Colin Riley

Colin Riley
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Born	Lancashire
Nationality	English
Citizenship	England
Occupation	Composer Curator Educator Academic

Colin Riley is a composer, curator, educator and academic. Alongside his creative work and running the label Squeaky Kate Music, he is Reader in Music at Brunel University and Head Mentor on Making Music’s Adopt a Music Creator scheme.

Colin was born in Lancashire, studying at Chetham’s School of Music in the sixth form, the University of York and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. His recent work includes Hearing Places (2022) - a 5-movement multi-media orchestral piece commissioned by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, The Listening Eye (2022) for cellist Louise McMonagle and electronics, Earth Voices (2020) – a five-movement orchestral suite commissioned by the Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra, Roads Shining Like River Up Hill After Rain (2017) – a setting of text by Edward Thomas commissioned by the Oxford Bach Soloists and accompanied by Gabriella Swallow (cello), and In Place (2017) – an extended multi-media song-cycle featuring soprano Melanie Pappenheim.

His music has been broadcast on BBC Radio 3, Radio 2 and Radio 1, and performers of his music include BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra, Manchester Camerata, Sinfonia Viva, Bournemouth Sinfonietta, members of the London Sinfonietta, National Youth Choir of Great Britain, Oxford Bach Soloists, COMA London, Pegasus Brass, Sounds Positive, Kokoro, Ensemble Bash, Nephele Ensemble, Smith Quartet, 4sight, Duruflé Trio, Svyati Duo, duoDorT, Piano Circus, Melanie Pappenheim, Gabriella Swallow, Louise McMonagle and Guy Johnston.

His works are published by Composers Edition and his media music is published by The Scoring House (West One Music) and Lo Editions (Universal).

Colin also creates music for, performs with and directs two of his own groups. Formed by himself in 2006, MooV combines song-writing, chamber music, electronica and improvisation, and comprises Natalie Rosario (cello), Pete Wilson (electric bass), Rob Millett (percussion) and Elisabeth Nygård (vocals). Colin has produced two albums for MooV under his own label Squeaky Kate Music: Fold (2008) and Here (2012) . The Homemade Orchestra, a flexible line-up of musicians coming from jazz and new music backgrounds, was formed in 2001 by himself and jazz saxophonist Tim Whitehead, and has released two albums under its own label Homemade: Tides ‎(2003), which received the Peter Whittingham Award for Innovation in Jazz , and Inside Covers (2004) . Colin’s arrangement of Here Comes The Flood from the latter album as well as an original composition entitled Bird, in collaboration with Whitehead, feature on the track list of the 2005 release by Eclectic Video Distribution of the 1968 film, The Committee. In 2008 the Homemade Orchestra collaborated with poet Michael Rosen to create settings of Rosen’s two Book[s] of Nonsense, which they toured throughout the UK. The group continued its relationship with Rosen with another UK tour in 2013/14, this time with a hybrid theatre production of Centrally Heated Knickers alongside an education programme.

Colin writes a regular blog called Riley Notes, a collection of entries from which he has amalgamated into a book: Composing a Concerto for Two Cellos: Pulling the threads together for 'Warp and Weft' (2017). . He has also made a series of three podcasts in 2018 for Resonance FM exploring a sense of place around his work In Place. There is also a journal article in Tempo exploring the relationship between the song cycle and the album form stemming from this work.

