Attactive easier suite.
An initial request to write a piece for the Asyla oboe quartet (Medieval Suite) started a 'lockdown' project to complete a set of 'wind family' pieces. A bassoon quartet quickly followed (Swing, Blues...
O What Peace We Often Forfeit' is a set of variations based on the famous hymn tune, 'What a Friend We Have in Jesus'. The piece starts with a lovely harmonisation of the old hymn. As the piece procee...
William Boyce's setting of Psalm 63 has been a source of consolation for me for many years. This is a set of variations with a twist. The theme is played in its original form in the middle of the piec...
The Boogie-Woogie style of piano playing has been mastered by many fine pianists, with some of its most well-known exponents include Albert Ammons, Jimmy Yancey and Count Basie. To me, this is one of...
These studies, written in 1985, are intended to be moderately challenging, and hopefully enjoyable for the flautist to play. They incorporate elements of "modern" language such as whole tone and dimin...
The Composer, whose publications have been known since the age of 9, has kept faith with his commitment as a composer and concert pianist with a long series of musical collections. His research, orien...
Space themed suite.
Reflective solo inspired by the English landscape
The opera this overture comes from was written by Giuseppe Verdi, and was first performed in St. Petersburg in 1862. Although it was a success, and was performed around the world soon after, Verdi con...
The collection of six Bagatelles for solo flute are all fairly short in duration, with an understated character that is mellow and whimsical in nature at times. Harmonically the music is mainly tonal...
The idea of the composition based on an analogy with the famous "Suite No. 2" by J.-S. Bach. As a rule, the most popular "Minuet & Badinerie" performed in concerts, and therefore this work consists...
The album "Traveling" to Klezmer" includes 16 pieces and is a real author's comprehension of "Jewish Soul Music". According to the canons of the genre, the musical version of the composition was first...
The guiding concept in this piece, as in my Motet Without Words, was to take the "Neo-Tonal" triad (G-Bb-C) and ask the intriguing question: what would Baroque Music have sounded like if composers had...
Around the end of 2019 I got the desire to write for alto flute and piano, and these pieces were written between December of that year and January 2020. I gave them names the Italians use for the wind...
I wrote this piece to be performed at the tenth edition of my Summer Flute Course in Borrello, central Italy in 2018. Near to the town is a nature reserve with Italy's highest natural waterfall, known...
Are you a fan of Strictly Come Dancing? Jonty Tunes - Let's Dance! - for Flute & Piano (grades four to six plus); offers a selection of fourteen fun, varied and progressive ballroom dances; including...
I was honoured to be asked by the wonderful Asyla oboe quartet to write a piece for them to be performed in an upcoming series of concerts. It felt very much like writing for a consort rather than the...
This haunting little piece has a wonderful mystery inherent in the misty sound of the flute ensemble. Opening with a ghostly waltz of interwoven textures we quickly discover the individual characteris...
This paraphrase on Xenia for two flutes and piano is based on the melody of a song by Vladimir Budnik, a Belarusian composer who died early. The melody is very close to Belarusian folk song and is dis...
These variations are based on a humorous 19th century student hymn from Trinity University College, Wales, with the original song title 'There Is a Tavern in the Town'. In the first half of the 20th c...
The Impromptu, Nocturne and Finale was composed in March/April 2021 during a second lockdown owing to the Covid-19 pandemic. It is dedicated to my wife, Deborah, in grateful appreciation for her selfl...
Three movement trio.
Dance based piece for flute choir
Melodic and rewarding.
English pastoral music
Pastoral quarantine music
Advanced contemporary showpiece
Contemporary sonata with attractive melodies.
Full arrangement of a charming quartet.
Musical depiction of cats.
4 movement trio arrangement
Engaging suite of pieces
This suite, in five movements, was composed in the early months of 2021. It is my first wind quartet, if we exclude student works. Present are some of my usual "funky" rhythms and time changes, but I...
A few years ago I met a wonderful creative soul in Aliki Georgiou. Whilst she came to me for bassoon tuition our conversation (usually over coffee!) turned to all subjects. Her brief description of th...
Pop style quintet