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compositions

photo: jary nemo
This page contains a selection of music old and new. I'll be adding more to the list as I work my way through the back catalogue and some new ones too. Watch this space...
chamber music | instrumental

Amherst (2026) c. 15'

For piano trio. 

 

Figures on a Ground (2024) c. 5'

For piano.

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Hiraeth (2023) c. 15'

For piano trio.

Published by Wirripang. 

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The Windhover (2023) c. 5'

For solo violin, after the poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins.  

Published by Wirripang. 

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Angel Oak (2023) c. 3'

For piano trio.

Score available on request.

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P.R.B. (2023) c. 25'

For piano trio.

Score available on request.

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The Crossing Place (2023) c. 2'50.

For piano trio.

Score available on request.

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Inversnaid (2023) c. 7'

For piano trio, after the poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins.

Score available on request.

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Londonderry Air (2023) c. 1'52.

For cello and piano

Score available on request.

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Elegy - In Time of "The Breaking of Nations" (2023)

c. 5'15.

For piano trio.

Score available on request. 

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The Goldfinch (2023) c. 3'15.

For piano trio.

Score available on request.

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Song for Sandro (2023) c. 3'23.

For piano trio.

Score available on request.

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Last Chance to See(2023) c. 4'20.

For piano trio.

Score available on request. 

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Snow, Aldo (2023) c. 4'18.

for solo piano, after the poem by  Kate DiCamillo.

Score available on request

 

Cathy | The circle of her love moves with her.

(2023) c. 6'56.

for solo piano. 

Score available on request. 

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Fleeting (2023) c. 1'38.

for solo piano. 

Score available on request.

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Leave Taking (2023) c. 4'11.

for solo piano.

Score available on request.

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Elektra's Keening (2024) c. 8'27.

micro opera for soprano and piano after Sophocles, trans. Ezra Pound. 

Score available on request.

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Que diras tu ce soir (2024) c. 3'20.

for soprano and piano.

text: Baudelaire.

Score available on request. 

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Fear no more the heat o'the sun (2024) c. 3'40.

SATB a cappella.

Text: Shakespeare (from Cymbeline)

Score available on request. 

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Full fathom five (2024) c. 2'

SATB a cappella.

Text: Shakespeare (from The Tempest)

Score available on request. 

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Care-Charmer Sleep (2023) c. 1'50.

SATB a cappella.

Text: Samuel Daniel. 

Published by Wirripang.

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Taking Leave of a friend (2024) c. 1'50.

SATB a cappella. 

Text: Li Po (Rhiaku), trans. Ezra Pound. 

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Love bade me welcome (2024) c. 3'32.

SATB a cappella.

Text: George Herbert.

 

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Fire Horse (2022) c. 2'58.

fanfare for orchestra.

score & parts available on request. 

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Stari Most (2008, rev. 2018) c. 37'.

for soprano & baritone soloists, youth chorus and orchestra. Text: Peter Cann.

score & parts available on request.

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Momo (2022) c. 2 hours. 

play with music & songs after the novel by Michael Ende. Book & lyrics: Anthony Crowley.

perusal copy available on request. 

 

The Spirit Level (2001, rev. 2023)

opera in 13 scenes. c. 70'

libretto: Rufus Norris.

perusal copy on request.

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solo vocal | choral
orchestral |
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music theatre | opera
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© 2026 Richard Chew

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