Simon Holt

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...

Commissioned by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales for the opening of Hoddinott Hall. First performance on 22nd January 2009, at Hoddinott Hall, Cardiff, by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales conduc...

Syrensong is an alluring composition by Simon Holt. This piece has been dedicated to Bill Mann.

Simon Holt's chamber opera Who put Bella in the Wych Elm? is a highly creative work, with the most intriguing score. An emotive and haunting composition, this work is guaranteed to move the audience....

The solo percussion part, orchestral score available separately. Note for Performance. In table top, the unpitched solo percussion part in the 9th movement, the scoringwas initially left open. The p...

This one movement piece is dedicated to Sir Peter Maxwell Davies at 60. “Nigredo” is approximately 14 minutes long. Scored for piano solo.

The Libretto for Simon Holt's The Nightingale's To Blame, Co-commissioned by Opera North, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival and Munich Biennale

Daedalus Remembers is the third part in a trilogy called 3 for Icarus. Daedalus was Icarus' father and a famous craftsman. He once forged a magic sword for Peleus which had a property of making its ow...