Works

Solo

Light Touch (2021) Solo piano First performance 23rd September 2021, St John’s Church, Harrow, London - Jelena Makarova

At Sixes And Sevens (2021) Solo piano First performance 23rd September 2021, St John’s Church, Harrow, London - Jelena Makarova

The Listening Eye (2022) Solo ‘cello and electronics for Louise McMonagle

Eawl-Leet (2020) Solo ‘cello Commissioned by the Royal Academy of Music

Hook Line and Sinker (2019) Solo piano Commissioned by Jelena Makarova

Two-Part Inventions (2019) Solo piano First performance 14th June 2019, Salotto Musicale del Friuli Venezia Giulia, Italy - Agnese Toniutti

• Opinion Piece
• Going Down
• Tempus Fugue It
• All Hands
• Dara-Diddle
• What Will B
• Up And Running
• Over To You
• Dr Awkward
• A Stitch In Time
• Slow Talking
• Exchange Rate Mechanism

Joplin Jigsaws (2018) Solo piano Commissioned by Matthew Schellhorn First performance Jan 2018, Borough New Music - Matthew Schellhorn

• Leap Flame
• Enabeth #1
• Nerrataiente #1
• Enabeth #2
• Tag Rime
• Enabeth #3
• Nerrataiente #2

Fallen Angel (2017) Solo electric viola, live electronics and vibrating objects Commissioned by Nic Pendelbury with funds provided by the PRS for Music Foundation and Trinity Laban First performance 15th March 2017, Antonin Artaud Performance Centre, Brunel University London - Nic Pendelbury and James Waterworth

While Stars Light Your Way Across The Night (2017) Solo piano First performance Feb 2017, Borough New Music - Clare Simmonds

• No Longer A Flower
• And So I Follow You
• Only In Stillness
• In Soft Hands Wet With Tears
• Silent In A Winter Sleep
• Brush-Stroked In Joy

Songs of Coiled Light (2016) Solo bass clarinet, live electronics and vibrating surfaces Commissioned by Gareth Davies with funds provided by the PRS for Music Foundation First performance 16th Sept 2016 Suttie Arts Space, Aberdeen (Sound Festival Scotland) - Gareth Davies and Carl Faia

There Was One Room In Her House That Was Always Kept Locked (2016) Solo flute

As the Tender Twilight Covers (2015) Solo piano Commissioned by Matthew Schellhorn First performance 5th Sept 2015 York Late Music Festival - Matthew Schellhorn

Close the Door Put Out the Light (2015) Solo harp

Something In Our Minds Will Always Stay (2015) Solo 'cello

The Bluegirls Have All Gone Away (2014) Solo violin Commissioned by the Nephele Ensemble

All My Failings Exposed (2013) Solo viola (also version for solo 'cello) Commissioned by the Nephele Ensemble

Puzzle Pieces (2013) Solo harpsichord First performance 10th December, Handel House, London - Robyn Koh

• Fragile, Free and Frantic (Rhapsody for FS)
• Lost Egg (Sarabande for RE)
• Forever Young (Air for SY)
• Be Tender (Pavane and Galliard for LS)

Weave (2009) Solo piano Commissioned by Matthew Schellhorn First performance 12th Nov 2009 Cambridge Festival - Matthew Schellhorn

A Green And Yellow Melancholy (1996) Solo piano Commissioned by Ian Wilson First performance Feb 1997, Queens University, Belfast - Ian Wilson CD recording: A Stranger Called This Morning CRCD03

Ensemble

Three Palendromic Pieces (2021) 2 violins

Rock Paper Scissors (2019) Percussion Quartet Commissioned by Ensemble Bash First performance January 18th 2019, Tonbridge Music Club

Too Hot To Hoot (2019) Violin Duet

Close Quarters (2019) String quartet First performance tbc

• Sit
• Fly
• Hold
• Rock
• Dance

Heads on Sticks (2018) fl, vla, piano Commissioned by the Duruflé Trio First performance June 2018 at St Mary's Church, Swanage

Seven Hours and Fifteen Days (2018) fl, vla, pno Commissioned by the Duruflé Trio First performance June 2018 at St Mary's Church, Swanage

The Coloured Shoes The Empty Trains (2018) vla + pno Commissioned by the Duruflé Trio First performance June 2018 at St Mary's Church, Swanage

The Painted Ponies Go Up and Down (2018) fl + vla Commissioned by the Duruflé Trio First performance June 2018 at St Mary's Church, Swanage

