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LIST OF WORKS

Last updated: 23/10/2025

Orchestra

  • Fantasy of the Battle of the Gnomes (tone poem; 2018)

  • Hansel and Gretel (ballet; 2020; premiered at Chetham’s School of Music)

  • Piano Concerto No. 1 (2022-23; premiered in 2023 with Bloom as soloist and Matteo del Maso conducting the RNCM Symphony Orchestra)

  • The End of the War (2023; commissioned tone poem for orchestra, British brass quintet and electronics; premiered in 2024 with Benjamin Ellin conducting The Slaithwaite Philharmonic Orchestra)

  • Faerie (three miniatures; 2024; commissioned by The Hallé Orchestra)

Solo Piano

  • Two Études (2018-19)

  • Four Fragments of an Unstable Mind (2020; highly commended for BBC Young Composer 2022)

  • Piano Sonata No. 1 (unfinished)

  • Piano Sonata No. 2 (2022; awarded the Pendle Young Musician’s Bursary in 2023)

  • Piano Concerto No. 1 (2022-23)

  • Vignette (2023)

  • Ballade (2024)

  • Various Preludes (2023-)

Chamber

  • Piano Trio (2024)

  • Brass Quintet No. 1 (2019-20; commissioned for a multimedia art installation by Maria Catalina and finalist piece of the John Golland Award in 2022)

  • Brass Quintet No. 2 (2022)

  • Brass Band Quintet – Rituals of Court (2024)

  • Wind Quintet No. 1 (2020)

  • Wind Quintet No. 2 (2022; commissioned for a multimedia art installation by Maria Catalina and premiered by the Azalea Quintet)

  • Saxophone Quartet – Rhapsodie Burlesque (2023; commissioned for a multimedia art installation by Maria Catalina)

  • Percussion Quartet (2021)

  • String Quartet (commissioned for a multimedia art installation by Maria Catalina)

  • The Future is Grey (mixed ensemble; 2024; commissioned by the RNCM)

  • Miniature (mixed ensemble; 2024; commissioned by ARKEnsemble)

  • Trio for Clarinet, Violin and Piano (2024; commissioned by the Riot Ensemble)

Vocal

  • A Winter’s Frost (for SSAATTBB choir); text by J. S. Bloom (2020)

  • When I am Dead, My Dearest (for SSAATTBB choir); text by C. Rossetti (2023; commissioned by the BBC Singers)

  • Various theatrical works (see below)

Jazz

  • Streetwise (for big band; 2016)

  • Marlborough (for a 9-piece combo; also arranged for big band; 2021)

Commercial

  • Music for ONE HUNDRED YEARS, including an a capella contrapuntal choral work and incidental music for a dramatisation of Owen’s Dulce et Decorum Est (see above; 2018)

  • Scored CONNECT (short animated film, 2021)

  • Jingles for WELL-TEMPERED (podcast; 2023)

Musical Theatre

  • Arrangements of all musical numbers in the pantomime THE PIED PIPER for a 6-piece pit band (see above; 2023-24)

  • Vocal rearrangements of ensemble sections of Sondheim’s INTO THE WOODS (see above; 2023)

  • Original musical: PRINCES! (music, lyrics; book by Paul-James Green; in progress)

  • Original musical THE ESCAPOLOGISTS (music, lyrics, book; in progress)
     

Excerpts of scores or audio/video recordings of works available upon request.

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