Kite (2025)
SSAATTBB [4'30"]
Composed for National Youth Choir, with text by the composer
400 Ways to Make a Sandwich (2025)
SATB (with divisi) [4'00"]
Composed for National Youth Choir, with text by the composer
When everything feels a bit much sometimes all you can rely on is the joy that comes from making yourself an interesting sandwich.
I Trespass (2024)
TTBB [5']
Composed for The Sunday Boys, based on a poem by Ella Otomewo
This piece is an exploration of queerness, and the idea of finding (or creating) your own pathway through life.
Released by ABRSM, watch the Sunday Boys' performance.
Sing Something New (Songs of Celebration) (2023)
SATB [16']
Composed for Blackheath Choir as part of the Adopt a Music Creator project, funded by the PRS Foundation and the Philip and Dorothy Green Music Trust, and run by Making Music, in partnership with Sound and Music.
A collection of 7 songs exploring the joys of being part of a choir.
Recording and Score coming soon
Another Road (2023)
SATB [8']
Composed for the Hereford Chamber Choir as part of a program of work celebrating the Dymock Poets.
Evacuation /ɪˌvakjʊˈeɪʃ(ə)n/ (2020)
SSAATTBB [5']
Composed for a workshop with the BBC Singers
If we shadows (2018)
SSAATTBB [3']
Nothing is so Beautiful (2017)
SATB + Organ [3']
Commissioned by the Cheltenham Bach Choir, Premiered at Cheltenham Christ Church
Songs of Joy (2017)
SATB + clt, tpt, horn, strings [10']
Commissioned by the Cheltenham Philomusica as a companion piece to Vivaldi's Gloria
Premiered at Tewkesbury Abbey
Song for Croome (2016)
SATB [4']
Commissioned by the National Trust, celebrating the formation of the WI
Premiered by the Oriel Singers at Croome Court
Hodie (2015)
SATB [4']
O Magnum Mysterium (2015)
SATB+SATB [4']
Commissioned by the Gloucester Choral Society, Premiered at Gloucester Cathedral
Lamentations (2014)
SSAATTBB [5']
Winner of NCEM young composers competition
Glitterball (2023)
"innovative and idiomatic" - Choir and Organ, 2024 Organ solo [c.6.5']
Commissioned by Choir and Organ's New Music Series in partnership with the Marian Consort.
Performed here by Nicholas Morris.
"That Looks Like a Good Book, What's it Called?" (2021)
Piano solo [c.6-8']
Composed as part of Psappha's 'composing for...' scheme.
interact with the score Watch Ben Powell perform it here
Because there are lines between us (2021)
Tuba solo [6']
Composed for Micah Scott
Puppet (2021)
Percussion solo (for assorted household objects) [8']
Withhold (2021)
Trombone solo [10']
Composed for Weston Olencki
On Water (2021)
Soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone, and video [6']
Composed for the Idesta Saxophone Duo
Watch and Listen
COCKROACH! (2020)
Solo voice [4'] - graphic score
If you want to be employable (2019)
Tambourine solo [3']
I, Tardigrade (2019)
Voice (bass), piano [3']
Composed for the leeds Lieder Festival
Text by Moira Garland
Premiered by George Butler and Rachel Fright at the Leeds Lieder Festival 2019
Surefire Ways Violin Will Drive Your Business into the Ground (2018)
2 violins and tape [5']
The Death of Violin and How To Avoid it (2018)
Solo Violin with tape [4']
Listen
Towards an Unknown Destination (2018)
Solo Cello [6']
Composed for James Heathcote
Voice (soprano), Clarinet in Bb, Cello, Piano. [c.9'+]
Performed by Riot Ensemble and premiered June 2021 at RNCM
The Sounds Surround Us (2021)
Brass Quintet [2'30"]
Commissioned by Your Turn Collective and Help Musicians
Premiered at St. Paul's Cathedral for the Festival of St Cecilia 2021.
