works in progress

• Songs, chamber works for The Braid Group: soprano, viola, guitar/mandolin

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COMPLETED WORKS:
ORCHESTRA

• Viola Concerto (2019), solo viola, 2.2.2.2; 4.2.3.1; timp; harp/piano; strings, Op. 83
• 3rd. Symphony: 2.2.2.2; 2.2.2.1; timp; harp; vibr; strings, dur 15′ (2016) Op. 54
• 2nd. Symphony: 2.2.2.2; 4.2.3.1; timp; 8.6.5.4.3, dur 20′ (2016) Op. 52
• 1st. Symphony: 2.2.2.2; 2.2.1.1; 8.6.5.4.3, dur 11′ (2016) Op. 50
• Out of the Darkness for string orchestra, dur 4′ (2016) Op. 49
• Morning – version for string orchestra, text: Pablo Neruda, dur: 12′ (2010), Op. 3a
• Returns and Retorts – version for chamber orchestra, dur: 7’ (2004), Op. 1a
• Score for an Imaginary Film – string orchestra, dur: 5’ (2018) Op. 48
• Fugue for strings – string orchestra, dur: 3’ (2008) rev. 2018, Op. 48a
• Yesterday, like you and me – children’s choir, 2 ob. 2 cr, timp, strings, dur 3’30” (2017) Op. 63

LARGE ENSEMBLE

• Intermezzo for brass band – for the Crystal Palace Band, dur: 5’ (2016) Op. 51

VOCAL
ONE VOICE

for The Braid Group:

• Ignorance – soprano, viola, mandolin (text: Philip Larkin), (2020), Op. 107
• Tracing a face – soprano, viola, mandolin (text: Philip Larkin), (2020), Op. 106
• Instead, bereft – soprano, viola, guitar (text: Philip Larkin), (2020), Op. 103
• Days – soprano, viola, guitar (text: Philip Larkin), (2020), Op. 101
• Love Songs in Age – soprano, viola, guitar (text: Philip Larkin), (2020), Op. 99
• Five Songs – soprano and mandolin (Shakespeare sonnets), (2020), Op. 97
• Second Book of Songs – six songs for mezzo-soprano, guitar  (texts: R.S. Thomas, Liao Chung-K’ai, Federico García Lorca, Ho Hsiang-ning) (2018), dur: 20′, Op. 72
• Light without shadows – version for mezzo-soprano, viola, guitar, Op. 68a (2020)

All other:

• Light without shadows – text: R.S. Thomas, mezzo-soprano, clarinet, piano, guitar (2018), dur: 4′, Op. 68
• The fugue of Art – text: R.S. Thomas, mezzo-soprano, clarinet, piano, guitar (2018), dur: 5’30”, Op. 67
• So is it not with me – text: Shakespeare; mezzo-soprano, viola, guitar (2017) dur: 4′, Op. 64
• In time to come – text: Shakespeare; mezzo-soprano, guitar (2017) dur: 4′, Op. 62
• That time of year – text: Shakespeare; mezzo-soprano, guitar (2017) dur: 6′, Op. 61
• Touch – text: Thom Gunn; mezzo-soprano, clarinet, guitar, piano (2017) dur: 8’30” Op. 59
• Songs of Contrasting Subjects (1st. book of songs) – 5 settings of Shakespeare and John Bunyan for mezzo-soprano and guitar, dur: 15’ (2015) Op. 47
• Child – A setting of Sylvia Plath for mezzo-soprano and string quartet, (2015) Op. 41
• Upon Silver Trees – mezzo-soprano, guitar, piano, (text: Walter de la Mare) dur: 4′ (2014) Op. 34
• Four songs for lute/soprano – soprano, 8c lute, (text: David Braid) dur: 13′ (2013) Op. 20
• One Year Lighter – soprano & guitar (text: Ewa Sonnenberg) – 5 songs, Polish/English versions – dur: c.9’ (2007) Op. 6
• Morning – text: Pablo Neruda; soprano & string quartet, dur: 12′ (2006) Op. 3
• Encounter – text: Leo Tolstoy; soprano & piano, dur: 5’ (2008) Op. 7

