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Some recent and forthcoming performances:

English folk song arrangements:

  Cold blows the wind

  O Soldier, Soldier

The Ionian Singers, Timothy Salter (conductor), Cristina Di Bernardo, Silvia Vicario (2 harps); St James’s Piccadilly, 24/03/2012

 

Three Intermezzi
Cristina Di Bernardo, Silvia Vicario (harps); St James’s Piccadilly, 24/03/2012 (1st performance)

 

Images after Klee

Marie Van Rhijn (harpsichord); Espace XVIIIe, Cité de la Musique, Paris, 11/12/11 (1st peformance of Images II and III)

Imprints
Graham Sheen (bassoon), Timothy Salter (piano); Charlton House, Charlton, London, 25/11/2011; Regent Hall, Oxford Street, 18/11/2011 (1st performance)

Eternity
The Ionian Singers, Timothy Salter (conductor), Sulki Yu (violin); All Saints West Dulwich, 19/11/2011

English folk song arrangements:
  O waly, waly
  The wraggle taggle gypsies
  Blow the wind southerly
The Ionian Singers, Timothy Salter (conductor); National Gallery, London, 04/10/2011.

String Quartet No. 3
Sacconi Quartet: Ben Hancox (violin), Hannah Dawson (violin), Robin Ashwell (viola), Cara Berridge (cello); Concerts at Cratfield, 17/07/2011 (1st performance)

Fantasy
Michael Bonaventure (organ); Westminster Abbey, 05/06/2011.

Vitis flexuosa
Svyati Duo: Rebecca Hewes (cello), Julian Collings (organ); St Joseph’s Catholic Church, Macon, Georgia, 13/04/2011; Bromley Parish Church, 15/03/2011;  St James’s, Piccadilly, London, 12/01/2011;  All Saints Church, Blackheath, 10/10/2010; Music on Mondays, Chichester University, 04/10/2010; St James Piccadilly, London, 03/07/2010 (1st London performance); All Saints’ Church, Leamington Spa, 31/05/2010; St Paul’s in the Jewellery Quarter, Birmingham, 01/04/2010 (1st UK performance); St George’s Church, Germantown, TN, USA, 20/02/2010; Philadelphia Cathedral, PA, USA, 16/02/2010 (1st performance)

Invida Aetas
The Ionian Singers, Timothy Salter (condcutor); St James’s Piccadilly, 02/04/2011 (1st performance)

Three Pieces
Nicola Smedley (flute), Timothy Salter (piano); Holy Trinity Church, Warrington, 26/03/2011

Piano Trio
Fournier Trio: Sulki Yu (violin), Pei-Jee Ng (cello), Chiao-Ying Chang (piano); Park Lane Group, Purcell Room, South Bank, 11/01/2011; Music on Mondays, Chichester University, 08/11/2010

Yblessed be
The Burning Babe
The Ionian Singers, Timothy Salter (conductor); All Saints' Rosendale Road, Dulwich, 04/12/2010

Glass facade (from Images after Klee)
Jane Chapman (harpsichord); Handel House, Brook Street, London, 04/11/2010; Pasadena, CA, USA, 07/04/2010;  Music Sources, Berkeley, CA, USA, 28/03/2010 (1st performance)

English folk songs:
  Early one morning
  O Waly Waly
  Dashing away with the smoothing iron
Concordia Voices, Neil Ferris (conductor); Teddington and Hampton Music Festival, Middlesex, 07/07/2010; St Boniface Church, Chandler’s Ford, Hampshire, 03/07/2010

Eternity
The Ionian Singers, Timothy Salter (conductor); Douai Abbey, Berkshire, 20/03/2010

Piano Quartet
Ensemble na Mara: Tom Hankey (violin), Rose Redgrave (viola), Eilidh Martin (cello), Alasdair Beatson (piano); Chamber Music in Lewes, 26/02/2010.

English folk song arrangements:
  The coasts of High Barbary
  Bonny at morn
  Elsie Marley
  The Blacksmith
  A frog he would a-wooing go
  Dashing away with the smoothing iron
The Ionian Singers, Timothy Salter (conductor); All Saints’ Church, Weston Green, Surrey, 24/10/2009

Aerial
Nephele Ensemble: Nicola Smedley (flute), Samantha Wickramasinghe (violin), Jessica Beeston (viola), Rebecca Hewes (cello); Music on Mondays, Chichester University, 05/10/2009; North Cumbrian Recitals, Carlisle, 26/03/2009; Rhyll Music Club, 25/03/2009; St Stephen's Concert Series, London, 19/02/2009 (1st London performance); Canford Concert Society, Wimborne, 30/01/2009 (1st performance).

Shadows II
Contemporary Consort; Stratford on Avon Music Festival, 05/10/2009

English folk song arrangements:
  Blow the Wind Southerly
  The Trees so High
  The Tailor & the Mouse
The Addison Singers, David Wordsworth (conductor); St Michael & All Angels Church, Turnham Green, London, 11/07/2009; Ramsay Arts Festival, 20/06/2009

English folk song arrangements:
  Bonny at morn
  Elsie Marley
  The Blacksmith
  O rare Turpin
  Blow the wind southerly
The Ionian Singers, Timothy Salter (conductor); St Bartholomew’s Church, Brighton, 27/06/2009.

