ELECTRA PERIVOLARIS
COMPOSER
List of Works
March (Ice melting, petals unfurling)
Orchestra - 2.2.2.2 - 2.0.0.0 - 1P - Strings | 10'00''
An Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment commission | Premiere Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, March 2025.
Inscriptions in Granite
Soprano Saxophone Soloist & String Orchestra | 12'00''
A Glasgow Barons commission | Premiered August 2023, Govan Parish Church, Greater Glasgow.
A Forest Reawakens
Orchestra - 2.2.2.2 - 2.2.2.0 - 2P - Strings | 04'30''
Commissioned by BBC Radio 3 for the BBC Concert Orchestra. | Broadcast on BBC Radio 3 22nd October 2021| Premiered at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, May 2022.
Mastiha
String Orchestra | 8'00''
A Royal Philharmonic Society/Presteigne Festival co-commission | Premiered August 2023, Presteigne Festival.
A Wave Breaking
Orchestra - 2.2.2.2. - 2.2.0.0 - 1P - Strings | 5'00''
A Scottish Chamber Orchestra New Stories commission | Premiered August 2022, SCO Summer Tour.
Photo by John Perivolaris
Within the drifting contours of the land...
Violin and Piano | 6’00’’
A Young Classical Artists Trust commission as part of the Inaugural YCAT Composer Fellowship, supported by the Cosman Keller Art and Music Trust in memory of Hans Keller | Premiered April 2025 by Njioma Grevious with Joseph Havlat at the Wigmore Hall, London.
Three Songs Without Words for Arran
Flute and Harp | 15’00’’ (separate movements also available)
An Arran International Festival commission | Premiered at Brodick Parish Church, Isle of Arran, Scotland, August 2024.
Skein
Oboe, Bassoon, Horn, Viola, Double Bass | 11’00’’
A sound Scotland commission, Premiered in October 2022 at soundfestival, Aberdeen, by Nicholas Daniel, Emily Hultmark, Ben Goldschieder, Garth Knox and Elise Dabrowski.
Sculptures For A Changing Planet
Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Piano, Violin, Viola, Cello | 9’00’’
Commissioned for the Nash Ensemble in a side-by-side with the Royal Academy of Music |
Premiered October 2021, Wigmore Hall, London.
Carved Into Rock
Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Bassoon, Horn and Piano. | 12’00’’
​Commissioned for CHROMA Ensemble in a side-by-side with the Royal Academy of Music |
Premiered January 2020, Angela Burgess Recital Hall, Royal Academy of Music, London.
A hand holds a candle
2 Flutes, Oboe and Clarinet in B flat | 5'30''
Commissioned by Sir James MacMillan for The Cumnock Tryst 2018 | Premiered October 2018,
Sirocco Winds, Cumnock Old Church, Ayrshire.
Delicate granite rock, crumbling apart in my hands
Soprano Saxophone/Clarinet, Cello & Piano | 8'00''
Premiered on BBC Radio 3 in a live lunchtime concert from Maida Vale Studios for International Women’s Day, March 2018.
Lost amongst the lines of the night sky
Wind Quintet and Piano | 7'30''
Winner in the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland Walter and Dinah Wolfe Composition Award |
Premiered May 2017, PLUG Festival of New Music, Stevenson Hall, Glasgow.
Rock, Salt, Air, Water
String Quartet | 4’00’’
A Young Classical Artists Trust commission as part of the Inaugural YCAT Composer Fellowship | Premiered October 2024 by the Atenea Quartet at the Wigmore Hall, London.
The Sleeping Warrior- A Mountain Contour Song for Two Islands
Flute and Percussionist | 10'00''
A University of Oxford Henfrey Prize Commission | Premiered May 2023, St Catherine's College, Oxford.
The Blurred Lines of Archipelagos
Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Bassoon & String trio | 7’00’’
A Scottish Chamber Orchestra New Stories commission | Premiere film released in SCO Digital Season, February 2022 .
Monody for the World of the Two Skylarks
String Quintet | 12’00’’
Commissioned by the Aurora Orchestra for the debut concert of their Autumn 2020 season|
Premiered October 2020, Kings Place, London.
Chessmen
Flute, Viola and Cello | 9’00’’
Commissioned by sound Scotland for Red Note Ensemble | Premiered October 2018, Red Note
Ensemble, St Andrews Cathedral, Aberdeen and February 2019, musicians of the London
Symphony Orchestra | LSO Soundhub Showcase Concert, LSO St Luke’s, London.
Bruadaraiche- Dreamer
Acoustic Guitar and Cello | 10'00''
For inclusive audiences of children. Commissioned by Live Music Now Scotland for the Kimie Composition Award | Premiered by
Sergeant-Watt duo in Additional Support Needs schools around Glasgow, May-September 2018.
The patterns formed by seaweed, washed up on the shore
Erhu, Oboe, Violin, Viola, Cello & Harp | 9'00''
Commissioned for the UK Chinese Music Ensemble | Premiered May 2017, Stevenson Hall, Glasgow.
Shapes form over the open landscape
Flute, Violin, Viola and 'Cello | 15'00''
Commissioned by Sir James MacMillan for The Cumnock Tryst 2016 | Premiered October 2016 by the RCS MusicLab, Cumnock Old Church, Ayrshire.
Photo by John Perivolaris
Standing by the Thames
Mixed Voice Chorus & Full orchestra - 2.2.2.2 - 2.2.2.0 - 2P - Hp. - Strings | 6’00’’
A micro-opera for a chorus of mixed low and high voices. A Streetwise Opera commission as part of Re:Sound, premiered at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre, London by Streetwise Opera, with the BBC Concert Orchestra and The Sixteen, May 2022.
