COMPOSITION
COMPOSITION
On this page you can find a list of selected recent compositions. Please follow the links to listen to recordings and view perusal scores for each of the pieces. All scores listed here have sheet music available by following the “purchase” or “inquire” links.
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VOICE(S)
with LARGE ENSEMBLE
Heroes — theatrical cantata — 13’ — 2022 — for choir SATB, soprano and baritone soloists, and chamber orchestra. Libretto by Harry Castle. Commissioned by Lucy Kitchener and Mount St. Mary’s College. Premiered 24 June 2022, Mount St. Mary’s College Chapel, Sheffield, UK.
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with SMALL ENSEMBLE
banshee — 8’30” — 2020 — for oboe/mezzo-soprano (with belt), bassoon/mezzo-soprano, and live processing. Commissioned by the Marea Duo. Premiered 17 October 2020, online (due to COVID-19).
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the truth about monsters — 4’ — 2020 — for soprano, clarinet, violin, and cello. Text by Nikita Gill. Premiere 6 May 2020, cancelled due to COVID-19.
champagne/acidic — 5’ — 2019 — for mezzo-soprano, flute, and live processing. Text by Jennifer Foerster. Premiered by Margaret Lancaster & Jennifer Beattie, 24 October 2019, Off-Broadway Theatre, New Haven, CT.
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hurricane/black — 4’ — 2018 — for mezzo-soprano and synthesiser. Text by Jennifer Foerster. Premiered by the Albatross Duo, 15 November 2018, Beinecke Rare Books and Manuscripts Library, New Haven, CT.
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Shoes — 9’30” — 2018 — for soprano, trumpet in C, and cello. Text by Moses Schulstein. Commissioned by Toby Hession. Premiered by Holly Holt, Nick Smith & Dominic Martens, 28 January 2018, Clare College Chapel, Cambridge, UK.
with PIANO
The Sundayshire Wassail — 4’ — 2022 — for TTBB chorus and piano. Text traditional, revised by Harry Castle. Commissioned by Michael Betteridge and The Sunday Boys. Premiered 2 December 2022, Manchester Cathedral, Manchester, UK.
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explanation of autumn — 3’ — 2021 — for tenor and piano. Text by Andrea Cohen. Premiered by Harry Castle & Eric Banitt, 1 November 2021, McIntosh Theatre, Ann Arbor, MI.
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you all have lied — 4’ — 2020 — for baritone and piano. Text by Edna St. Vincent Millay. Commissioned by Matthieu Walendzik. US premiere 1 November 2021, McIntosh Theatre, Ann Arbor, MI. European premiere 6 June 2022, Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse, Paris, France.
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farewell — 5’ — 2020 — for mezzo-soprano and piano. Text by Christine de Pizan. Commissioned by Anna Disley-Simpson. Premiered by Harry Castle & Eric Banitt, 1 November 2021, McIntosh Theatre, Ann Arbor, MI.
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Milligana — song cycle — 5’30” — 2017 — for soprano and piano. Text by Spike Milligan. Premiered by Olivia Brett and Toby Hession, 19 October 2019, St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Trafalgar Square, London, UK.
A CAPPELLA
At Baia (in a dream) — 4’ — 2023 — for choir SATB divisi. Text by H.D. (Hilda Doolittle).
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Go on child — 7’30” — 2022 — for choir SMATBarB. Text by t.r.h. blue. Winner of 2022 Brehm Prize for Choral Composition. Premiered by University of Michigan Chamber Choir, 16 February 2023, Hill Auditorium, Ann Arbor, MI.
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The Parliament Fart — 3’ — 2020 — for consort SSATB. Text anon. Commissioned by Eve Houghton. Premiered by LUCERIS Vocal Ensemble, 12 February 2020, Beinecke Rare Books and Manuscripts Library, New Haven, CT.
oculi omnium — 4’ — 2019 — for choir SATB divisi. Text anon. European premiere at Rodolfus Choral Courses, 4 August 2019, Eton College, Eton, UK. US premiere by Battell Chapel Choir, 8 March 2020, Battell Chapel, New Haven, CT.
