HELLAWELL
Wild Flow for Orchestra
Full Score

Wild Flow for Orchestra
Full Score
Full Score for Orchestra
POD PETERS on demand
Commissioned by the BBC and frst performed in the Royal Albert Hall at the BBC Proms 2016 by the Ulster Orchestra conducted by Rafael Payare
Instrumentation
2 Flutes (2nd doubles Piccolo)
2 Oboes (2nd doubles Cor Anglais)
2 Clarinets (2nd doubles Bass Clarinet)
2 Bassoons (2nd doubles Contrabassoon)
4 Horns in F
2 Trumpets in C
2 Trombones
1 Bass Trombone
1 Tuba
Percussion (2 players): Hand Bell (‘school bell’) Glockenspiel
Bass Drum
Snare Drum Xylophone
2 Woodblocks
Crotales (bowed and ord.)
Vibraphone (bowed and ord.)
Suspended Cymbal
3 Floor Toms Bongos
Tubular Bells
Tam-tam
Rattle/Guiro
Claves Cow Bell
Kalimba or Mbira (on timpani)
Marble Jar* Rain-stick
Harp*
Strings
Duration ca. 19 minutes
Transposing Score
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Piers Hellawell (b. 1956) has worked with leading artists such as the London Symphony Orchestra, Schubert Ensemble, Dame Evelyn Glennie and the Hilliard Ensemble, who toured his Hilliard Songbook pieces worldwide. Orchestral works include Cors de chasse (for Håkan Hardenberger, Jonas Bylund and the Philharmonia Orchestra) and the BBC commission Dogs and Wolves (2006), while Syzygy was premiered in 2013 by the Stockholm Chamber Brass/Swedish Chamber Orchestra. 2016 saw Hellawell’s Wild Flow commissioned for the BBC Proms, and a UK tour of Up by the Roots – a collaboration with poet Sinéad Morrissey – as well as a composer feature at Detroit’s Great Lakes Festival. Hellawell has been Professor of Composition at Queen’s University of Belfast since 2002, and has spoken widely on issues of music and cultural ownership as Gresham Professor of Music in London, 2000–2003.
Piers Hellawell (*1956) hat mit führenden Interpreten wie dem London Symphony Orchestra, dem Schubert Ensemble und Evelyn Glennie zusammengearbeitet. Das Hilliard Ensemble brachte sein Hilliard Songbook weltweit zur Aufführung. Für Orchester enstanden u. a. Cors de chasse (für Håkan Hardenberger, Jonas Bylund und das Philharmonia Orchestra), das BBC-Auftragswerk Dogs and Wolves (2006) sowie das 2013 vom Stockholm Chamber Brass/Swedish Chamber Orchestra uraufgeführte Syzygy. 2016 folgten Wild Flow für die BBC Proms, Up by the Roots – ein Gemeinschaftswerk mit der Dichterin Sinéad Morrissey, das in ganz Großbritannien auf Tournee ging – sowie ein Komponistenporträt beim Great Lakes Festival in Detroit. Seit 2002 ist Hellawell Professor an der Queen’s University in Belfast. Als Inhaber der Londoner Gresham-Professur für Musik setzte er sich 2000–2003 mit Fragen des kulturellen Eigentums in der Musik auseinander.