Composing/Arranging

Composing

In 2006 I wrote and recorded the music for the the Arcola Theatre's production of Lorca's When Five Years Pass (Time Out Critic's Choice). Some extracts:

Harlequin's Waltz (a Chopin pastiche):

Child's Funeral March:

Girlfriend (RH only):

Mannequin, extract (it comes to life):

Mannequin coda:

Harlequin's Violin Music:

More recently I wrote the score for an Oxford University production of Marlowe's Doctor Faustus.

Arranging

This is my arrangement of the Prelude to Act III of Wagner's Tristan and Isolde. My methodology was to transcribe the music from a recording first, and then to check my arrangement with a score. This way I was able to make a much better approximation of the sound of the orchestral original than a note-for-note transcription would have produced.

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And here is my very literal arrangement for solo piano of Duke Ellington's Satin Doll, transcribed by ear from various of his big band recordings. I aimed to include all the elements of the multi-instrumental original while still keeping the arrangement pianistic and playable.

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