Orchestra

Typhon (2004)

For orchestra.
Duration: 14 minutes.
Composed for the Royal Academy of Music Orchestra.
First Performance: Duke’s Hall, Royal Academy of Music, October 2004, conducted by Chris Austin.
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Dolly the Sheep’s Fanfare (2004)

For double brass ensemble
Duration: 3.5 minutes
Commissioned by the Berio Festival
First performance: Duke’s Hall, Royal Academy of Music, 30 April 2004, conducted by Pierre-Andre Valade
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Petra (2003)

For string orchestra.
Duration: 10 minutes.
Composed for the Royal Academy String Orchestra.
A shortlisted work by spnm.
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Anafora (2002)

For orchestra.
Duration: 18 minutes.
Commissioned by the Wallace Ensemble.
First Performance: London, Regent Hall, 2 March 2002, conducted by Andrew Morley.
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Chamber Ensemble

Book of Dreams II (2017)

For alto flute and string quartet
Duration: 19 minutes
First performance: [TBC]
Recording: Goldsmiths Music Studios, London, 29 September 2018
CD release: Metier
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Clouds that I like (2011)

For female voice, sho, 20 stringed-koto, violin, viola and cello.
Duration: 15 minutes.
Supported by JSPS and the Tokyo University of the Arts and Music.
First performance: Sogakudo Hall, Tokyo, 21 January 2011, Shie Shoji, Naomi Sato, Keiko Hisamoto, Ryoko Arai, Sayo Takimoto, Asako Hisatake, conducted by the composer.
Recording: Tokyo University of the Arts and Music, 23 January 2011.
CD release: Sargasso
Publisher: United Music Publishing
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Dance of the Seven Veils (2010)

For percussion trio (2 vibraphones, 3 congas and 2 suspended cymbals).
Duration: 11 minutes.
Commissioned by the Canterbury Sounds New Festival 2010.
First performance: Sounds New Festival, 8 May 2010, Julian Warburton, Simon Limbrick, Adrian Spillett.
Broadcasted by BBC 3, Hear and Now, 19 June 2010.
Recording: Tokyo University of the Arts and Music, Takefumi Fujimoto, Missa Makino, Mizuho Hayashi, 23 January 2011.
CD release: Sargasso
Publisher: United Music Publishing
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Silhouette (2009)

For string quartet.
Duration: 11 minutes.
Recording: Tokyo University of the Arts and Music, 11 March 2013, Excelsior Quartet.
CD Release: Sargasso
Publisher: United Music Publishing
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Ithaka (2006)

For sho, shakuhachi, shamisen, koto, oboe, clarinet, harp and viola.
Duration: 10 minutes.
Commissioned by spnm.
First performance: Spitalfields Festival, 7 June 2006, Ensemble Okeanos.
CD Release: Sargasso
Publisher: United Music Publishing
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Faded Shonorities (2005)

For wind quintet.
Duration: 10 minutes.
Commissioned by the New London Chamber Ensemble.
First performance: Deal Festival, 14 July 2005.
Publisher: United Music Publishing
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A blue speck of an Idea (2005)

For recorder quartet and string quartet.
Duration: 14 minutes.
Commissioned by the Amsterdam Loeki Stardust Quartet and the Mondriaan String Quartet.
First performance: Eindhoven, Holland, 27 April 2005.
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Book of Seasons (2005)

For flute, clarinet, violin, viola, cello and percussion.
Composed for the concert series Young Composers’s Workshop, Athens, Greece.
Duration: 14 minutes.
First performance: 13 March 2005, Megaron Concert Hall, Athens, conducted by Theodore Antoniou.
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Hesperides (2004)

For flexible instrumentation.
Duration: 6 minutes.
Commissioned by the COMA Ensemble.
First performance: Spitalfields Festival, 19 July 2004 conducted by Gregory Rose.
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Folk songs (2003)

