Joshua Brown
Composer
Three Songs for three trumpets
2024
Trumpet Trio​
Premiere December 2024, Surbiton, Kingston Upon Thames, Natrio Ensemble
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Cello Concerto
2024
Cello soloist and Large Orchestra​
Premiere October 2024, Glasgow Orchestral Society
Soloist Alice Allen, conducted by Susannah Wapshott​
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Venice Spring
2024
Fixed media electronics (stereo)
Premiere May 2024, La Storta, Ghetto Vecchio, Venice
Collaboration with visual artist Heath Brown
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With How Sad Steps
2024
Lute, Mezzo-Soprano​
Premiere TBC
Jacob Heringman and Clare Wilkinson
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St Aidan's Dunes
2024
Solo Vibraphone​
Premiere TBC, Alexander Gagatsis
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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
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Three Reflections for Violin Duo
2023
Two Violins
Premiere September 2023, Cosmo Rodewald Concert Hall, Manchester
Marc Danel and Gilles Millet
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Aira Force
2023
String Orchestra, Accordion soloist
Premiere September 2023, Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany
Mikroorkestra and Martynas Levickis
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Scherzo
2023
Accordion Solo
Premiere TBC
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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
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Suffolk Summer
2023
Fixed media electronics (stereo)
Premiere Fox Yard Studios, Stowmarket, Suffolk
Collaboration with visual artist Heath Brown
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Laissez Sonnez
2023
Solo piano
Premiere RNCM, Gavin Wayte
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The Linnet
2023
Voice and Piano
Premiere TBC
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Hardened by Sun and Air
2023
Arrangement for Brass Band
Premiere TBC
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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
Premiere Aired on BBC Radio 3 May 2023
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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
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Solitude
2022
Solo piano
Premiere TBC
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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
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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
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Clowbridge
2021
String Orchestra
Premiere TBC
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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
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String Quartet Zephyrus
2020
String Quartet
Premiere postponed (lockdown), TBC
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Spring's First Dawn
2020
Voice and Piano
Premiere TBC
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Five moods from the moorlands
2020
Saxophone Quartet
Premiere June 2022, Birch Community Centre
Filmed at University of Manchester 2022
Hazell Saxophone Quartet
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From the Thresholds
2020
Violoncello and Piano
Filmed at University of Manchester 2022
Rebekah Clarke, Cameron Biles-Liddell
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Postcard graphic score
2020
Two Violins and Electronics
Premiere online
London Sinfonietta, Jonathan Morton, Clio Gould
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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.
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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
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15 Seconds
2019
Violin and Harp
Premiere The Curtain, Shoreditch
Philippa Mo and Olivia Jageurs
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The Moon
2019
Soprano and Piano
Premiere St Martin in the Fields
Charlotte Trepess and Marina Kan Selvig
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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
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Streams full of stars
2019
Four Bass Clarinets
Premiere Anthony Burgess Foundation
Etherow Reeds
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Waves at Craster
2018
Mixed Ensemble (Pierrot)
Premiere TBC
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Mosaico II
2018
Solo Accordion
Premiere Krakow Accordion Festival 2020, Poland
Martynas Levickis
2nd Performance Usedom Music Festival 2021, Germany
Martynas Levickis
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String Quartet Boreas
2018
String Quartet
Premiere Rossendale
Mercury Strings
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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
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Convergences
2017
Large Orchestra
Premiere Martin Harris Centre for Music and Drama
University of Manchester Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Mark Heron
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Double Duo
2017
Two Accordions, two Violoncellos
Premiere Raudondvaris Castle, Lithuania
Pietro Roffi, Maris Rozenfelds, Arnas Kmieliauskas, Igne Pikelaviciute
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Mosaico I
2017
Solo Accordion
Recording Raudondvaris Castle, Lithuania
Pietro Roffi
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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
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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
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On the Stork Tower
2016
SATB Choir
Premiere Whitworth Hall
Ad Solem, Conductor: Rory Johnston
Second Performance January 2024, Hong Kong
Ad Solem, Conductor: Robert Guy
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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
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O sleep
2016
SATB Choir
Premiere Whitworth Art Gallery
Manchester Chamber Choir
Conductor: Jonathan Lo
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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
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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
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Miniatures
2015
Piano Solo
Workshop RNCM
Clare Hammond
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Moments
2014
Flute, Clarinet, Violin, Violoncello
Workshop Alwinton Church
Psappha
Conductor: John Casken
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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
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Arr. Sibelius, The Swan of Tuonela
2014
Brass Band
Premiere Martin Harris Centre for Music and Drama
Manchester University Brass Band
Conductor: James Keirle
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Short Suite for Violin and Piano
2014
Premiere TBC
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Trauerrituale
2013
2 Trumpets, 4 Trombones
In Memoriam Hans Werne Henze
Premiere Church of the Holy Name, Manchester
Student Ensemble
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Tobacco
2013
Cimbalom Solo
Private performance, Psappha's "Composing for..."
Public Premiere Islington Mill, Salford 2014
Tim Williams
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Sextet
2013
Flute, Clarinet, Horn, Violin, Viola, Violoncello
Premiere Martin Harris Centre for Music and Drama
Psappha
Conductor: Mark Heron
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