Ensemble - Philip Cashian

Leonora Pictures for mixed ensemble 2017 00:21:00 Composers Edition nkoda buy/hire

forces: flt (picc. alto.), cl (bass), perc, hp, pf, vln, vla, vc.
Inspired by the fantastical characters and landscapes depicted in the paintings of the great English surrealist Leonora Carrington (1917-2011), Leonora Pictures is a twenty one minute journey through a series of interconnecting panels, each drawing on the virtuosity of different combinations of instruments.
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Opening of the House for choir and eleven players with soundtrack 2008 00:15:00 Composers Edition nkoda buy/hire

forces: for choir, soundtrack and eleven instruments: 2flt (doubling alt.flt), 2 clr (2=bass clr.), 2 hn, 2tpt, 2tbn, perc.
Commissioned for the London Sinfonietta’s inaugural concert at King’s Place, London.
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Three Pieces Three pieces for 22 players 2004 00:20:00 Music Sales buy/hire

forces: 2121, 2100. 2perc, pf, harp, strings: 22221
1. Scenes from Burgos 2. The Silver Surface of the Night 3. The Traveller Without a Compass. Commissioned by the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group
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Spitbite for six players 2001 00:05:00 Music Sales buy/hire

forces: clr,ssax,perc,vn,vc,db
Spitbite was commissioned by the Britten Sinfonia for their ‘A-Z of Music’ series at the Cambridge Corn Exchange, February 2000. The piece is a short tribute to Frank Zappa.
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Skein for ten players 2005 00:14:00 Music Sales buy/hire

forces: fl/pic/afl, cl/bcl, bn/cbn, hn, tpt/flugelhorn, perc, vn, va, vc, db
Skein (defined in the dictionary as ‘a loosely knotted tangle of ideas’) was written in 2006 for Birmingham Contemporary Music Group with the intention of drawing out the virtuosic qualities of the ensemble’s musicians. The music grows from, and later returns to, a solo viola and as the title suggests, like a lot of my music, is made up from a number of differing sections overlaid and stitched together. The piece is dedicated to Jackie and Stephen Newbould, is scored for ten instruments and lasts around 14 minutes.
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Sea of Tales, A for solo oboe and five players 1998 00:16:00 Composers Edition buy/hire

forces: ob, cl, hn, vn, va, vc
Commissioned by the Cheltenham Festival for Melinda Maxwell and Endymion
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Settala’s Machine for double wind quintet 2012 00:12:00 Music Sales buy/hire

forces: fl/picc, fl, ob, ob, cl/bcl, cl, bsn, bsn, hn, hn
Manfredo Settala (1600-1680) was an Italian nobleman and collector of oddities as well as a skilled maker of automata. His most famous invention was a mechanical devil which can still be seen on display at the Castello Sforzesco in Milan. In seventeenth century Italy automata were theologically and culturally familiar things and mechanical devils were rife. Poised in sacristies, they were grotesque and bawdy, made horrible faces, howled and stuck out their tongues to instil fear in the hearts of sinners. The Satan- machines rolled their eyes and flailed their arms and wings, some even had moveable horns and crowns and breathed smoke through their nostrils.
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Mechanik for any combination of instruments 2003 00:04:00 Music Sales buy/hire Recordings: CoMA: Open Score

forces: any combination of instruments
Mechanik takes its title from Mechanik’s Bench,a sculpture by Eduardo Paolozzi. In this short piece (for any combination of instruments) I tried to capture the sense of energy and strength the sculpture gives off.
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House of Night, The for solo oboe and strings 2002 00:10:00 Music Sales buy/hire Recordings: The House of Night

forces: ob, strings (minimum 1.1.1.1.1. players)
The House of Night takes its title from a poem by Kathleen Raine and is a collection of five scenes for oboe and strings in which the solo oboe is cast as a figure in a landscape.
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Furor for 2 pianos and flexible ensemble 2014 00:08:00 Recordings: Miniaturised Concertos

forces: 2 solo pianos, 2 percussionists and flexibly scored ensemble.

Chamber Concerto for sixteen players 1995 00:17:00 Music Sales buy/hire Recordings: Dark Inventions

forces: fl/afl/pic, ob, 2cl, bn, hn, tpt, 2perc, pf, harp, 2vn, va, vc, db [1121, 1100.2111]
With the Chamber Concerto I wanted to write a piece that exploited the virtuosity of the players and different instrumental groups of BCMG. The music is sectional and each uses different and contrasting instrumental combinations. There are fifteen distinctly identifiable sections: with a sense of urgency; bold and expressive; dry and machine-like; dancing and pushing forward; oboe cadenza; transparent and ghostly; slower (clarinet solo); tom-tom cadenza; with passion; hard and driving; turbulent; jazzy; violin cadenza; scintillating; frozen.
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Autumn Choruses for any combination of instruments 2007 00:08:00

forces: flexible ensemble, pf, perc
Commissioned by Contemporary Music for Amateurs