Simon Holt

This is a study score of Simon Holt 's Sparrow Night, for Solo Oboe and Chamber Ensemble. Commissioned by the Nash Ensemble, this work lasts for around 17 minutes. The title of Sparrow Night comes fro...

This work was written for Endymion's 'Sound Census' project, in celebration of their 30th Birthday. It was first performed by Endymion with Melinda Maxwell (oboe), at Kings Place, London, as part of t...

Commissioned by The Bath Festival. 'If the idea behind the piece comes from anywhere, the 'Disparates' (Follies) of Goya were certainly at the back of my mind when writing. The Goya images are nightma...

Era Madrugada is a work by Simon Holt for Chamber Ensemble, commissioned by the Royal Institute of British Architects and first performed on 24th May 1984 at BBC Portland Place Concert Hall, London by...

eco-pavan for piano and chamber ensemble was commissioned by the BBC. The first performance took place on 20th November 1998 during the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival. Scored for Solo Piano,...

Includes parts for Violin, Viola and Cello.

This is part 2 of the cycle A Ribbon Of Time. It was composed for the Royal Philharmonic Society Music Award for Chamber-scale Composition 2002.

Simon Holt's the man in the wind and the west moon was composed for Solo Harp in 2013, having been commissioned by The Tanza Trust. The piece takes its title from a line in a Dylan Thomas poem named '...

First performance by Mark van de Wiel at the Purcell Room, London on 12th July 2004.

Escaramuza (the Spanish word for 'skirmish') is an 8 minute single movement for Clarinet and Piano, and is dedicated to the wildly talented Mark Simpson. It takes the form of a volatile, cinematic fr...

Commissioned for Brief Candles, a collaboration in devising music and dance, commissioned and produced by spnm in partnership with the Richard Alston Dance Company and the Contemporary Music Network....

Composed in 2005 for Melinda Maxwell to the memory of her mother, Margaret.

This song was written for the NMC Songbook and recorded by Omar Ebrahim. 'Raju Raghuvanshi is unmarried; he's forty five; his parents are dead; no siblings. He's had to move to Bamni nearby. For here...

Scored for solo countertenor or mezzo soprano. This work was commissioned by the Oxford Festival of Contemporary Music. First performed 11th November 1998. The texts of the six, brief, unaccompanied s...

The Study Score for Simon Holt 's Morpheus Wakes, a concerto for Flute or Alto Flute and Orchestra. Commissioned by BBC Radio 3, this work was first performed at the BBC Proms on 27th July 2014 at the...

witness to a snow miracle is a violin concerto in seven short movements, based around the life of Saint Eulalia, the virgin martyr. The movements are presented as if part of a painting in which we see...

witness to a snow miracle is a violin concerto in seven short movements, based around the life of Saint Eulalia, the virgin martyr. The movements are presented as if part of a painting in which we see...

Commissioned jointly for Colin Currie by the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and the Borletti-Buitoni Trust. First performance on 14th May 2008, at Symphony Hall, Birmingham, by Colin Currie (pe...

Ellsworth 2 has been composed by Simon Holt from music that that was written in an earlier piece, Troubled Light, it is said he took inspiration from the painting Painting for a white wall. Within t...