Festival Premieres and Commissions
2023
Michael Berkeley The Magnolia Tree*
Charlotte Bray April 21st
Edward Gregson Viola Concerto ‘Three Goddesses’*
Thomas Hyde Missa Brevis*
Sarah Frances Jenkins The Lonely Tree of Llyn Padarn*
Roxanna Panufnik Gallery of Memories*
Electra Perivolaris Mastiha*
Claire Victoria Roberts Menywod y Mabinogi*
Adrian Williams The Innocent Fields*
James B Wilson Last words of those long dead
2022
Ninfea Cruttwell-Reade Bewegt*
Cheryl Frances-Hoad The Wrath of Troilus*
Rylan Gleave to Gelert*
Thomas Hyde Cantilena
David Matthews A Fugue for Hugh
David Matthews Sonata for oboe and piano, Op 153*
Tarik O’Regan Machine – concerto for saxophone and string orchestra*
Julian Philips Looking West*
Francis Pott A Sort of Rainbow
Aileen Sweeney Cosmic Dawn*
Huw Watkins Piano Trio No 2*
2021
James Francis Brown Variants of Solitude
Gary Carpenter … as dreams are made on*
Ninfea Cruttwell-Reade From Joseph Roth’s Radetzkymarsch*
Sarah Frances Jenkins Tincture of the Skies*
Cecilia McDowall A Crescent Ship
Adrian Sutton Trio Dances*
Hilary Tann Still in the water and singingbirds*
Matthew Taylor Oboe Concerto, Op 60
Freya Waley-Cohen Bad Habit
James B Wilson Water Dance*
2020
Martin Butler Body Electric*
Amelia Clarkson Through His Gaze*
Ninfea Cruttwell-Reade Reginald: The Musings of a Victorian Gentleman*
Robin Haigh No One*
Joseph Phibbs Violin Sonata*
Emma-Ruth Richards Tenebris Litterarum*
2019
Mark David Boden Soliton
James Francis Brown String Trio No 2*
Cheryl Frances-Hoad Tales of the Invisible*
Harriet Grainger Missa Brevis*
Hannah Lash Fault Lines*
Liam Mattison ADULTHOOD*
Gregory Rose Boudica*
Freya Waley-Cohen Winterbourne*
Adrian Williams Concerto for string orchestra*
2018
Cydonie Banting The Gate of Dawn*
David Bednall Regina caeli*
Martin Butler Concertante Dances*
Manos Charalapoboulos Two Poems*
Gareth Moorcraft Dolly Shot*
Joseph Phibbs Juliana*
Huw Watkins Echo*
2017
Edward Gregson String Quartet No 2*
Cecilia McDowall Love incorruptible
Robert Peate Knucklas Arches
Martin Butler, Cheryl Frances-Hoad, Michael Zev Gordon,
Gabriel Jackson, David Knotts and Jack Sheen Bagatelles after Beethoven
Sally Beamish, Michael Berkeley, Christopher Gunning,
Thomas Hyde, David Matthews, Matthew Taylor,
Huw Watkins and Adrian Williams Variations on ‘Lovely Joan’*
2016
Michael Berkeley Haiku*
James Francis Brown The Heavens and the Heart, for chorus and chamber orchestra*
Ninfea Cruttwell-Reade Ravens’ Cage*
Robert Saxton Hortus Musicae, Book II
Robert Saxton The Resurrection of the Soldiers*
Adrian Williams Cadenzas, Scherzos and Cantilenas*
2015
Charlotte Bray Entanglement – a chamber opera in five scenes*
David Knotts Laments and Lullabies, for piano and chamber orchestra*
David Matthews Three Houseman Songs, Op 69 – version with string orchestra
Cecilia McDowall Flights of Angels
Joseph Phibbs String Quartet No 2*
Michael Small White Space
Matthew Taylor Pastorals, for violin and string orchestra*
2014
Daniel Kidane Spear
Pawel Lukaszewski Requiem
Cecilia McDowall Airborne – a chamber opera in five scenes*
Stephen McNeff Concerto for oboe and string orchestra*
Lynne Plowman The Mariner’s Compass
Hilary Tann And the Snow Did Lie
Toby Young Lie Still*
2013
Sally Beamish Hagar in the Wilderness – a chamber opera in four scenes*
Thomas Hyde Three Greek Women, Observed*
Gabriel Jackson Doonies Hill Antiphon (version for string orchestra)*
David Matthews Double Concerto for violin, viola and string orchestra, Op 122*
John Opstad Distant Places
Robert Peate Pearl
2012
Michael Berkeley Oboe Quintet*
Chris Brammeld Three Inventions
James Francis Brown Ozymandias*
Peter Fribbins I Travelled among Unknown Men*
John McCabe String Quartet No 7 ‘Summer eves’*
Cecilia McDowall Rousseau’s Execution*
Alan Mills To Belshazzar*
Peter Sculthorpe Island Songs for saxophone, string orchestra and percussion*
Matthew Taylor Variations on a theme of Reger, Op 45*
2011
Zita Bruzaite Cum Spe*
Joe Duddell Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis
John Hawkins Palinode – a ballet for five instruments*
Jon Opstad Searching
Joseph Phibbs Night Interludes*
Julian Philips Love Songs of Amy Lowell*
John Pickard Concertante Variations (Presteigne Concerto)*
Huw Watkins Concertino*
2010
Mark Bowden the pale hill*
Joe Duddell All Stars Aligned
Edward Elgar arranged David Matthews String Quartet in E minor, Op 83*
Cheryl Frances-Hoad Stapleton Castle*
Alexander L’Estrange And the Stones Sing*
Cecilia McDowall Subject to the Weather*
Stephen McNeff A Voice of One Delight*
Paul Patterson Deep in the Wood*
Lynne Plowman Water-break-its-neck*
