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I was recently invited to participate in a festival in Yerevan, Armenia for which I wrote this piece. It was inspired by the artwork of Nana Aramyan (which you can see in the background of the video) and performed by guitarists Joao Lima of Portugal and Lilit Maridyan of Armenia! Hope you enjoy the work! If anybody is interested, a similar event will be held in London and there will be an opportunity for composers to submit new works. Feel free to ask for details! Alex

Live Recording from a concert at the Royal Academy of Music. Please have a listen! :) Alex

This is an orchestral movement I wrote as part of the course I'm studying on. All comments welcome :) Symphonic Movement

Ok, now you can hear an excerpt of the recording I did on Wednesday. Unfortunately we only had an hour to rehearse and record which is nowhere near long enough so the performance wasn't the best. I've just included an excerpt as this is the only bit that doesn't have too many mistakes! This particular excerpt is pretty good though considering the lack of time! (Starts at bar 57)

Thanks Makinka for commenting and listening

Hey I put the score online. WIll be recording again on wednesday

Hi Serge. Yeah I deliberately left the applause in <img src="http://network.youngcomposers.com/elgg/ipb/public/style_emoticons/default/smile.gif" alt=":)" /> Infact sometimes I just listen to the applause on an endless loop for meditative purposes <img src="http://network.youngcomposers.com/elgg/ipb/public/style_emoticons/default/smile.gif" alt=":)" /> Thank you very much for listening and commenting <img src="http://network.youngcomposers.com/elgg/ipb/public/style_emoticons/default/smile.gif" alt=":)" /> Thanks also to Makwinga :D

This is a piece written for the media ensemble as part of my course, It's for a hypothetical TV advert to promote the Royal Academy of Music. It's written in a classical/baroque style.It was recorded yesterday, conducted by myself - a fantastic experience! TV Jingle - Royal Academy of Music

Hi Kookiblob. Thanks very much for the reply, the piece has only been uploaded for about 3 minutes so I really appreciate your enthusiasm in posting promptly! :D The piece as you say is mysterious. Although I never really intellectualise over what I'm writing during the compositional process, the piece is harmonically ambiguous. The scale that runs throughout the piece is in the key of C but has a flattened and naturalised 3rd (E flat and E natural). This is confusing but pleasant to the ear; the prevailing key of the piece isn't really minor or major but instead weaves between the two contrasting tonalities! Hope you find that interesting! :D Alex

Unfortunately I didn't manage to get a good enough recording last week due to only having an hour to rehearse and record. I will be rerecording the piece next month and will have a bit of time to tweak things. For example the brass instruments sounded far too loud and often obscured the main melodic focus. The piece was also a bit too dense, and was a tad confusing. It was hard to discern what was the most important melodic part, so I will have to thin some of the textures. Until then, I bid you adieu

This is a piece I originally wrote in 2007 for my undergrad course at Sussex (which I dropped out from). I managed to get it performed in a concert last term at the Royal Academy of Music after ever so slightly revising it.The piece will be performed again sometime at Foyles Gallery in London (hopefully!) if all goes to plan ;) Trio for piano, violin and flute (Nevermore)

Actually don't worry, fixed my problem!

Hey guys, Thanks for the comments, The piece is being recorded this Thursday, and I'll put up the recording and conductors score asap! The mock-up I've done is a pretty poor realisation to be honest. It's very hard to know what to listen to as the dynamics are completely off. Stay tuned..

This is a piece I wrote for my course. It's a sinfonietta, or chamber symphony if you will. It's a lot more adventurous harmonically than anything I've written before, but hopefully you will enjoy it. (Will upload score later tonight!) Sinfonietta Live recording now included (Excerpt) There was just one hour to rehearse and record so bear this in mind! Starts at bar 57

Hey guys, thanks very much for you kind comments, I really appreciate them! Maestro Thank you for listen and comment. Luckily I managed to get the piece recorded in a workshop, it makes a massive difference and I would say to any composer that they should always try to get their works played. It's well worth getting to know some musicians who will be willing to play your pieces! Black Orpheus I will clean up the score as you said it is rather messy! Jaime Thanks a lot. I've been listening to a lot of Debussy recently, but I also wanted to give it an eastern feel. I guess this is why it sounds a bit like a cross between Debussy and Rimsky-Korsakov, but that's basically what I was aiming for! Masked Trumpeter I'm glad I managed to make you go 'oooh'! :P Actually, making people go oooooh is one of the reasons I write! Thanks for commenting! Benxiwf I'm at the Royal Academy of music in my first year. I'm actually 3 years older than my 1st year colleagues and I suppose this does give me an advantage to a degree, although the standard of the other composers work is very high. I originally applied to study Music Tech and then went on to study Music at Sussex, which is why it's taken me a few years to get here. Anyway, it's a great place to study, very open-minded although they do focus on very contemporary music much of the time. However, they do allow you to pretty much write in any style you wish, which suits me down to the ground! SergeOfArniVillage Thanks for commenting, but I should point out that I didn't actually play the piece myself, due to the fact that I... can't. But I was very pleased with the performance and the recording itself was very good.