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We Live in Stars and Time - (2025)

Echoes from Varanasi - (2025)

Vieux Nuages - (2025)

The Loch - (2024)

Le Parfum du bleu - (2024)

Snowfall 1970 - (2024)

Souvenir du Docteur Jamain - (2023)

Svalbard - (2023)

Habanera - (2022)

Letter from Austria - (2022)

Andalusia - (2021)

The Changing Sky - (2020)

Le Jardinier - (2020)

Nansen - (2020)

Constellations - (2020)

Blue Paris - (2019)

The Black Gondola - (2019)

Miroirs d'illusion - (2019)

New Winter Sky - (2018)

Grey Autumn - (2018)

Entre la vie et le temps - (2018)

Winds Of Tibet - (2018)

The Quiet Snow - (2017)

Summer Blue - (2017)

Clouds and Life - (2017)

Reflections at Midnight - (2017) 

Falling Leaves at Loch Oich - (2016)

Moonlight, Starlight - (2016)

Tristezza del Chiaro di luna (Sadness of the Moonlight) - (2016)

Winter Clouds at Crowfield - (2016)

The Enchanted Chandelier - (2015)

When Summer Ends - (2015)

Je vois l'ocean - (2015)

Elegy - (2015)

The Winter Portal - (2015)

December Light at Iken - (2014)

L'espoir d'ete - (2014)

Walking Towards The Rainbow (revised version) - (2014)

Incantation - (2003)

Prelude - (2002)

Spin Light Voyage - (1997)

Proximities - (1991)
Composed for Andrew Behrend.
Nos 3 and 5 released in 1994 on the album Network Volume One by Discus-music




The Traveller's Mythology - (1991)
Music for an imaginary film.
1. When Nature perceives the Traveller
2. Between Life and the Mind
3. Summer Thunder Speaks
4. The Traveller


Crowfield - (1989)
Inspired by the landscape surrounding Crowfield Church.



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Clarinet


Tristezza del chiaro di luna - (2017)
for Bb clarinet & piano

Je vois l'ocean - (2017)
for Bb clarinet & piano

Moonlight, Starlight - (2017)
for Bb clarinet & piano

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Classical Guitar   

The Song Of The Trees - (2013)
for classical guitar, 3 violins & electronics

Journey to the Horizon - (2013)
for classical guitar

La Serenissima - (2012)
for classical guitar

El Verano Espanol - (2010)
for classical guitar
The guitar on this  2010 recording is  played by Ian Harris.

Soleil d'avril - (2010)
for classical guitar / or classical guitar & flute

Jardin de los suenos perdidos - (2009)
for classical guitar
Garden of Lost Dreams'was written for Sebastian Chew and was inspired by a visit to the gardens of the Alhambra in Granada.

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Violin / Cello / String Quartet

 

Journey to the Horizon - (2014)
for violin & piano

Monet's Dream - (2008)
for flute, violin, glockenspiel, harp

Dance - (2000)
for cello & piano.
This music combines ideas derived from two pieces: the medieval composer Guillaume de Machaut's Douce dame jolie and Kevin Volans' String Quartet No.1 White Man Sleeps .


Abflug - (2000)
for string quartet.
a short, lyrical serial composition for string quartet.


Ivan - (1998)
for cello & piano.
Inspired by the novel: 'One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich' by Alexander Solzhenitsyn.


The Realm of Falling - (1996)
for string quartet.
The title for this piece comes from the idea of suspending, prolonging and examining fragments of time (the realm) during which the mind is in the process of passing into new conditions, for instance: into error, into anxiety, into calm.


Circles of Inner Blue - (1995)
for cello & piano,
Composed for Harriet Bennett.
"Blue of the mind, my island, this engine of interior time, spiralling"


Meta-Flight - (1992)
work for clarinet, violin, cello & piano.
performed at the Greenbelt Festival - Castle Ashby Church - (31 August 1992)
(Festival Commission)
performed by the 'de-Feuvre' Ensemble
cello - Gerard de Feuvre
clarinet - William Napier
violin - Michael Peck
piano - Andrew Behrend

"A work in two movements, influenced by jazz harmonies, making reference to a consistent theme in Ian's work - the idea of travel - journeys of the mind."


Time of the Deep Night - (1990)
for violin & piano.
Composed for Michael Peck.


Games of Apollo - (1988)
for violin & piano.

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Flute

Le Jardinier - (2020)
flute & piano


Soleil d'avril - (2010)
flute & classical guitar


Monet's Dream - (2008)
for flute, violin, glockenspiel, harp


Dahl's Room - (2008)
for solo flute
Dahl's room is a short intriguing work for solo flute. The character of the music is melodic and intense. The title refers to Dr Dahl, a Moscow hypnotherapist, whom Rachmaninov visited for help prior to writing his 2nd Piano Concerto.


