Compositions

  • Eardstapa (2025) string orchestra and soprano

    Expansion of the original work for soprano and string quartet into a 5-movement setting of The Wanderer from The Exeter Book, a 10th C codex of poetry.

    l’espace entre nous (2016) orchestra

    Verbrugghen Hall, the Sydney Conservatorium of Music - Modest Orchestra; conducted by Kirsten Milenko

    Symphony d’aere (2017-19) wind symphony with solo violin

    Verbrugghen Hall, the Sydney Conservatorium of Music - SCM Wind Symphony; conducted by John P. Lynch with soloist Annabelle Swainston / WASBE Conference in Buñol, Spain - SCM Wind Symphony conducted by John P. Lynch with soloist Anna Da Silva Chen

    Traho (2021) orchestra

    Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra with conductor Lin Liao - Roche Young Commissions 2019, Lucerne Festival

  • Dalloway (2020) opera

    Pulsar Festival, Copenhagen - with soprano Johanna Maria Nylund as Mrs Dalloway; dancer Jessica Lyall as Mrs Dalloway’s Shadow; dancers Stefanos Bizas and Ruth Rebekka Hansen as Abstractions; musicians of DKDM; conducted by Jean Thorel

  • De-Voir (2017) dance-theatre piece for piano and pas de trois

    Hamburg Staatsoper - Opera Stabile, Hamburg Ballet Junge Choreografen - with choreography by Hayley Page; piano by Kirsten Milenko

    Loops (2021) contralto, tenor, violin, violoncello, harp, percussion

    ‘Paroles et musique’ - workshopped and performed by artists from the Opéra Orchestre National Montpellier in collaboration with Rennik-Jan Neggers and Franciska Éry.

    The Wolf’s Mouth (2021) contralto, tenor, percussion, violoncello

    ‘Paroles et musique’ - workshopped by artists from the Opéra Orchestre National Montpellier in collaboration with Mathilda du Tillieul McNicol and Ewa Rucinska.

  • Caeli (2018) voice and light

    Kablys, Vilnius, in tandem with NORD+MIX Workshop and the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre

    Speak (2018-19) 18-part vocal ensemble

    DR VokalEnsemblet (Danish National Vocal Ensemble) - Pulsar Festival, Copenhagen

    Tempête (2023) - soprano and electronics

    Composition for soprano Béatrice de Larragoïti. Premiered 21st September 2023 at IRCAM, Paris.

    The Audacity (2025) song cycle for soprano and piano / soprano and piano quintet

    Béatrice de Larragoïti. Premieres autumn 2025.

    *See also Eardstapa (original for soprano and string quartet, version for soprano and string orchestra), Night is worn (sinfonietta and two voices)

  • Night is worn (2019) sinfonietta and two voices

    Pulsar Festival, Copenhagen; conducted by Jean Thorel with soloists Emma Ilona Mustaniemi and Stephen George Yeseta

    Opia (2018) 1.1.1.1. 1.0.0.0. perc. strings

    Esbjerg Ensemble conducted by Rei Munakata

    Skin Deep (2021) 1(afl).1.1(Acl).1. 1.1.1.0. 2perc. strings

    Athelas Sinfonietta Copenhagen - KLANG Festival, Copenhagen

  • Altértité (2019) trio for violin and two percussionists [2 vibraphones, 5 gongs, bass drum, cymbals]

    Festival Nowa Muzyka 2019; Sutt Family; Bydgoszcz, Poland

    Duets (2019) string quartet and trumpet

    Gildas Quartet and Lucy Humphris - Dartington Hall; Totnes, England

    Eardstapa (2019) soprano and string quartet

    Louise Mcclelland Jacobsen and Novo Quartet - Pulsar Festival, Copenhagen

    Hyphae (2024) quintet for flute, clarinets, saxophones, piano, percussion

    Ensemble Offspring - premieres Utzon Room, 23 Sydney Opera House, November 2024

    Light Movements (2016) baroque recorder quartet [2x tenor, bass, great bass]

