Orchestration
My arrangement for Ravel’s Le Gibet, for full orchestra.
Approx 7 minutes - sounds created with EastWest.
Daydreams in a Summer Forest, by Nicholas Simon
Approx 17 minutes, Full Screen Recommended. The full second movement of my first symphony, this piece encompasses a pastorale landscape along with a bouncing Waltz. Sounds created with Note Performer.
Approx 2 minutes - I have attempted to bring to life all of the colour and unique sound of Dutilleux's piano writing.
String Quartet/Ensemble
Approx 3 minutes - John Williams’s score for Star Wars: Return of the Jedi, includes a wonderfully sci-fi baroque Minuet. Arranged for String Quartet.
The Bells of Emanation, by Nicholas Simon
Approx 8 minutes, Full Screen Recommended. A dark piece describing an apocalyptic fantasy-rendition of the Doomsday Clock.
Conducted by Pr John Pickrd and Performed by the Bristol ensemble
Score Studies
Having collected over a hundred manuscript scores, ranging from solo piano pieces to full orchestra, I have studies the inner craft behind every composer’s writing.
I was able to gain invaluable insight into the construction of orchestral pieces by studying scores from Debussy, Ravel, Holst and Mahler. This meant breaking down the scores of manuscript books, page by page, so that I could understand how each instrumental part works in tandem with the rest to create a whole sound.
For part of my Master’s degree I studied the inspirations of Mahler’s music in modern media music.