... and we would have taken the same route had it not been for the storm last night (2019)
String quartet [5']
Written for the Eskandari quartet, premiered at Manchester Cathedral
Selected for workshop with the Ligeti Quartet, 2020
Beggars can't be choosers: a five-minute Guitar Trio in 3 acts (2019)
Guitar Trio [5']
Composed for the Zamorra trio
Find Out How I Cured My STRING QUARTET (doctors hate me) (2019)
String quartet and tape [6']
Premiere RNCM Chamber Music Festival, by the Rowan String quartet
Headlines Games (2019)
solo voice (tenor/soprano), violin, glockenspiel [6']
Watch and Listen
Why Americans Don't Use Electric Kettles (2018)
Bassoon, French Horn, Viola [5']
Workshopped by members of the London Sinfonietta
Puzzled (2017)
Wind Quintet [10']
Commissioned by the RPS / Duet group
Premiered by Cavendish Winds at Wigmore Hall
An Alternative Fanfare (2017)
flt, clt, tpt, tbn, perc, vln, vla, vc. [4']
The Ninth Planet (2016)
String quartet + vln, vla, vc, db [6']
Premiered by members of NYOGB at Britten Studio, Snape Maltings
Ding ... Dong (2025)
Flexible ensemble with 8 parts and piano [c.8']
A piece based on bell ringing.
Composed for CoMA London as part of CoMA's 'Bespoke' Project
recording coming soon
the Passing of Time (2017)
medium sized flexible ensemble and multiple metronomes
[3'-10' (or longer)]
Premiered by Discord/Datcord at the Royal Albert Hall
Dichotomy (2017)
[3'-10' (or longer)]
Premiered by Discord/Datcord at Birmingham Town Hall
Nine Hundred Years (2022)
2(1 picc).2.2.1 alt.sax 2.2.2.1 timps 2perc choir(unison or mixed) strings [12']
Private commmission for the Gloucestershire Youth Orchestra.
Premiere 2021, conducted by Jon Trim
Three Men Discuss Beethoven's 4th Symphony (2020)
1.2.2.2 2.2.0.0 timps strings [8']
Premiere June 2021, RNCM Chamber Orchestra.
... and mother said to the child 'Darling, you must remember to name that pet fish before it dies', and the child did as it was told (2019)
3.3.3.3 alt.sax 4.3.3.1 4perc strings [9']
MIKE (2018)
3.3.3.3 4.3.3.1 timps 3perc strings [9']
Serpents of the Dean: More afraid of you than you are of them (2018)
2.2.2.2 4.2 3.1 3perc strings [3']
Commissioned by the Royal Forest of Dean Orchestra, premiered in The Forest Theatre, Coleford (16/06/2018)
Ancient Grudge to New Mutiny (2016)
2.1.2.1 1.3 2perc strings [12']
Premiered Birmingham Symphony Hall by the Gloucestershire Youth Orchestra.
Sole (2019)
Chamber Opera [12']
Soprano, Mezzo Soprano, Tenor, Tenor (small role), Trumpet, Viola, Accordion, video, tape.
Composed for the Manchester Contemporary Youth Opera, Conducted by Otis Enokido-Lineham
Text by Gareth Mattey
Watch and Listen
You Have Been Lied To (or, Some of the Above is Not True) (2018)
[6']
Soprano, Tenor, Bass, Tba, Perc, Violin, Video (projected), Video (viewed on phone)
Text by the composer
Watch and Listen
Headlines Games (2019)
(BOY EATS HAM, Man Arrested, Fish Swims, Does Jesus Deserve the NHS?, Red Squirrel Becomes Queen, Woman Got Blind, Child Loses Cat)
Solo Voice (Tenor/Soprano), Glockenspiel, Violin.[6']
Text by the composer
Watch and Listen
The Two-Sided Boy (2016)
Chamber Opera [15']
Commissioned by Second Movement for Rough for Opera #14
Premiered at the Cockpit theatre