CHAMBER

DUOS

for The Braid Group:

• Song and Dance – viola and mandolin, (2020), Op. 109
• Quietly Touch – viola and guitar (2020), Op. 108
• Two Lines Drawn in Silk – viola and mandolin, (2020), Op. 104
• A Brief Question – viola and guitar (2020), Op. 100
• Brief Insistence – viola and guitar (2020), Op, 98
• Insistence – mandolin and guitar (2020), Op. 96
• Continuous Song – viola and guitar (or piano), dur: 7′ (2017) Op. 57
• Invocation and Continuum – version for viola and guitar dur: 8′ (2014) Op. 38a

All other:

• Two pieces for any sustaining instrument & guitar – Some Golden Days & Wordless Lyrics, dur: 8′ (2019), Op. 78 and Op. 80
• From Dance to Fugue – violin and guitar, dur: 7′ (2017) Op. 55
• Four Silver Lines – vibraphone and piano, dur: 4′ (2016) Op. 53
• Invocation and Continuum – flute/guitar. dur: 8′ (2014) Op. 38
• Invention and Fugue – clarinet/piano, dur: 10′ (2014) Op. 36
• Rendevouz Rondo – Baroque violin/Renaissance lute (8-c) dur: 6′ (2014) Op. 32
• Symphony for Two – guitar/piano, dur: 13′ (2014) Op. 33
• Winter Fugue – guitar/piano, (2014) Op. 29
• Stillness I and II – guitar/piano, dur: 7′ (2013) Op. 25
• Momentum – guitar/piano, dur: 5′ (2014) Op. 28
• Sonata – guitar/piano, dur: 12’ (2013) Op. 19
• Overture to your Dream – clarinet and guitar, dur: 3’ (2013) Op. 24
• Perpetual Pavan – Baroque violin and 8c Renaissance lute, dur: 8′ (2012) Op. 17
• Perpetual Pavan – version for violin and piano, dur: 8′ (2013) Op. 17a
• Perpetual Pavan – version for alto flute and guitar, dur: 8′ (2016) Op. 17b
• Perpetual Pavan – version for violin and guitar, dur: 8′ (2016) Op. 17c
• Perpetual Pavan – version for alto flute and piano, dur: 8′ (2016) Op. 17d
• Invention – violin & piano, dur: 10’ (2010) Op. 11
• Returns and Retorts – ‘cello & piano, dur: 7’ (2001) Op. 1
• Infinite Reminiscence – 2 pianos/four hands, dur: 6’ (2007) Op. 4

THREE OR MORE PLAYERS (without voice)

for The Braid Ensemble:

• Two Pieces for Quartet – clarinet, mandolin guitar, piano, dur: 7′ (2020) Op. 96
• Your Beating Heart – clarinet, guitar, electric guitar, piano, dur: 9’40” (2019), Op. 87
• Quartet of Voices – clarinet, guitar, electric guitar/mandolin piano, dur: 12′ (2019), Op. 86
• Two Characters – Doubtless Singer & Uncertain Dancer, clarinet, guitar, piano, dur: 8′ (2019) Op. 79
• Terminal Beach (version for trio) – clarinet, guitar, piano, dur: 5′ (2019) Op. 73a
• Symphony for Quartet – clarinet, guitar, electric guitar, piano, dur: 5′ (2018) Op. 72
• Three Glass Sculptures – clarinet, guitar, electric guitar/mandolin piano, dur: 7′ (2017) Op. 60
• Fugue for my Friends – clarinet, guitar, electric guitar, piano, dur: 5′ (2017), Op. 60

All other:

