Our commissions

    • Iain Farrington – Orchestral arrangements of BISHI’s ‘Do not stand at my grave and weep’ and ‘Good immigrant’
    • Huw Watkins – Five Duos for Clarinet and Violin (for CLS’s 50th anniversary)
    • Dobrinka Tabakova – Origin (for CLS’s 50th anniversary)
    • Cheryl Frances-Hoad – Scenes from the Wild (for CLS’s 50th anniversary; libretto by Amanda Holden and based on the book Diary of a Young Naturalist by Dara McAnulty)
    • Donghoon Shin – My Shadow (joint commission with Heidelberger Fruehling)
    • Gwilym Simcock – We’re going on a bear hunt (script by Hazel Gould)
    • Charlotte Bray – New arrangement of J S Bach Prelude to Cello Suite No.5
    • Lev ‘Ljova’ Zhurbin – Elegy
    • Gwilym Simcock – On a Piece of Tapestry (part of the PRS New Music Biennial 2014)
    • Mara Carlyle – New arrangements including Prisoner Cell Block H theme (with support from PRSF Women Make Music, Ambache Charitable Trust)
    • Gabriel Jackson – Countless and Wonderful are the Ways to Praise God (with support from Gabriels Angels, RVW Trust)
    • Cecilia McDowall – Seventy Zegrees Below Zero (with support from RVW Trust, for our Scott of the Antarctic tour)
    • Colin Matthews – No Man’s Land (with support from the Boltini Trust as part of the BBC Proms 2011)
    • Dan Jenkins – Trumpet Concerto
    • Tansy Davies – King Pin 
    • Elena Kats-Chernin – Ornamental Airs (joint commission with North Carolina Symphony, Swedish Chamber Orchestra, and Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra)
    • Roxanna Panufnik – Beastly Tales: The Hare and the Tortoise
    • Alasdair Nicholson – MMC Fanfare (with support from MMC)
    • Roxanna Panufnik – Beastly tales: The Crocodile & the Monkey (joint commission with the BBC)
    • William Attwood – Colour Down the Side
    • Roxanna Panufnik – Beastly tales: The Frog and the Nightingale 
    • John Tavener – Fall and Resurrection (joint commission with the BBC and St Paul’s Cathedral)
    • Alasdair Nicholson – Ghosts @ the Water’s Edge
    • Alasdair Nicholson – Stramash
    • Alasdair Nicholson – Admiral’s Fanfare
    • Nigel Osborne – Oboe Concerto
    • Alasdair Nicholson – Stormwatching
    • Geoffrey Burgon – Merciless Beauty (joint commission with James Bowman)
    • Diana Burrell – Dunkelvhide Manestraler
    • John Woolrich – A Curtain Tune
    • Barry Guy – Concerto for Orchestra (Falling Water)
    • John Tavener – The Hidden Face
    • Michael Berkeley – Severn Bridge
    • Richard Rodney Bennett – Bassoon Concerto
    • Howard Blake – Charter for Peace (joint commission with the Foreign Office and United Nations)
    • John Buller – Mr Purcell’s Maggott 
    • Diana Burrell – Enchainements
    • Barry Guy – After the Rain
    • Elis Pehkonen – Violin Concerto
    • Colin Matthews – Chiaroscuro
    • Nigel Osborne – Esquisse 2
    • Nigel Osborne – Flute Concerto
    • Robin Holloway – Idyll
    • Geoffrey Burgon – Canciones del Alma
    • John Rutter – Fancies

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