Forton Music

This paraphrase on Xenia for two flutes and piano is based on the melody of a song by Vladimir Budnik, a Belarusian composer who died early. The melody is very close to Belarusian folk song and is dis...

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O What Peace We Often Forfeit' is a set of variations based on the famous hymn tune, 'What a Friend We Have in Jesus'. The piece starts with a lovely harmonisation of the old hymn. As the piece procee...

An initial request to write a piece for the Asyla oboe quartet (Medieval Suite) started a 'lockdown' project to complete a set of 'wind family' pieces. A bassoon quartet quickly followed (Swing, Blues...

Are you a fan of Strictly Come Dancing? Jonty Tunes - Let's Dance! - for Flute & Piano (grades four to six plus); offers a selection of fourteen fun, varied and progressive ballroom dances; including...

William Boyce's setting of Psalm 63 has been a source of consolation for me for many years. This is a set of variations with a twist. The theme is played in its original form in the middle of the piec...

An initial request to write a piece for the Asyla oboe quartet (Medieval Suite) started a 'lockdown' project to complete a set of 'wind family' pieces. A bassoon quartet quickly followed (Swing, Blues...

These studies, written in 1985, are intended to be moderately challenging, and hopefully enjoyable for the flautist to play. They incorporate elements of "modern" language such as whole tone and dimin...

The Composer, whose publications have been known since the age of 9, has kept faith with his commitment as a composer and concert pianist with a long series of musical collections. His research, orien...

The opera this overture comes from was written by Giuseppe Verdi, and was first performed in St. Petersburg in 1862. Although it was a success, and was performed around the world soon after, Verdi con...

The collection of six Bagatelles for solo flute are all fairly short in duration, with an understated character that is mellow and whimsical in nature at times. Harmonically the music is mainly tonal...

The idea of ​​the composition based on an analogy with the famous "Suite No. 2" by J.-S. Bach. As a rule, the most popular "Minuet & Badinerie" performed in concerts, and therefore this work consists...

The album "Traveling" to Klezmer" includes 16 pieces and is a real author's comprehension of "Jewish Soul Music". According to the canons of the genre, the musical version of the composition was first...

The guiding concept in this piece, as in my Motet Without Words, was to take the "Neo-Tonal" triad (G-Bb-C) and ask the intriguing question: what would Baroque Music have sounded like if composers had...

I wrote this piece to be performed at the tenth edition of my Summer Flute Course in Borrello, central Italy in 2018. Near to the town is a nature reserve with Italy's highest natural waterfall, known...

I was honoured to be asked by the wonderful Asyla oboe quartet to write a piece for them to be performed in an upcoming series of concerts. It felt very much like writing for a consort rather than the...

This haunting little piece has a wonderful mystery inherent in the misty sound of the flute ensemble. Opening with a ghostly waltz of interwoven textures we quickly discover the individual characteris...

These variations are based on a humorous 19th century student hymn from Trinity University College, Wales, with the original song title 'There Is a Tavern in the Town'. In the first half of the 20th c...

The Impromptu, Nocturne and Finale was composed in March/April 2021 during a second lockdown owing to the Covid-19 pandemic. It is dedicated to my wife, Deborah, in grateful appreciation for her selfl...

This suite, in five movements, was composed in the early months of 2021. It is my first wind quartet, if we exclude student works. Present are some of my usual "funky" rhythms and time changes, but I...

A few years ago I met a wonderful creative soul in Aliki Georgiou. Whilst she came to me for bassoon tuition our conversation (usually over coffee!) turned to all subjects. Her brief description of th...

My first Piano Trio was composed in three quite short bursts, between August 2012 and August 2013. It is cast in three movements. The first opens with a questioning motif in the piano, on which the vi...

There have been three versions of Fragments. Composed in 1999 and dedicated to the oboist Jennifer Porcas and the Cornel Music Group, it was first performed by them in March 1999 - Jennifer Porcas (ob...

To pay homage to Sicily, (once called Trinacria meaning triangular island) which was a cradle of the Greco-Roman civilization, the composer has imagined three aspects that characterize it on an emotio...