Jeremy Arden

In the Lotus Symphony a mixed chorus recite in Japanese excerpts from 'the Expedient Means' (Chapter 2) and the 'Life Span' (Chapter 16) of the Lotus sutra. This composition is not intended as an alte...

The Exeter Book is a collection of many different writings and is generally acknowledged to be one of the great works of the English Benedictine revival of the tenth century. Among the other texts in...

Jeremy Arden's three Inventions — 'Ahava', 'Pavane' and 'Farewell' — were written in response to the 2020 pandemic. Locked down at home with no work but wishing to make music, he decided to create pie...

A programme of moods and characters runs through Bayo's Way. On a hot summer's night, Bayo, the eponymous hero, tumbles and floats his way through a wild jazz-fuelled pilgrimage. Imagine the bustle of...

The title derives from the French idiom se méfier de l'eau qui dort ('be wary of the water which sleeps'), meaning: be careful, because things are seldom as they appear. The performers should embrace...

Bayo's way is really a miniature tuba concerto in one movement. The composer wanted the soloist to be the provider of pulse, a protagonist, a melodist and a magician. With this in mind, I set out to u...

Jeremy Arden's Im Freygish was initially inspired by Rebecca Abrams's book The Jewish Journey: 4000 Years in 22 Objects from the Ashmolean Museum (2017). Excited by the idea that traditions and object...

The title and its vast implications attracted me because it agreed with my intuition, pointing me towards music expressing extreme emotional states. I felt, when writing for the piano, it was essentia...