Kit Turnbull

A suite of five colourful and evocative movements, suggesting organ music associated with films, circuses and shows. 

A challenging piece, incorporating many contemporary techniques. Duration approx. 5 mins.

'African Dances' is a continuous work for solo clarinet and wind ensemble consisting of five individual sections. The basis for the piece is the clarinet's construction from the wood of the African bl...

Duration 1'40'.Simply Classics

Cryptogram (krip-to-gram): anything written in cipher. Cipher (si'fer): a secret code. Commissioned for the 50th Birthday of Paul Patterson, the composer has taken the letters P, A, U and L and adapte...

Cryptogram (krip-to-gram): anything written in cipher. Cipher (si'fer): a secret code. Commissioned for the 50th Birthday of Paul Patterson, the composer has taken the letters P, A, U and L and adapte...

Duration 3'45'.Simply Classics

Duration 2'20'.Simply Classics

This work tells the story of a handful of events that took place at Richmond Palace, just outside London during the reigns of the tudor Monarchs when this historic town was founded 5000 years ago. The...

The four movements are: 1. God of Sun and War 2. God of the Morning and Evening Star 3. The Water Goddess 4. The Rain God.

This work, in four continuous sections, depicts the events surrounding the dedication of the Great Temple of Tenochtitlan in 1487 at which 80,000 victims were sacrificed to the Aztec Gods. Great atmos...

TIME LINES. The time line is a western musicological device that allows us to define many of the rhythms used in sub-Saharan music. It is essentially a 12-beat pattern that can be subdivided as 6x2, 2...

Mosaic is an ancient ornamental art form that involves fitting together small pieces to form a larger design. In a like way, the opening movement of this work contains a number of short musical statem...

The title is borrowed from the English translation of Robert Schumann's Kinderszenen Op.15. Schumann's work contains 13 momvements that are adult reminiscences of his own childhood, whereas this work...