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tota pulchra erat — 5’ — 2019 — for choir SSAA divisi and soprano solo. Text by Kurt Vonnegut. Commissioned by Tom Edney. Premiered by La Caccina, Fall 2024, location TBD, Chicago, IL.
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blue — 6’ — 2018 — for consort AATTBarB or SMATBarB. Text by Mary Coleridge.
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Drop — 3’ OR 7’30” — 2017/2018 — for choir SATB divisi (+ violin and cello in longer version). Text from Isaiah 45.
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holy ground — 3’ — 2017 — for choir SATB divisi, and soprano, tenor and baritone soloists. Text from Exodus 3. Winner of 2017 Clare College Christmas Carol Composition Competition. Premiered by Graham Ross & Choir of Clare College, Cambridge, 1 December 2017, Clare College Chapel, Cambridge, UK.
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Fall, leaves, fall — 7’ — 2017 — for choir SSATBarB divisi and baritone solo. Text by Emily Brontë. Premiered by Graham Ross & Choir of Clare College, Cambridge, March 2017, Clare College Chapel, Cambridge, UK.
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aleph — 3’30” — 2015 — for choir SATB divisi. Text from Lamentations 1. Premiered by Harry Bradford & Novaura Chamber Choir, November 2015, Clare College Chapel, Cambridge, UK.
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The Shepherds Went Their Hasty Way — 4’ — 2015 — for consort AATBarBarB or SMATBarB. Text by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
INSTRUMENTAL
LARGE ENSEMBLE
involute — 7’30” — 2020 — for orchestra. Workshopped by William Boughton & Yale Symphony Orchestra, October 2019, Yale School of Music, New Haven, CT.
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Three Miniatures from Puntan yan Fu’una — 13’ — 2017 — for chamber orchestra and saxophone. Premiered by Toby Hession & the Clare College Orchestra, April 2017, Clare College Chapel, Cambridge, UK.
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Four-faced — 4’ — 2015 — for alto saxophone, bassoon, horn, percussion, piano, violin, viola, cello, and double bass. Premiered by Gavin Wayte & the Junior RNCM New Music Ensemble, May 2015, Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester, UK.
INSTRUMENTAL
SMALL ENSEMBLE
where are we? — 6’30” — 2022 — for two euphoniums and two tubas. Commissioned by Nathan Shook. Premiered by University of Michigan Graduate Tuba Quartet, 21 February 2022, Britton Recital Hall, Ann Arbor, MI.
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beatz — 6’30” — 2019 — for flute, clarinet, and cello. Premiered by the Da Capo Chamber Players, 28 February 2019, Beinecke Rare Books and Manuscripts Library, New Haven, CT.
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Fanfare for a funeral — 4’30” — 2018 — for 2 cornetts, 2 tenor sackbuts and bass sackbut. Runner-up in the National Centre for Early Music Young Composers’ Award 2018. Premiered by the English Cornett & Sackbut Ensemble, 25 April 2018, National Centre for Early Music, York, UK.
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Quintet — 19’ — 2018 — for flute/piccolo, oboe, clarinet/bass clarinet, horn, and bassoon. Workshopped by Mistral Winds, May 2018, University of Cambridge, UK.
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Cloudburst — 6’ — 2015 — for flute, clarinet, horn, violin, cello, and percussion. Commissioned by the BBC Proms. Premiered by Rumon Gamba & an ensemble of the BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Proms, Royal College of Music, London, UK.
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Quartet for four — 6’30” — 2015 — for viola, double bass, bassoon, and percussion. Premiered by Kim Becker, Matthew Kitteringham, Alex Jones & Elliot Gaston-Ross, March 2015, Royal Northern College of Music Concert Hall, Manchester, UK.
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La Trahison des Images — 3’30” — 2014 — for cello and piano. Winner of the BBC Prom Young Composers’ Competition 2014. Premiered by Louisa Tuck & John Reid, 20 August 2014, BBC Proms, Royal College of Music, London, UK.
SOLO
sea marble — 8’ — 2023 — for bassoon and fixed media electronics. Commissioned by New World Symphony. Premiered by Eleni Katz, 10 April 2023, Truist Pavilion, New World Symphony Center, Miami Beach, FL.
