About

Bio

Will is a London-based composer, pianist and singer.

He often draws on improvisation, poetic stimuli and natural phenomena in his music.

Will is a National Youth Choir Young Composer 23-24 and a masters student at the Royal Academy of Music.

He combines composition with an active career as a pianist and singer, performing frequently in song and chamber recitals, and singing with groups including St Martin’s Voices and Genesis Sixteen.

Selected Works

CHORAL

  • Three Madrigals - SSAATTBB a cappella [7’]
  • Fireworks - SSAATTBB a cappella [5’]
  • St Martin’s Responses - [5’]
  • Loneliness - SSAATTBB a cappella [7’]
  • The Lord’s Prayer - SATB a cappella [4’30]
  • The Tyger - upper voices and piano [3’30]
  • Voyage of the Soul - SSAATTBB a cappella [7’]

VOCAL

  • Show Home - mini opera for three singers and piano [17’]
  • Golden Hour - soprano and piano trio [12’]
  • Words - tenor and piano [5’]
  • Canción del jinete - countertenor and piano [3’]
  • The House on the Hill - tenor and piano [5’]
  • This is my Letter - song cycle for high voice and piano [13’]

LARGE ENSEMBLE / ORCHESTRA

  • Dream Sequence - mixed ensemble [8’30’]
  • Aurora - big band and strings [6’30]
  • Concerto for Piano and Orchestra - piano and orchestra [14’]
  • The Whole Heaven on Fire - orchestra [4’]
  • Into the Reeds - mixed ensemble [4’]
  • Fanfare for the Five Rings - orchestral brass and percussion [4’]

CHAMBER

  • Cello Sonata - cello and piano [18’]
  • Saplings - clarinet, violin and cello [6’]
  • Murmurations - piano trio [6’]
  • Ruach - two flutes and electronics [7’]
  • Flux - piano trio [5’30]

SOLO

  • La Danse - piano [6’]
  • Drummer Hodge - piano [5’]
  • Surface Tension - piano [3’30]
  • Bone Dry (Prelude and Fugue) - piano [8’]
  • Shapeshifter - piano left hand [4’]
  • Cetus - solo french horn [7’]
  • Sketch on ‘Jesu Meine Freude’ - organ [3’]