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  • Frogs (1958) solo marimba

  • The Light Within (2007) alto fl, bass cl, vln, vcl, pno, vibraphone (crotales) & electronics

  • Music Box (2002) Bs cl & tape

    Calligraphy (2002) fl (al. fl.), cl (bs. cl.), vln, vcl & vibes

    Green (2021) fl, cl, vln, vcl & pno Commissioned by HRSE with funding from ACNI

    I want to tell you (2013) vln, vcl & tape

    Songs of Travel (2024) cl (bass cl), vl, vc, pno, perc

  • Rogue Emoji (2019) fl (picc. afl.), cl (Eb, bcl.), vln & vcl

  • Ride Through (2015) solo vcl

    Glacier (2012) mixed ensemble

  • Workers Union (1975) Any loud-sounding group of instruments

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  • Preludes (1999) vl, pno

  • Love, Loss and Exile (2022) sop, vc, pno

  • Cadenzas from an Invisible Concerto (2016) solo vcl Plus 2 Minus 3 (2016) fl, cl, vln, vcl & pno (Honoury Mention 1st Peter Rosser Composition Award)

    ​Five go to the Mystery Moor (2017) fl, cl, vln, vcl & pno (Runner up 2nd Peter Rosser Composition Award)

  • Contrasts (1938) Bb cl, vln, pno

  • 3 Miniatures (2001) solo vln

  • Revolver (2020) fl, bs. cl, vln, vcl & pno Commissioned by HRSE with funds from ACNI

  • 3 Dances for Solo Snare Drum (1962) solo snare drum

  • Vier Stücke Op. 5 (1913) cl &pno   

    Adagio (Arrangement from Chamber Concerto II 1926) vl, cl & pno

  • Sequenza I (1958) solo flute    

    ​Sequenza IX (1980) solo cl

    Sequenza VIII (1976) solo violin

    Sequenza IXc (1980) solo bass clarinet

    Sequenza XIV (2002) solo cello

  • Bogenstrich (2006 - 2009) vcl, pno & baritone

  • Dérive 1 (1984) fl, cl, vln, vcl, pno & perc

    Anthèmes II (1995) vl, electronics

    Dialogue de l’ombre double (1985) cl, electronics

  • Ghost Trance Music (1995-2006) mixed ensemble

  • Jesus' blood never failed me yet

    The Sinking of the Titanic (1969) mixed ensemble

  • Concerto (1969) solo cl

  • 2 Fantasias for Alto Flute (2004) solo alto flute

    ​Constellations (2009) Pre-recorded multiple flutes and solo flute

    ​Three Mobiles after Alexander Calder (2019) fl, cl, vln, vcl & pno - Commissioned by HRSE with funding from ACNI

    Solo Fantasias for Alto Flute (2004) solo fl (alto)

  • Downward in a freezing earth (2015) bass cl, vln, vcl & tape

  • Strum, Strum and be Hang’d (2005) vcl & tape

  • These are the clouds about the fallen Sun (2013) fl, Bb cl, vln, vcl, pno

    ​In Search of a Human Dialogue (2014) fl, Bs cl, vln, vcl, pno

    ​Idée Fixe fl/al fl, Bs cl, vln, vc, pno

    ​Tre Correnti (2013) solo alto flute

    ​Blunt Instrument (2008-9) bs cl & pno

    ​Garden of Earthly Delights (2016) fl (alto, picc), Bb cl (bs cl), vln, vcl, pno & perc

    ​Multiphonic Study (2012) Bs Clarinet

    Carter Fragment (2011) Bb Clarinet

    Ménage a Trois (2016) solo vcl

    Pulled Down Out of the Young Breath-Giving Air (2016) vln, vla and vcl

    ​Deluge, Fugue & Allegro (Vibes Version 2016) solo vibes

    ​Three Movements on the work of William Scott (2017) fl (alto, picc), Bb cl (bs cl), vln, vcl, pno & perc

    ​…for peace comes dropping slow (2017) fl, cl, vln, vcl & pno Commissioned by HRSE

