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Joshua Brown

 Composer

Title TBC

2024

Cello soloist and Large Orchestra​

Premiere Autumn 2024, Glasgow Orchestral Society

Soloist Alice Allen

Title TBC

2024

Organ solo​

Premiere August 2024, Worcester Cathedral

Simon Mercer

With How Sad Steps

2024

Lute, Mezzo-Soprano

Premiere TBC

Jacob Heringman and Clare Wilkinson

St Aidan's Dunes

2024

Solo Vibraphone​

Premiere TBC, Alexander Gagatsis

The Doleful Lay of Clorinda

2023

Lute, Mezzo-Soprano

Premiere June 2023, Swaledale Festival

Jacob Heringman and Clare Wilkinson

2nd Performance October 2023, Mechelen, Belgium

3rd Performance March 2024, Cambridge

Three Reflections for Violin Duo

2023

Two Violins

Premiere September 2023, Cosmo Rodewald Concert Hall, Manchester

Marc Danel and Gilles Millet

Aira Force

2023

String Orchestra, Accordion soloist

Premiere September 2023, Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany

Mikroorkestra and Martynas Levickis

Scherzo

2023

Accordion Solo

Premiere TBC

Reveille

2021, revised 2023

Solo Organ

Premiere August 2023, York Minster, Simon Mercer

2nd Performance October 2023, Whitworth Hall, Manchester, James Garratt

3rd Performance February 2024, Sheffield Cathedral, Simon Mercer

Suffolk Summer

2023

Fixed media electronics (stereo)

Premiere Fox Yard Studios, Stowmarket, Suffolk

Collaboration with visual artist Heath Brown

Laissez Sonnez

2023

Solo piano

Premiere RNCM, Gavin Wayte

The Linnet

2023

Voice and Piano

Premiere TBC

Hardened by Sun and Air

2023

Arrangement for Brass Band

Premiere TBC

Hardened by Sun and Air

2022

Large Orchestra

Premiere Glasgow Royal Concert Hall New Auditorium

Glasgow Orchestral Society, commission via Sound and Music, and Making Music, funded by PRS

Conductor: Chris Swaffer October 2022

2nd Performance, by GOS in the same venue

Conductor: Robert Baxter May 2023

Aired on BBC Radio 3 May 2023

Illustrations of the Grand Ceremony

2022

String Quartet and Tape

Filmed at John Rylands Library

Premiere June 2022, St Anne's church, Rossendale

Mercury Strings

2nd Performance September 2023, Cosmo Rodewald Concert Hall, Quatuor Danel

Solitude

2022

Solo piano

Premiere TBC

Rain Over Lower Marsh

2021

Chamber Orchestra

Premiere Royal Festival Hall postponed (lockdown)

Studio Recording June 2021

Premiere online 28th July 2021

London Philharmonic Orchestra, LPO Junior Artists

Conductor: Jonathan Bloxham

 

Sonatina for Solo Clarinet

2021

Clarinet in Bb

Premiere TBC

Discesa negli inferi

2021

Flute, Lute, Viola da Gamba, Cembalo

Premiere InNova Forma Festival, Basilica San Miniato al Monte, Firenze, Italy, July 2022

(2021 festival postponed, pandemic)

L'Ensemble Etruria Barocca

Clowbridge

2021

String Orchestra

Premiere TBC

Morphogenesis

2020

Chamber Orchestra

Premiere Queen Elizabeth Hall postponed (lockdown)

Studio Recording September 2020

Premiered online 18th November 2020

London Philharmonic Orchestra

Conductor: James MacMillan

String Quartet Zephyrus

2020

String Quartet

Premiere postponed (lockdown), TBC

Spring's First Dawn

2020

Voice and Piano

Premiere TBC

Five moods from the moorlands

2020

Saxophone Quartet

Premiere June 2022, Birch Community Centre

Filmed at University of Manchester 2022

Hazell Saxophone Quartet

From the Thresholds

2020

Violoncello and Piano

Filmed at University of Manchester 2022

Rebekah Clarke, Cameron Biles-Liddell

Postcard graphic score

2020

Two Violins and Electronics

Premiere online

London Sinfonietta, Jonathan Morton, Clio Gould

Capriccio Ricercare

2020

Solo Violin

Premiere online "Noisy Nights"

Red Note Ensemble, Jackie Shave

Multiple further performances as set exam piece for students at the Institut royal supérieur de musique et de pédagogie de Namur, Belgium 2021. Also performed in Mexico City by Eva Georgina Puebla Chacón 2021.