For string trio.
Duration: 6 minutes.
Composed for a workshop with Peter Maxwell Davies.
First performance: Duke’s Hall, Royal Academy of Music, January 2004.
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… this leaf is selected (2003)

For flute, clarinet, oboe, prepared piano, harp, violin and cello and three Chinese gongs.
Duration: 10 minutes.
Composed for the London Sinfonietta.
First performance: Boston University College of Fine Arts School of Music, Alea III, 25 September 2004, conducted by Theodore Antoniou.
Finalist work, Alea III International Composition Prize.
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Views (2000)

For clarinet and string quartet.
Duration: 11 minutes.
Composed for the LSO clarinet quintet (workshop).
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Instrumental Solos & Duos

Moon Whispers (2019)

For harpsichord.
Duration: 10 minutes.
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Six Pieces (2017)

For sho and prepared piano.
Duration: 15 minutes
Recording: Tokyo University of the Arts and Music, 24 February 2019, Naomi Sato, Basil Athanasiadis.
CD Release: [TBC].
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Dream of a Butterfly III (2017)

For piano
Duration: 11 minutes.
Supported by JSPS and the Sasakawa Foundation.
Recording: Berlin, 7 January 2018, Jasmina Samssuli
CD Release: Metier
Publisher: United Music Publishing
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Soft Light II (2017)

For organ.
Duration: 10 minutes.
First performance: Methodist Central Hall Westminster, UK, 19 March 2017, Eleni Keventsidou.
Publisher: United Music Publishing
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Dream of a Butterfly II (2015)

For Rodes piano
Duration: 16 minutes.
Recorded at Orpington, Kent, 31 October 2017, Basil Athanasiadis.
CD Release: Metier
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To the Touch (2013)

For sho and violin.
Duration: 6 minutes.
Supported by JSPS and the Sasakawa Foundation.
First performance: Vafopouleio Cultural Hall, Greece, 4 November 2013, Naomi Sato, Stelios Chatziiosifidis
CD Release: Metier
Publisher: United Music Publishing
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Utakata (2013)

For violin and 20-stringed koto
Duration: 11 minutes.
Supported by JSPS and the Tokyo University of the Arts and Music.
Recording: Tokyo University of the Arts and Music, 29 March 2013, Stelios Chatziiosifidis, Keiko Hisamoto
CD Release: Sargasso
Publisher: United Music Publishing
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Aura (2012)

For sho and vibraphone
Duration: 9 minutes.
Supported by JSPS and the Tokyo University of the Arts and Music.
Recording: Tokyo University of the Arts and Music, 21 February 2013, Naomi Sato, Takefumi Fujimoto.
CD Release: Sargasso
Publisher: United Music Publishing
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Youki (2012)

For piano
Duration: 8 minutes.
Supported by JSPS and the Tokyo University of the Arts and Music.
Recording: Tokyo University of the Arts and Music, April 2013, Evgenia Votanopoulou.
CD Release: Sargasso
Publisher: United Music Publishing
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Shinobu Koi (2012)

For violin
Duration: 7 minutes.
Supported by JSPS and the Tokyo University of the Arts and Music.
First performance: St Gregory’s Centre for Music, 24 October 2012, Stelios Chatziiosifidis.
Recording: Tokyo University of the Arts and Music, April 2013, Momoko Yamada
CD Release: Sargasso
Publisher: United Music Publishing
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Interrupted Dreams (2010)

For sho and 20-stringed koto
Duration: 11 minutes.
Supported by JSPS and the Tokyo University of the Arts and Music.
Recording: Tokyo University of the Arts and Music, 24 January 2011, Naomi Sato, Keiko Hisamoto.
CD Release: Sargasso
Publisher: United Music Publishing
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Tear from the Moon (2010)

For 20-stringed koto
Duration 10 minutes.
Supported by JSPS and the Tokyo University of the Arts and Music.
Recording: Tokyo University of the Arts and Music, 24 January 2011, Noriko Tamura.
CD Release: Sargasso
Publisher: United Music Publishing
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Dream of a Butterfly (2007)

