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For string quartet, piano, and two dancers c.5'
Commissioned by Crossing Borders Music and Momenta Dance Company, with choreography by Julia Cox.
For solo violoncello c.9'
Commissioned by the Royal Philharmonic Society as part of their Composer's Programme, for Gemma Rosefield at Presteigne Festival, 2022.
Lawn Crypt
2021
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Written in Cromarty, Nov 2021, supported by Cromarty Arts Trust's Student Residency Prize.
Album and writing kindly hosted by Sáimh Sound.
Significant works
Large Ensemble & Music Theatre
For string quartet, piano, and two dancers c.5'
Commissioned by Crossing Borders Music and Momenta Dance Company, with choreography by Julia Cox, and dancers Connor Cornelius and Robbie Williams. Music performed by Marianne Parker, piano; Rasa Mahmoudian and Owen Ruff, violins; Seth Van Embden, viola; and Tom Clowes, cello.
For high, medium, and low voice, flute, 2 violins, 2 cellos, and fixed electronics c.10'
Commissioned by Shadwell Opera as part of their Digital Commission series. Libretto by Max Chase.
for flute, clarinet, harp, violin, viola, violoncello, and double bass c.9'
Commissioned by sound Scotland for soundfestival June 2021, and performed by Red Note Ensemble in Sound Unbound.
Streamed in soundfestival October 2021.
for violinist/actor, 3 d/Deaf actors, mezzo-soprano, BSL narrator/actor conductor, flute (doubling piccolo), horn, trumpet, saxophone, percussion, string quartet, contrabass c.26'
World premiere by Glasgow New Music Expedition and Royal Conservatoire of Scotland students at Plug 9: Finale with GNME and Philip Venables, RCS, Glasgow.
Artwork by Angie Dunn
Small Ensemble
for clarinet, violin, viola, and violoncello c.5'
World premiere by Red Note Ensemble, as part of Noisy Nights at sound unbound.
for string quartet c.7'
Commissioned by the RCS for the Edinburgh Quartet, in collaboration with poet Beag Horn and artist Kirstie Cohen.
World premeiere by Crossing Borders Music.
Selected for JACK Studio, 2020-2022 by JACK Quartet.
Selected to represent Scotland at the International Society for Contemporary Music (ISCM) World New Music Days 2021.
for digital ensemble c.3'
Comissioned by sound for Any Enemy Ensemble, for live performance over Zoom.
Second performance in soundfestival by Any Enemy, live-staged.
for brass septet c.8-9'
Awarded Second Prize in the Diversity Initiative Call for Scores Septet Category. World premiere scheduled in 2021.
I could
2019-2020
for oboe, bassoon, trumpet, violin, and violoncello c.6'30"
World premiere by Red Note Ensemble at Oakwood Primary School, Easterhouse. Second performance in Red Note Ensemble; Eight Songs for a Mad King, Cottier's Theatre, Glasgow.
for clarinet, violin, viola, and violoncello c.10
World premiere by Hebrides Ensemble at Diversions at The Queen’s Hall in Edinburgh.
Diversions was awarded 2 Scottish New Music Awards; The RCS Award for Making it Happen and The ISM Music Prize for Collaborations.
Second performance by Red NNote Ensemble scheduled in soundfestival 2021.
Photography by Alasdair Dunn
for string quartet c.12'
Awarded the Walter & Dinah Wolfe Memorial Award, 2019.
World premiere by The Brodick Quartet at Fridays at One, PLUG 8: Brodick Quartet, RCS, Glasgow.
Solo & Duo
for violon cello and piano c.7
Written for Jennifer Langridge and Benjamin Powell of Psappha Ensemble, as part of their Composing for... scheme, 2020-21.
for electric guitar and tape c.6'
Composed for Explorathon 2020, in collaboration with the University of St. Andrews, and inspired by the research of Sam Pearson. Written for Fraser Gordon of Ashenspire, and performed in Explorathon by Eli Thayer of Marine Anthropology.
for flute and electronics c.6'
Commissioned by sound Scotland for soundfestival 2020, and performed by Ruth Morely of Red Note Ensemble and Alistair MacDonald.
for soprano saxophone and tape c.3'
Commissioned by Jenny Gillies and Nevis Ensemble, for Jenny Akroyd, as part of the Lochan Sketches project, 2020. Premiere on BBC Radio Scotland, Classics Unwrapped.
Dutch premiere by Iván Sánchez Iglesias in recital Human Bubbles, 2021.
for violin and violoncello c.5'
World premiere by Jackie Shave and Robert Irvine, as part of Red Note Ensemble's Noisy Nights go Digital series.
for classical guitar c.5'
World premiere by Sasha Savaloni, as part of Red Note Ensemble's Noisy Nights go Digital series.
for out-of-tune piano and tape c.6'30"
Recording by Alina Horváth and mastering by Amit Anand, 2020.
Live premiere by Maya-Leigh Rosenwasser, Bishopsgate, 2021.
Recordings taken of Alasdair Dunn, with permission.
Artwork by Angie Dunn.
for tenor saxophone and piano, with optional live signed description c.11'
Awarded the 2018/2019 Kimie Composition Prize, and commissioned by Live Music Now Scotland for the Gelos Duo, funded by Kimie Trust. Two performances at The Yard, Edinburgh, for children with additional support needs.
Artwork by Angie Dunn
for projected text, live BSL, and piano c.14'
Supported by Creative Scotland, Sonic Bothy, DaDaFest, and Unlimited. Performed by Electra Perivolaris and Rylan Gleave. Two performances at The Scottish Music Centre, 2018 and A Sign of Things to come, 2019.
Vocal & Choral
electronics 5'51"
Written on the Touretteshero Young Artist Development Programme 2021, exploring current and former voice.
for solo high voice and triangle (1 player) c.6'
World premiere by Lisa Newill-Smith, soprano.
There will be no end
2020
for youth choir and piano c.3'30"
Commissioned by Dr. Paul Whittaker OBE for Scunthorpe Junior Cooperative Choir. Text by Anne Macleod. Awaiting world premiere in 2021. SATB version also available.
Windows
2017-2018
for high voice and piano c.15'30
Song cycle with text by Elizabeth Foster. Versions for low and medium voice also available.
for live vocals and tape c.6'
World premiere by Rylan Gleave at PLUG 2: Sonic Arts, RCS, Glasgow.