Eagle Concerto

Premiere: St Thomas’ Church, Salisbury, June 4th 2025

Commissioned by La Folia, Eagle Concerto explores the full symphonic potential of the Eagle recorder, designed by Adriana Breukink. The Eagle Concerto has been written for the recorder virtuoso Piers Adams. It takes  inspiration by the sound of this remarkable new instrument as well as from sounds and sightings of Eagles in the Outer Hebrides.

Salisbury International Arts Festival

The Raiders (L’Orchestre d’Auvergne)

Premiere: Maison de la Culture, Clermont-Ferrand, June 13th 2025

Commissioned by L’Orchestre national d’Auvergne, The Raiders reflects the story of the families (known as The Reef Raiders) from the Hebridean village of Reef, Isle of Lewis, who campaigned for seventy years from 1850 until 1921 in order to regain the rights that their ancestors had to live as crofters.

Orchestre national Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes

To listen to a short sample of the instrumental music from The Raiders as part of a short film, click here.

Snake (La Monnaie)

Premiere at la Monnaie, December 20th 2025

SNAKE is a piece for youth chorus and dancers. It is inspired by “Eulogy for a Man Who Still Lives”: a book written by the dancer María Sara Villa about her father’s kidnapping in Colombia. It documents the dangerous journey that her family went on to try to find him. 

The piece is also inspired by Caño Cristales (the “rainbow river”) in Colombia. It snakes through the jungle in the heart of what used to be dangerous guerrilla territory, and where trees struggle to grow. It is filled with the macarenia clavigera plant whose leaves create vivid rainbow colours.

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