    Vivid Sydney; Judgement of Paris Quartet

    Lys (2018) quintet for flute, clarinet, piano, percussion, violin

    Ensemble Offspring; Glebe Town Hall, Hatched Academy

    O (2016) trio for bass flute, bass clarinet, prepared piano

    E-Mex Ensemble; Pałac Radziejowice, Poland

    Organum (2017) trio for viola, violoncello, electric guitar

    24-hour concert curated by Lucy Yao for Kulturnatten, Copenhagen

    Pastiche (2019-21) quartet for percussion, piano, violoncello, electric guitar

    Ensemble K!ART, Copenhagen

    Quoram (2016) bass clarinet, double bass, piano, electronics

    Max Miller Boch, Jacques Emery, Kirsten Milenko - Sydney Conservatorium of Music

    Sleepless (2018) Chinese flutes, yangqin, pipa, erhu, cello, piano

    Pulsar Festival, Copenhagen

    Solace (2020) Piano Trio n.1

    Trio Ismena; broadcast on DRP2 / Canberra Symphony Orchestra (CSO) Chamber Ensemble

    Tapestries (2020) Bang on a Can All-Stars

    Pulsar Festival, Copenhagen

    Wachtraum (2015) String Quartet n.1

    Verbrugghen Hall, Sydney Conservatorium of Music

    We Are Strangers (2020) quintet for violin, viola, violoncello, contrabass, bass viol

    Ensemble Musikfabrik and Eva Reiter; Académie Voix Nouvelles, France

  • ad forestum (2017) classical guitar with electronics

    Recital Hall West, Sydney Conservatorium of Music - Dennis Van Rooyen

    Canthus (2018) guitar duo

    Scandinavian Guitar Duo - Pulsar Festival, Copenhagen

    d’or (2019) violoncello with electronics

    SMK - Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen - Toke Møldrup

    Dawn / à l'aube (2016) classical guitar

    National Arboretum, Canberra - Matt Withers

    Dust (2016) prepared piano

    Sa Taronja Associació Cultural, Mallorca - Kirsten Milenko

    Ex Aere (2017) electroacoustic concert work for soprano and double bass

    Sylvie Woods and Jacques Emery, City Recital Hall, Sydney

    Helix (2025) percussion, electronics, light

    Upcoming work for percussionist Bartłomiej Sutt. Premieres August 2025, Poland.

    Lapse (2021) violin, violoncello

    The ANAM Set - Rachael Kwa and Hamish Jamieson

    Lux Aeterna (2019) percussion [vibraphone with electronics of light and sound]

    Bartłomiej Sutt with [electronics]

    Mourning Song (2014) flutes, cello

    University of New South Wales - Regan Mooney and Cody Shanahan

    Orbis (2016) violoncello with electronics

    Recital Hall West, the Sydney Conservatorium of Music - James Morley

    Somniare (2017) bass clarinet and accordion

    The Austriackie Forum Kultury, Warsaw - Ensemblage, Dziołak / Stankiewicz Duo

    Vol (2018) soprano saxophone, piano

    Pałac Łazienkowski, Warszawa - Andrzej Karałow and Pablo Sánchez-Escariche Gasch

    We Are Only Breathing (2018) percussion [marimba, 10x Thai bao gongs]

    Pulsar Festival, Copenhagen - Kalle Hakosalo

  • Dislocation (2015): film score for animation artist Harrison Flemming

    Enouement (2018) field recordings of forest and cityscapes, the Royal Danish Academy of Music

    Flowers (2020): film score for dancer and choreographer Manu Sheen

    Poetics (2018) installation at the Charlottenborg Palace, Copenhagen, for Pulsar Festival

    Sensibilité (2019) installation work at the Royal Danish Academy of Music for Pulsar Festival

    Snowline (2016) field recordings of snow, the Royal Danish Academy of Music

Orchestration & Arrangement

SØS Gunver Ryberg: 3 Orchestral Portraits

Commissioned by the Aarhus Symphony Orchestra and SPOT Festival, Supported by Statens Kunstfond. Orchestral remixes of two pre-existing works by SØS Gunver Ryberg were made for Magnetic Force and Earth Pressure Balance. A newly composed piece COEXISTENCE was transcribed and orchestrated for the composer who performed live electronics with the orchestra.

Premiered the 7th May 2022 by the Aarhus Symphony Orchestra with conductor Halldis Rønning:


Wagner: Tannhäuser Overture

Commissioned by Mizmorim Kammermusik Festival. Premiered 20th January 2023 at Gare du Nord, Basel. The instrumentation briefing was designed to maintain the scale of Wagner’s original orchestration with a smaller instrumentation. 

Here, I set the ensemble to comprise 9 string players (double string quartet with contrabass), 8 brass players (2x horn, 2x trumpet, 2x trombone, tuba), and 1 percussionist. Contemporary orchestration techniques access a full spectrum of colour relative to the original work, while establishing the new setting. 

Score and parts will be made available in March 2025.

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