Simon Holt

Commissioned jointly for Colin Currie by the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and the Borletti-Buitoni Trust. First performance on 14th May 2008, at Symphony Hall, Birmingham, by Colin Currie (pe...

Ellsworth 2 has been composed by Simon Holt from music that that was written in an earlier piece, Troubled Light, it is said he took inspiration from the painting Painting for a white wall. Within t...

This is the study score for Simon Holt 's An Icicle Of Moon, a work for Orchestra. The piece was commissioned by Bamberger Symphoniker and its first performance was on 31st October 2014 at the Joseph-...

This new Opera was first performed in 1998 in Huddersfield by Opera North. Designed for the modern stage, it utilises only a small cast and orchestra - albeit one with a good variety of percussion! Th...

This work was commissioned by the Nash Ensemble with funds provided by Wigmore Hall and PRS for Music Foundation. It was first performed by the Nash Ensemble at Wigmore Hall, London, on 23rd March 201...

This work was commissioned by the Nash Ensemble with funds provided by Wigmore Hall and PRS for Music Foundation. It was first performed by the Nash Ensemble at Wigmore Hall, London, on 23rd March 201...

Simon Holt began 'a book of colours' in 1988 when asked by the BBC to write a brief piece to commemorate the 80th birthday of Sir William Glock. Beginning with 'Duendecitos', he later added more short...

Simon Holt's 1985 composition, Tauromaquia is named after a series of etchings by Goya, all of which are studies of the art of bullfighting. This piece for Piano solo was commissioned by Ian Brown, wh...

This one movement piece is dedicated to Sir Peter Maxwell Davies at 60. “Nigredo” is approximately 14 minutes long. Scored for piano solo.

This work was commissioned by KlaraFestival, Flanders, Belgium. It was first first performed by Sarah Nicolls at the Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels on 22nd September 2005, as part of KlaraFestival.

Migas is a selection of pieces composed over 33 years by, British Composer, Simon Holt. Migas translates, in English, to Crumbs. This collection of 11 brief Piano pieces was written over a period of 3...

Darling Eve In The Evil Garden is a sequence of five pieces for Piano by Simon Holt. The work was commissioned by Joseph Houston and first performed by him on 10th December 2015 at St John's Smith Squ...

Lunas Zauberschein was first performed by Margaret McDonald (Mezzo-Soprano) and Julie Rees (Bass Flute) at the Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester, on 20th March 1979.

Writen for piano solo.

Daedalus Remembers is the third part in a trilogy called 3 for Icarus. Daedalus was Icarus' father and a famous craftsman. He once forged a magic sword for Peleus which had a property of making its ow...

Sphinx is scored for cor anglais and nine tuned gongs, and lasts approximately fourteen minutes. It is austere in texture and takes the form of an extended riddle, the answer to which may be the one a...

A chamber ensemble piece that reflects Holt's passion for the visual arts and literature. The Banshee according to legend is less a shape than a mournful screaming that haunts the Irish night and the...

Kites is scored for wind quintet and string quintet and came about through Holt's interest in Japanese things. The kite that features is preceded by an introduction of fragile, slow and serene scene-s...

Canciones are three Spanish songs; A love song, a setting of Cancione de Jinete by Lorca and a lyric. The outer poems are anonymous but are cited by Lorca in his essay on Duende which can be roughly t...

Work for Flute, Oboe, Clarinet and Cello written in 1980. Parts available: CH66869-01

Work for Flute, Oboe, Clarinet and Cello written in 1980. Score available: CH66869

For Soprano and Chamber Ensemble (Clarinet in A, Viola, Cello and Double Bass). This extended version of a knot of time was commissioned by Faith Wilson. First performance on 10th OCtober at the CBSO...