Each year the spnm reading panel selects a list of "highly commended" works. These are high quality works which did not quite make it onto the shortlist, but were admired by members of the panel.

Below you can find a full list of works. If you would like to find out more about any of these works please contact us.


Highly Commended Works:

works for orchestra

works for mixed ensemble
(more than 6 players)

works for mixed ensemble
(3 to 6 players)

works for wind / brass

works for strings

vocal works

solos / duos


works for orchestra

Jonathan Eato - STRASSENAUSBLICK
duration: 18 minutes
for orchestra (2.2.2.2 - 4.2.3.1 - timp - perc - harp - pf - str)

Sungji Hong - KIKLOS
for orchestra (3.3.3.3 - 4.3.3.1 - perc - pf - cel - str)

Liz Lane - SYMPTOMS OF LOVE
duration: 9 minutes
for solo tenor and orchestra (2.2.2.2 - 2.2.0.0 - perc - harp - str)

Simon Lasky - "DRUMS AND BASS"
duration: 11 minutes
for orchestra (2.2.2.3 - 4.3.3.1 - timp - perc - pf - str)

Duncan MacLeod - O VIRGO VIRGINUM
duration: 7 minutes
for orchestra (1.1.1.1 - 1.1.1.0 - perc - harp - str)

Brian Newsome - Chrysalis
duration: 14 minutes
for orchestra (3.3.3.3 - 4.3.3.1 - timp - perc - harp - cel - str)

Geoffrey Paterson - FRIEZE
duration: 10 minutes
for orchestra (2.2.2.2 - 2.3.1.0 - perc - str)

Helen Rowley - SONUS POESIS
duration: 11 minutes
for orchestra (3.3.3.3 - 4.3.2.1 - timp - perc - harp - pf - str)

Helen Timms - TWO WAYS OF WORKING WITH STONE
duration: 15 minutes
for orchestra (2.2.2.2 - 4.2.3.1 - perc - harp - pf - str)

Martin Vishnick - LEGEND, THE CURSE OF THE HOUSE OF ATREUS
duration: 5 minutes
for orchestra (2.2.2.2 - 4.2.3.1 - timp - perc - hp - str)

Cath Yarwood - STATIC
duration: 6 minutes
for solo violin and orchestra (3.2.3.2 - 3.3.2.1 - harp - mar - perc - str)

back to top

works for mixed ensemble
(more than 6 players)

Mark Bowden - THE DAWN HALTS
duration: 6 minutes
for fl/pic, cl, ob, bn, hn, harp, 2vn, va, vc

Matthew Brooks - 'Mister Humus Aerobic'
duration: 6 minutes
fl/afl, cl/bcl,perc, pf, vn, va, vc, db

Nicholas Giles - ON THE OTHER SIDE
duration: 8 minutes
ob, cl/bcl, vib, pf, vn, va,vc

John Guilfoyle - UNIVERSITY OF AIR
duration: 12
for fl/afl, cl/bcl, tpt, trb, perc, vn, va, vc

Emily Hall - Eurostar
duration: 8 minutes
fl, cl, tpt, perc, pf/cel, 2vn, vc

Elisabeth Kerr - Ichiriki Teahouse
duration: 6 minutes
fl/pic, cl, 2bn, 2tpt, 2trb

Martin Read - Dialogues and diatribes
duration: 15 minutes
for fl, ob, cl, bn, hn, trb,tuba,asax, tsax, pf, bgui, drums, 2vn, 2va, 2vc, db

Constantinos Stylianou - ANTIEMENE
duration: 12 minutes
solo oboe, fl/pic, cl/ecl, bn/cbn, 2hn, perc, 2vn, va, vc, db

Dobrinka Tabakova - THE ACCORDION
duration: 7 minutes
fl, ob, cl, bn, hn, tpt, trb, db

Eneko Vadillo Perez - Jiseiyi
duration: 10 minutes
fl (pic),cl,bn, hn, perc, vn, va, vc, db

Simon Willson - MNEMOSYNE
duration: 11 minutes
ob, cl, hn, harp, vn, va, vc

back to top

works for mixed ensemble
(3 to 6 players)

David F Breeze - NEW FLAME
duration: 14 minutes
for fl/afl and pic, cl/bcl, pf, vn, vc

Deborah Broderick - TRIOLET
duration: 10 minutes
fl, cl, vc

Richard Fitzhugh - ABOUT TIME
duration: 9 minutes
2ob, 2bn, db

Massimo Di Gesu - "SCHEGGE" [slivers]
duration: 12 minutes
vn,vc,pf

Martin Glover - REFRACTION
duration: 6 minutes
fl, gui, bcl

Liz Johnson - TOWARDS THE SEA
duration: 6 minutes
cl, va, vc

Graham Judd - Zephyr
duration: 4 minutes
shakuhachi, Japanese perc, vn, pf

Jonny Laing "NO ONE KNEW THE HYENA WAS CRYING"
duration: 8 minutes
fl/afl, pf, perc

