Works commissioned by Kate for piano solo, duo with/out ensemble/electronics, multiple pianos and for other ensemble:
Understory, 2024 – 25
Sarah Dacey – for Galvanize Ensemble, Understory project funded by Hinrichssen Foundation 2024
John Garner – for Galvanize Ensemble, Understory project funded by Hinrichssen Foundation 2024
Kate Halsall – for Galvanize Ensemble, Understory project funded by Hinrichssen Foundation 2024
Outlier, Trailblazer Festival 2023
Kate Halsall – Outlier 2023 – piano, field recording, oral histories. Commissioned by Green Croft Arts (Arts Council England, AONB North Pennines, Fellfoot Radio, celebrating Delia Derbyshire’s work and connections to Gilsland.
Kirk Yat, Being and Dwelling 2021
Kate Halsall – Kirk Yat 2021 – for piano, electronics (Arts Council commission) available bandcamp . Kirk Yat (Church Gate), was commissioned as part of artist Irene Rogan’s Being and Dwelling project, and explores the resonances of the church piano at St Michael and All Angels, Hawkshead, Cumbria.
Pippa Murphy – breathe in me harmonium, electronics (Sound Scotland commission 2018) Winner of EVM Award for Electroacoustic/sound art work, Scottish New Music Awards 2019
Rose Dodd – at the end, fragments, the rest is noise piano, electronics (Sound Scotland premiere 2018)
Happenstance (2015 – 2021)
Duncan MacLeod – Metalisation of a Dream (Arts Council England and RVW Trust/Kate Halsall, Galvanize Ensemble)
Joanna Ward – Pigs (Arts Council England/Kate Halsall, Galvanize Ensemble)
Carmel Smickersgill – Commune (Arts Council England/Kate Halsall, Galvanize Ensemble)
Angie Atmadjaja – life and death is wearing me out- Galvanize Ensemble, *premiere LimeWharf, London, 28th Feb 2015 (Arts Council England/Kate Halsall)
Edward Jessen – MAIDEN NAME – Galvanise Ensemble, *premiere Bluecoat, Liverpool, 31st July 2015 (Arts Council England/Kate Halsall)
LSO Soundhub Call – Helen Papaioannou, Robert Szymanek- Awards for arranged or devised works for ensemble
Fine Art Call- Claire Orme, SMFA University of Kent (Arts Council England/Kate Halsall)
Miniaturised Concertos | Maché 2015 album released Metier, available on Apple, bandcamp, Spotify
Philip Cashian – Furor- mixed ensemble, electronics, piano duo – premiere 2013, Dartington Hall, swms (Arts Council England)
Katharine Norman – Making Place – piano duo, live video, text – premiere 2013, The Performance Centre, Falmouth University (Britten Pears Foundation)
Naomi Pinnock – Always again – mixed ensemble, percussion, piano duo – premiere Huddersfield Festival 2014, Chimera Ensemble (RVW Trust); duo with percussion version premiere Goldsmiths University of London 2014.
Andrew Poppy – Swimming with the Stone Book – elec guitar, bass, keyboard, percussion ensemble, piano duo – premiere 2013, Dartington Hall (Arts Council England)
Colin Riley – Hanging in the Balance – piano duo, electronics, resonating objects – premiere 2013, Dartington Hall (Arts Council England)
Ryoko Akama – an dt wo – 2 pianos, sine tone – premiere hcmf//2014
Yuko Ohara .-./-./.— [Romeo and Juliet] morse code, harmonics, piano duo – preview Aldeburgh Music, premiere Newcastle University Kings Hall
Ailís Ní Ríain – Quantitas Speaks- piano duo, tape, text, voices and glasses – preview Aldeburgh Music, premiere Newcastle University Kings Hall
Christine Abdelnour – Bout-Rimés – piano duo – preview Aldeburgh Music, premiere Newcastle University Kings Hall
Kerry Andrew – Birdsong for Two Voices – Sub Song/Wintering Time, Whispering Song (A Ghost of a Song), Crystallised Song (Birdsong for Two Voices) – preview Aldeburgh Music
Helena Gough – Perforations – piano duo, electronics – preview Aldeburgh Music, premiere Newcastle University Kings Hall
Elo Masing – studies in resonance – piano duo – preview Aldeburgh Music, premiere Royal Academy of Music
(Arts Council England, Aldeburgh Music Foundation)
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