Premieres by Duncan Honeybourne
World, territorial and broadcast premieres given by Duncan Honeybourne. All are solo piano works unless otherwise stated
Camilla ALDRIDGE
Time Circles
World premiere – Britten Hall, Sherborne Girls, Dorset, September 2018
Edgar BAINTON
(1880-1956)
Willows
World premiere - Yorkshire English Music Festival, Aysgarth, North Yorkshire, 28th September 2019
The Making of the Nightingale
World premiere – Yorkshire English Music Festival, Aysgarth, North Yorkshire, 28th September 2019
First broadcast - ORF Vienna, 19th July 2021
Theme and Variations in B minor
World premiere - English Music Festival, Horsham, West Sussex, 29th May 2021
Granville BANTOCK
(1868-1946)
Nursery Scenes (1900)
World premiere – British Music Information Centre, London, 17th October 2000
Birmingham premiere – Recital Hall, Birmingham Conservatoire, 14th December 2007
Ruth BARRETT
(b.1976)
Pictures in the Snow
World premiere – St James Piccadilly, London, 17th December 1993
Rick BIRLEY
(b.1954)
March Wind
World premiere – Weymouth College Festival, 12th May 1993
First broadcast – BBC Hereford and Worcester, 17th June 1997
Piano Concerto
World premiere – St Mary’s Church, Dorchester, Dorset, 6th June 1998
Piano Sonata
World premiere of 1st mvt, Weymouth College Theatre, 18th January 2001; 2nd and 4th mvts, St Mary’s Church, Dorchester, 24th May 2014
Donegal Fantasy
World premiere – Weymouth College Festival, 24th June 2002
Four Carol Preludes
World premiere – Weymouth Arts Centre, 5th December 2002
Papillon
World premiere – Contemporary Piano Soundbites, 7th May 2020
Marcus BLUNT
(1947-2022)
Prelude to Better Times
World premiere – Contemporary Piano Soundbites, 17th April 2020
John CASKEN
(b.1949)
Tempus Plangendi
World premiere – Contemporary Piano Soundbites, 21st April 2020
Weymouth Lunchtime Chamber Concerts, 21st October 2020
First broadcast - RTP Antena 2, Portugal, 1st November 2020
First UK broadcast - BBC Radio 3, 13th March 2021
London premiere - Piccadilly Piano Plus concert series, St. James's Piccadilly, 23rd June 2021
Simon CLARKSON
(b.1964)
The Singing will never be done
World premiere – Contemporary Piano Soundbites, 26th May 2020
Phillip COOKE
(b.1980)
The Turtle Dove
World premiere – Contemporary Piano Soundbites, 14th April 2020
Weymouth Lunchtime Chamber Concerts, 21st October 2020
Folksongs
World premiere - King's College Chapel, Aberdeen, 10th February 2022
Impromptus
World premiere - King's College Chapel, Aberdeen, 16th February 2023
National Anthems
World premiere - Town Hall, Inverurie, Aberdeenshire, 14th February 2023
Songs of Morning and Night
World premiere - Eastgate Theatre, Peebles, Scotland, 10th February 2023
Martyn CRAFT
The Cummings Knightingale
(dedicated to Geoff Cummings-Knight on his 70th birthday)
World premiere – Northrepps Parish Church, Norfolk, 24th June 2017
Geoff CUMMINGS-KNIGHT
(b.1947)
Piano Sonata no.1
World premiere – St John’s Church, Wimbledon, 27th January 2012
First broadcast - ORF Radio, Austria, 21st January 2021
David CURINGTON
Cadence
World premiere – Contemporary Piano Soundbites, 29th April 2020
Andrew DOWNES
(b.1950)
Piano Sonata no.2, op.89
World premiere – Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin, 9th March 2003
UK premiere – Wednesbury Art Gallery, 18th June 2003
London premiere – St Lawrence Jewry-next-Guildhall, 1st September 2003
Seven Preludes
World premiere – University of Chichester, March 2006
In Memoriam Herbert Howells
World premiere – Lydney Festival, Gloucestershire, at St. Mary’s Church, Lydney, 11th July 2008
Seven Postludes
World premiere – St Lawrence Chapel, Ashburton, Devon, 30th October 2016
Piano Concerto
World premiere - Birmingham Town Hall, 1st March 2009
Une Promenade
World premiere -Contemporary Piano Soundbites, 30th April 2020
Sonata for cello and piano
World premiere - With Sharon McKinley, Adrian Boult Hall, Birmingham, 23rd March 2004
Sonata for double bass and piano
World premiere - With David Daly, Christchurch Priory Festival, 14th June 2007
Sonata for clarinet and piano
World premiere - With Angus Meryon, Salisbury Chamber Music Society, 2nd January 2010
Finished Fields – a song cycle for baritone and piano
World premiere – With Jonathan Pugsley (baritone), Weymouth Lunchtime Chamber Concert, November 2008
