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SELECTED COMPOSITIONS
New to my music? Here's some projects that are
most indicative of my compositional approach;
as well as some of the music that I'm most proud of.
If you'd like a full list of works, you can find that here.
Need a score for performance or perusal? Get in touch!
STAGE WORKS
MONSTER (2025)
"Punk-rock cabaret opera" exploring the effects of gentrification and late-stage capitalism in urban centres
Instrumentation: baritone, piano
Duration: 20'
Recording: contact for recording
Developed with librettist David Bottomley, with support from Guildhall’s Making It Fund 2025
URSA MINOR (2023-24)
Queer, coming-of-age psychological-horror opera exploring grief, puberty, and family transformations
Instrumentation: four voices (S.S.T.Bar.) and ensemble of 11 players
Duration: 24'
Recording: Full video | Scene II: "Mischka" excerpt | Score-video
Developed with librettist Alexia Peniguel as part of the MA Opera Making and Writing at Guildhall School of Music and Drama
hikikomori! (2021-22)
Video game-inspired psychological-horror opera, recontextualising OMORI during the COVID-19 pandemic
Instrumentation: four voices (S.M-S.T.B.) and piano
Duration: 70'
Recording: Score-video - Scene IV excerpt
Commissioned by Nigel and Sue Masters of Opera in Oborne
ORCHESTRAL / LARGE ENSEMBLE WORKS
Overture to hikikomori! (2024)
Orchestral overture to my first opera
Instrumentation: symphony orchestra (2222.4321.3perc.pno.str.)
Duration: 3'
Recording: contact for recording
GREDOS (Starship I) (2023)
“Sci-fi cantata” exploring mental health through space travel
Instrumentation: soprano and chamber orchestra (1111.1110.sop.pno.str.)
Duration: 17'
Recording: Video | Score-video
Composed for the 2023 Composers Conference, supported by the Fromm Foundation Composer Fellowship
Close Your Eyes and Think About Someone You Love (2021)
Saxophone and percussion ensemble work celebrating love as a conscious choice
Instrumentation: large saxophone/percussion ensemble (2S.3A.2T.2B.1bass.8perc.)
Duration: 5'
Recording: Video
VOCAL AND SONG
hope songs (2025-26)
Mental health-oriented song cycle exploring recovery, healing, and finding self-love
Instrumentation: soprano and piano
Duration: 40'
Recording: contact for recording
Text by hazyn forsythe, developed with support from small room arts
Laika: A Space Dog-yssey (2024)
Joyful sci-fi monodrama/operetta about dogs, space travel, and reclamation
Instrumentation: soprano and cello
Duration: 15'
Recording: Video - Scene III: Stay/Don't Stay
Developed with librettist Ariella Como Stoian as part of the Guildhall Artists Junior Fellowship
Gilded (2024)
An ecological-horror song cycle recontextualising the Midas myth for the modern age
Instrumentation: soprano and chamber ensemble (sax.vla.vc.pno.)
Duration: 10'
Recording: Video | Score-video
Developed with librettist Sara Clifford; commissioned by the Composers Conference - Susan Horvath CMW Commissioned Work 2024
CHAMBER WORKS
IN THE EVENT THAT YOU STAY (2025)
Multi-movement trio inspired by internet culture and finding hope and connection in times of crisis
Instrumentation: flute, cello, piano
Duration: 24'
Recording: Video
Commissioned by the Royal Philharmonic Society as part of their 2025 Composers programme
false vacuum songs (2024)
Three movements bringing together drawings, voicenotes, and collaborative composition processes
Instrumentation: clarinet, guitar, double bass, percussion
Duration: 7'
Recording: Score-video
Composed for àktapha’s International Composition Workshop: Building Performance Practices
A LIGHTHOUSE FEVERDREAM (2023)
Narrated dreams of loneliness and percussion for piano trio, inspired by To The Moon
Instrumentation: violin, cello, piano, narrator
Duration: 8'
Recording: Video
Composed for Salastina’s Composer Collective programme 2022-23
The refractions we used to know (2022)
A dedication to the fleeting friends we make while travelling
Instrumentation: percussion quintet
Duration: 8'
Recording: Score-video
Composed for Taverna Maderna Composing Nature masterclass 2022
Haze (or: a forest on Pluto) (2021)
My first piano trio, inspired by fog in the forests of Rheinland-Pfalz
Instrumentation: violin, cello, piano
Duration: 6'
Recording: Video
Prizewinner of UiTM Tunku Zain Piano Trio Competition 2021, Malaysia
Altschmerz: a salient scene reflected (2021)
My second string quartet, composed in 31-tone equal temperament
Instrumentation: string quartet
Duration: 13'
Recording: Score-video
a lone lantern flickers in deep space (2020)
Short scene for percussion trio on cosmic intimacy
Instrumentation: percussion trio
Duration: 1'
Recording: Video
SOLOS AND DUOS
pattern screamers (i want to break free) (2025)
A ritual / a scream into the void / a desire to break free
Instrumentation: bass clarinet and percussion
Duration: 12'
Recording: contact for recording
Composed for Dafni Mengou and Yiannis Psarakis of ensemble àktapha
music for the quarter-life crisis (synth étude) (2025)
Silly/sincere indie-adjacent song about making art in times of crisis
Instrumentation: voice, piano, synthesizer (solo performer)
Duration: 5'
Recording: Score-video
Commissioned by the Royal Philharmonic Society as part of their 2025 Composers programme
SEE YOU IN THE STARS (2023)
A series of musical voicenotes between two cosmological entities
Instrumentation: theremin and harp
Duration: 9'
Recording: Video
Written for Guildhall New Music Society, as part of the MA Opera Making and Writing at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama
ka-weɪ-mee-nɑː (2023)
Duet channeling diasporic identity through childhood games and (mis)remembered family songs
Instrumentation: flute and cello
Duration: 6'
Recording: Video
Composed for the 2023 Composers Conference, supported by the Fromm Foundation Composer Fellowship
Taboo (2022)
Fragments of ghostly melodies inspired by fae folklore and SCP-4000
Instrumentation: solo cello
Duration: 6'
Recording: Video | Score-video
Commissioned by Ben Tarlton
PIXELHEAD (2022)
Meditation on liminality and hauntology in Kane Pixels’ Backrooms
Instrumentation: violin and harpsichord
Duration: 6'
Recording: Video | Score-video
Composed for Cheltenham Composer Academy 2022
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Nocturne for cello and piano (2021)
Cello and piano duet: like early Romanticism meets alternative rock
Instrumentation: cello and piano
Duration: 7'
Recording: Video
Viridian (2021)
Series of guitar and ronroco duets bridging rural England and rural Germany
Instrumentation: guitar and ronroco
Duration: 24'
Recording: Video
Composed for CODA Festival 2021 at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire
Moondancing (2020)
An emotional haiku for vibraphone and crotales
Instrumentation: solo percussion: vibraphone and crotales
Duration: 3'
Recording: Video
PIANO WORKS
a hebridean gull crashes from an aerial tower (2022)
Piano string study inspired by video game Dear Esther
Instrumentation: solo piano
Duration: 7'
Recording: Video
Composed for Psappha’s Composing For… programme 2021-22
Portrait and a Dream (2021-)
Messy, imperfect, and unashamedly human piano pieces
Instrumentation: solo piano
Duration: 6' | 6' | 4'
Recording: Video - II. Concealing
Portrait and a Dream: II. Concealing composed for CODA Festival 2021 at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire
Piano albums 2015-19 (2015-19)
Albums of solo piano music composed before I started composing with notation
Instrumentation: solo piano
Recording: Stream
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