested by the chosen text. The intimate nature and fragile sound world of the duo m...

This short 3 minute piece was originally composed for cellist and good friend of Saariaho's Anssi Karttunen's 40th birthday. Originally part of 'The Tempest Songbook', this version replaces the harp,...

This short song for mezzo-soprano, cello and piano takes its inspiration from medieval medical practices. It sets text found in the Lacnunga, a collection of Anglo-Saxon medical texts and prayers, for...

Die Einleitung meines Klaviertrios fängt harmlos an. Fast zu harmlos... Gegen Ende entpuppt sich diese Harmlosigkeit als der nackte Wahnsinn. Ein musikalisches Wortgefecht der einzelnen Stimmen. Ein r...

Das 4. Klaviertrio (2013) ist wie die vorangegangenen beiden auf Initiative von Harald Kosik entstanden, und mit dem vieldeutigen Titel 'Morgen' versehen - als Zeitpunkt des Sonnenaufgangs, aber auch...

'Das Klaviertrio entstand in einer Zeit, in der ich mich viel mit Dmitri Schostakowitsch auseinandersetzte und mich seine Werke sehr stark inspirierten. Die Zahl Drei spielt bei meinem Klaviertrio ein...

Interesting Times - what can "interesting" not mean everything: exciting times, challenging times, exciting times in a positive sense ... Or is it really the phrase "May You Live in Interesting Times"...

Johann Gottlieb Goldberg had to play Bach's "Goldberg Variations" night after night to his employer Hermann Carl von Keyserlingk, so that he could "be cheered up a little in his sleepless nights". It'...