Performances / Workshops

2022

Glitter Balls (opera: act 1 finale piano reduction) presented 8th April 2022 by Lara Martins (soprano), Hester Dart (mezzo-soprano), Kate O’Donnell (contralto/tenor), Jorge Balça (countertenor/bass) Rui Baeta (baritone), Cândido Fernandes (rehearsal pianist), The Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal

conducting piano reduction of Act 1 finale in the Gulbenkian Foundation, Portugal

2018

ENERGY CANNOT BE CREATED IV: …generously taken (ensemble) premiered 8th December 2018 by LSTwo Ensemble, Clothworkers Centenary Concert Hall, Leeds, England

Alannah Marie
The premiere of ECBC IV

ENERGY CANNOT BE CREATED III: transferred states (ensemble) premiered 7th May 2018 by LSTwo Ensemble, Clothworkers Centenary Concert Hall, Leeds, England

Alannah Marie
The premiere of ECBC III

Soundtrack for Littley Car (short film) released November 2018 by Boylan Media

Progress always comes late (solo piano) premiered 20th April 2018 by Ian Pace in London, England

Alannah Marie
Pianist Ian Pace premiering Progress Always Comes Late / ‘il progressi sempre tardi arriva’

2017

Resonance/Light/Decay (28 pianos) composed in collaboration with Dr Mic Spencer (University of Leeds) was premiered on 12 December 2017 in the School of Music, University of Leeds and featured on BBC Radio Leeds

Alannah Marie
Premiere of Resonance / Light / Decay for 28 pianos

‘We Lived in the Gaps Between the Stories.’ (amplified accordion) performed 16th June, 2017 by Ryszard Lubieniecki in the Academy of Music, Bydgoszcz, Poland

‘We Lived in the Gaps Between the Stories.’ (amplified accordion) performed 13th June, 2017 by Ryszard Lubieniecki in Wrocław, Poland

‘We Lived in the Gaps Between the Stories.’ (amplified accordion) performed 10th June, 2017 by Ryszard Lubieniecki in the ‘Spadochron’ festival of solo improvised music, Wrocław, Poland

Pacific Pleasures (opera) was performed in London by the Bloomsbury Opera company in 2017

Alannah Marie
A snapshot from my opera Pacific Pleasures. Photography by Alex Fine

2016

CROSSWOR[K] (free instrumentation) performed by L.I.M.E. in their concert Barricades and Partitions, 1st May, 2016, Wharf Chambers, Leeds, England

Alannah Marie
Second performance of CROSSWOR[K] (free instrumentation) by L.I.M.E.

Graphite Pendulum (solo clarinet in Bb and fixed-media electronics) performed by the Leeds University Union Music Society, 27th April, 2016, The Library, Leeds, England

petrichor (fixed-media electronics) was performed by the Leeds University Union Music Society, 27th April, 2016, The Library, Leeds, England

[Co]Valence II (flautist(s) and fixed-media electronics) performed 11th March, 2016 by the University of Leeds Flute Ensemble (thirteen flautists), Clothworkers Centenary Concert Hall, Leeds, England

Alannah Marie
Rhian Hughes Powell conducting [Co]Valence II (2016) for multiple flautist(s) and optional fixed-media electronics

angustia (flute, accordion, violin, and fixed-media electronics), performed 6th March, 2016 by Trio Layers, KoncertKirken in Copenhagen, Denmark

angustia (flute, accordion, violin, and fixed-media electronics), performed 1st March, 2016 by Trio Layers, in a secret location in Copenhagen, Denmark

angustia (flute, accordion, violin) performed 19th February, 2016 by Trio Layers, Festiwal Akordeonowy in Mława, Poland

angustia (flute, accordion, violin) performed 13th February, 2016 by Trio Layers, The Municipal Gallery in Bydgoszcz, Poland

2015

angustia (flute, accordion, and violin) performed 20th November, 2015 by ensemble Trio Layers at the Academy of Music in Bydgoszcz, Poland

Air, Earth, Water, Fire (orchestra) performed 22nd August, 2015 by the Yorkshire Young Sinfonia, York Barbican, England

ENERGY CANNOT BE CREATED II: 4B4 (chamber ensemble) performed 1st May, 2015 by LSTwo Ensemble, Clothworkers Centenary Concert Hall, Leeds, England

