for baroque cello and electronics, written in collaboration with Lucia Capellaro

Premiered at The Night With… Festival 2023 by Lucia Capellaro.

In January 2025 Labyrinth was awarded the Royal Musical Association’s prize for composition, the Tippett Medal

Programme Note:

Unsettled, moving.  Restless.  Seeking. Round each curved corner ever onwards.  Let us follow Lucia, on their turbulent passage through this labyrinth.

Unsettled, moving.  Restless.  Seeking. Round each curved corner ever onwards.  Let us follow <replace with players first name>, on their turbulent passage through this labyrinth.

NB – the programme note should be amended to include the performers name, as shown above.

A little bit about making the work

This was the final work I made for my PhD project. It is a work that was composed for my extended project shadows that in darkness dwell that explores the music and life of English Renaissance composer John Dowland.

The starting point for this work was the Renaissance obsession with labyrinths, and the way the work was developed was influenced by this. Much of the work was made in workshop sessions with Lucia and I asked Lucia to navigate her way through fragmentary notated materials while inhabiting and responding to fragments of electroacoustic music. Over time some materials were discarded as we gradually worked towards a final piece. This playful approach to working together meant we didn’t finalise the work until very late in the process.

I must thank Lucia who was so generous in her exploration of the musical materials that we made together.