Matthew Sheeran Dreamtime
Hugh Wood Beginnings:Three early songs for mezzo-soprano and string orchestra, Op 54*
2009
James Francis Brown, Peter Fribbins, John Hawkins, David Matthews, Alan Mills, Matthew Taylor and Hugh Wood Seven Haydn Fantasies for John McCabe, for solo piano
Martin Butler Concerto for soprano saxophone and string orchestra*
Gabriel Jackson Piano Concerto*
David Knotts Fossegrimen, for solo cello
Steve Martland Short Story for saxophone quartet*
David Matthews Journeying Songs for solo cello, Op 95*
Huw Watkins Nocturne, for horn and small orchestra – revised version
Adrian Williams String Quartet No 4*
2008
James Francis Brown Lost Lanes – Shadow Groves, for clarinet and string orchestra*
David Bruce Gigue for flute and harp*
Joe Duddell Nightswimming for piano trio*
Cheryl Frances-Hoad Bouleumata for solo clarinet*
Matthew Taylor String Quartet No 5*
Adrian Williams Maelienydd for chamber orchestra*
2007
Michael Berkeley Second Still Life for oboe and harp*
Joe Duddell Four (mere) Bagatelles for string quartet*
Peter Fribbins Fantasia on ‘Bugail Yr Hafod’*, for viola and piano
John Hymas Caprice for saxophone and piano*
Gabriel Jackson String Quartet No 3 ‘Llanandras Melodies’*
David Knotts Hover, for clarinet and piano*
Geraint Lewis Symphony for harpsichord
Christopher Lyndon-Gee Over Litton, for flute and harp*
David Matthews Adonis, for violin and piano, Op 105*
John McCabe March Sonatina, for solo flute*
Cecilia McDowall Y Deryn Pur, for oboe quartet*
Joseph Phibbs Agea, for string quartet*
Lynne Plowman Lullaby for Ianto, for solo piano*
Hilary Tann Shakkei: a diptych for oboe and small orchestra*
Huw Watkins Prelude for solo cello*
Hugh Wood Divertimento for string orchestra, Op 53*
2006
James Francis Brown Trio Concertante, for violin, viola, cello and string orchestra*
Thomas Hyde Three Nocturnes for solo piano*
John Joubert Shropshire Hills – three songs for high voice and piano, Op 155*
Geraint Lewis Over St John’s Hill, for tenor, harp and piano*
Huw Watkins Suite for Harp*
Adrian Williams Knocknarea for solo harp*
2005
David Mathews Movement of Autumn, a song cycle for soprano and small orchestra*
John McCabe Gladestry Quatrains, a song cycle for soprano and piano*
Cecilia McDowall Radnor Songs for soprano and piano*
Ian Wilson In fretta, in vento – string orchestra version
2004
Joe Duddell Mnemonic for flute, harp and string orchestra*
John Pickard Orion for trumpet and piano*
James Francis Brown Piano Quartet
Cecilia McDowall The case of the unanswered wire, for string quartet
2003
Adrian Williams Children of Baghdad for string sextet*
Helena Cavan A Prairie Sunset, for unaccompanied chorus
Michael Berkeley, James Francis Brown, John Joubert,
Geraint Lewis, David Matthews, John McCabe, Cecilia McDowall, Rhian Samuel,
Hilary Tann and Adrian Williams A Garland for Presteigne, for soprano and piano*
2002
Cecilia McDowall Dream City, for flute, clarinet, harp and string quartet*
Cecilia McDowall, John McCabe and David Matthews Messiah Preludes*
2001
Stephen Dodgson Concertino for two guitars and string orchestra
2000
Graham Williams Newton/Bronze for viola and string orchestra*
Hilary Tann The walls of Morlais Castle – revised version
1999
John McCabe Cello Sonata*
1998
Anthony Powers As Shadows to the Sun, for unaccompanied chorus*
1997
Adrian Williams Horn Quintet*
John Joubert Six Miniatures after Kilvert for violin and viola, Op 140
Michael Berkeley Cello Concerto – revised version
1996
Rhian Samuel Weeping Trellises, for solo piano
Rhian Samuel Scenes from an Aria, for oboe and small orchestra*
1994
Robert Spearing A Welsh Bestiary, for oboe and piano
Hilary Tann Water’s Edge – orchestral version
Hilary Tann The Cresset Stone, for solo violin*
1992
Babette Koblenz Trois Fours, for solo percussion*
Christos Samaras Quasi una Sonata, for solo piano*
Nicolas Bacri Serenata a cinque, for wind quintet*
Alexandre Delgado The Panic Flirt, for solo flute*
Ricardo Piacentini Ti I, for violin and harp*
Marian Ingoldsby Song of the Half-Cracked Echo, for mezzo-soprano and piano*
Martyn Harry Still Life, for small orchestra*
Marcel Wengler String Trio*
Mira Bubbles Rain*
1989
Adrian Williams Concertino for Viola and String Orchestra*
1988
Michael Berkeley Coronach, for string orchestra*
1987
Robert Spearing Sinfonietta for string orchestra*
1986
Anthony Powers Vespers, for small orchestra*
Adrian Williams Images of a Mind, for cello and piano*
1983
Adrian Williams The Morning Waits, a song-cycle for baritone and piano*
* indicates Presteigne Festival commission, many supported with funding from the Arts Council of Wales