Early Heaven

2020

Mixed Ensemble (fixed and open score)

Premiere and 2nd Performance RAMM, Exeter,

CoMA Festival of Contemporary Music for All

Devon Philharmonic Orchestra

Conductor: Leo Geyer

15 Seconds

2019

Violin and Harp

Premiere The Curtain, Shoreditch

Philippa Mo and Olivia Jageurs

The Moon

2019

Soprano and Piano

Premiere St Martin in the Fields

Charlotte Trepess and Marina Kan Selvig

And as I sat

2019

Tenor, Lute, Viol

Winner of Alwinton Composition Competition

Premiere Alwinton Festival

2nd Performance York Late Music Concert Series

John Potter, Jacob Heringman, Suzanna Pell

Streams full of stars

2019

Four Bass Clarinets

Premiere Anthony Burgess Foundation

Etherow Reeds

Waves at Craster

2018

Mixed Ensemble (Pierrot)

Premiere TBC

Mosaico II

2018

Solo Accordion

Premiere Krakow Accordion Festival 2020, Poland

Martynas Levickis

2nd Performance Usedom Music Festival 2021, Germany

Martynas Levickis

String Quartet Boreas

2018

String Quartet

Premiere Rossendale

Mercury Strings

The bird of life is singing

2017

Chamber Orchestra, Soprano soloist, Alto soloist

Companion to Mozart Requiem

Premiere Ilkley Arts Festival

Skipton Camerata

Soloists: Charlotte Trepess and Lucy Vallis

Conductor: Rory Johnston

Convergences

2017

Large Orchestra

Premiere Martin Harris Centre for Music and Drama

University of Manchester Symphony Orchestra

Conductor: Mark Heron

Double Duo

2017

Two Accordions, two Violoncellos

Premiere Raudondvaris Castle, Lithuania

Pietro Roffi, Maris Rozenfelds, Arnas Kmieliauskas, Igne Pikelaviciute

Mosaico I

2017

Solo Accordion

Recording Raudondvaris Castle, Lithuania

Pietro Roffi

A Summer Night

2016

Mixed Ensemble (Pierrot) with Mezzo Soprano

Recording Martin Harris Centre for Music and Drama

(2018) Session Ensemble, Soloist: Abi Kitching

Conductor: Robin Wallington

A reed before the wind...

2016

Chamber Orchestra, Sheng and Clarinet soloists

Premiere Martin Harris Centre for Music and Drama

University of Manchester Chamber Orchestra

Soloists: Lixian Chew and Seb Marshall

Conductor: James Heathcoate

On the Stork Tower

2016

SATB Choir

Premiere Whitworth Hall

Ad SolemConductor: Rory Johnston

Second Performance January 2024, Hong Kong

Ad Solem, Conductor: Robert Guy

Singing Ringing Tree

2016

Flute Solo

Premiere Anthony Burgess Foundation, Gavin Osborn

2nd and 3rd Performance Druskomanija Festival, Druskininkai and Vilnius, Lithuania 2018

Vytautas Oskinis

O sleep

2016

SATB Choir

Premiere Whitworth Art Gallery

Manchester Chamber Choir

Conductor: Jonathan Lo

Duet for Clarinets

2015

Two Clarinets

Premiere New Music North West Festival, RNCM

Seb Marshall and Ellie Sherwood

2nd Performance Martin Harris Centre

Seb Marshall and Ellie Sherwood

3rd Performance Martin Harris Centre 2017

Jasmine Simons and Amy Carrick

String Trio

2015

Violin, Viola, Violoncello

Premiere Martin Harris Centre for Music and Drama, Psappha

2nd Performance New Music North West Festival,

Psappha

3rd Performance Festival Composicion UANL 2016 (including a radio broadcast), Mexico

Cuarteto Cromano

Miniatures

2015

Piano Solo

Workshop RNCM

Clare Hammond

Moments

2014

Flute, Clarinet, Violin, Violoncello

Workshop Alwinton Church

Psappha

Conductor: John Casken

Moirai

2014

Wind orchestra, Companion to Stravinsky Symphonies of Wind Instruments

Premiere Martin Harris Centre for Music and Drama

Psappha and Vaganza

Conductor: Ellie Slorach

Arr. Sibelius, The Swan of Tuonela

2014

Brass Band

Premiere Martin Harris Centre for Music and Drama

Manchester University Brass Band

Conductor: James Keirle

Short Suite for Violin and Piano

2014

Premiere TBC

Trauerrituale

2013

2 Trumpets, 4 Trombones

In Memoriam Hans Werne Henze

Premiere Church of the Holy Name, Manchester

Student Ensemble

Tobacco

2013

Cimbalom Solo

Private performance, Psappha's "Composing for..."

Public Premiere Islington Mill, Salford 2014

Tim Williams

Sextet

2013

Flute, Clarinet, Horn, Violin, Viola, Violoncello

Premiere Martin Harris Centre for Music and Drama

Psappha

Conductor: Mark Heron

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