” … Bray’s ten-minute dazzler for piano, violin, viola and cello. … my ears were busy with interlocked yearning phrases or rhythmic patterns both stabbing and chunky – material presented, inspected, the reconfigured with a bright imagination and, even better, a keen urge to communicate. It was all vivid and exhilarating…”
(Replay, piano quartet)
Geoff Brown, The Times
Replay (2011)
violin, viola, cello, piano
10’00
Composed for the Cheltenham International Music Festival 2011, as a result of winning the RPS Composition Prize, supported by the Susan Bradshaw Composers Fund
Performed by Alexandra Wood (violin), Cian O’Duill (viola), Robin Michael (cello), Huw Watkins (piano)
‘Replay’ Programme Notes
Two Drops of Water (2011)
saxophone, trumpet, violin, piano
9’00
Le Soliel Blanc (2010)
clarinet, 2 percussion, piano
8’00
Commissioned by Headington School in Oxford, where Bray is currently Composer-in-Residence
Three Rhapsodies (2009)
[based on Throw Back]
clarinet, 2 violin, viola, cello
7’00
Throw Back (2008)
saxophone quartet
7’00
Performed by the Nordic Saxophone Quartet, March 2011
Renga Miniatures (2007)
flute, clarinet, horn, piano, violin, cello
10’00
Performed by the Fromm Players, Tanglewood Music Festival 2008
Urban Nocturne (2007)
saxophone octet (2321)
5’00
Performed by the Royal College of Music saxophone ensemble, under the direction of Kyle Horch
