Kenneth Hesketh

The formal shape of Hesketh's Elegy for brass band and percussion is built on mounting intensification of melodic lines as each section follows from another, with varying colours and intensity. It was...

Tripartite in form, Infernal Ride is mercurial and virtuosic, yet with a more static middle section. The work reflects the mad-cap chase of Ichabod Crane's final ride on his horse, Gunpowder, in the s...

Tripartite in form, Infernal Ride is mercurial and virtuosic, yet with a more static middle section. The work reflects the mad-cap chase of Ichabod Crane's final ride on his horse, Gunpowder, in the s...

Kenneth Hasketh's arrangement of 'We Three Kings' is a song for Children's Voices, optional SATB Choir and Piano Accompaniment. The words and music were written by John Henry Hopkins, Jr. , while this...

Scored for SATB chorus and piano or organ accompaniment. Words and music by Kenneth Hesketh. Orchestral parts are available on hire from the publisher.

The Gilded Theatre was commissioned by the National Youth Wind Orchestra of Great Britain on the occasion of its fortieth anniversary. They gave the first performance on 10th August 2008, at St. John'...

The outer movements - Jennie's Bawbee and Peascod's Galliarda - share driving percussion with a military air. Tom Tinker's Toye and Heart's Ease (movements two and three) are both settings of original...

The outer movements - Jennie's Bawbee and Peascod's Galliarda - share driving percussion with a military air. Tom Tinker's Toye and Heart's Ease (movements two and three) are both settings of original...

Scored for SATB chorus and piano or organ accompaniment.

A joyful and celebratory carol setting for SATB choir and Piano or Organ accompaniment.

For upper voices and orchestra, with optional SATB chorus.

The piccolo part to Kenneth Hesketh's Masque. Available to print instantly as digital sheet music.

Die hängende Figur ist Judas' (The hanging figure is Judas) was commissioned by Dr. Margitta Giera as a gift for the German sculptor Michael Langer. Hesketh's first ideas for the work came from a phot...

Influenced by a series of wood-engraved prints titled 'Opus' by Russian artist Naum Gabo, the three movements of this piece reflect the varying states that result from simple linear designs floating a...

Influenced by a series of wood-engraved prints titled 'Opus' by Russian artist Naum Gabo, the three movements of this piece reflect the varying states that result from simple linear designs floating a...

Flute part 1 to Kenneth Hesketh's Masque. Available to print instantly as digital sheet music.

Flute part 2 to Kenneth Hesketh's Masque. Available to print instantly as digital sheet music.

'Point forms' was suggested by a group of five diagrams found in Wassily Kandinsky's book Point and Line and Plane. Many explanations of the geometric shapes, including Kandinsky's use of the words 's...

Aphorisms, a short nine-minute work that is a very useful addition to the repertoire for solo clarinet.

Stimulated by my love of automata, this work for solo oboe takes its name from the invention of Wolfgang von Kempelen, who in the late eighteenth century constructed an extraordinary mechanical man po...

Taking his starting point from 17th century philosopher-poet Cyrano de Bergerac's 'Grandes Plaines du Jour', Hesketh powerfully fuses a huge range of performing and compositional techniques into this...

Composed in 2007 for the Leeds Lieder festival, Hesketh's Shimmerwords and Idle Songs for soprano and piano is a 18 minute song cycle made up of six songs in four sections. The text is taken from a co...