Works and performances

List of compositions:

Songs:

• Sonnet 8 (Text by William Shakespeare) for baritone and piano, Feb 2022. c. 3 mins

• Two Songs for a Countertenor (Text by Emily Dickinson and taken from Revelations 21), for and voice and piano, May 2022. c. 5 mins

• Of Taste (Text by Rev. James Cawthorne), for baritone and piano, Jan 2024. c. 5 mins

Solo piano:

• 24 Preludes and 1 Fugue, May 2021-June 2023, c. 90 mins

• For My Grandfather, May 2022, c. 4 mins.

Other solo instruments:

• White Noise for solo violin, Jun 2022, c. 6 mins.

• Theme and Variations for solo french Horn, Jul 2022, c. 3 mins.

• The Organ In Summer for organ, March-July 2023, c. 30 mins.

• Death of an Aircraft (Text by Charles Causley) for solo speaking violist, Apr 2025, c. 12 mins.

• Gigantism for solo double bass, June 2025, c. 12 mins.

• Fugue for Three Violas for solo viola, July 2025, c. 8 mins.

Chamber:

• Sonata for Violoncello and Piano, Jan 2022, c. 15 mins.

• Reynard the Fox for chamber orchestra, Sep 2022-Aug 2023, c. 10 mins.

• Serenade for the Ninth of September for ‘cello and harp, Oct 2023, c. 5 mins.

• Elegy for string orchestra, Dec 2023, c. 5 mins.

• Prelude and Fugue for string trio, Dec 2023, c. 6 mins.

• Sonatina for euphonium and piano, Dec 2023, c. 7 mins.

• Windy Nights (text by Robert Louis Stevenson) for speaking Pierrot Ensemble, June 2024, c. 5 mins.

• Plumbing for French horn and piano, June 2024, c. 7 mins.

• Divertimento for string orchestra and solo string quartet, Sep 2024, c. 7 mins.

• Symphony no. 1 ‘Teufelskreis’ for chamber orchestra, Aug 2024, c. 13 mins.

• Burlesque for quartet of wind and brass and drum kit, Jan 2025, c. 6 mins.

• Heptalogue for seven pianos, May 2025, c. 7 mins.

• Dig man, There Goes Mack the Knife! for tenor saxophone and piano, June 2025, c. 10 mins.

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Orchestral:

• Windows and Mirrors (Text by Audrey Davidson-Houston), for orchestra and narrator, Jan 2023, c. 4 mins.

• Trumpet Concerto in C major, for orchestra, solo trumpet and drum kit, 2020-2023, c. 15 mins.

• The Four Neomartyrs of Rethymnon for period instrument orchestra, Jan 2025, c. 6 mins.

List of plays:

• Your Funeral (Oct 2025, Burton Taylor Studio Theatre, Oxford)

“What’s the real reason why you won’t let me help with your funeral?”

Two months ago, Jeff and Anna were in love. In one month, Anna will be dead.

Your Funeral is a story about love, mortality and memory. As Jeff and Anna’s last meeting comes to a conclusion, desire, hatred, pity, weakness and grief all become blurred as the two try and reconcile with their futures, and mourn the futures that could have been.

Your Funeral, inspired by Neutral Milk Hotel’s song In the Aeroplane Over the Sea, is an emotionally bold and raw one-act new play, written and directed by playwright and musician Nick Samuel.

• Ospedale (Aug 2025)

‘Do you know what the scaffetta is? We weren’t born here. You know that, yes? So how did we get into this place? Our mothers can’t look after us, or at least, they don’t love us enough to try. That’s what the scaffetta is for. Through there, in one of the walls, there is a hole. On the outside of the hole is Venice. The Venetian mothers bring their children to the scaffetta when they can’t bear to look Marcolina in the eye as they hand over their babies forever. That’s why it was made, so that our mothers could be anonymous. No one will see you do it, you don’t even have to wait to see it received. You don’t even need to say anything. You set your baby down for the last time in the scaffetta, and then you leave, and that’s the last you see of your child.’

Ospedale is a new play set in the Ospedale della Pieta, a Catholic girls' orphanage-slash-music school, in Venice in 1710. It follows the stories of four orphan musicians, Clemenzia, Geltruda, Fiorina and Marcolina, as they grow up in a prosperous institution that loves God, music, and money, but not them.

• Them There Eyes (Coming soon!)

• Memento Mori with Lobsters (coming soon!