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.


More Fieldwork Pieces

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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Carrownagappul (2024)

Commissioned by the Harry Woolhouse Charitable Trust to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Imperial College Sinfonietta. Inspired by one of Europe’s major raised bogs, Carrownagappul, Co. Galway.
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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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