    ​The Chronic Identity Crisis of Pamplemousse fl (alto & Picc), cl (bass cl), vln, vcl, pno harp, perc, countertenor, tenor, bass & chorus

    ​Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold fl (picc.), bs cl, vln, vcl &pno Written specially for HRSE

    ​A Terrible Beauty II (Chamber Version 2019) fl (picc.), cl (bs cl), vln, vcl,  pno & perc

    Tout (2022) fl &pno

    Death of a Naturalist (2020 arr. 2022) fl (picc. afl.), Bb cl (bcl.), vln, vcl & baritone

    Unrest (2008, rev. 2013/2015/2023) fl (alto fl.), bass cl, vln, vcl & pno

    Seul sous la grande indifference du ciel (2020) fl, cl, vln 1 & 2, vla, vcl & harp

    Vigour Rigour Jigger (2008) solo vln

    Takemitsu's Dream (2018) solo harp

    The Slain Birds (2013) baritone, pno

  • Music for Three (1984-1987) fl, cl & perc

  • There Comes a Time (2015) fl, cl, vln, vcl, pno

  • Triple Duo (1983) fl (picc), Bb cl (Eb, bs cl), vln, vcl, pno & perc

    Esprit Rude/Esprit Doux (1984) fl, cl & marimba

    Excerpt from 4 Lauds (1984 - 2001) solo Violin

    Gra (1993) solo cl

  • Phoenix (2006) fl, cl, vl, vc, pno

    Sleep (2008) solo flute

  • 3 Miniatures by G K Chesterton (2024) fl, cl, vl, vc, pno, sop

  • The Dismemberment of Pentheus (2023)

    His Feet are Light and Nimble (2024) solo violin Commissioned by HRSE with funds from the PRSf

  • Con Coro (2011) vln, vcl & tape

    ​In Umbra (2000 Rev. 2016) solo vcl

    ​Non-Stop (2020) fl, cl, vln, vcl & pno Commissioned by HRSE with funding from ACNI

  • Sisterhive (2021) cl (bs. cl.), vln & vcl Commissioned by HRSE with funding from PRSf

    I AM LEDA (2021) fl, cl, vln & vcl

    The wind cries over the state of her house (2022) fl, cl, vln, vcl, pno & perc

    Three Girls in an August Garden (2025) solo cello

  • Inner (2009) amplified vcl & pno

    Where Cobalt Waves Live (2017) solo pno

  • Chaconne (2007) solo pno

  • 1987 (2008) bass fl, bass cl, vln, vcl & tape

  • Postlude No 8 (2012) vibraphone

  • These hills used to be forests (2024) fl (picc), cl (bass cl), vl, vc, pno, electronics

  • Danza de la Mariposa (2008) solo flute

  • Demonic Dance (2023) fl, cl, vln, vcl & pno

    Mephistophelian (2023) cl, vln & pno

  • Nine looks at Pierrot (2013) fl, cl, vln, vcl & pno

    Melodies and Mobiles (2021) fl (al. fl.), bs. cl, vln, vcl & pno Commissioned by HRSE with funding from ACNI

    Caoines and Canons (2021) fl, cl, vln, vcl & pno Commissioned for HRSE by NMD with funding from Arts Council of Ireland

  • The Industry of Nostalgia (2025) fl, cl, vl, vc, pno Dedicated to HRSE and commissioned by the Fundación Sociedad Bach La Serena and funded by the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation

  • Solo...pronunciar. el nombre (2006) solo pno

    Va alada (2009) solo pno

  • Eske (2013) vln, vcl & pno

  • Vox Balaenae (1971) fl, vcl & pno

    Makrokosmos Night-Spell I (Sagittarius) (1972) solo piano

    Night-Spell II: Ghost-Nocturne: for the Druids of Stonehenge (Virgo) (1973)  solo piano

  • Archie (2005) vln, vcl & pno

Hard Rain SoloistEnsemble plays a large range of modern and contemporary repertoire from the early twentieth century to music where the ink is still wet. We have a particular focus on music by our own local composers, but we play the most engaging, and iconic international repertoire too. 

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