Geoffrey Alvarez: Catalogue
Three Pieces for Percussion (1974) 7'
National Yourth Orchestra of Great Britain percussion section 1974
Sinfonietta (1976) 13'
City of London School Orchestra, Fairfield Halls, Croydon,1977
Awarded the Eric Coates Prize for light music, Royal Academy of Music .
Sleep: for Tenor and Piano (1978) 7'
City of London School 1978
Montage for Clarinet, Horn & Orchestra (1979) 14'
Michael Collins, Alvarez Chamber Orchestra, St.Giles Cripplegate 1979
Symphony No.1 (1980) 25'
Alvarez Chamber Orchestra, Giles Cripplegate 1980
TheTell-Tale Heart (Opera) (1981-3) 40'
First staged performance: Royal Academy of Music Opera Department 1984
Brass Etchings (1983) 11'
Farnaby Brass Ensemble, Purcell Room (1985)
Winner of the Josiah Parker composition and Manson performance prizes, Royal Academy of Music, 1984
Oboe Concerto (1984-85) 25 '
Nicholas Daniel, Alvarez Chamber Orchestra, St. John's Smith Square
Sonata for Violin, Piano, Ring-modulator & Tape (1985) 7'
Barry Anderson, Ron Briefel: Sound Projection (1985)
Variations for Chamber Orchestra (1985) 16'
Anemone, conductor
Geoffrey Alvarez, York (1985)
Cello Sonata (1985) 25'
Susan Hargreaves, 'cello, Dominic Saunders, piano, University of York.
S.P.N.M . shortlisted work
Three Madrigals for Chamber Choir (1986-8) 15'
First Madrigal, B.B.C. Singers, Maide Vale Studios (1993)
Lament in Memoriam Anderson (1987) 17'
University of York Chamber Orchestra, Roger Montgomery, 1987
Winner of the University of York Chamber Orchestra Commission.
Hide and Seek: for Soprano, Bassoon and Live Electronics (1987) 9'
Triptych for Solists, Double-Choir and Orchestra (1986-89) 43'
Four Fragments for Piano (1988) 7'
Dominic Saunders, British Music Information Centre (1990)
Kerbcrawling for Chamber Ensemble (1989)17'
(1) Anemone, York Festival, 1989
(2) Nottingham University (1989)
(3) Oxford University Sinfonia, (1998)
String Quartet (1990) 4'
Sept Piece for Horn & Piano (1990) 6'
Nicholas Korth; Horn, Geoffrey Alvarez; Piano British Music Information Centre, 1997
Obsessions for Flute, Viola and Harp (1990) 8'
Aline Brewer Trio-Royal Overseas League, 1992
Royal Overseas League 'Bernard Shore' Composition Award 1990.
Oboe Quartet (1991) 7'
For Imogen Triner
Funky Good Time for Piano Duet (1991) 6'
Emisori Rites: Chamber Opera for Eight Performers (1991) 150'
Libretto by Sila Kanyua
Soho Theatre and Garden Venture at the Institute for Contemporary Arts, 4-21 December1991
Songs My Parrot Taught Me * (1992) 40'
Polyphiloi, Conducted by Malcolm Singer, Purcell Room September 1993
The European Story (1992) 15'
Libretto by Ruth Fainlight, published by Sinclair Stevenson, 1995.
Commissioned by The Garden Venture, conductor Charles Peebles May 1993, Riverside Studios
String Beings for String Quartet and work shop participants, (1993) 10'
Lyric Quartet, Southback Centre 1993
Commissioned by the Southbank Centre Education Department
Bastien and Bastienne Arias - Mozart, Recitatives - Geoffrey Alvarez (1993) 70'
(1) English Country Opera Peckover House (1993)
(2) Northlands Festival, Ackergill Tower (1994)
(3) Chelse Arts Club
(4) Blackthorpe Barn (1995)
The Raging Goddesses for Two Sopranos Percussionists and Whip (1993)* 8'
Libretto by Sila Kanyua
Toronto, Canada
Selected for the Royal Academy of Music's Composer's Festival of 1993
A Mad Tea Party: Chamber Opera (1994) 25'
Piano
Concerto (1994)
15'
For Luciano Berio
Bran's Singing Head for Soprano, Harp and Clarinet (1996) 70'
Commissioned by the Polyphiloi Theatre Company,
First performance by Frances M. Lynch conducted by Geoffrey Alvarez Spitalfields Workshop Theatre, June 1996
Love's Own Secret for Double Choir, Horn, Soprano, Tenor and Organ (1996) 17'
Text; E. E. Cummings
Commissioned by Philip Rudge for the wedding of Alison Murdoch to Simon Keyes, St. John the Divine, Keninngton, 1996
The Cimmerian Sibyl for Horn, Violin and Piano (1996) 18'
Nicholas Korth; Horn British Music Information Centre, 1997
Written for Nicholas Korth, now co-principal horn with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, then principal of the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra.
