GeorgeHollowayComposer

《神奇的未来》

In progress

Adapted from Abstract Construction in Meldoy （after Tullochgorm）.

Kreutzer String Quartet, Tianjin Conservatory of Music Recital Hall, Tianjin, China, TJCM British Contemporary Music Festival (season one) 18^th October 2016

Adapted from Abstract Construction in Meldoy （after Tullochgorm）.

January 2015- August 2016

Bilingual words by Rev John Gwilym Jones

(Cardigan Bay, Summer 2015)

Flute, Bass Clarinet, Baritone Saxophone, Trombone (ideally Bass, for low C), two Electric Guitars, Electric Piano, Violin, Viola, Double Bass

(Also in alternative version without double bass)

Ensemble Synaesthesis, VDA Gothic Hall, Vilnius,  Lithuania, 24^th May 2016

Druskomanija International Contemporary Music Festival commission

http://druskomanija.lt/#programa

Commissioned by Zheng Yang.  Withdrawn.

(alternative version for solo Sheng)

Composed for Vilnius Brass Trio.  (Awaiting Revision).

Suona (bass, treble), 2 Dizi, Zhongyin Sheng, Erhu, Zhonghu, Pipa, Zhongruan, Sanxian, Yangqin, Guzheng, 2 Percussion

Young teachers of the Chinese Music department, Tianjin Conservatory of Music, May Music Festival, Tianjin Conservatory of Music Concert Hall, 29^th May 2015.

AANMI (Asian American New Music Institute), violin solo: Rachel Lee Priday, conductor: Yuga Cohler, Beijing Modern Music Festival, Central Conservatory of Music Concert Hall, 25^th May 2015

Subsequent performances:

Tianjin Conservatory of Music May Music Festival, TJCM Concert Hall, 26^th May 2015.

Shenyang Conservatory of Music Asian-American Music Festival, 2^nd June 2015.

(or bayans)

Accordion Ensemble of the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre, Colonade Music Club, Druskininkai, Lithuania 18^th May 2014

Spatialisation: the 8 performers encircle the audience.  Composed for Druskomanija festival 2014.

(Awaiting Revision)

amateur/school orchestra, choir, solo baritone and piano accompaniment, flute group (min.3 flutes), narrator (in five movement version only)

14′ (3 mvts)

20′ (5 mvts)

July 2013-28th February 2014

Rev. December 2014.

Students/teachers of Bristol Grammar School, U.K., St George’s Brandon Hill, Bristol, May 8^th 2015.

In Memoriam David Selwyn.  Composed for the children and staff of Bristol Grammar School.  Five movements:

1.”It was the face of the earliest of all mothers” (setting Hesse):

narrator and 4 untuned percussion.

2. “Blissful Bower”,  (setting Milton): choir, obl. piano, obl. tambourine, ad lib. timp., ad lib. 5 accompanying instruments.

3.  Transformations, (setting Hardy):

Baritone and piano.

4.  The Prolific and the Devourer, (setting Blake):

Narrator, 2.2.2.2/2.2.2.0/2.pno ad lib./strings

5.  “Before the Mountains were brought forth” (Psalm 90 vv.2-5):

Choir, piano obl., flute group (min.3 flutes)

秋天●碎

Qingdao Symphony Orchestra, Zhang Guo-Yong, conductor, Beijing Concert Hall, 24^th June 2013.

3^rd Place in Beijing Contemporary Orchestral Composition Grand Prix 2013.  Awaiting revision.

3 sopranos, tenor, baritone, vn, db, cl, sax (alt/ten), kankles (Lithuanian cimbalom), percussion (drums and gongs)

New Opera Action festival, Operomanija, conductor Ricardas Sumila, Vilnius, Lithuania, 19^th December 2012

Libretto: Claude Willan/George Holloway.

George Holloway, tenor, Tom Green, piano, Cardigan Guildhall, Wales, September 2012

In Lithuanian and Welsh

Natalie Shi, soprano, George Holloway, piano, Central Conservatory of Music, 31^st May 2013

Setting text by P.B. Shelley.

AANMI (Asian American New Music Institute), Tianjin Conservatory of Music, May Music Festival, Tianjin Conservatory of Music Concert Hall, 26^th May 2015.

(2012)

(Rev. 2014, 2016)

Setting poem “The Plural Number”, by Kiki Dimoula (in composer’s English translation, some modern Greek).

Cantores Michaelis, cond. George Holloway, St Michael’s Church, Southampton, 2012

Acts 2.14-21

Dadi, B flat Clarinet, Zhongyin Sheng, Bassoon,

Zhongruan, Guzheng, Violin, Erhu, Violoncello, Double Bass

Finchley Chamber Orchestra & Finchley Chamber Choir (Adopt a Composer commission), Trinity Church, North Finchley, 16^th July 2011

Lithuanian Oboe Quartet, Holy Trinity Church, Auletikos, Lithuania, 20^th May, 2012

(“Druskininkai Canon“)

Alt. Vers.: two oboes, oboe d’amore, cor anglais and bassoon.

Sam Cave, guitar, at the International Composers Collective inaugural concert, The Forge, Camden, 25^th May 2011

Microtonal scordatura.

