Colin Riley

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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