Large Scale

Choral ~ Orchestral ~ Dance

Choral

When a child is a Witness ~ requiem for refugees, 2022

A multidimensional work for choirs with organ/piano, with children's choir and refugee groups, threaded through with music for solo violin including transcriptions of Arabic music from composer/explorer David Fanshawe's archive.

Nominated for the Ivors Composer Awards 2022 - Community and Participation Category

 

Excerpt from When A Child Is A Witness by Liz Dilnot Johnson

Why Do The Nations Rage Together? from When A Child Is A Witness performed by Ex Cathedra at Coventry Cathedral, 2022

Orchestral

Gentle Flame Cantata 2019

28 mins, mezzo soprano solo, baroque orchestra and choir • Setting words by Greta Thunberg, Kurt Masur, David Hart, Book of Revelation and Liz Dilnot Johnson.

‘If talk changes its rhythm, will God appear?’ David Hart

 

★★★★★ ‘constantly gripping’

MidlandsMusicReviews

Featured on ClassicFM

A new extended version of this work I Stand At The Door was commissioned by Ex Cathedra and premiered in 2021.

 

des branches du jardin [2001]

10 mins, chamber orchestra • A mysterious world unfolds in a magical garden...

Wild Man Dances: a sketch for orchestra

5 mins, symphony orchestra • Virile, energising, big! A workshop with BBC Symphony Orchestra on sketches for an orchestral version of Wild Man Dances based on music for two pianos

 
 

de l'herbe qui s'eveille

'of grasses which awaken' explores the world of wild grass stems growing on the sea cliffs on the Pembrokeshire coast - for string orchestra


“a beautifully crafted miniature”

The Guardian


Dance

Scintilla Act 1 [2019]

28 mins, clarinets, live electronics, dancer • From isolation to connection on a wild island - layers of dance, music and live electronics are woven through poetry by David Hart.

Supported by Sound and Music New Voices Artist Support Scheme and PRSF Women Make Music

 

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