Writing for strings

After the performance of 'Ha!' last year, conductor Donnie Deacon approached me to see if I had anything else for strings: in particular, if I had any solo works that might be suitable for students. I've been enjoying getting back into writing recently so… rather than dig through the back catalog, I've written two new pieces.

'headlong--->]' is for unaccompanied violin. The score is deliberately written with no bowings, articulations, dynamics or tempo gradations, with the idea that each player has to work the piece out for themselves: to make sense of it in their own way.

'constant' is for viola and piano. In some ways it is a recomposition of 'complicated circumstances' from 'The Other Other' hand: the mystical ascending chord sequence is the same, but the material for the viola completely different to the original clarinet part.

Just mentioning these pieces here for now: I'm waiting for Donnie and I to get a chance to look at them together before I set them in stone.