Tansy Davies
Tansy Davies possesses one of the most personal voices in composition today. Embracing a wide range of influences – from the classical avant-garde to funk and experimental rock – her vital, visceral music bridges the spiritual and political, the man-made and the natural.
Works
| Title | Year | Description | Duration | Composer |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Ice Core Sample Says | 2024 | mezzo-soprano and piano | 10½ | Tansy Davies |
| Lost Science | 2024 | for chamber ensemble and electronics | 23 | Tansy Davies |
| Keeper of the Air | 2024 | clarinet and piano | 3½ | Tansy Davies |
| Canopies of Liquid Light | 2023 | chamber ensemble of 16 players and fixed audio | 24 | Tansy Davies |
| glider | 2022 | bass clarinet and chamber ensemble of 7 players | 9 | Tansy Davies |
| gem | 2022 | solo cello | 4 | Tansy Davies |
| Star-way | 2022 | solo synthesizer | 10 | Tansy Davies |
| proem | 2022 | solo cello | 2 | Tansy Davies |
| Stone Codes | 2022 | solo percussion and chamber ensemble of 14 players | 18 | Tansy Davies |
| Lullaby | 2022 | mezzo-soprano and chamber ensemble | 4½ | Tansy Davies |
| Monolith: I Extend My Arms | 2021 | strings and percussion | 17 | Tansy Davies |
| Yoik II | 2021 | solo flute | 7 | Tansy Davies |
| Grand Mutation | 2020 | violin, horn, piano | 13 | Tansy Davies |
| Nightingales: Ultra-Deep Field | 2020 | string quartet | 17 | Tansy Davies |
| Yoik | 2020 | one or more horns | 8½ | Tansy Davies |
| Lullaby | 2019 | mezzo-soprano, tenor and piano | 4½ | Tansy Davies |
| Soul Canoe | 2019 | chamber ensemble of 10 players | c.20 | Tansy Davies |
| Plumes | 2019 | chamber orchestra | 5 | Tansy Davies |
| The rule is love | 2019 | a song cycle for contralto and chamber ensemble of 5/6 players | 10 | Tansy Davies |
| What Did We See? | 2018 | orchestra | c.25 | Tansy Davies |
| What Did We See? | 2018 | reduced-woodwind version orchestra | c.25 | Tansy Davies |
| Hawk | 2018 | violin and piano | 2½ | Tansy Davies |
| Antenoux | 2017 | mixed chamber ensemble of 10 players | 5 | Tansy Davies |
| Dune of Footprints | 2017 | string orchestra | 15 | Tansy Davies |
| Cave | 2018 | a chamber opera in eight scenes for mezzo-soprano, tenor and ensemble with electronics | 60 | Tansy Davies |
| Forest | 2016 | A Concerto for Four Horns | 20 | Tansy Davies |
| Re-greening | 2015 | large singing orchestra or large orchestra and chorus | 8 | Tansy Davies |
| Song of Pure Nothingness (piano version) | 2015 | mezzo-soprano or countertenor and piano | 13 | Tansy Davies |
| Feather and Groove | 2008 (rev. 2015) | a work for mixed ensemble of mixed ability, for 6 to 20 players, with semi-open scoring | 5½ | Tansy Davies |
| Between Worlds | 2014 | an opera | 90 | Tansy Davies |
| The Beginning of the World | 2013 | based on Sellinger's Round | 4½ | Tansy Davies |
| Nature | 2012 | concerto for piano and 10 players | 20 | Tansy Davies |
| The Second Key | 2011 (rev. 2016) | mezzo-soprano or countertenor and mixed ensemble of 10 or more players of mixed ability | 8½ | Tansy Davies |
| Christmas Eve | 2011 | unaccompanied SATB choir | 6 | Tansy Davies |
| Greenhouses | 2011 | voice, alto flute, percussion and double bass | 3 | Tansy Davies |
| Aquatic | 2011 | duet for cor anglais and percussion | 10 | Tansy Davies |
| Troubairitz | 2010 | soprano and percussion | 17 | Tansy Davies |
| As with Voices and with Tears | 2010 | SATB choir, strings and electronics | 23 | Tansy Davies |
| Wild Card | 2010 | orchestra | 24 | Tansy Davies |
| Forgotten Game 2 | 2009 | oboe and piano | 6 | Tansy Davies |
| This Love | 2009 | tenor and piano | 2 1/2 | Tansy Davies |
| Static | 2009 | tenor and piano | 2 | Tansy Davies |
| Destroying Beauty | 2008 | voice and piano | 3 | Tansy Davies |
| grind show (unplugged) | 2008 | chamber ensemble of 5 players | 6 | Tansy Davies |
| Forgotten Game | 2008 | solo oboe | 6 | Tansy Davies |
| grind show (electric) | 2007 | chamber ensemble of 5 players plus electronics | 6 | Tansy Davies |
| kingpin | 2007 | chamber orchestra | 6 | Tansy Davies |
| Falling Angel | 2006 | chamber ensemble of 17 players | 17 | Tansy Davies |
| Streamlines | 2006 | orchestra | 10 | Tansy Davies |
| Tilting | 2005 | orchestra | 7 | Tansy Davies |
| Dark Ground | 2005 | solo percussion | 8 | Tansy Davies |
| Spine | 2005 | 11 players | 9 | Tansy Davies |
| Residuum | 2005 | Two solo violins, a solo cello and strings | 8 | Tansy Davies |
| salt box | 2005 | chamber ensemble of 7 players | 11 | Tansy Davies |
| Iris | 2004 | soprano saxophone and chamber ensemble of 15 players | 14 | Tansy Davies |
| Make Black White | 2004 | concert of viols | 5 | Tansy Davies |
| Spiral House | 2004 | trumpet and orchestra | 22 | Tansy Davies |
| neon | 2004 | chamber ensemble of 7 players | 10 | Tansy Davies |
| inside out 2 | 2003 | chamber ensemble of 7 players | 6 | Tansy Davies |
| Loopholes & Lynchpins | 2003 | solo piano | 10 | Tansy Davies |
| Arabescos | 2002 | oboe and piano | 8 | Tansy Davies |
| small black stone | 2000 | viola and piano | 7 | Tansy Davies |
| loure | 2000 | solo violin | 3 | Tansy Davies |
| Undertow | 1999 rev. 2018 | chamber ensemble of 5 players | c.6 | Tansy Davies |
| Omega and the Deer | ballet including the works Grind Show, neon, I Walk Alone and other works | Tansy Davies |