Piano Sonata no.1
London premiere, St Martin-in-the-Fields, 20th November 2000
Sonatina for Piano
First broadcast, BBC Radio 3, Birmingham, March 2001
Peter FACER
Diabolical Dance
World premiere – Contemporary Piano Soundbites, 8th June 2020
Graham FITKIN
(b.1963)
R Zero
World premiere – Contemporary Piano Soundbites, 6th May 2020
First broadcast - Klara (VRT Radio), Belgium, 24th November 2020
Richard FRANCIS
(b.1946)
Piano Sonata no.1 (Fantasy Sonata)
World premiere – Bristol Cathedral, 9th January 2007
London premiere – Bluthner Piano Centre, Berkeley Square, 11th October 2007
Piano Sonata no.2 (Irish Memories)
World premiere – Christ Church Cathedral, Waterford, Ireland, 17th April 2011
UK premiere – Lion Ballroom, Leominster, 12th February 2012
Characteristic Pieces vol.1
World premiere – St. Mary’s Priory Church, Chepstow, Monmouthshire, 23rd July 2008
First broadcast – Radio New Zealand Concert, 18th February 2016
Characteristic Pieces vol.2
World premiere – Lion Ballroom, Leominster, 2019
Grand Concert Variations on a theme by Greville Cooke
World premiere – Lion Ballroom, Leominster, 11th March 2018
Dirge for our troubled times
World premiere – Contemporary Piano Soundbites, 25th April 2020
Ludo GELOEN
(b.1962)
Paralysis
World premiere – Contemporary Piano Soundbites, 24th April 2020
Cecil Armstrong GIBBS
(1889-1960)
Ballade in D flat
First broadcast - Radio New Zealand Concert, 23rd June 2021
An Essex Rhapsody
First broadcast - BBC Radio 3, 9th March 2022
Adam GORB
(b.1958)
After the Darkness
World premiere - Contemporary Piano Soundbites, 1st May 2020
Weymouth Lunchtime Chamber Concerts, 21st October 2020
Sonja GROSSNER
(1942-2020)
Piano Sonata
World premiere – Arts Centre, Loughborough University, 5th April 2001
Piano Sonata Legacy
World premiere -Fraser Noble Hall, Leicester, 19th March 2004
Piano Sonata For Spring
World premiere – Music in Easton Square, All Saints Church, Portland, Dorset, 6th July 2008
Piano Concerto Within Reflecting Echoes
World premiere – Fraser Noble Hall, Leicester, 9th May 2009
Sonata for cello and piano Appassionato
World premiere with Sharon McKinley (cello), Birmingham Cathedral, January 1999
Ivor GURNEY
(1890-1937)
Possible first broadcast
Five Western Watercolours
Radio New Zealand Concert, 26th March 2016
Sadie HARRISON
(b.1965)
Lunae: Four Nocturnes
World premiere – Kimmeridge Hall, Bournemouth University, Bournemouth University Piano Festival, 13th October 2012
Shadows: Portraits of William Baines
World premiere – Ripon Cathedral, 18th July 2013
…on a name…
(written for Duncan Honeybourne’s 40th birthday)
World premiere, Britten Hall, Sherborne Girls, September 2018
In the Air…
World premiere, Contemporary Piano Soundbites, 2nd May 2020
Weymouth Lunchtime Chamber Concerts, 21st October 2020
First broadcast - RTP Antena 2, Portugal, 1st November 2020
First UK broadcast - BBC Radio 3, 5th September 2021
Portraits from the Place of the Yew Trees
World premiere - Howden Minster, Howden, East Yorkshire, 26th March 2022, in a recital promoted by Howdenshire Music and supported by the Ambache Trust
Breaths for clarinet and piano
World premiere with Fiona Cross (clarinet), Edwin Evans Music Room, Bryanston School, Blandford, Dorset, 8th June 2011
Raymond HEAD
And for all this…nature is never spent
Red
World premieres – Magdalen College Recital Room, Oxford, 20th May 2000
Paul HENLEY
(b.1959)
Piano Sonata no. 1
World premiere - Kidderminster Library, Worcestershire, October 2005
Piano Sonata no. 2
World premiere - Lion Ballroom, Leominster, Herefordshire, 16th June 2019
Adagietto
World premiere - Contemporary Piano Soundbites, 27th April 2020
Piano Sonata no.3
World premiere - Corvedale Festival, St. Michael's Church, Munslow, Shropshire, 17th September 2022
Clive JENKINS
(b.1938)
Quicksilver
World premiere – Contemporary Piano Soundbites, 22nd April 2020
Weymouth Lunchtime Chamber Concerts, 21st October 2020
First broadcast - BBC Radio 3, 4th January 2021
Hayley JENKINS
I hear you Mr Blackbird
World premiere – Contemporary Piano Soundbites, May 2020
First broadcast - Klara (VRT Radio), Belgium, 6th December 2020
First UK broadcast - BBC Radio 3, 28th December 2020
David JENNINGS
(b.1972)
Melancholy. A Fragment