Body of Edges (2017) vln, vc, pno First performance 10th February 2017, Baldam Gallery, Brunel University London - Table Music

• Streamlines
• In The Margin
• Floating Islands
• Thrash Hold

Impossible Worlds (2016) flexible open score Commissioned by COMA First performance 6th Dec 2016, St Dunstan's Church, Stepney, London - COMA London conducted by Greg Rose

• Night and Day
• Fluorescent Sea
• Three Worlds
• Butterflies
• House of Stairs

Three Movements (2015) cl, pno, perc/vibes Recorded by Tom Lessels, Gen Wilkins and Kate Halsall

• Purl
• Wane
• Bob

Ruminations (2014) ‘cello + organ First performance 28th March 2014, St Pauls Church, Clapham, London - Svyati Duo

• 1...

• 2...

• 3...

Right To The End of Our River (2014) 'cello + harp Commissioned by the Nephele Ensemble

Butterflying Low (2014) fl (doubling pic), vln, vla, vc Commissioned by the Nephele Ensemble

Break Out (2013) vln, cl, pno, perc Commissioned by 4sight Recorded by Steve Bingham, Victoria Soames, Adrian Sutcliffe and Chris Brannick: 4sight

Hanging In The Balance (2013) 2 pns, resonating objects, live electronics Commissioned by Kate Halsall as part of the Miniaturised Concertos Project, with funds provided by the Arts Council of England Assistance on sound design and programming from James Waterworth First performance, 6th Dec 2014, Hoggart Hall, Goldsmith's, London - Kate Halsall and Fumiko Miyachi

• Ritual Groove
• Brake, Tackle and Bowl
• A Scent of an Ending

A Kind of Green (2013) alto fl, vln, vla, vc Commissioned by the Nephele Ensemble

Backslap Boobytrap (2012) fl, cl, vln, vc, mar Commissioned by the Nephele Ensemble

Double Trio (2011) 2 pno, 2 keys (6 players) Piano Circus with funds from the Britten Pears Foundation First performance Feb 2011, Kings Place, London - pianocirucs

Broken Edges (2010) 2 pno + electronics Commissioned by duoDorT Album: Triple Point CRCD05

• Mesh
• Curl
• Twist

Cradle (2008) piano duet Commissioned by duoDorT First performance 2008 duoDorT St James’s, Piccadilly, London - duoDorT

Nonsense (2008) narrator, sax, el gtr, pno, keys, bass, perc, drums First performance Nov 2008, Queen Elisabeth Hall, London - The Homemade Orchestra with Michael Rosen

Skin and Wire (2005-7) pnos+keys, drums+perc

• Pale Corridor

First performance November 2007, Cobden Club, London - Piano Circus with Bill Bruford and the composer

• Kit and Caboodle

First performance Nov 2007, Cobden Club, London – Piano Circus with Bill Bruford and the composer

• Stalling Between Two Fools
• The Still Small Voice
• Achilles' Feel
• Squiggle Zipper

Commissioned by Piano Circus with funds from the PRS Foundation

First performance Oct 2006 The Lighthouse, Poole: Piano Circus

• Ebb Cast

Commissioned by Piano Circus with funds from the PRS Foundation

First performance October 2005, the Warehouse, London (Cutting Edge Series) - Piano Circus

Shenanigans (2005, rev 2014) cl + pno Commissioned by Sue Gill

• A Cool Cafuffle
• Lazy Legs Lollup
• Before And After
• Cockaloop
• Curly Birds
• Swan Song

While It Lasts (2001) fl (alto fk), cl (bass cl), trpt (flugal), tenor sax, string quartet, dbl bass, pno, perc, drums Created with funds provided by the Peter Whittingham Award and Brunel University Research Awards First performance Sept 2002, Ronnie Scotts, London The Homemade Orchestra conducted by the composer Album: Tides WHMR0048

