Josephine Stephenson

chamber

solo

• A tendency to such changes

  for solo viola da gamba

  Commissioned by Dulwich Picture Gallery

  Duration: 8'

  First performance: Liam Byrne, Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, 03.11.2016

• Anamnesis

  for solo cello

  Duration: 3'30

  First performance: Anne Chauveau, National Portrait Gallery, 14.12.2012

• Cut Hold

  for solo cello

  Commissioned by London Sinfonietta

  Duration: 5'

  First performance: Tim Gill, The Warehouse, London, 28.11.2018
• Enero

  for solo guitar

  Commissioned by Listenpony

  Duration: 5'

  First performance: Laura Snowden, Crypt on the Green, London, 30.01.2018

• Float

  for solo viola

  Commissioned by Listenpony

  Duration: 6'

  First performance: Stephen Upshaw, The Warehouse, London, 06.06.17

• hex12hex (étude 1)

  for solo piano

  Duration: 4'

  First performance: Gwenaëlle Rouger, Royal College of Music, London, 14.11.2012

• Sestina

  for solo piano

  Duration: 6'

  First performance: Gina Poli, Duke's Hall, Royal Academy of Music, London, 05.06.2015

duets

• Movement still

  for flute and violin

  Duration: 6'

  First performance: Taylor Maclennan & Johannes Marmén (Explore Ensemble), Amaryllis Fleming Concert Hall, Royal College of Music, London, 13.05.2015

trios

• Lignéchos

  for violin, clarinet and piano

  Commissioned by Miroirs Étendus

  Duration: 8'

  First performance: Fiona Monbet (violin), Bertrand Laude (clarinet) & Romain Louveau (piano), Opéra de Lille, 25.01.2017

quartets

• All casual bits and scraps, assembled

  for percussion quartet

  Duration: 4'30

  First performance: Abstruckt, Crypt on the Green, London, 12.10.2015

ensemble

small ensemble

• [at. back. of. mind.]

  for 6 instruments

  Duration: 8'

  First performance: Masters Ensemble, Royal College of Music, 19.03.2014

• Parting

  for mixed quintet

  Commissioned by Theater Lüneburg

  Duration: 6'

  First performance: Broken Frames Syndicate, Theater Lüneburg, 25.10.2020

• Shuffle

  for 9 instruments

  Commissioned by London Sinfonietta

  Duration: 10'

  First performance: London Sinfonietta conducted by Jonathan Berman, Queen Elizabeth Hall, 17.01.2019

large ensemble

• BEET2-1

  for 13 players

  Commissioned by s t a r g a z e 

  Duration: 8'

  First performance: s t a r g a z e conducted by André de Ridder, Schaubühne Berlin, 11.06.2021

• By Red

  for 14 players

  Commissioned by Sinfonia Viva

  Duration: 3'

  First performance: Sinfonia Viva conducted by David Lawrence, Derby Theatre, 12.03.2019

• Disquiet

  for 15 instruments

  Duration: 5'

  First performance: Britten-Pears Contemporary Ensemble conducted by Jonathan Berman, Jubilee Hall, Aldeburgh, 24.06.2016

• In Time Like Air

  for large ensemble

  Commissioned by Ensemble Contemporain / Radio France

  Duration: 16'

  First performance: Ensemble Intercontemporain conducted by George Jackson, Maison de la Radio, Paris, 06.02.2024

   

orchestral

• Abend

  for small orchestra

  Duration: 10'

  First performance: Sinfonia d'Amici conducted by Harry Ogg, LSO St Luke's, London, 21.09.2013

• Aube

  for mezzo-soprano, alto flute and harp

  Commissioned by Trio Haydée

  Duration: 7'

  First performance: Trio Haydée, Auditorium de la Dracénie, Pôle Culturel Chabran, 05.04.2024

• Concerto for Drum Machine & Orchestra: V

  for drum machine (Roland TR-8) and orchestra

  Commissioned by Nonclassical

  Duration: 5'