World premiere – Contemporary Piano Soundbites, 15th April 2020
Weymouth Lunchtime Chamber Concerts, 21st October 2020
Liz Dilnot JOHNSON
A Little Lockdown Lyric
World premiere – Contemporary Piano Soundbites, 1st June 2020
First broadcast - BBC Radio 3, 25th February 2022
Tamsin JONES
Prelude and Fugue in D
World premiere – Contemporary Piano Soundbites, May 2020
John JOUBERT
(1927-2019)
Piano Sonata no.3, op.157
World premiere - Weymouth Music Club 60th anniversary concert, St. John’s Church, Weymouth, April 2006
World premiere of revised version - Chester Town Hall, 9th November 2010
Piano Sonata no.2, op.71
Irish premiere - Good Shepherd Chapel, Waterford Institute of Technology, Waterford, March 2005
Lyric Fantasy, op.144
Birmingham premiere - Birmingham and Midland Institute, 8th October 2001
London premiere - St Lawrence Jewry-next-Guildhall, 10th December 2001
First broadcast - Radio New Zealand Concert, 27th August 2012
John KEFALA KERR
Captain Tom’s Passacaglia
World premiere – Contemporary Piano Soundbites, 5th May 2020
David LANCASTER
Angelus
World premiere – Contemporary Piano Soundbites, 19th April 2020
Ian LOWES
2 pieces
World premiere – Edwin Evans Music Room, Bryanston School, Blandford, Dorset, 1st December 2004
Graham LYNCH
(b. 1957)
Klinger Fantasies
Silbury Hill in the Moonlight
World premieres - St. Eustachius Church, Tavistock, Devon, 13th March 2024
Cecilia McDOWALL
(b. 1951)
Notes from Abroad
World premiere - Weymouth Music Club, 75th Anniversary Concert, 13th June 2021
London premiere - Piccadilly Piano Plus concert series, St. James's Piccadilly, 23rd June 2021
John McLEOD
(1934-2022)
Dark Waltz
World premiere – Contemporary Piano Soundbites, 3rd May 2020
First broadcast - RTP Antena 2, Portugal, 1st November 2020
Charlotte MARLOW
Wayfaring
World premiere – Contemporary Piano Soundbites, 23rd April 2020
Nicholas MARSHALL
(b.1942)
Piano Sonata
World premiere - St Lawrence Chapel, Ashburton, Devon, 24th September 2022
Benjamin OLIVER
(b.1981)
From the Sublime to the Ridiculous
World premiere – Contemporary Piano Soundbites, 9th June 2020
Richard PANTCHEFF
(b.1959)
Piano Sonata
World premiere – 1901 Arts Club, London, 6th November 2019
Sir Hubert PARRY
Freundschaftslieder for violin and piano
First broadcast – BBC Radio 3, 8th October 2018
Jenni PINNOCK
Musical Distancing
World premiere – Contemporary Piano Soundbites, 28th April 2020
John PITTS
How Sweet the Sound
World premiere – Contemporary Piano Soundbites, 26th April 2020
Francis POTT
(b.1957)
Poem of the Air
World premiere – Contemporary Piano Soundbites, 18th April 2020
Weymouth Lunchtime Chamber Concerts, 21st October 2020
First broadcast - RTP Antena 2, Portugal, 1st November 2020
David POWER
(b.1962)
Joy
World premiere – Contemporary Piano Soundbites, 16th April 2020
Peter REYNOLDS
(1958-2016)
Cippyn for piano and electronics
Studio recording, York, August 2015
First broadcast ORF Vienna, November 2019
Penllyn
World premiere - Late Music York,
St Saviourgate Unitarian Chapel, York, 6th August 2016
London premiere - St James Piccadilly, 6th November 2017
Zoe SONES
Rona
World premiere – Contemporary Piano Soundbites, 15th May 2020
Susan SPAIN-DUNK
(1880-1962)
Two Preludes
World premiere - BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert, St. David's Hall, Cardiff, 20th May 2021 (live broadcast)
London premiere - Piccadilly Piano Plus concert series, St. James's Piccadilly, 23rd June 2021
Dobrinka TABAKOVA
(b.1980)
Halo
First public concert performance – Weymouth Lunchtime Chamber Concerts, May 2004
Henry WALFORD DAVIES
(1869-1941)
Theme and Variations (1890) (from manuscript)
World premiere – The Gateway Arts Centre, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, May 2015
Luke WHITLOCK
(b.1978)
Suite Antique
World premiere - Lion Ballroom, Leominster, Herefordshire, September 2013
Flowing Waters (Welsh Arts Council commission)
World premiere - Gate Arts Centre, Cardiff, 6th May 2014
First broadcast - Classic FM South Africa
Evening Prayer
World premiere - A Capela Studio, Cardiff, 8th June 2014
First broadcast - ABC Classic FM, Australia, 4th June 2015
Refractions of Light
World premiere - Contemporary Piano Soundbites, 20th April 2020
First broadcast - BBC Radio 3, 28th February 2021