Bird (2001) fl (alto fl), cl (bass cl), trpt (flugal), tenor sax, string quartet, dbl bass, pno, perc, drums (Co-written with Tim Whitehead) Created with funds provided by the Peter Whittingham Award and Brunel University Research Awards First performance Sept 2002, Ronnie Scotts, London The Homemade Orchestra conducted by the composer Album: Tides WHMR0048

Oil On Water (2001) fl (alto fl), cl (bass cl), trpt (flugal), tenor sax, string quartet, dbl bass, pno, perc, drums Created with funds provided by the Peter Whittingham Award and Brunel University Research Awards First performance Sept 2002, Ronnie Scotts, London The Homemade Orchestra conducted by the composer Album: Tides WHMR0048

I Know Who The Alligators Are (2001) fl (alto fl), cl (bass cl), trpt (flugal), tenor sax, string quartet, dbl bass, pno, perc, drums Created with funds provided by the Peter Whittingham Award and Brunel University Research Awards First performance Sept 2002, Ronnie Scotts, London The Homemade Orchestra conducted by the composer Album: Tides WHMR0048

When Soft Voices Die (2001) fl (alto fl), cl (bass cl), trpt (flugal), tenor sax, string quartet, dbl bass, pno, perc, drums Created with funds provided by the Peter Whittingham Award and Brunel University Research Awards First performance Sept 2002, Ronnie Scotts, London The Homemade Orchestra conducted by the composer Album: Tides WHMR0048

Close (2001) Soprano sax. elec guit, bass guit. perc Commissioned and first performed by Sub Divo at the Spitz, London, Jan 2002 Album: Close CRCD02

Taking Leaves (1998) fl (alto fl/picc), cl (bass cl), hp, string quartet Commissioned by Kokoro with funds provided by Southern Arts and the Kokoro Note4Note music initiative First performance Dec 1998, Wessex Hall, Poole Arts Centre, Dorset Kokoro conducted by Kevin Field Album: A Stranger Called This Morning CRCD03

Frieze Frame (1997) vln, vla, vc, db, fl, ob, cl, bsn, hn or 2 ob, 2 cl, 2 hn, 2 bsn, 10' Commissioned by the Bournemouth Orchestras with funds provided by Purbeck Borough Council and the Arts Council of England First performance June 1997, Corfe Castle, Dorset The Bournemouth Sinfonietta Winds conducted by Howard Nelson Album: A Stranger Called This Morning CRCD03

Airs And Graces (1993) fl, ob, cl, trpt (or hn), pno Commissioned by Sounds Positive First performance Feb 1993, Trinity Theatre, Tunbridge Wells Festival Sounds Positive conducted by David Sutton-Anderson Album: A Stranger Called This Morning CRCD03

Vocal

In Place (2017) voice, viola, piano (keyboard, harmonium), bass guitar (double bass, uke bass), percussion Commissioned by Sound Festival Scotland with funds provided by the PRS Foundation (Beyond Borders) and the arts Council of England First performance 2nd November 2017, The Lemon Tree Theatre, Aberdeen, part of Sound Festival Scotland Melanie Pappenheim, Nic Pendlebury, Kate Halsall, Ruth Goller, Stephen Hiscock CD recording: In Place CRCD09

• Weather Words (text Robert Macfarlane)
• Half Written Love Letter (text Selina Nwulu))
• Jaan Jalebi (text Daljit Nagra)
• Litany For The Furness Fells (text Richard Skelton and Autumn Richardson)
• Moss (text Paul Farley)
• Deep Forest (text Edward Thomas)
• Lost Engines (text anon)
• Warp In The Rain (text Nick Papadimitriou)
• Beneath, Above, Along (text Jackie Morris)
• Water Over Stone (text Nan Shepherd)

Here (2012) voice, vc, pn, perc, electonics Released on Squeaky Kate Label

• I Dream Beside You
• A Pier
• Trust
• Release
• Quiet Sounds
• Pirate Hats and Bears
• Rain (for L.S.)
• Soft Room
• Cold Crave
• Spires
• While I Stole Your Affection
• Spoken or Sung
• Vinter Nå

