Dance of the Animals

Composed: 2014
Duration: 3 mins
Instrumentation: Picc. · Clarinet · 2 Pianos · Xylophone/Glock · Strings
Commissioned by: New Music South West as the Finale to ‘A Modern Menagerie’ (responses by 14 composers to Saint-Saëns’s ‘The Carnival of the Animals’)
1st performance: St. George’s Bristol, September 7, 2016, by the Bristol Ensemble conducted by John Pickard