Commissions and new works
Larry GovesLarry Goves is Artistic Director the Open Score project and writes: “I am thrilled to be acting as Artistic Director for the year ahead. It’s a little daunting to be writing alongside such fantastic composers; There is great variety in these composers’ outputs but they’re all united by the sense of adventure and their relationship to documentary in their work (however elusive or explicit). I can’t wait to hear what they come up with!” He has written a piece himself and commissioned four others:
| Larry Goves | high-functioning middle-class alcoholism |
| Joanna Bailie | Hildegardstrasse/ Bundesallee |
| Sarah Hennies | Growing Block |
| Tim Parkinson | second song for many |
| Matthew Sergeant | Earthworks |
Kate Whitley has written Three Movements, a large scale piece for orchestra and choir to be used as the centre piece of the Festival in many locations.
Four nonclasical associate composers have written for the Festival:
| Lola de la Mata | Wet Magma |
| Blasio Kavuma | Pathways |
| Dan Samsa | Neurostella |
| Yfat Soul Zisso | Frenzy |
Six works for non-specific vocal ensembles are being commissioned by James Weeks and Janet Oates.
| Janet Oates | ! |
| Hollie Harding | 5 Landscapes for Voices |
The 2020 Festival will also feature composition projects involving younger generations, all resulting in Festival premieres
| Jainan Wang | Ancient |
| Shane Tucker | 12/8 CoMA |
| Liam Hayes | Water Wheel |
| Paige Halliwell | Flux (2020) |
| Jamie Floyd | Ode to Woe |
| Barak Arbell | Thick Fog |
| Alice Knight | Two-point-one |
| Kevin Zheng | Tundra |
| Vincent Ji | From Dawn to Dusk |
| Chelsea Becker | Berlin Blue |
Cheswick School, Christ’s School and Twyford CofE School
| Louise Martin | Danse de la Riviera |
| Joshua Laye-Sion | Transmission |
| Jacob Cavendish | River |
| Josewph Bazalgette | Deck the Jazz |
| Luca Latchman | Tango Por Ti |
| Alicia Peacock | The Wild Swan |
| Eloise Pearce | Variations on Heartbreak |
| Max Brambley | Dawn |
| Jasmine Bates | Malfunction |
| Thomas Baynes | Rep 5 |
| Charlotte Glyn-Woods | Spring Dances |
| Daniel Gurner | Satyagraha |
| Hattie | Labyrinth |
| Antonia Kattou | Music for Newspapers |
| Kyriakos Kosta | clockwise |
| Fiz Markham | Frustration |
| Samuel Messer | three spaces for David Berman |
| Adrian So | Tango |
| Liam Grogan | Cyclops |
| Lewis Richardson | Collaboration |
| Lavender Rodriguez | Make it Slap |
| James Waite | Drift No.1 |
| Phil Baker | Kaleidoscope |
| Phil Baker | Rondelet |
| Basil Richmond | Just Three |
| Darren Bloom | A Dance of Diatoms |
| Tunde Jegede | Oshun's Lament |
| Anna Matthews | timepiece: a pocket watch quartet |
| Edward Nesbit | The Seafarer |
| Camden Reeves | Music for Glass Cabinets - in eleven short movements |
| Laura Reid | Ichthyosaur |
| Lisa Robertson | Acgeukean Sounds |
| Ivan G Andrews | North Pacific Rim |
| Joshua Brown | Early Heaven |
| Marisse Cato | Savanna Wars I |
| Hugh Morris | Face Off |
| Henry George Page | Two Naked Bishops |
| Leo Geyer | Sound Histories |
| Gwilym Simcock | Miniature |
| Michael Finnissy | Mankind |
| Morgan Hayes | |
| Leo Grant | |
| Alison Beatier | Solitary Sunrise |
| Anica Kohler | When it Comes Back |
| Alun Grafton | Peaeludium 5 |
| Peter Shotts | Ghosts of the Jewish Community, Pszczyna |
| Florence Anna Maunders | Laminin |
| Yvonne Taylor | Chichester to Eastbourne, via Brighton |
| Lucinda Pillow | Into Spring |
| Sam Richards | Planatarium for Orchestra |
