String Quartet No. 1 (2026)

Four movements. Scores and sample-sound recordings here. First movement – grit; second movement – searching; third movement – consoling; fourth movement – joyous.


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Icicle

Part of the project, ‘The Singing Glacier’. For violin, viola and glockenspiel.
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The Singing Glacier

For baroque ensemble. Collaborative response to glaciers, commissioned by The Little Baroque Company. In 2016 Bill and the poet Helen Mort climbed in East Greenland.
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Mountain Hare (2021)

Finzi Scholarship piece inspired by Mountain Hares in the Cairngorms. Classical orchestra version (2,2,2,2; 4,2,0,0; timp; strings) and potential chamber version (violin, cello, piano, clarinet). Bill also wrote a travel…
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