John Pickard’s music is published by Bardic Edition and available through Schott Music
Works marked with an asterisk have audio samples. Works marked with a double asterisk have scores and audio samples.
1983 Ozymandias * for S.S.S.A.A.A.T.T.B.B. Choir
1983-1984 Symphony No.1 for Orchestra
1984 Serenata Concertata for Solo Flute and Chamber Ensemble
1985-1987 Symphony No.2 for Orchestra
1987 Piano Sonata **
1983-1987 Three Latin Motets for S.A.T.B. Choir
1987 Paraphrase on “The Duke of Marlborough for Piano solo
1988 A Madrigal for Thomas Morley for Brass ensemble
1988-89 Sea-Change for Orchestra
1990 Trio for Violin, Cello and Piano
1990 Inscape for Guitar solo
1990 The Flight of Icarus ** for Orchestra
1991 Wildfire ** for Brass Band
1991 String Quartet No.1
1992 The Phoenix for Soprano and Piano
1992 The Phagotus of Afranio for Bassoon and Piano
1992 Ave Maris Stella for S.A.T.B. Choir
1992-1993 Channel Firing * for Orchestra
1993 String Quartet No.2 **
1993 Partita for String Orchestra
1994 String Quartet No.3 **
1995 Men of Stone (Symphonic Suite) ** for Brass Band
1995 A Starlit Dome * for Piano solo
1995-1996 Symphony No.3 for Orchestra
1997 Insomnia for Violin and Piano
1997-1998 The Spindle of Necessity * for Trombone solo and Orchestra
1997-1998 String Quartet No.4 **
1998 Chaconne Viola solo
1998 A Better Time than Ours – A Carol for S.S.S.A.A.A.T.T.B.B. Choir
1999-2000 Piano Concerto
2000 Valedictions for Cello and Piano
2000-2001 The Borders of Sleep – Nine Poems by Edward Thomas for Baritone and Piano
2001 Invocation for Brass Band
2001-2002 Tsunami ** for Brass Band
2002 Black Castles ** for Brass Ensemble
2003 Aurora ** for Brass Band
1991-2004 Gaia Symphony ** for Brass Band
2004 Orion for Trumpet and Organ
2004 Sonata for Violin and Piano
2005 Eden ** for Brass Band
2005-2007 Agamemnon’s Tomb (A Requiem) ** for Soprano, Tenor and Bass soloists, Chorus and Orchestra
2007 Songs of Rain and Sea for S.S.A Choir, Piano (4-hands) and Percussion
2008 Tenebrae ** for Orchestra
2007 Three Chicken Studies for solo oboe
2009 Tesserae for Organ
2010-12 (0rchestrated 2011, 2015) Binyon Songs (version for Baritone and Orchestra) for Baritone and Orchestra
2010 The Burning of the Leaves for baritone and piano
2010 Snowbound for bass clarinet, cello and piano
2011 The Burning of the Leaves (version for baritone and orchestra)
2011 Concertante Variations (Presteigne Concerto) for Wind Quintet, Timpani and Strings
2011-2012 String Quartet No. 5
2012 Binyon Songs for Baritone and Piano for baritone and piano
2013 Sixteen Sunrises for Orchestra
2013 Angry Lament for Open score: four lines (which may be taken by different instrumental combinations) · Keyboard(s) · Drum(s) and Tam-tam(s)
2014 Symphony No. 5 for Orchestra
2015 Forbidding Mourning for String Orchestra
2015 In Sea-Cold Lyonesse for Choir Orchestra
2015 O Magnum Mysterium – motet for SATB Choir
2015 Binyon Songs version for Baritone and Orchestra
2016 Daughters of Zion for Ensemble
2016 Ghost-Train for Ensemble
2016 The Gardener of Aleppo for flute, viola and harp
2017 Rain, Steam and Speed for Brass Band
2018 Mass in Troubled Times for 18 Unaccompanied voices
2018 The Art of Beginning for Orchestra
2019 String Quartet No. 6
2020 Verlaine Songs for Ensemble and Solo Voice
2020 Stronghold
2020 Piano Sonata No.2
2020 Men of Stone (version for Symphonic Wind Band)
2020 Verlaine Songs
2021 Symphony No.6 for Orchestra
2022 Night-Spells
2023 Verlaine Songs (version for Voice, Violin and Piano)
2023 A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning for Voice and Piano
2023 Departures for two violas
Transcriptions
1992 Bridal Lullaby (Percy Grainger) Transcription for Orchestra
1997 The Battle Song (Havergal Brian) Transcription for Brass Band
1998 Toccata (Monteverdi) Transcription for Chamber Ensemble
2002 Mazurka in A minor Op. 17 No.4 (Chopin) Transcription for Brass Band
2007 Sospiri (Elgar) Transcription for String Quartet
2014 The Vision of Cleopatra – Tragic Poem by Havergal Brian for Orchestra and SATB Choir