Commissioned by the Ulster Orchestra for their tour with Sinéad O'Connor:
Nothing Compares to You
Love Letters
Don't Cry For Me Argentina
Scarlett Ribbons
You Made Me the Thief of your Heart
Success has made a failure of our home
Commissioned by the Irish Chamber Orchestra for their tour with Sinéad O'Connor:
The Theology album arranged for the Irish Chamber Orchestra: [Rivers of Babylon, If you had a vineyard, Something Beautiful, I don't know how to love him, Out of the depths, The Glory of Jah, We people who are darker than blue, Dark I am yet lovely, Watcher of Men, Whomsoever Dwells]
Music for Theatre
Martin Crimp The Country
directed by Simon Godwin
Tabard Theatre, 2008
Shakespeare Macbeth
directed by Martin Wylde
Central School of Music and Drama, 2008
Schumann Cello Concerto
Arranged for violin and strings
Commissioned by Anthony Marwood, the Irish Chamber Orchestra and the Australian Chamber Orchestra
Premiered by Anthony Marwood and the Irish Chamber Orchestra, April 2009
Mendelssohn A Midsummer Night's Dream - Overture and complete Incidental Music
CHAMBER ORCHESTRA VERSION - 50 minutes
7 wind (fl/picc, ob, 2 cl, bsn/contra/triangle/susp cymb, 2 hrn), strings and soprano. Strings either 9 players (22221) made for Stanley Hall Opera orchestra 2006, 11 players (33221) made in 2007 or 18 players (55431), made for the Irish Chamber Orchestra 2008.
VERSION WITH TWO ACTORS (1 hour 15 minutes)
Review by the Irish Examiner
'A bewitching, beguiling night's theatre - a place where theatrical and musical magic happened. The shimmering, sensitive brilliance of the ICO's playing was a joy throughout.'
Holst unpublished movement from ‘Brook Green Suite’
parts based on original manuscript
Arrangements for string quintet
Non Più Andrai
Where're you walk
Svegliatevi
Soave sia il vento
Prenderò
Come Scoglio
Oh! Du meiner holder Abendstern
Excerpts from Bohème incl Sì, mi chiamano Mimì & O Soave Fanciulla
Bella Figlia
Blitzstein I wish it so (from Juno)
Vilja
Bernstein Maria & Make Our Garden Grow
COMPLETE OPERAS
Auber Fra Diavolo
Complete opera arranged for 18 players
1111 2100 tmp/perc (triangle, s-d, cymbal, bass drum) strs (32221)
Can also be performed with 15 players using single strings.
Commissioned by Christopher Stewart-Smith for Stanley Hall Opera
Rossini La Pietra del Paragone
New performing version dramatically tightened, reduced to manageable length for modern performance, and re-thought through from original material, in collaboration with Annilese Miskimmon. Translation by Simon Butteriss available by arrangement. Commissioned by Stanley Hall Opera.
1121 2000 perc str
Johann Strauss Die Fledermaus orchestral parts arranged for Walzerquartett (two violins, cello and piano) Commissioned by Tête à Tête; English translation by Bill Bankes-Jones available by arrangement. 0000 0000 2vln vc pno
Vivaldi Orlando finto pazzo (English title: Orlando plays mad)
First modern performing edition, based on the sole surviving manuscript in Biblioteca National di Torino and libretto in Venice. English translation by Bill Bankes-Jones printed into the score and available by arrangement. Differs significantly from Alessandro Borin’s subsequently published version for Ricordi, although Borin had access to the OJ/BBJ edition while preparing his. Full score and all parts Commissioned by Tête à Tête for the modern world premiere, London 2001
Strs, continuo
Mozart Cosi fan tutte
orchestral parts arranged for six instruments: flute, oboe, horn, violin, viola and cello
Humperdinck Hansel und Gretel
orchestral parts arranged for 21 players (flute/picc, oboe, clarinet/bass clarinet, bassoon, 2 horns, timp, perc, 6 violins, 4 violas, 2 cellos, 1 bass) for Opera Omaha (Nebraska, United States).
One hour version of the opera also available.
Orchestral score arranged for 12 instruments: flute, clarinet, horn, two violins, four violas, two cellos and double bass
Richard Strauss Rosenkavalier
Re-orchestration for 26 players in progress
For violin and guitar
Albeniz Tango, Monti Czardas, Krein Gipsy Carnival, Kreisler Marche Miniature, Ponce Estrellita, Ravel Habanera, Sarasate Malaguena
Commissioned by Katharine Gowers, who holds performing rights.
Joseph Lanner Steyrische-Tanz no. 1
arranged for string trio (violin, viola and cello)
Mozart Countess and Susanna’s duet from Le Nozze di Figaro
orchestral parts arranged for string trio
Prokofiev Romeo and Juliet with Friar Lawrence, scene from Romeo and Juliet
arranged for two violins, two violas and cello
Ysaye Extase arranged for two violins
Commissioned by David Takeno
Two anonymous Waltz tunes, Gypsche and Hora Staccato
arr. for violin and piano
Various jazz standards and light music
arr. for cello duet
'Somewhere' based on Tom Waits
For string quintet (two cellos), optional double bass, and optional trumpet, after Bernstein. This arrangement will work without the vocal line as the melody is shared out between the instruments.
2007, Commissioned by Jo Paton and Will Htay