Fold (2008) voice, vc, pn, perc, electronics Released on Squeaky Kate Label

• Pure
• Beautiful Wounds
• No Trace
• Coil
• Fall Away
• Interference
• Close Up Close Down
• How Many Steps?
• The Bare Image of You
• Nå Sov (Now Sleep)
• Burn
• Holding The Time
• End With Mourning

Passing Places (2006) sop, cl, electronics Commissioned by Alison Wells May 2006, Hertfordshire University, (part of Mayfest) - Alison Wells and Ian Mitchell

• Long Pale Corridor (Agneta Falk)
• Strokes of Breath (Peter Quinn)
• Fire and Silk (Carlv Sandburg)
• Come on Slowly (John Stone)
• Into New Weather (Stephen Parr)

A Stranger Called This Morning (2003) sop, fl (picc, alto fl), cl (bass cl), vln, vc, pno, perc Commissioned by Kokoro with funds provided by the PRS Foundation First performance October 2003, The Study Gallery, Poole, Dorset - Alison Wells and Kokoro, conducted by Mark Forkgen CD recording: A Stranger Called This Morning CRCD03

• Celebration (text Ann Ziety)
• Rising, Falling (text George Szirtes)
• A Small Discovery (text James A. Emanuel)
• What Could I Do But Laugh and Go? (text Richard le Gallienne)
• Dream Colours (text anon)
• The Sound Collector (text Roger McGough)
• Helplessly Young (text Frances Cornford)
• More Often Than we Tell (text Kit Wright)
• Never Will I Go Home to be a Child (text Kathleen Raine)

On The Sheltering Bars (2001) sop, vln, electric gtr, vc, bass gtr, perc, treatments Commissioned the Smith Quartet with funds provided by the PRS Foundation First performance (original scoring) March 2003, The Michael Tippett Centre, Bath Spa University, Bath - Alison Wells and the Smith Quartet CD recording: Close CRCD02

• Upon the Sharp Edges of the Night (text Amy Lowell)
• Fire Roses (text Cynthia Fuller)
• I Suspect (text Lynn Peters)
• At 3 a.m. (text Wendy Cope)
• My Bed (text Ann Gray)
• A Big event (text Sophie Hannah)
• The Longing of the Meat Trade (text Selima Hill)
• The Morning After (Fiona Pitt-Kethley
• After Love (text Maxime Kumin)

Orchestral

Hearing Places (2022) 3.3.3.3. 4.3.3.1. timp + 2, harp, piano/celeste, strings First performance March 2023, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Hoddinott Hall, Cardiff. Commissioned by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Earth Voices (2020) 2.2.2.2. 2.2.2.3. timps, perc, piano/celeste, strings First performance tbc, the Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra, Sweden Commissioned by the Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra with support from the Swedish Arts Council

• I Luften
• Dans Son Et Barn
• Das Kleinste Speil der Blätter
• Vers le Crépuscule
• Stone Pulses

Stream-Shine - Violin Concerto (2019) solo violin, 2.2.2.2. 2.2.2. perc, harp, strings First performance September 2021, Ely Cathedral, Cambridgeshire - Philippa Mo and the Ely Sinfonia conducted by Steve Bingham Commissioned by the Ely Sinfonia

Warp and Weft - Concerto for 2 cellos, strings and percussion (2017) 2 cellos, strings (6.4.4.4.2.), perc First performance June 8th 2017, Manchester Cathedral - Gabriella Swallow and Guy Johnston and the Manchester Camerata conducted by Gabor Takacs-Nagy Commissioned by the Manchester Camerata with funds provided by the Arts Council of England and the PRS for Music Foundation

Landscapes With Birds (2004 rev 2010) improvising tenor sax (soprano sax), strings Commissioned by Viva with funds provided by the PRS Foundation. First performance 31st Jan 2004, Assembly Rooms, Derby Tim Whitehead and Sinfonia Viva