Tomorrow’s Wonder- A Chamber Opera
Solo Soprano, Solo Baritone, Flute, Harp, Viola, Cello | 22’00’’
A London Sinfonietta/ Live Music Now/ Theatre of Sound co-commission, premiered at Stone Nest Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue, London, November 2021.
Photo by John Perivolaris
The Mastic Orchard
Solo Horn | 7’00’’
Commissioned by Isaac Shieh | Premiered July 2023.
Earth, Horizon, Sky, Moon
Solo Guitar | 10’00’’
Commissioned by guitarist, Sasha Savaloni | Premiered 2022 in Glasgow and Edinburgh.
The Islands
Solo Oboe | 5'00''
A Royal Academy of Music '100 Pieces' commission | Premiered March 2022, Royal Academy of Music, London.
Glen Sannox River Song
Solo Flute | 5'45''
A London Symphony Orchestra Discovery commission for LSO Principal Flautist, Gareth Davies | Premiered July 2021, London Symphony Orchestra Lunchtime Concert, LSO St Luke's.
Granite Prayer
Solo Prepared Piano | 7'00''
Winner of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland Walter and Dinah Wolfe Composition Award |
Premiered by pianist, Rolf Hind, May 2018, Stevenson Hall, Glasgow.
Crystalline Air
Quarter-tone Accordion | 7’00’’
Commissioned by Lore Amenabar Larrañaga | Album release on Divine Art Recordings and
Premiere performance January 2023, Stone Nest Theatre, London.
A Tree’s Spiral of Time
Solo Piano | 8’00’’
Commissioned by the Royal Academy of Music | Premiered by pianist Alexa Stier, April 2022,
Orléans International Piano Competition, France.
Waves caress the skin of an ancient rock...
Solo Guitar | 7'00''
An International Guitar Foundation Commission | Premiered October 2021, London Guitar Festival, Kings Place, London.
Daybreak
Solo Sitar | 7’30’’
Commissioned through Psappha Ensemble’s ‘Composing For’ scheme for emerging composers | Performance and Filming of piece July 2020, Hallé St Peter’s, Manchester.
Photo by John Perivolaris
ISOLA
A Song Cycle for Solo Soprano and Piano | 30’00’’ Total
Premiere at soundfestival, Aberdeen, 23rd October - 2nd November 2025. Also available as individual songs.
Brushstrokes of Nightmares and Dreams
Solo Soprano, Flute, Clarinet, Piano, Violin, Cello | 15’00’’
A Spitalfields Music/Hebrides Ensemble co-commission, Premiered in the Spitalfields Music
Festival, July 2024.
Les Heures Grecques
A Song Cycle for Solo Soprano and Piano | 20’00’’ Total
Also available as individual songs.
The Way I Live
2 Cellos, Soprano Saxophone, Piano and High Voice | 25'00''
​Commissioned for the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland PLUG Festival of New Music | Premiered May 2018, Stevenson Hall, Glasgow.
Photo by John Perivolaris
Weaving Song III- Weaving Stars
SATB Choir and Harp | 7'00''
A Carice Singers commission | Premiered St Martin-in-the-Fields, Trafalgar Square, April 2024.
Our Shared Planet
Children's Choir | 5'00''
A Music at Oxford/Marian Consort co-commission | Premiered March 2024, St Barnabas Church, Oxford.
A Winged Woman
SATB Choir | 12’00’’
Commissioned by The Marian Consort | Album release on Linn Records and Premiere performance May 2023, Perth Arts Festival.
Weaving Song I- The Thread of Breath
SATB Choir | 6'30''
Composed for the BBC Singers with conductor, Nicholas Chalmers | Broadcast on BBC Radio 3 |
June 2021.
Obon Lantern Festival
Female Voice Choir/ High Voice Choir | 5'00''
Premiered in workshop by the BBC Singers during the BBC Proms 2013, Royal College of Music, London.
An end without end
SATB Choir | 5'00''
An ORA Singers commission | Premiered Kings Place, London, March 2024.
There is no rose
SATB Choir | 5'00''
Composed for the choir of Magdalen College, Oxford with Director, Mark Williams | First
performance in the Magdalen College Oxford Advent Carol Service, December 2023.
Weaving Song II- If This Island...
SATB Choir | 5'00''
A Cheltenham Music Festival commission for The Carice Singers | Written for the Cheltenham
Music Festival Composer Academy | Premiered July 2021, Composium Event at the Cheltenham
Music Festival.
Eternal Waking
SATB Choir | 7’30’’
Commissioned by BBC Radio 3 for the ‘Seven Ages of Woman’ project for International Women’s Day 2020 | First performed February 2020 by the BBC Singers with conductor, Grace Rossiter, at St Peter’s Eaton Square and broadcast on BBC Radio 3, March 2020.
Photo by John Perivolaris
A Wave of Voices (Soundscape only)
Pre-recorded | Flexible Duration
Commissioned by the London Sinfonietta, Premiered as concert framing and linking music, Kings Place, London, December 2024.
A Journey Between Islands
Soprano Saxophone & pre-recorded Electronic Soundscape | 10’00’’
Premiered by Lewis Banks at the Glasgow Cathedral Festival, September 2021.
A Wave of Voices
Soprano Saxophone & pre-recorded Electronic Soundscape | 05’00’’
Commissioned by the London Sinfonietta, Premiered at Kings Place, London, December 2024.
Geese flying over my head and into the distance
Cello & pre-recorded Electronic Soundscape /
Viola & pre-recorded Electronic Soundscape versions | 6'00''
Performed at the Scottish Awards for New Music by Katherine Wren, May 2021, Glasgow.
Photo by John Perivolaris