Category: Chamber Music

Trios (2026)

A growing set of trios for strings or other instruments. Some of these trios may be played on one instrument such as piano or organ. Inspired by time in forests. Also inspired by the need for C clefs to be part of our visual musical landscape again, as they were in Brahms’ day (when soprano, alto and tenor parts were all printed in C clefs).

Scores and sampled sound audio tracks here.

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Particles 1, 2 & 3 (2017)

Cl, vln, vc, pno. Also in version for solo vln and orchestral sections (dbs, vlas, second vlns). Inspired by the viscosity of air. It sparkles and dances around us, pushes…

String Quartet No. 1 (2026)

Four voices striving and at play.

London Life

A suite of five movements for clarinet, violin, guitar, double bass, harpsichord and timpani. Written as sound-tracks for short films produced by Sands Films. Now available as a concert suite.

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.

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…

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.

The Particles series is about the viscosity of air, which sparkles around us, pushing against everything we see. Particles 1, 2 & 3 exist in two versions: for solo violin with different orchestral sections (Particle 1 – double basses; Particle 2 – violas; Particle 3 – second violins); and also for cl, vln, vc, pno, as arranged for Alisios Camerata, Zagreb. The Alisios Camerata performance of Particle 2 at Banff Centre can be watched here. There is an additional arrangement of Particle 2 for youth orchestra, written for London Music Masters, in which professional tutors play the demanding passages.

The cl/vln/vc/pno performance set is available for hire at €30 per performance (lower rates available for tours). Performance sets for the original setting (solo violin + orchestra) can be hired by agreement.

More Chamber Music

Trios (2026)

A growing set of trios for strings or other instruments.

String Quartet No. 1 (2026)

Four voices striving and at play.

London Life

A suite of five movements for clarinet, violin, guitar, double bass, harpsichord and timpani. Written as sound-tracks for short films produced by Sands Films. Now available as a concert suite.

Photograph by Ichigo121212

A suite of five movements for cl, vln, gtr, db, hpscd*, timp*. Commissioned by Sands Films Studios as soundtracks for short films. Now available as a concert suite. *The harpsichord part can be played on piano (preferably upright) and the timpani part on a smaller drum if necessary. Perusal set of PDFs €20. Score/parts sets for hire at €10 per movement per performance (negotiable rates for repeated performances on tour).

London Life mvnt 4. Clarinet, Ewan Bleach; violin, Max Bailey; double bass, Dave O’Brien; production (including sampled guitar, harpsichord and timpani) Anthony Weeden.