• The Heart’s Exploding Sun
• Talking to Stony Skylines
• Good Night Air

Where The Running Water Goes (2000) 3.3.3.3. 4.2.3.1. 3 perc, piano, harp, strings, instrumental soloists, narrator Commissioned by the East Of England Orchestra with funds provided by East Midlands Arts First performance July 2000, Meres Leisure Centre, Grantham - East Of England Orchestra and Lincolnshire Youth Orchestra conducted by Nicholas Kok

• The Seed (text Aileen Fisher)
• Bird-world And Leaf-like (text Kathleen Raine)
• Gone Forever (text Robert Louis Stevenson)
• Silver (text Walter De La Mare)
• Helplessly Young (text Frances Cornford)
• Day Of These Days (Laurie Lee)
• In The Distance (text Cecil Frances Alexander)
• Daedalus (text Alastair Reid)
• The Self Un-Seeing (text Thomas Hardy)
• The Boat (Text Robert Pack)

The Sleep Of Reason (1998) 1.2.1.2. 2.2. Strings Commissioned by the Bournemouth Orchestras with funds provided by Poole Borough Council First performance Oct 1998, Weymouth Pavilion, Dorset - The Bournemouth Sinfonietta conducted by Paul Mann

The Inside Springs (1997) 2.2.2.2. 2.2. 3 perc, electric guitar, piano (celesta), strings First performance October 2001, BBC Maida Vale Studios, London (BBC Invitation Concert) - BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Pascal Rophe Also broadcast on BBC Radio 3, Nov 2001

Aurora (1997) Youth Orchestra 2.1.3.1. 1.2.2.1 2 perc, piano, strings Commissioned by the Warrington Youth Orchestra to commemorate their 25th anniversary First performance Dec 1998, Parr Hall, Warrington - The Warrington Youth Orchestra conducted by Anthony Ridley

Off The Rails (1997) Brass band with percussion Commissioned by the Bournemouth Orchestras with funds provided by Thamesdown Borough Council First performance June 1997, Swindon - Pegasus Brass and the Bournemouth Sinfonietta conducted by Niolae Moldoveanu

Choir

The Year’s Midnight (2019) SATB Setting of part of John Doone’s ‘Ode Upon St Lucie’s Day

Roads Shining Like River Up Hill After Rain (2017) SATB and 'cello Texts compiled by Robert Macfarlane from fragments of poetry by Edward Thomas Commissioned by the Oxford Bach Soloists with funds provided by the Hinrichsen Foundation First performance April 2017, New College Oxford Chapel - Gabriella Swallow and the Oxford Bach Soloists conducted by Tom Hammond-Davies

We Animals Would Like A Word With You (1998) children's choir, soprano, 'cello Texts by John Agard Commissioned by the London Sinfonietta with funds provided by the South Bank Centre First performance Jan 1998, Festival Hall, London - Holy Trinity School and members of the London Sinfonietta

• Frog Hop
• Circus Lion Gives Evidence
• Goldfish Reflections
• A Reminder From Snake
• Rat Race

Solitudes (1997) Choir and strings (also a version with piano) First performance (first movement only), June 1997, Swindon - Swindon Choral Society and the Bournemouth Sinfonietta conducted by Nicolae Moldoveanu

• Return (text Pablo Neruda)
• Into Leaping Wind (text Denise Levertov)
• White Tender Gleam (text Edith Sodergran)

...round the still earth... (1994) (a cycle of winter songs) unaccompanied choir SSAATTBB Commissioned by the National Youth Choir of Great Britain First performance Dec 1994, Royal Albert Hall, London - National Youth Choir of Great Britain conducted by Michael Brewer CD recording: In The Gloom of Whiteness CRCD01

• News! (text Anon 9th century)
• Flight (text George Johnston)
• The Warm And The Cold (text Ted Hughes)
• As The Manner Is (text 15th century medieval lyric)
• Snow Down (text Edward Thomas)
• Into Leaf (text (Philip Larkin)