Summer Thunder Speaks - (2001)
for flute and piano
Summer Thunder Speaks is a short but very energetic work for flute and piano. The music is bright and bursts out of nowhere like the sudden appearance of a thunderstorm on a summer's day. One moment the storm is upon us, and the next it has disappeared completely.


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performed at the 4th London New Wind Festival - 6 November 2001
flute - Charlotte Munro
piano - Robert Coleridge

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VOCAL  

Moonlight, Starlight - (2016)
for jazz vocalist and piano
words by Ian Harris
piano solo version in this recording

The Raven - (2015)
for soprano or counter-tenor and piano
words by Ian Harris
 
Over ice land - (2014)
for counter-tenor and piano
words by Ian Harris
 
Child Of Wisdom - (2012)
for choir (SATB)

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The Wisdom Of Winter - (2012)
for choir (SATB)
words by Ian Harris

Of The Loss Of Time - (2011)
for counter-tenor, violin, flute, string ensemble
words: John Hoskins (1566-1638)

"If life be time that here is lent,
And time on earth be cast away,
Whoso his time hath here misspent,
Hath hastened his own dying day"

 
When This Day Is Over - (2007)
for voice, piano, flute, strings, tuned percussion
duration: 3' 41
words by Ian Harris
"Winter sky is sparkling clear, the story forever with me...."

The Wind - (2005)
for voice & strings
duration: 4' 10
words by Ian Harris
"When will the wind know my name?..."

The Snow Was Falling - (2005)
for voice, strings, flutes, harp, classical guitar, tuned and untuned percussion
duration: 2' 28
words by Ian Harris
"The snow was falling, like stories unending..."

Carnival - (2005)
for voice & piano
duration: 1' 15
words by Ian Harris
"...I am free, to be who I want to be."

Beyond The Sun - (2004)
for voice & piano
duration 2' 30
words by Ian Harris

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Night Song - (2004)
for soprano or tenor, violin & strings. 
strings (6.6.4.4.2.)
duration c. 3' 30
words by Ian Harris
"....silence fills up my mind, this hidden magic night."

Shadows of Conflict - (1991)
for soprano or tenor and piano.
words by Ian Harris

Secret Words - (1991)
for soprano, violin, cello & piano.
words by Ian Harris
"Meta-Sea-Arcanum-Saphires-Hearer-Ever"

Cantata - (1988)
for soprano, flute & piano.
Composed for Sharon Jones.
Libretto: Ian Harris.

Across this Land - (1987)
for soprano and piano.
words by Ian Harris


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ORCHESTRA



Cloud Garden - (2002 / 2003)
for Vibraphone & Strings
3 Octave Concert Vibraphone
Strings 8.6.6.4.2.
Duration: c.15 minutes

Score included in The British Music Collection Library - Cloud Garden 

"We turned and looked at the sky above the garden. There could be no more doubt. The cavalry of the great army of cloud was rounding up the last stray bits of blue. Thunder rang out again and again loud and long and the lonely hills at the end of the plain went white with the advance mist of the storm. Then we saw the rain itself come up fast, rushing with a sound like that of the great wind of the first spirit of life once more taking up its quest on the parched and long rejected earth upon which we stood."

Cloud Garden is intended to be a very free suggestion of the above extract from the novel The Seed and The Sower by Laurens van der Post. This section of the novel is concerned with the meeting of two brothers in South Africa. The meeting is emotional and nourishes the state of reconciliation (of the long rejected earth). The primary intention was to write a piece in a single movement. This one movement would contain interrelated and repeating sections of varying length and tempi. These sections would contribute to the effect of being within a changeable emotional landscape. Symbols and states in different configurations appear and re-appear, rather than continually develop throughout. The reappearance of similar material suggests how similar memories resurface within the garden. The garden is a place of fragile beauty within a wilderness. The interior world (emotion) is at odds with the exterior world (nature).

The Winter Portal - (2008)
for classical guitar, percussion & string orchestra - c. 14 minutes duration

I. Largo - Andante
II. Adagietto
III. Scherzando
IV. Andante

A work in four movements, inter-connected by re-emerging melodic phrases. The guitar remains the centre of focus throughout the work, alternating between serenity and a positive rhythmic dynamism. The title of the piece refers to an imagined secret doorway into a timeless winter landscape.

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The Invisible Magician - (2003)
for orchestra

Ipswich Symphony Orchestra family concert. The programme consisted of a number of short pieces from the orchestral repertoire that introduced children to classical music and the instruments of the orchestra. Included in the programme was my piece The Invisible Magician a short audience participation piece commissioned for Ipswich Symphony Orchestra. The concert took place on Sunday 9 March at the Ipswich CornExchange. The conductor was Adam Gatehouse.

Tonio Kroger - (2001)
for mandolin, violin, trumpet & strings.

music for an imaginary film version of Thomas Mann's novella Tonio Kroger.


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