Spinning Night for Trombone and Piano (1997) 15'
Alan Tomlinson,
Trombone; Geoffrey Alvarez, Piano
(1) British Music Information Centre. March 25 1997
(2) University of Oxford Contemporary Music Society, 1998
(3) British Trombone Society 13th Annual Festival, November 15 1998
The Laughing Lotus for Woodwind Quintet (1997) 10'
(1) The Oxford University Contemporary Music Society, February 15, 1998
(2) The Oxford University Contemporary Music Ensemble, Oxford Festival of Contemporary Music, May 15 1998
(3) Harlequin Wind Quintet, British Music Information Centre, March 23 1999
Teares and Lamentaçions: Six Sundry Sighs for ten course lute (1998)
Projected performance: Rob MacKillop, International Lute Conference, Basle, March 10 1999.
The Travelling Musicians: a Pantomine for Wind Quintet (1999-2000) 25'
Commissioned by the Harlequin Wind Quintet.
Purcell Room 2001
The Travelling Musicians: a Pantomine for Wind Quintet
and unlimited amateur musicians (1999-2000) 50'
Dartford Grammar School for Girls, July 6 2000
Second Symphony: The Five Seasons (1998-2000) 72'
For conductor Charles Peebles
Psalm XXIII for soprano and piano (2000) 21'
Lisa Nolan, soprano and Christine Grieg, piano
St. Cyprian's Church, NW1 October 7 2000
My Last Muse: for bass and orchestra (2000) 29'
A setting of five poems by Robert Graves
in consultation with Julia Simonne, Graves’ last Muse, who inspired the poems.
Patrick Ardagh: Baritone, Alvarez Chamber Orchestra, Julia Simonne: reciter, Timothy Walker: guitar
St. John's Smith Square, 2008
King Solomon’s Monsters: for two clarinets and bassoon (2000) 10'
A setting of five poems by Robert Graves in collaboration with Julia Simonne, Graves’ last Muse, who inspired the poems.
Concertino:
for piano and chamber orchestra (2001) 18'
For Luciano Berio
Recommended work: I International Uuno Klami Composition Competition 2003-2004
Prizewinning work: Tansman International Competition of Musical Personalities, Lodz, 2007
The Eternal Hill: For female voice, clarinet and piano(2001) 10'
Mandala 9.74: For voice and clarinet (2001)
17'
El
Duende: for tenor and piano (2002)
A setting of six poems by Federico García Lorca for Kevin West.
Saeta: for bass and amateur and professional musicians
(2002)
A street procession setting a poem by Geoffrey Álvarez
in homage to Federico García Lorca.
Tríptico
Nicaragüense: for tenor and piano
(2002)
A setting of three poems by Ruben Darío
El primer
olor:
for baritone and lute (2003)
A setting of a poem by Geoffrey Álvarez, published by the Lute Society
of America.
Magnificat: for SATB chorus (2004)
first performance The Waltham Singers
conducted by Andrew Fardell 2010
crocus: for banjo and violin (2005)
Nunc dimittis: for SATB chorus and organ (2006)
Premiere at the wedding of Tamsyn Steel to Michael David Rose
September the 16th 2006 in St Peter's Church, Mevagissy, Cornwall
Superstring Quartet (2006)
The Old Jewish Cemetary in Lodz (2008)
for string orchestra
Alvarez Chamber Orchestra, Polish Embassy in London, 2008
Fantasia on Tansman's Last Theme: Alla Polacca (2008)
Alvarez Chamber Orchestra, St. John's Smith Square, 2008
Symphony No.3: El tempano (2008)
Alvarez Chamber Orchestra, St. John's Smith Square, 2008
Symphony No.4: the Breath of Life (2009)
For thirteen winds
Symphony No.5: Ceridwen's Cauldron (2010)
for three harps and two pianos
Symphony No.7 (2010)
Missa Regina Elissa: for chorus, timpani, organ and strings (2009)
Work in Progress:
La profecía última del rey: Opera in five acts (2003)