Danny Ledesma - SEEKING STRUCTURE
duration: 8 minutes
cl, 2vn, va, vc

Christopher Long - GROTTO
duration: 5 minutes
vn, perc, pf

Reuben Pace -‘Gawhra’
duration: 8 minutes
fl, cl, gui, vc

Richard Whalley - Twisted Variations
duration: 7 minutes
vn, (or va), vc, pf, accordion, perc

Raymond Yiu - THE HOURS
duration: 17 minutes
fl/picc-afl, cl/bcl, pf

back to top

works for wind / brass

Ben Aldous - WIND QUINTET (RAMP AND FALLEN ANGELS)
fl, ob, cl, hn, bn

Richard Barnard - FAKE ANTIQUE
duration: 10 minutes
for brass ensemble (4tpt, hn, 4trb, tuba)

Kokoras Panayiotis - ACROSOME v. 2.0
duration: 9 minutes
wind quintet

back to top

works for strings

Susan Cannon - WARM-BLOOD
duration: 4 minutes
strng quartet

Paul Foster - "LYONESSE DANCES"
duration: 27 minutes
2vn, 2va, 2vc, db, harp

Jonny Laing - SPRING
duration: 7 minutes
string sextet (2vn, 2va, 2vc)

Fumiko Miyachi - Waves
duration: 6 minutes
string quartet

Vassilios Nikolaou - 3/3/2/1 Variations for string quartet
duration: 3 minutes
string quartet

Halyna Ovcharenko - String Quartet
duration: 12 minutes
string quartet

Amy Smith - ELEMENTAL
duration: 9 minutes
string quartet

Clive R. Taylor - "Sleepyhead Dreams"
duration: 10 minutes
string quartet

James Weeks - Vertical Diptych
duration: 10 minutes
string quartet

back to top

vocal works

Songs

Chris Allen - Three Sonnets
duration: 8 minutes
baritone / high voice with piano

Kerry Andrew - LUNA-CY
duration: 5 minutes
3 sop

Susan Cannon - THE WOODS OF WESTERMAIN
duration: 4 minutes
solo baritone

David Braid - Cantata K.42
duration: 8 minutes
for soprano, baritone, solo viola, harp, 3 vn, va, vc, db

Arabella Ramsay - Mein Blaues Klavier
mez, pf

Simon Lasky - "SILVER"
duration: 6 minutes
sop, pf

Guy Newbury - O OMBRE VANE
duration: 9 minutes
high voice, pf

back to top

Choral Works

Liz Johnson - MAGNIFICAT and NUNC DIMITIS
duration: 10 minutes
sop solo, semi chorus, double SATB, org

Richard Leigh - MYRIADS
duration: 53 minutes
SATB, harp, perc, prep pf, persian chant

Brent Jolley - TO THE SACRIFICE
duration: 7 minutes
SATB

back to top

solos / duos

Solo Keyboard Works

Thanos Chrysakis - In a Reve(a)rie, in-between
duration: 4 minutes 33 seconds
solo pf or solo harp

Jane Gardner - Mr. Abdul
duration: 6 minutes
solo pf

Joanna Kate Lee - THE HUNGRY RALLiPRETAC
duration: 4 minutes
solo pf

Andrew McBirnie - YET DARKER
duration: 9 minutes
solo pf

Evis Sammoutis - ABRAHAM
duration: 9 minutes
solo org

back to top

Solo String Works

Emily Hall - Alap
duration: 5 minutes
solo vn

Edmund Jolliffe - Lovers, to bed
duration: 5 minutes
solo vc

Phillip Martin - "Shattered Spectrums"
duration: 7 minutes
solo vn

Christopher McClelland - RE: EVOLVE
duration: 8 minutes
solo vn

Amber Priestley - TO RAISE HELL AS WE ROLL A LONG
duration: 7 minutes
solo va

Clare Slate - Butterflies in Plastic
duration: 5 minutes
solo vn

back to top

Duos

Alison Bach - Rocky Outcrops
duration: 4 minutes
hn, pf

Anna Meredith - hex
duration: 4 minutes
vn, vc

Arlene Elizabeth Sierra - ZWEI HUHNER
duration: 3 minutes
ob, trb

Helen Timms - AND STILL TO THINGS ETERNAL LOOK
duration: 12 minutes
vn, pf

Simon Willson - THIS AIR OUT OF THE NIGHT
duration: 9 minutes
vn, pf

Edmund Jolliffe - PAGAN DANCES
duration: 19 minutes
2pf

Alistair Justice - Waulking Sang
duration: 2 minutes
pf (four hands)

back to top

For more information, see the Composer Opportunities.