• Three Moments in a Life – string trio, dur: 7′ (2020) Op. 95
• 1st. String Quartet – dur: 12′, (2016) Op. 49a
• Music for Dancers – piano trio, dur: 6’ (2009) Op. 9
• Sonata for Quartet – piano trio & clarinet, dur: 13′ (2012) Op. 13
• Prelude and Fugue – clarinet, electric guitar (or viola)/piano, dur: 10’ (2013) Op. 23

AUTO-WORK SERIES
(all instruments/samples played/programmed, recorded, edited, mastered by myself)

• September Improvisation – 7 electric guitars (2019), Op. 90
• Uncertainty Works – electric guitar, organ, mandolin (2019), Op. 89
• Terminal Beach – after J.G.Ballard, (2018), Op. 73 – electric guitars (played normally & bowed), classical guitar, acoustic archtop guitar, piano, mandolin, accordion, clarinet, oboe, strings.
• After the Rain – electric guitar, strings, horn, (2018)
• Radio Love Song – three electric guitars, dur: 4’ (2018), Op. 77
• Cinematic Memories – three electric guitars, mandolin, piano, strings, dur: 13’ (2019,) Op. 78
• Strings in the Void – two electric guitars, dur: 6′ 50″ (2019), Op. 88
• Imaginary Circus – two electric guitars, archtop guitar, acoustic guitar, horn, trumpet, strings, organ, piano, dur: 7’ 21” (2019), Op. 79

 

CHORAL

• O Sapienta –  (for Chapelle du Roi) – Four-part, a cappella setting, (2014) Op. 37
• Alma Redemptoris Mater – text: Hermannus Contractus (Herman the Cripple, 1013–1054), 4-part a cappella choir, dur: c. 4′ (2012) Op. 16
• Agnus Dei – text: Liturgical; 8-part a cappella choir, dur: 9′ (2004) Op. 2

 

SOLO INSTRUMENTAL
SOLO GUITAR

• April Improvisation – solo (electric) guitar, dur: 5′ (2019), Op. 80
• Microprelude ‘in one breath’ – solo (classical) guitar, dur: 1’25” (2017) Op. 65
• 7-note Invention – solo (classical) guitar, dur: 7′ (2017) Op. 58
• Far away next to me – solo (classical or archtop/electric) guitar, dur: 3′ (2015) Op. 46
• Wordless Song – solo (classical or archtop/electric) guitar, dur: 4′ (2015) Op. 45
• Invention – solo (classical or archtop/electric) guitar, dur: 7′ (2015) Op. 44
• For Alex – solo (classical or archtop/electric) guitar, dur: 2′ (2015) Op. 43
• Five Intimate Pieces – solo (archtop/electric) guitar, dur: 20’ (2013-14) Op. 21:
• Strings in Blue – solo (electric) guitar, dur: 5’ (2018) Op. 75
• Rondo for Tomorrow – solo (electric) guitar, dur: 6′ (2018) Op. 74

SOLO MANDOLIN

• Two Cadenzas – solo mandolin, (2020), Op. 105

SOLO LUTE

• Two-part Invention – solo Renaissance lute (8-c), dur: 6′ (2014) Op. 40
• Return to Wonderland – solo Renaissance lute (8-c), dur: 5′ (2014) Op. 35
• A Subtle String to Touch – solo Renaissance lute (8-c), dur: 4′ (2014) Op. 27
• All Things Consequent – solo Renaissance lute (8-c), dur: 7′ (2014) Op. 30
• Birthday Song – solo Renaissance lute (8-c), dur: 6′ (2014) Op. 31

SOLO PIANO

• 1st. Piano Sonata, dur: 20′ (2012) Op. 14
• 2nd. Piano Sonata, dur: 11′ (2012) Op. 15
• Postlude – dur: 7’ (2010) Op. 10
• Three Pieces – dur: 7’ (2008) Op. 8

FILM SCORES

• Blask (lustre) – Polish animated film (2010)
• Compartment – Anglo-Polish film (2006)