01Flowers
A Fantasy for Viola
Flowers is a celebration of my sensory reactions to flowers that flooded into my music making, transforming visual inspiration to musical expression.
Compositions & recordings
From the score.
Music for the concert platform, theatre and television. From the intimacy of a solo instrument to the full colour of orchestra and chorus.
01 — Selected compositions
From the score.
Music by David Coleman.
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02Kaleidoscope
A Rhapsody for 14 Brass
Conductor composer David Coleman celebrates the individual instruments in the ensemble of the brass section of the classical orchestra.
03Dancing Percussion
Five movements
Dancing Percussion is an extravaganza for percussion ensemble created by conductor composer David Coleman.
04Giorno e Notte
For string quartet
An unpublished piece for string quartet, performed by students of the Accademia Teatro alla Scala.
05Evocation of Summer
Live
A musical poem of a quintessential English summer...the awakening day...murmuring flora and fauna...the vibrancy of heat.
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Work in progress · 2025 update
An opera takes shape.
2025 has seen a concentration of our creative energies on the development of a new opera.
The composition is now reaching advanced stages of development.
Musically, it is a re-examination of the late 19th century operatic ‘verismo’ style.
We will share some of the principal musical themes here in the coming months.