‘…it’s (al[l]/[ready]) been done!’ (fixed-media electronics) performed 21st February, 2015 in the Centre Stage concert series, White Cloth Gallery, Leeds, England

‘It sounds an isochronism.’ (solo piano and fixed-media electronics) performed 21st February, 2015 by Alannah Marie in the Centre Stage concert series, White Cloth Gallery, Leeds, England

‘Read between the…’ (fixed-media electronics) performed 21st February, 2015 in the Centre Stage concert series, White Cloth Gallery, Leeds, England

To Rave in a Fifteenth-Century Discotheque from another Time Entirely (solo string instrument and fixed-media electronics) performed 21st February, 2015 by Alannah Marie (on viola) in the Centre Stage concert series, White Cloth Gallery, Leeds, England

2014

The Ridge is beyond the Edge (fixed-media electronics) performed 2nd November, 2014 in the ‘di_stanze festival of electronic music’, Clothworkers Centenary Concert Hall, Leeds, England

The Carbon Loop (seven percussionists) performed 11th May, 2014 by percussion ensembles of the Musikhochschule Freiburg and the University of Leeds in the ‘Leeds Contemporary Music Festival’, Clothworkers Centenary Concert Hall, Leeds, England

Alannah Marie
Percussion ensembles of Freiburg and Leeds performing The Carbon Loop

ENERGY CANNOT BE CREATED I: the title is an image (chamber ensemble) performed 2nd May, 2014 by LSTwo Ensemble, Clothworkers Centenary Concert Hall, Leeds, England

Alannah Marie
LSTwo rehearsing my piece ENERGY CANNOT BE CREATED I. Photo by Oliver Thurley

2013

CROSSWOR[K] (graphic score for Notes Inégales) performed 5th June, 2013 by Notes Inégales, Clothworkers Centenary Concert Hall, Leeds, England

Alannah Marie
Notes Inégales premiering my CROSSWOR[K]

In the Zone (chamber ensemble) performed 19th April, 2013 by LSTwo Ensemble in the ‘Leeds Contemporary Music Festival’, Clothworkers Centenary Concert Hall, Leeds, England

2012

Dry Veins (soprano and piano) performed 14th October, 2012 by Dan Holden (piano) and Rhiannon Beck (soprano) in Leeds Lieder+ Day of Song (2012), Clothworkers Centenary Concert Hall, Leeds, England

Workshop Performances

2022

Glitter Balls (opera: act 1 finale piano reduction) workshopped 3rd – 8th April 2022 by Lara Martins (soprano), Hester Dart (mezzo-soprano), Kate O’Donnell (contralto/tenor), Jorge Balça (countertenor/bass) Rui Baeta (baritone), Cândido Fernandes (rehearsal pianist), The Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal

2015

Parallax Error (solo double bass) workshopped 3rd September and 8th September, 2015 by Dario Calderone in the Gaudeamus Muziekweek Academy, Utrecht, Netherlands

Alannah Marie
My composition Parallax Error (2014) for any four-stringed bowed instrument was selected to be workshopped by ‘cellist Katharina Gross and double bassist Dario Calderone at the 2015 Gaudeamus Muziekweek Academy in Utrecht

Parallax Error (solo violoncello) workshopped 3rd September and 7th September, 2015 by Katharina Gross in the Gaudeamus Muziekweek Academy, Utrecht, Netherlands

Alannah Marie
cellist Katharina Gross workshopping my composition Parallax Error for any four-stringed bowed instrument.

Air, Earth, Water, Fire (orchestra) workshopped 20th August, 2015 by the Yorkshire Young Sinfonia, Queen Margaret’s School, York, England

Here I am workshopping Air, Earth, Water, Fire with the Yorkshire Young Sinfonia

Parallax Error (solo violoncello) workshopped 29th January, 2015 by Ellen Fallowfield, School of Music, University of Leeds, England

2014

The Interlocutor (ensemble) workshopped 25th March, 2014 by Discord, School of Music, University of Leeds, England

Alannah Marie
Ensemble Discord sight-reading my piece The Interlocutor in a workshop.

2013

‘…the space of his occupancy of a world at a time…’ (solo cello) workshopped 10th May, 2013 by Seth Woods, Clothworkers Centenary Concert Hall, Leeds, England