Organ Music and Piano Music

ORGAN MUSIC

Fantasia after Philip Rosseter (1964) Duration 7 minutes: small organ (manuals only)
Written for Donald Hawksworth and the Samuel Green organ at St Mary’s Episcopal Church, Aberdeen, and first performed there on 20 August 1965.
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Flourish for a Wedding (1965) Duration 3 minutes: Wedding Miscellany Novello & Co Ltd (Sale) Catalogue No 010124

A Little Suite for Organ (1966) Duration 9 minutes
Six short sketches first performed by Christopher Bowers Broadbent at Music in our Time Concerts, St. Pancras Church on 5 October 1966.
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(originally published by OUP)

Elizabeth Fragment (1970) Duration 3 minutes
A short meditative piece which Michael Howard played for the first time at his BBC secretary¹s wedding.
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Sarabande for St Kevin (1992) Duration 6 minutes
Commissioned by the 1992 Paisley International Organ Festival with financial assistance from the Scottish Arts Council. It served as the test piece in the Festival’s competition that year. First performed at the Festival on 3 August 1992. Novello & Company Ltd

Contemplator Celestium (2004) Duration 9 minutes
Commissioned by the Cathedral of the Isles with funds from Scotland ‘s Churches Scheme. It was written for John Kitchen who played it first in the Cathedral at Millport, Cumbrae on 6 June 2004. The music grows from the text and melody of an antiphon for the Feast of St Columba found in the Inchcolm Antiphoner. It tells of the star-gazer in wonderment of the mystery far beyond us all.
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CD recording: Great European Organs No. 71. John Kitchen Plays The Organ of the Usher Hall, Edinburgh . Priory PRCD 858. (recorded 1 & 2 November 2004)
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SOLO PIANO MUSIC

Piano Sonata No. 1 (1985) Duration 22 minutes
Commissioned by Allan Schiller, with funds provided by the Arts Council of Great Britain. First perfomance by Allan Schiller, the Lower Machen Festival, in St Michael¹s Church, Lower Machen, South Wales on 21 July 1985.
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Piano Sonata No. 2 (1989) Duration 14 minutes
Commissioned by Margaret Murray McLeod with financial help from the Scottish Arts Council. First performance by Margaret M. McLeod at the Reid School, Edinburgh University, on 30 October 1990.
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Piano Sonata No.3 (1998) Duration 20 minutes
Commissioned by Peter Seivewright with financial help from the Scottish Arts Council and the Hope-Scott Trust. He performed it for the first time at Napier University, Edinburgh, on 28 April 1998.
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Cartoon Music (1989) Duration 5 minutes
Adapted by the composer from a score for a ten minute silent television film for children called Let’s See: Winter shown on BBC 2 in January 1989. This concert version was completed on the17th of August 2000.
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Paris Sketches (2004) Duration 7 minutes
Adapted by the composer from his score for the TV drama Paris shown on BBC 2 on June 25 1985. This concert version was completed on the 25th of February 2004
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