VOCAL AND CHORAL
Something Exciting was written for the National Youth Choir and Ben Parry in 2021. The piece is based on a text I sent to come out to my family: I have something exciting to tell you. I didn’t how to say it, but thought I should. This was a moment of nervousness and excitement, and I hope to have captured this adrenaline-induced feeling in the work.
Nominated for an Ivor 2022
Commissioned by the National Youth Training Choir, Locus Iste is a celebration of the unique and powerful 'place' created when we come together and sing.
A MOMENT
The poem, A Moment by Mary Elizabeth Coleridge, explores a simple gesture; two characters speaking perhaps at once. The first voice is lost in nature, the second voice yearns unnoticed for the first. Coleridge describes a fleeting moment which has been stolen from us in this time of isolation.
Performed by Helen Charlston, Michael Craddock and Alexander Soares at the Oxford International Song Festival.
ORCHESTRAL AND INSTRUMENTAL
SUMMIT BLUE
To the Stars is a colourful and poignant poem about the majesty of nature by the Welsh language poet Dafydd ap Gwilym - the poem inspired Summit Blue, a short image for orchestra that aims to capture some of the original imagery.
...BREATHE...
Written in collaboration with and performed by Tom McKinney, ...BREATHE... is a reflection on my 'digital detox' during lockdown.
STAGE CREDITS
Rhybudd: Iaith Anweddus (2018)
Eisteddfod Genedlaethol Cymru / Cwmni’r Frân Wen
Writer: Llwyd Owen
Director: Hanna Jarman
Music and Sound Design: Derri Joseph Lewis
Spring Awakening (2018)
Richard Burton Theatre Company
Writer: Franz Wedekind (transl. Caroline Burch)
Director: Caroline Burch
Music: Derri Joseph Lewis and Kirsten Evans
The Night Watch (2018)
Richard Burton Theatre Company
Writer: Sarah Waters and Hattie Naylor
Director: Lee Lyford
Music: Derri Joseph Lewis
