The Turning (Notated) Orchestra. Completed May 2025.

Digital Release 24.10.25.

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Song of Spring (Notated). Acapella SATB. Completed May 2025

Walking through the park in February - cloudy days - a broken tree with asymetrical branches

was adorned with tiny flowers. No other signs of Spring.​

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Iridescence  String Orchestra (Notated) Completed September 2024

Entered Skallsjö Sommarorkester Composing Competition. Received an honorary mention (Runner up)

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Of Angels  Choral SATB & Piano (Notated). Completed August 2024.

 

Uncovered Paths  4 solo piano pieces (Notated) Completed May 2024. 

Performed in Berlin 2024 by Fidan Aghayeva-Edler & in Italy 2025 by Fabio Afrune.

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Long Wave  Orchestral  (Notated). Completed March 2024 .

Digital Release 29.11.24. https://modernclassicalx.lnk.to/LongWave

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​​Murmuration  SATB Choir + Flute, Violin, Cello, Piano & Percussion. (Notated). Completed January 2024.

Commissioned for Cascade Chorale by Professor James Knox in Bend, Oregon, U.S. & inspired by the Tree Swallows of Oregon

Performed March 9th & 10th 2024 in Bend Oregon.

 

The Photographs E.P. 3 Orchestral Pieces. (Notated). Completed May 2023

Inspired by the photographs of Henri Prestes. https://henriprestesp.com/

Digital Release19.04.24.  https://Modernclassicalx.lnk.to/ThePhotographs3OrchestralPiecesbySarahBlairInspiredbyHenriPrestesPhotographs  

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Response & Resonance Two Pieces for Unaccompanied Children's Choir. (Notated). Completed July 2023

Vocalisations (no text just syllables).  The need to be responded to.  The aura of trees in white bloom.

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The River  Septet for Flute,Clarinet,French Horn, Harp,Viola & Cello. (Notated). Completed November 2022

Inspired by late 60's British Folk Music.

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Dawn & Dusk  Two Pieces for Unaccompanied Choir SATB. (Notated) Completed July 2022.

To be sung as the sun rises & sets.

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Deep Blue  Jazz Orchestra.  (Notated). Completed May 2022.

Performed September 2022.

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Who Can Tell Me Who I Am?  Acappella Male Voice Choir. (Notated). Completed April 2022.

About Identity.

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All That Is Lost   Piano, electronic music, voice & field recordings. (Logic DAW). Completed February 2022.

Like winter.  Unexpected loss.

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Light On The Water  String Quartet (Notated). Completed September 2021

A myriad of sparkling lights.  Sunlight on a river.

Inspired by a video shared on Instagram during lockdown.

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The Algea Chamber work for solo viola, piano & choir (Notated). Completed July 2021

Daughters of Sorrow.  The bringers of weeping & tears.

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Porous  Orchestral (Notated). Imprint & Orbit completed May 2021& Porous completed September 2021 (on 3rd attempt!)

Everything Flows in. Impact.  Distinct objects in harmonious orbit.

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Birdsong. Piano, electronic music & field recording. (Logic DAW). Completed May 2021. (Birdsong 1 features Florence McDonald).

A call from one to another. A need to find one’s own. A sympathetic vibration across the airwaves. The need to find the as yet un-met loved ones.

 

Lea Tsemel.  Orchestral. (Notated). Completed October 2020

Since 1967 an estimated 800,000 Palestinians have been arrested, tried & imprisoned with & without due process in civil & military courts for resisting military occupation.  Lea Tsemel, a Jewish Lawyer has defended tens of thousands of them.

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Unstable Elements.  Electronic Music (Logic DAW). Completed May 2020

Actinium 89

It is the first of the series of Rare Earth Elements.  It is so radioactive that it glows.  It is deadly. It occurs naturally in uranium ore.

Cesium 55

It is the most reactive of the alkali metals.  When in contact with water it instantly explodes. International Atomic Time is kept by synchronising the operation of 300 cesium atomic clocks around the world.

Francium 87

It is the least stable naturally occurring element.  It is the last of the alkali metals.  If you ever managed to put together a lump of it (it’s impossible to find) it would evaporate violently through the tremendous heat generated by it’s radioactivity.

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Transform. Piano Pieces (Notated). Completed September 2019

The Burden. Improvisations on Fear. (2 others not uploaded)

Chart the unexpected transformational experience of an operation.