Selected compositions and scholarship by Huw Belling, some with recording and/or score samples.
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Select scores are published and available for purchase through the Australian Music Centre.
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Solo/Duet
2023, Music in Sweatpants (8′) for Bass Clarinet
commissioned by Ensemble Offspring with the support of Kim Williams and premiered by Jason Noble
2021, Shadow Partita 1004 (7′) for Violin
commissioned by the Australian National Academy of Music and premiered by Felix Pascoe
2021, Fantasia sul Preludio (4′) for cello
commissioned by Sydney Bach Society and premiered by Christopher Graham Bennett
2017, Appassionata cello & piano (4′)
2015, Bourée Echo for cello (4′)
commissioned by Richard Narroway and featured on album ‘Requiem’
Details
2014, By hand I take my victory for baritone and piano (7′)
2012, Diffusions for piano (12′)
commissioned by Jack Symonds, Score Sample
2011, Subject & Object for organ (10′)
commissioned by the Sydney Conservatorium of Music and Ars Musica Australis
2010, Gilded Palimpsest for piano and violin (5′)
after Bach’s Goldberg Variations Score Sample
2010, Paroxys for solo viola (7′)
premiered at the National Portrait Gallery in London by Jorien Veenhoven, later workshopped and recorded by James Wannan
2008, Blumenduft for solo oboe (3′)
premièred at the National Portrait Gallery London by Helen Fraser
CHOIR
2023, Cherry Tree Carol, 3 carols for choir SSAATTBB (12′)
Commissioned & premiered by the Joubert Singers
2021, Missa Sancti Johannes, Mass for two voices (14′)
Commissioned & premiered by Saint John’s in the Village, New York
2020, Vault of Heaven, a cappella SATB (4′)
commissioned by St Stephens Macquarie Street
2018, Ex Nihilo, for choir SAB and electronic Keyboard (4′)
Commissioned & premiered by the Inner West Voices
2015, O Sapientia for choir a cappella SATB (3′)
premiered by the Inner West Voices
2012, Lux fulgebit Hodie for double choir a cappella SSAATTBB (4′)
2009, Porta Coeli for choir a cappella SATB (5′)
premiered by the Helenic Singers in Westminster Abbey
2009, Auditur Deus for choir a capella SSATTBB (3′)
premiered by the choir of Pembroke College, Oxford in Westminster Abbey
2008, The Mountain and the Sea for tenor solo and acapella SATBB (5′)
Commissioned by Dean and Chapter of Westminster Abbey 2008. The specially written text of the Anthem is by New Zealand Author Richard Major.
Score available at the Australian Music Centre
2006, Videntes Stellam for solo voice and choir a capella SATB (3’30”)
Score Sample Recording by the Choir of Christ Church St. Laurence under the direction of Dr. Neil McEwan with soloist Helen Sherman. Premiered in the UK at Westminster Abbey, and toured to Sydney by the Choir of Westminster Abbey
chamber Ensemble
2013, GLUT for small ensemble (11 mins)
2009, Virtual Pets for small ensemble (4′)
premiered by the Ossian Ensemble
2009, Assemble for small ensemble (7′)
2009, Shred for small ensemble (6′)
2009, Destruction’s Our Delight A tribute to Purcell for chamber ensemble (3′)
2009, Fractus for chamber orchestra (9′)
2008, Three Quarters for string quartet (8′)
Score Sample Recording of Premiere by the Grainger String Quartet at the Canberra International Music Festival. Commissioned by the Festival’s National ‘Young Composer’ Award.
2007, Impetus for small ensemble (10′)
National winner of the Inaugural Sibelius young composers’ award, premiered by Ensemble Offspring
Orchestra
2014, Nahash for Orchestra (3′)
Stage/DRAMATIC
2023-4, St Luke Passion, Oratorio for Soprano, Baritone, Organ, Electronic Keyboard, Brass Ensemble, Percussion, Choir SSAATTBB (70′)
commissioned by St Stephens Macquarie Street Music Foundation
2021, Fumeblind Oracle, Chamber Opera for Solo Soprano and Mixed Keyboards (38′)
commissioned by Sydney Chamber Opera.
2017, Inside Mr Enderby, String Quartet and baritone (35′)
commissioned & premiered by the Manchester Collective & baritone Mitchell Riley
2016, Victory over the Sun, Chamber Opera (45′)
commissioned by the Biennale of Sydney
2010, Carousel of Blood chamber opera for five singers and small ensemble (65′)
2007, Seven Seals Ballet for Orchestra and Baritone (25′)
Research
2016, Dimensions of allusion – synthesis affecting craft in the works of Huw Belling and in 20th and 21st century composition
Critical research project of DPhil in Music held at Oxford University Research Archive
2010, Thinking Irrational
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