For 5-stringed pipa (Chinese lute).
Duration: 14 minutes.
A commission by Cheng Yu as part of a project for her unique 5-stringed pipa.
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Faded Shonorities II (2007)

For alto saxophone and marimba
Duration: 11 minutes.
First performance: Canterbury, Sounds New Festival, 23 March 2008, Mike Hamnett, Sarah Field.
Recording: Tokyo University of the Arts and Music, 21 February 2013, Naomi Sato, Takefumi Fujimoto.
CD Release: Sargasso
Publisher: United Music Publishing
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For the Ice II (2006)

For soprano saxophone, piano
Duration: 10 minutes.
Commissioned by the Canterbury Sounds New Festival.
First performance: Canterbury, Sounds New Festival, Gulbenkian Theatre, March 2006, Sarah Field, Simon Lepper.
Recording: Colyer-Fergusson Hall, University of Canterbury, 13 September 2017, Naomi Sato, Jasmina Samssuli.
CD Release: Metier
Publisher: United Music Publishing
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For the Ice (2005)

For for violin and piano
Duration: 14 minutes.
Commissioned by Colin Huehns, supported by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
First performance: Tokyo Art Pass Festival, Tokyo University of the Arts and Music, 19 December 2010, Stelios Chatziiosifidis, Junko Nakamura.
Recording: Tokyo University of the Arts and Music, March 2013, Stelios Chatziiosifidis, Junko Nakamura.
CD Release: Sargasso
Publisher: United Music Publishing
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Terpsichore bemused (2004)

For two pianos
Duration: 8 minutes.
Commissioned by the Sounds New Festival.
First performance: Canterbury, Gulbenkian Theatre, March 2004, Tamami Honma, John McCabe.
CD Release: Dutton Epoch
Publisher: United Music Publishing
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Knots II (2003)

For violin and organ
Duration: 14 minutes.
Composed for the UPM performance competition.
First performance: London, Saint Martin in the Fields, February 2004, Eleni Keventsidou, Stelios Chatziiosifidis.
Publisher: United Music Publishers
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Pale views (2003)

For solo alto flute
Duration: 8 minutes.
First performance: London, Burgh House, February 2004, Klio Papadoupoulou.
Recording: St John the Evangelist Church, Oxford, 17 February 2017, Lin Lin.
CD Release: Metier
Publisher: United Music Publishing
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Anamnisis (2003)

For solo piano
Duration: 10 minutes.
First performance: Birmingham Conservatoire, June 2003, Bik Kei Lo
Recording: July 2004, OPR Musikhochschule Stuttgart, Germany, Alex Szram
CD Release: Fonorum
Publisher: United Music Publishing
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Book of Dreams (2002)

For flute and prepared piano
Duration: 15 minutes.
First performance: Dimitria Music Festival, Greece, September 2002, Klio Blonz, Roxani Konstantinidou.
Recording: Tokyo University of the Arts and Music, April 2013, Taka Masuda, Junko Nakamura.
CD release: Sargasso
Publisher: United Music Publishing
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Moon Shadows (2001)

For solo flute
Duration: 13 minutes.
First performance: Music Academy of Sofia, Bulgaria, May 2001, Klio Blonz.
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Vocal Music

Five Pieces (2017)

For voice and prepared piano
Duration: 15 minutes.
Recording: Tokyo University of the Arts and Music, 24 February 2019, Shie Shoji, Basil Athanasiadis.
CD Release: Metier
Publisher: United Music Publishing
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Eyes are now dim (2016)

For female voice, sho, koto and violin
Duration: 20 minutes.
Supported by Japan Foundation, Sasakawa Foundation and the Embassy of Japan in Greece.
First performance: Hellenic Centre, London, 31 May 2016, Shie Shoji, Naomi Sato, Makikko Goto, Aisha Orazbayeva.
Recording: Tokyo University of the Arts and Music, 23 February 2019, shie Shoji, Naomi Sato, Keiko Hisamoto, Nao Tohara, Basil Athanasiadis.
CD Release: Metier
Publisher: United Music Publishing
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The Cat in Love (2014)