1^st mvt. of a projected triptych (2^nd mtv: guitar duo; 3^rd mvt: guitar quartet).

Jane Chapman, harpsichord, Angela Space, alto sax, John Hansard Art Gallery, Southampton, 7^th December 2010

Quartertones in sax part.

Optional version: sax tuned 1/4 tone sharper than harpsichord (part adapted).

violin, ‘cello, double bass, bassoon and horn

The Southampton University Contemporary Music Group, John Hansard Art Gallery, Southampton, 7^th December 2010

Nanguan singer, pipa and dongxiao

Musicians from National Taiwan University of the Arts, June 2010

Setting in mandarin of Li Po (Li Bai).

piano doubling pianica, Russian bayan (accordion)

Anna Veismane, piano and pianica, Timo Kinnunen, accordion, Europa Royale Hotel, Druskininkai, Lithuania, 30^th May 2010

Lien Ya Chi, violin, George Holloway, piano, National Taiwan University, 14^th May 2010

(“Epitaph”) No.2 of “Two pieces for violin and piano”.  Homage to Alfred Schnittke.  I.M. Rex Stapleton.

David Owen Norris, The Odeon, National Taiwan University, Taipei, 14^th April 2010

Rolf Hind, piano, at the New Works Festival, Turner Sims Concert Hall, Southampton, 5^th December 2010

Metapraxis Ensemble, 26^th November 2009 at Roehampton University

Alt. Vers.: clarinet, violin, ‘cello and piano.

Cantores Michaelis, St Michael’s Church, 7^th February 2010, in liturgical context, cond. by the composer

Mass text of the Sarum (Salisbury) rite.  I.M.  Samantha Verschueren.

Southampton University Strings, Church of the Immaculate Conception, Southampton, 9^th December 2009, conducted by the composer

Alt. Vers.: Soprano, piano and double bass.  Texts: Cavafy, Shelley, and the composer.  I.M.  Lydia Press.

Later perf: 25^th November 2011, Birmingham Cathedral  (Birmingham Conservatory of Music recital series)

Players of National Taiwan University, National Taiwan Normal University, and friends, cond. by the composer, 14/5/10, NTU, Taipei

(“Butterfly”)  1st. Mvt of a projected triptych.

Richard Jones, viola, Turner Sims Concert Hall, Southampton, UK, 14^th May, 2012

(“Girl in the bloom of youth”)

Vilniaus Fagotynas, Trakai Castle, Lithuania, 24th May 2009

No.s 1 and 3, Lucy Williams &the composer, Southampton, 24/02/09; No.2, Lucy Williams &Rufus Forbes, at the Setting Agendas conference, Southampton, 18/09/09

59 Swans (Yeats) (2007) (4’); Black Rook in Rainy Weather (after Plath) (2009) (8′); The Hierarchies of Sound (Paul Evans) (2009) (10’)

Southampton University Contemporary Music Group, 11th March 2009

(“The Return of Ulysses to his Bed”)

(5’)

Exaudi, conductor James Weeks, in a workshop, Southampton University, March 2009

(“To the soul”).  Setting Emperor Hadrian (Latin) and the prophet Isaiah (King James translation)

(“From our heroes in…”).

Awaiting revision.

Lien Ya Chi, violin, George Holloway, piano, National Taiwan University, 14^th May 2010

No.1 of “Two pieces for violin and piano”.

Awaiting revision.

(“In life’s midst”)

First professional perf:

(St Christopher Chamber Orchestra, cond. Donatus Katkus, Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre, Vilnius, 23^rd May 2011)

Ft, 2 Cl, Sax;

Viola, Tp;

3 other groups of open instrumentation

Southampton University’s Contemporary Music Ensemble, March 2008

(“Little flute song”)

soprano, contralto, piano and erhu (or violin)

Ruth Hopkins and Lucy Williams, singers, George Holloway, piano, Laurie McGee, violin, St Michael’s Church, Southampton 19^th May 2012

Text in mandarin by Li Po (Li Bai)

(“Crystal”)

Awaiting revision.

Lucy Williams, St Michael’s Church, Southampton, 24th February 2009

(“Waves”).

Spanish text by Federico Garcia Lorca

David Alberman, SPNM solo spotlights concert, 20^th March 2007

hn, vc, pno, gt, perc, live electronic instr., speakers

The Hola, CoMA Summer School, Doncaster, July 23^rd 2006

Can be performed with live dance and video (staged version perf. by participants of “The Music Visualisation Laboratory”, Profsajungu Rumai, Vilnius, Lithuania, 18^th September 2009).

Microtonal horn part.

(“Byzantines”)

Text in Patristic Greek by Romanus and Theodore Studites.  I.M. Michael Drury.

Awaiting revision.

Sounds Underground: Dan Bates oboe, Katherine Spencer clarinet, Iain Farrington piano, Bush Hall, Shepherd’s Bush 18/6/06

Taina Niemela, SPNM Score! Day in Cardiff, April 28^th 2007)

Awaiting revision.

Setting Walt Whitman (Song of myself).  To Jamie Burton.

Awaiting revision.