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V I D E O

Tourmaline

String Orchestra and Percussion

7'

2023

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Written during the COVID-19 Lockdown

'Tourmaline' is a highly energetic piece that takes inspiration from the mainstream genre of electronic dance music, exploring the rhythms, harmonies and textures of electronic music in an authentically instrumental setting.

Themes build and grow, then tumble apart, before pounding drums draw them back together. Altogether this work is a joyous sprint through an off-kilter landscape, delighting in the versatility of acoustic strings, whilst maintaining the loud visceral impact of the genre that inspired it.

Apart we are not alone
Together Apart

Solo string instrument

7'

2020

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Written during the COVID-19 Lockdown (Spring 2020), and recorded by Fenella Humphreys.

'Together Apart' was commissioned by BBC Radio 3 as one of their 'Postcards from Composers' and originally premiered by BBC National Orchestra of Wales' Lesley Hatfield.

the blue and the dim and the dark

Double String Quartet

10'

2019

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Performed in Kunstmuseum Lucerne, as part of the Lucerne Festival, September 2019, by JACK Quartet and Mivos Quartet.​

I dared say it to the sky

Soprano and Percussion

13'

2016

 

Commissioned by Heidelberg Festival in 2016, 'I dared say it to the sky' was premiered in April 2016 by Sarah Maria Sun and Johannes Fischer.

Palimpsest

Short film

5'

2015

 

​Commissioned by the Royal Philharmonic Society and IdeasTap in 2014, 'Palimpsest' is a short film directed by Christopher Lutterodt-Quarcoo, interpreting Sarah's chamber ensemble work 'Shadow Play' (2013).

Clericus et Nonna

SSA Voices

6'

2013

 

Written for Sound and Music's Portfolio scheme with juice vocal ensemble, 'Clericus et Nonna' was premiered at the National Portrait Gallery, London in January 2014.

Dim Light, Bright White

2 female voices, Contrabass recorder & electronics

6'

2013

 

​Written during ENOA's Composition for Voices and Electronics course in 2012-13. Performed in LOD Theatre, Ghent, December 2013, by Silbersee (ex-vocaallab) and Tom Beets.

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