Opera

Science Fictions (1998) Chamber Opera (libretto John Ginman) soprano, amplified violin, electric guitar, amplified 'cello, electric bass Supported with funds from the National Lottery and English National Opera's Contemporary Opera Studio First performance Oct 1999, Drill Hall, London - Alison Wells and the Opera Band conducted by Nic Pendlebury CD recording: Close CRCD02

Gulliver (1995) children's opera (libretto John Ginman) baritone, children's solos and choruses, chamber orchestra Commissioned by the English String Orchestra with funds provided by West Midlands Arts and the Annie Collins Trust First performance Dec 1995, Malvern Festival Theatre, Malvern - Mark Oldfield, English String Orchestra and the people of Malvern conducted by William Boughton

Noir (1995) chamber Opera (libretto John Ginman) 4 singers, electric violin, alto sax, electric bass, piano, percussion Supported with funds provided by the Britten-Pears Foundation and the Holst Foundation First performance June 1995, Purcell Room, London - Fiona Baines, Mark Oldfield and The Opera Band

Dance/Theatre/Installation

Centrally Heated Knickers (2013) narrator, sax, guitar, perc/kit Funded by the Arts Council of England, The Wellcome Foundation and the Institute of Physics First Performance, The Pleasance Theatre, London, 8th June, 2013 Co-written with Tim Whitehead and realised by members of the cast, Michael Rosen, Tim Whitehead, Dave Preston, Jim Hart, Maisie Whitehead and director Tony Graham.

Because (1999) amplified viola, amplified 'cello, bass guitar, percussion Commissioned by the Isleworth Festival with funds provided by the Linbury Trust First performance May 1999, Chiswick Town Hall, London - Isleworth Festival Ensemble Danced by members of Rambert Dance Company Choreography by Rafael Bonachela

Still Moving (1998) music for the exhibition 'Black Angels White Devils': multiple violas Commissioned by Redlees Arts And Crafts Stables with funds provided by Community Initiative Partnerships, Hounslow First performance Dec 1998, Redlees Arts And Crafts Stables, Isleworth - Nic Pendlebury Exhibition of sculpture by Elizabeth Rollins-Scott

Was(1995) sequenced, sample-generated ensemble Commissioned by Paula Hampson with funds provided by North West Arts First performance Feb 1995, Jackson's Lane Community Centre, London Recorded music prepared by the composer Danced and choreographed by Paula Hampson

Hansel And Gretel (1994) music-drama for children: 4 singers and chamber ensemble Commissioned by Midlands Arts Centre First performance Nov 1994, Midlands Arts Centre, Birmingham Libretto Sheila Goff Directed by Mark Ravenhill

A Short Journey From The Bed To The Chair (1994) electric vln, alto sax, bass gtr, pno Commissioned by the Karen Greenough Company First performance March 1994, The Place Theatre, London Recorded music by members of Icebreaker Dance by the Karen Greenough Company Choreography by Karen Greenough

• The Attic
• Duet
• Folk Dance
• Tables
• Goodbye

Recordings

Isolated Pieces (2022) Squeaky Kate Music Assemblage

• Sunlight Patterns
• I Dance As I Rise
• Dislodged
• Likety Spit
• Most of My Day
• Dance to the Sound of Our Dreams
• Light Waiting
• Do You Still See the Sun?
• Enormous Delicate Things
• Nothing Is Still 1
• Look Back
• Throb
• Crows
• Ease the Pressure
• Nothing Is Still 2
• Reverend
• Twister
• Murmurations

Shenanigans (2017) NMC Recordings

• Three Movements Tom Lessels, Genevieve Wilkins, Kate Halsall
• Lyric Pieces Nicola Summerscales, Rebecca Hepplewhite, Celine Saout, Jessica Beeston, Samantha Wickramasinghe
• Shenanigans Tom Lessels, Kate Halsall
• As The Tender Twilight Covers Matthew Schellhorn