For female voice, violin and piano
Duration: 11 minutes.
Recording: St John the Evangelist Church, Oxford, 17 February 2017, Shie Shoji, Stelios Chatziiosifidis, Jasmina Samssulli.
CD Release: Metier
Publisher: United Music Publishing
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Air Still (2013)

For female voice and sho
Duration: 8 minutes.
Supported by JSPS and the Sasakawa Foundation.
First performance: Vafopouleio Cultural Hall, Greece, 4 November 2013, Shie Shoji, Naomi Sato.
CD Release: Metier
Publisher: United Music Publishing
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Little Songs of the Geisha II (2013)

For female voice, sho and violin
Duration: 18 minutes.
Supported by JSPS and the Tokyo University of the Arts and Music
First performance: Canterbury Festival, St Gregory’s Centre for Music, 2 November 2013, Shie Shoji, Naomi Sato, Stelios Chatziiosifidis.
Recording: Tokyo University of the Arts and Music, 24 January 2011, Shie Shoji, Naomi Sato, Momoko Yamada.
CD Release: Sargasso
Publisher: United Music Publishing
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Jardin D’Iris (2010)

For female voice and violin and electronics
Duration: 11 minutes.
Supported by British Council, JSPS and Tokyo University of the Arts.
First performance: Vafopouleio Cultural Centre, Greece, Shie Shoji, Stelios Chatziiosifidis.
Recording: Tokyo University of the Arts and Music, 24 January 2011.
CD Release: Sargasso
Publisher: United Music Publishing
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Fantasmata (2007)

For female voice and ensemble
Duration: 14 minutes.
Supported by the Daiwa Foundation, Sasakawa Foundation and the Canterbury Christ Church University.
First performance: Sapporo Kitara Concert Hall, 28 November 2007, Shonorities.
Publisher: United Music Publishing
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Little Songs of the Geisha (2006)

For female voice and flute, violin and cello
Duration: 14 minutes
Commissioned by Colin Huehns, supported by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Daiwa Foundation and the Sasakawa Foundation
Premiered at the Kushiro Cultural Hall, Japan, 18 August 2006, Shonorities Ensemble.
DVD Production: directed by Suseki Oita, Kushiro Cultural Hall, August 2007.
Publisher: United Music Publishing
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Beautiful for words (2003)

Song for four actor singers and piano based on the novel “Tin Drum”
Duration: 2 minutes.
Composed for the National Theatre actors.
First performance: London, The Old Vic Theatre, May 2003.
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Works for Choir

Antiphon to Mary (2006)

For four-part mixed choir based on text by Hildegard von Bingen.
Duration: 4 minutes.
Commissioned by the Choir and Organ Magazine.
First performance: Christ Church Cathedral Choir, Montreal, Canada, August 2006.
CD releases: Regent Records / Choir and Organ Magazine
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Ikons (2003)

For 16-part mixed choir
Duration: 6 minutes.
Composed for the BBC Singers.
First performance: London, Saint Luke’s Church, May 2003, BBC Singers.
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Music & Image

Circles (2019)

For piano and electronics
Duration: 10 minutes.
Recording: Tokyo University of the Arts and Music, 24 February 2019, Basil Athanasiadis.
CD release: Metier
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Sakura (2019)

For solo piano
Duration: 6 minutes.
Recording: Tokyo University of the Arts and Music, 24 February 2019, Basil Athanasiadis.
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Home (2005)

For solo piano
Duration: 9 minutes.
Soundtrack for a short film by the Chinese director Carol Liu.
Recording: St Gregory’s Music Centre, 2005, Basil Athanasiadis.
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Yellowish (2003)

For electronics
Duration: 2 minutes.
Soundtrack for animation.
First performance: David Josefowitz Recital Hall, Royal Academy of Music, March 2004.
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