This Paradise (2008) for string quartet and optional male voice choir
- Commissioned by the Dante String Quartet
- Based on Canto 23 of Dante’s Paradiso, from the Divine Comedy. Words translated by Robin Kirkpatrick
- To be premiered by the commissioners, 10.05.08 at King’s College, Cambridge with the resident choir, conducted by Stephen Cleobury
- Approx. 11 minutes with out choir and 12 with
The Upside Down Sailor (1998) narrator, 1 flute/picc., 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 2 horns in F. (Optional add-on parts for amateur performers)
- Highly dramatic text by Richard Stilgoe, based on lone yachtsman Tony Bullimore's 5 days under the upturned hull of his boat, in the Southern Ocean (true story!)
- Optional educational element - juxtaposable add-on parts for a variety of instruments approx. grade 3 standard
- Commissioned by Brunel University and the Maggini Quartet with funding from ABTA
- 25 mins
Suite Memories (2000) for Symphonic Wind Band
- Commissioned by Farnham Festival for South West Surrey Concert Band
- Premiered 30.6.00 at Farnham Maltings
- Approx. 8 minutes
A Wind at Rooks Haven (1997) for Flute Solo
- A haunting depiction of a lone bird on the wind
- First performed October 1997
- 5 minutes
Around Three Corners (1995) for for Violin, Cello and Piano
- Commissioned and first performed by Triangulus 1995/6
- Approx. 8 minutes
Prayer (2000) for brass tentet
- Arrangement of original anthem (see choral for details)
- Approx 5 minutes
Second Home (2003) for piano solo OR string quartet (2006)
- Commissioned by and premiered on 19.12.03 at Saarbrucke Kammerkonzerte (Germany) for Ewa Kupiec
- Variations on a Polish folk theme
- Approx. 8 mins
- special arrangement for Silesian String Quartet, to be premiered in April 2007, Katowice, Poland.
Homage to Händel (2006) for solo 'cello
- Commissioned by Han-Na Chang
- To be premiered by her in Montreal, September 2007 (tbc)
- Approx. 12 minutes
Colombine Too (1995) for mezzo-soprano, flute, Bb clarinet, violin, cello, piano
- See vocal page for details
- 5 minutes
Letters from Burma (2004) for oboe and string quartet
- Commissioned by the Summer Music Society of Dorset for Douglas Boyd & the Vellinger String Quartet
- Based on the writings of Aung San Suu Kyi
- Premiere at Minterne, 02.10.04
- Approx. 12 minutes
Remember (2001) for Tenor Recorder & Harpsichord
- Commissioned by Evelyn Nallen & David Gordon
- First performance the Barnwell Theatre Cambridge, 20.1.01
- Approx. 5 minutes
Olivia (1996) for String Quartet (+ optional Choir)
- Based on Viola's famous "Make me a willow cabin" speech from Shakespeare's Twelfth Night
- Optional juxtaposable part for upper voices (possible for children)
- Commissioned and first performed by the Maggini String Quartet 1995
- Approx. 15 minutes
Spirit Moves (2001) for brass quintet
- Commissioned by Fine Arts Brass Ensemble
- First performed by the Fine Arts Brass Ensemble at Warwick & Leamington Festival 11.7.01.
- Approx. 15 minutes
fff ("Fulham Festival Fanfare") (2002) organ solo
- Commissioned by All Saints Festival, Fulham to celebrate renovation of new organ at All Saints Church
- First performed by John Scott 23.05.02
- Approx. 1 min.
Here a sample from Roxanna's "Angels Sing" CD - Gloria from Westminster Mass
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