Instrumental Works

Brass Quintet

(12 mins)
2 trumpets, horn, trombone, tuba

Publisher: Prime Music
Commissioned by the Hampshire County Brass Ensemble, first performed 21st June 1992


Concert Overture ‘Australia’

(15 mins)
Orch: 3,3,3,3; 4,3,3,1; timp+5 perc, harp, strings

Publisher: Oxford University Press
Commissioned by the Hampshire County Youth Orchestra, first performed July 1988


Guildford Variations

(15 mins)
Orch: 2/1,2/1,2,2; 2,2,0,0; timp+1 perc, harp, strings

Publisher: Prime Music
Commissioned by the Surrey Mozart Players, first performed 16th September 2000

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How the Whale got his Throat

(for choral version see Music for Upper Voices)

(17 mins)

Orch: 2,2,2,2; 4,2,3,1; timp+2 perc, strings + narrator

Publisher: prime Music

Commissioned by the Children’s Concerts charity, first performed January 2020


Jack and the Beanstalk

(18 mins)
Narrator and orch (2/1,2,2,2; 4,2,3,1; timp+2 perc, strings)

Publisher: Prime Music
Commissioned by Children’s Concerts, first performed 30th January 2007

Listen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvUo-4RhAz0

View Full Score: Jonathan Willcocks – Jack and the Beanstalk – Full Score

 


Meet the Orchestra

An entertaining quick introduction to the instruments of the orchestra
(3 mins)
Narrator and Orchestra (2,2,2,2; 4,2,3,1; timp+ 2 perc, strings)

Publisher: Prime Music
First performed January 2004

Listen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Raac7pQRIMc

View the Full Score: Jonathan Willcocks – Meet the Orchestra – Full Score


Sweet Music’s Power

Settings of texts by Shakespeare
(18 mins)
Soprano, flute, cello and harp

Publisher: Prime Music
Commissioned by the Green Lake Festival of Music, Wisconsin, USA, first performed 17th July 1994


The Theatre Ghost

(15 mins)
Narrator and orchestra (2/1,2,2,2; 4,2,3,1; timp+2 perc, strings)

Publisher: Prime Music
Commissioned by the Hampshire County Youth Orchestra, first performed 12th December 1992

Listen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JabBKB1qFxw

View Narrator text and music summary: Jonathan Willcocks – The Theatre Ghost – narrator score