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Unstemmed (piano solo)

Unstemmed was composed specifically for a concert given by Maki Sekiya at the JdP Music Building, St Hilda’s College, Oxford on 30 May 2015. It is part of a series of works for solo piano written by Joel Baldwin for various performers, all of which are loosely inspired by themes of water. The idea of…


Bow and Baleno (National Gallery)

Live video recording from the première of Bow and Baleno by Joel Baldwin at the National Gallery’s Barocci Concert on Friday 3rd May 2013. Performed by Sam Cave (guitar), Pete Handley (percussion), Alex Mathew (soprano), Jennifer MacCallum (viola) and Lily Thornton (cello): About Bow and Baleno This piece was commissioned for a concert at the…


Rending (Electroacoustic composition)

Here is another recent electro-acoustic creation. This piece explores broken and deconstructed sounds. For more information about this piece, please get in touch.


Biding I for cello and electronics

This piece incorporates various live sampling methods and is to be performed by a cellist and a separate performer with a laptop (or tapes and a stand-alone live sampling device). The piece has a meditative quality, regularly pausing for thought as natural and artificial reverbs are allowed to die away. The performers have this in…