WILLIAM REYNISH COMMISSIONING PROJECT

Since leaving the Royal Northern College of Music in 2002, my wife and I have begun a series of commissions in memory of our third son who died in the Pyrenees in 2001.

Already available:

 

Matthew Taylor	Blasket Dances	Maecenas
Judith Bingham	Bright Spirit	Maecenas
Christopher Marshall	L’Homme Armé	Maecenas
Adam Gorb	Dances from Crete	Maecenas
Derek Bourgeois	Symphony for William	HaFaBra
Geoffrey Poole	Unfinished Symphony
Kenneth Hesketh	The Cloud of Unknowing	Schott
Fergal Carroll	Song of Lir

Commissioned for 2004/2005

 

Kenneth Hesketh	Vrajanka (for school band)
Christopher Painter	New work
Christopher Painter	New work (for school band)
Edwin Roxburgh	Oboe Concerto
Stephen McNeff	New work for voice and ensemble
Michael Berkeley	New work

We plan to invite every composer involved to write a work for less experienced band at the same time as contributing a (hopefully) major work to the professional and university level repertoire.