From Score To Sound (2017) Dark Inventions

• Backslap Boobytrap

Miniaturised Concertos - Maché (2016) Métier Kate Halsall

• Hanging In The Balance

Skin and Wire (2009) Summerfold Records Piano Circus and Bill Bruford

• Kit and Caboodle
• Pale Corridor
• Stalling Between Two Fools
• The Still Small Voice
• Achilles' Feel
• Without a Hand to Hold (for JM)
• Squiggle Zipper
• Tear
• Ebb Cast

Moments and Days (2009) UH Recordings Alison Wells and Ian Mitchell

• Passing Places

A Green And Yellow Melancholy (2005) Craft Music Kokoro/Mark Forkgen With Alison Wells

• Frieze Frame
• A Stranger Called This Morning
• Taking Leaves
• Airs And Graces
• A Green And Yellow Melancholy

Close (2005) Craft Music Pete Wilson, Philip Sheppard, Zoe Martlew, Dave Arrowsmith, James Woodrow, Rob Millett, Christian Forshaw, Joanna Lawrence, Claron McFadden

• Close
• On The Sheltering Bars
• Science Fictions

Round The Still Earth in In The Gloom Of Whiteness (2004) Craft Music Canticum/Mark Forkgen with Simon Haram

Tracks in Tides (2003) Homemade The Homemade Orchestra

• While It Lasts
• Bird (with Tim Whitehead)
• Oil On Water
• I Know Where The Alligators Are
• When Soft Voices Die

Arrangements in Inside Covers (2004) Homemade The Homemade Orchestra

• Somewhere Over The Rainbow
• Caravan (in collaboration with Tim Whitehead)
• Careless Whisper
• Here Comes The Flood

Here (2012) Squeaky Kate Music in collaboration with Elisabeth Nygård and Natalie Rozario MooV

• I Dream Beside You
• A Pier
• Trust
• Release
• Quiet Sounds
• Pirate Hats And Bears
• Rain In (For L.S.)
• Soft Room
• Cold Crave
• Spires
• While I Stole Your Affection
• Spoken Or Sung
• Vinter Nå

Fold (2008) Squeaky Kate Music MooV

• Pure
• Beautiful Wounds
• No Trace
• Coil
• Fall Away
• Interference
• Close Up Close Down
• How Many Steps?
• The Bare Image Of You
• Nå Sov (Now Sleep)
• Burn
• Holding The Time
• End With Mourning

Library Music

Sound Sketches (2019) The Scoring House

• From A Train
• Blue Remembered Hills
• River Voices
• Sunlight Circles
• Mushroom Skylines
• Slow Dawn Haze
• Saffron Street
• Sky Trace
• Concrete Underworld
• Over Hills and Vales
• Strange Paths
• Illusive Science
• Winter Skies
• Simple Syncronicity
• Over Moors and Gens
• Silent Mountain
• Distant Air
• Gothic Fantasy
• Animal Antics
• Far Blue Beyond
• Butterfly Summer
• Miniature Movements
• Circling Birds
• Insect World
• Darting and Dancening
• The Silent Hunters
• Spring Sunshine
• Silent Pursuit
• Herd Instinct

Through The Lense (2012) The Scoring House

• Collider
• Under Surveillance
• Dawn Call
• Digit Dance
• Awaken
• Bubble Stream
• Jelly Deep
• Sky Pyramid
• Close Particles (a)
• Close Particles (b)
• Face at a Window
• Distant Horizons (a)
• Distant Horizons (b)
• Beams of Light
• Inner Worlds
• Ancient Dust
• Conveyor
• Liquid Worlds (a)
• Liquid Worlds (b)
• Mystic Threads
• Angels Far
• Angels Near
• Focal Point
• Dark Conductors
• Time Freeze
• Under Observation
• Time Passing

Winter Blanket Inside (2007) Lo Editions

• A Carpet Of Snow
• Tender Is The Light

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