Duo Christi Miracula:
  Miraculum Secundum
The Ionian Singers, Timothy Salter (conductor); St Bartholomew’s Church, Brighton, 27/06/2009; St Giles Cripplegate, Barbican, 21/03/2009.

Through mazes running (Abstractions III)
The Aurora Ensemble; Radlett Music Club, 22/04/2009

Cantus
Sarah Suckling (cello), Timothy Salter (piano); St Giles Cripplegate, Barbican, 21/03/2009.

Mondrian Pictures
Kimon Parry (clarinet), Wakako Kamiyama (pianist); St. Dunstan-in-the-West, Fleet Street, London, 04/03/2009

Abstractions II
Helen Paskins (bass clarinet), Ivana Gavríc (piano); Music on Mondays, Chichester University, 02/03/2009.

Serenade
Adam Peter Slater (clarinet), Keith Price (percussion), Thomas Maternik-Piret (cello); Inner Parry Room, Royal College of Music, London SW7 27/01/2009

Piano Quartet
Ensemble na Mara: Tom Hankey (violin), Jessica Beeston (viola), Eilidh Martin (cello), Alasdair Beatson (piano);  Music on Mondays, The Chapel, University of Chichester, 26/01/2009;  with Fiona Winning (viola) Wigmore Hall, London, 16/02/2007 (1st London performance); Galashiels, 06/02/2007; Ayr, 03/02/2007; Dumfries, 02/02/2007;  Gatehouse of Fleet  (1st performance) 01/02/2007.

Shadows
The Tacet Ensemble, The Hawth Theatre, Crawley, 10/01/2009; Komedia, Brighton 29/11/2008.
Contemporary Consort; Dumfries and Galloway Festival, 03/06/2006; Leamington Festival, Leamington, 07/05/2006; The Square Chapel, Halifax 11/03/2006.

Fantasy
Michael Bonaventure (organ); All Saints' Church, Blackheath, London SE3, 14/12/2008.  All Saints' Church, Blackheath, London SE3, 11/02/2007; McEwan Hall, Edinburgh University, 17/11/2006; (1st performance).

Rippled Surface (after M.C. Escher)
Contemporary Consort; Leeds, 29/10/2008.

Abstractions II
Helen Paskins (bass clarinet), Ivana Gavrić (piano); Reading University, 28/10/2008.

Wind Quintet
Aurora Ensemble; University of Chichester; 06/10/2008.

Chameleon (Saxophone Concerto)
Amy Dickson (saxophone), Minehead and Exmoor Festival Orchestra, Richard Dickins (conductor); All Saints Church, Dulverton, Somerset, 29/07/2008, St Georges Church, Dunster, Somerset, 28/07/2008 (1st performance).   

Mondrian Pictures
Andrew Harper (clarinet), Joseph Middleton (piano); Deal Festival, Deal Town Hall, 08/07/2008; Park Lane Group recital, Purcell Room, 09/01/2008.

Firefly
Kerem Hasan (piano); St John's Smith Square, London, 21/04/2008; Theatr Brycheiniog, Brecon, 01/09/2007 (1st performance).

Chimera
Alexandra Wood (violin), Timothy Salter (piano); St Giles Cripplegate, Barbican,  08/03/2008.

The white and the walk of the morning
The Ionian Singers, Timothy Salter (conductor); St Giles Cripplegate, Barbican, 08/03/2008;  All Saints' Church Music Festival, Chalfont St. Peter, Buckinghamshire, 13/10/2007.

Moonmarks
Sounds Positive; The Warehouse, Theed Street, London, 10/02/2008.

 

Recent recordings:

Fantasy
Michael Bonaventure (organ)
sfz music SFZM0111

Vitis Flexuosa
Svyati Duo: Rebecca Hewes (cello), Julian Collings (organ)
Regent Records REGCD364

Aerial
Nephele Ensemble: Nicola Smedley (flute), Samantha Wickramsinghe (violin), Jessica Beeston (viola), Rebecca Hewes (cello)
(Usk Recordings) USK 1230CD

A Poem of Dancing
The Ionian Singers
(Usk Recordings ) USK 1229CDS

Piano Quartet
Ensemble na Mara: Tom Hankey (violin), Fiona Winning (viola), Eilidh Martin (cello), Alasdair Beatson (piano)
(Usk Recordings) USK 1228CDS

Chimera
Alexandra Wood (violin), Huw Watkins (piano)
(Usk Recordings) USK 1226CD

Recordings in preparation:

Piano Trio
The Fournier Trio: Sulki Yu (violin), Pei-Jee Ng (cello), Chiao-Ying chang (piano)
recorded 23/08/2011 Jacqueline du Prč Hall, St Hilda’s College, Oxford for Usk Archive