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Machine Learning — 7’30” — 2022 — for percussion and live looping. Commissioned by Ancel Neeley. Premiered 14 March 2022, Britton Recital Hall, Ann Arbor, MI.
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bloom — 8’ — 2021 — for oboe and fixed media electronics. Commissioned by Amelia Merriman. Premiered 13 April 2021, Sprague Memorial Hall, New Haven, CT.
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DRAMATIC
FILM
Barely Recognizable — movie musical in one act — 40’ — 2021. Music & lyrics by Harry Castle, screenplay by Lucy Wilkins. Premiered 14 August 2022, Flickers’ Rhode Island International Film Festival. Winner, Special Jury Prize, Yale in Hollywood Film Festival, 3 December 2022.
STAGE WORKS
Isn’t It Queer? — song cycle — 70’ — 2022. Music, lyrics & orchestrations by Harry Castle. Premiered by Claire DeJean, Alex Humphreys, Owen Scales & Tomias Robinson, 16 November 2022, McIntosh Theater, Ann Arbor, MI.
The Hunt — radio musical — 17’ — 2022. Music & lyrics by Harry Castle & Ryo Kamibayashi.
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A Midsummer Night’s Dream — children’s musical — 90’ — 2020. An adaptation in two acts of the play by William Shakespeare. Music & lyrics by Harry Castle, book by Josh Cleary, orchestrations by Finlay Stafford. Premiered 23-24 March, Westminster Old Hall, London, UK.
LUCKY — musical in one act — 55’ — 2018. Music by Harry Castle, lyrics & book by Ash Weir. Premiered by Cambridge University Musical Theatre Society, 3-27 August 2018, Greenside Infirmary Street, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Edinburgh, UK.
Eurydice — incidental music — 30’ — 2017. Score to the play by Sarah Ruhl. Premiered by the Dryden Society, November 2017, Clare College Antechapel, Cambridge, UK.
ALICE — incidental music — 20’ — 2016. Contributed to the score of an original circus retelling of Alice in Wonderland. Premiered by Feathers of Daedalus, August 2016, The Gilded Balloon, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Edinburgh, UK.
A Spurt of Blood — incidental music — 24’ — 2016. Score to the play by Zoé Barnes, after Jet de Sang by Antonin Artaud. Premiered by Blathersprite Productions, 3-6 June 2016, Judith E. Wilson Drama Studio, Cambridge, UK.
MUSICAL THEATRE SONGS
NB Full sheet music and selected orchestrations are available upon request.
Watch | View Perusal | “Art” — alto & baritone
Listen | View Perusal | Barely Recognizable from Barely Recognizable — mezzo
Watch | View Perusal | Both/And from State of Motion — 2 mezzos
Listen | View Perusal | Breathe And Go from Barely Recognizable — mezzo
Listen | View Perusal | Como Agua Para Chocolate — mezzo
Watch | View Perusal | Done With You from (Mostly) Songs About Boys — tenor
Listen | View Perusal | Full Disclosure from Barely Recognizable — alto (with additional spoken part)
Watch | View Perusal | Hey from (Mostly) Songs About Boys — tenor
Watch | View Perusal | Hometown Hercules from (Mostly) Songs About Boys — baritone
Listen | View Perusal | How Much You Care from (Mostly) Songs About Boys — baritone or mezzo
Listen | View Perusal | How To Build A Tent — treble/mezzo (with additional spoken part)
Listen | View Perusal | I Want That from Barely Recognizable — mezzo & ensemble (3 parts MTB)
Watch | View Perusal | I’m Ready from (Mostly) Songs About Boys — tenor & baritone
Listen | View Perusal | Nevermore (text by Tony Kushner) — tenor
Watch | View Perusal | Picture This — tenor
Watch | View Perusal | Safer Sex and COVID-19 — mezzo
Listen | View Perusal | Purchase | Sorry — baritone
Listen | View Perusal | The Most Perfect Moment — tenor
Watch | View Perusal | Un Poco Tresillo from (Mostly) Songs About Boys — baritone
Listen | View Perusal | What You’re Going To Do from Barely Recognizable — 3 mezzos, tenor & 2 baritones
Watch | View Perusal | Your Girl from State of Motion — mezzo
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