Simon Holt Sheet Music for Ensemble

5 Settings Of E. D. is a work by Simon Holt for Oboe and Countertenor (or Mezzo-Soprano). Commissioned by Bill and Elizabeth Colleran, the piece was first performed on 22nd April 2006. The piece is co...

Score and parts for Simon Holt's Piano Trio: Los Ojos, for Piano Violin and Cello. Piano Trio: Los Ojos was first performed on 25th November 2013 in the Amaryllis Fleming Concert Hall at the Royal Col...

Lunas Zauberschein was first performed by Margaret McDonald (Mezzo-Soprano) and Julie Rees (Bass Flute) at the Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester, on 20th March 1979.

Daedalus Remembers is the third part in a trilogy called 3 for Icarus. Daedalus was Icarus' father and a famous craftsman. He once forged a magic sword for Peleus which had a property of making its ow...

Sphinx is scored for cor anglais and nine tuned gongs, and lasts approximately fourteen minutes. It is austere in texture and takes the form of an extended riddle, the answer to which may be the one a...

A chamber ensemble piece that reflects Holt's passion for the visual arts and literature. The Banshee according to legend is less a shape than a mournful screaming that haunts the Irish night and the...

Kites is scored for wind quintet and string quintet and came about through Holt's interest in Japanese things. The kite that features is preceded by an introduction of fragile, slow and serene scene-s...

Canciones are three Spanish songs; A love song, a setting of Cancione de Jinete by Lorca and a lyric. The outer poems are anonymous but are cited by Lorca in his essay on Duende which can be roughly t...

Work for Flute, Oboe, Clarinet and Cello written in 1980. Parts available: CH66869-01

Work for Flute, Oboe, Clarinet and Cello written in 1980. Score available: CH66869

For Soprano and Chamber Ensemble (Clarinet in A, Viola, Cello and Double Bass). This extended version of a knot of time was commissioned by Faith Wilson. First performance on 10th OCtober at the CBSO...

For Soprano and Chamber Ensemble (Clarinet in A, Viola, Cello and Double Bass). This extended version of a knot of time was commissioned by Faith Wilson. First performance on 10th OCtober at the CBSO...

First performance by the Nash Ensemble (Philippa Davies, alto flute/piccolo, Lawrence Power, viola, andLucy Wakeford, harp) on 12th July 2004 at the Pittville Pump Room, Cheltenham, as part of the Che...

First performance by the Nash Ensemble (Philippa Davies, alto flute/piccolo, Lawrence Power, viola, andLucy Wakeford, harp) on 12th July 2004 at the Pittville Pump Room, Cheltenham, as part of the Che...

Written for chamber ensemble. This work was commissioned by the BBC. First performance on 6th September 2004 at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, as part of the BBC Proms Chamber Music Series, b...

This work was written for Endymion's 'Sound Census' project, in celebration of their 30th Birthday. It was first performed by Endymion with Melinda Maxwell (oboe), at Kings Place, London, as part of t...

Commissioned by The Bath Festival. 'If the idea behind the piece comes from anywhere, the 'Disparates' (Follies) of Goya were certainly at the back of my mind when writing. The Goya images are nightma...

Commissioned by The Bath Festival. 'If the idea behind the piece comes from anywhere, the 'Disparates' (Follies) of Goya were certainly at the back of my mind when writing. The Goya images are nightma...

For instrumental ensemble. Commissioned for the ''At Lunch'' series by Britten Sinfonia and Wigmore Hall. World Premiere given at the Musee d'Orsay, Paris on 1st March 2011 by members of Britten Sin...

eco-pavan for piano and chamber ensemble was commissioned by the BBC. The first performance took place on 20th November 1998 during the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival. Scored for Solo Piano,...

A chamber ensemble piece that reflects Holt's passion for the visual arts and literature. The Banshee according to legend is less a shape than a mournful screaming that haunts the Irish night and the...