  First performance: JS with Nonclassical Orchestra conduted by Jessica Cottis, Village Underground, London, 18.03.18
• Passing Figures

  for small orchestra

  Commissioned by Outcry Ensemble with help from the Richard Carne Trust

  Duration: 9'

  First performance: Outcry Ensemble conducted by James Henshaw, St. John's Notting Hill, London, 28.02.18

• Writhen

  for chamber orchestra

  Commissioned by Britten Sinfonia

  Duration: 10'

  First performance: Britten Sinfonia Academy, Union Chapel, London, 13.07.2019

opera

• Les Constellations - Une Théorie

  for 2 actors, 2 sopranos and 4 instruments

  libretto by Antoine Thiollier

  Commissioned by Miroirs Étendus

  Duration: 75'

  First performance: L'Éventuel Hérisson Bleu and Ensemble Miroirs Étendus, Bateau Feu, Dunkirk, 13.12.2016

• NARCISSE

  for 2 singers & 2 musicians

  Libretto by Marion Pellissier

  Commissioned by Arcal Lyrique

  Duration: 50'

  First performance: Benoît Rameau, Apolline Raï-Westphal, Emmanuel Olivier & Juliette Herbet, Théâtre de Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, 05.11.2019

• On False Perspective

  for 5 singers and 12 instruments

  libretto by Ben Osborn

  Duration: 18'

  First performance: RCM students conducted by Tim Murray, Britten Theatre, Royal College of Music, London, 16.05.2014
• Three Lunar Seas

  for 5 principal singers, chorus and orchestra

  Libretto by Ben Osborn

  Commissioned by Opéra Grand Avignon

  Duration: 80'

  First performance: Patrizia Ciofi, Eduarda Melo, Jessica Dandy, Kate Huggett, Anas Seguin, Choeur de l'Opéra Grand Avignon, Orchestre National Avignon-Provence conducted by Léo Warynski, Opéra Grand Avignon, 05.05.2023

vocal

voice(s) and instrument(s)

• Between the war and you

  for soprano, clarinet, double bass and harp

  words by Ben Osborn

  Commissioned by Spitalfields Music

  Duration: 12'

  First performance: The Hermes Experiment, Shoreditch Church, London, 02.12.2017

• Comme l'espoir/you might all disappear

  for soprano and guitar

  Commissioned by Héloïse Werner with support from the PRS Foundation

  Duration: 5'

  First performance: Héloïse Werner & Laura Snowden, Wigmore Hall, London, 04.06.2022

• Our thoughts make spirals in their world

  for soprano and piano

  words by Ben Osborn

  Duration: 5'

  First performance: Agathe Peyrat & Romain Louveau, Auditorium du Petit Palais, Paris, 11.02.2016

• Rest(e)

  for mezzo-soprano, cello and piano

  Commissioned by Radio France, I Giardini and Festival Musique(s) Rive Gauche

  Duration: 12'

  First performance (first part): Fiona McGown, Louis Rodde & Gwendal Giguelay, Festival Musique(s) Rive Gauche, Paris, 23.09.2023

  First performance (whole piece): Fiona McGown & I Giardini, Festival Présences, Paris, 11.02.2024

• Tanka

  for soprano, clarinet, double bass and harp

  words by Ben Osborn

  Duration: 5'

  First performance: The Hermes Experiment, Crypt on the Green, London, 20.06.2015

• Through the bleak midwinter

  for singer and 5 players

  words by Ben Osborn

  Commissioned by The Coveryard

  Duration: 3'

  First performance: The Coveryard, Palm 2, London, 15.12.2015
• Une saison en enfer

  for tenor and string orchestra

  Words by Arthur Rimbaud

  Commissioned by Wigmore Hall

  Duration: 20'

  First performance: Allan Clayton & Aurora Orchestra conducted by Brett Dean, Wigmore Hall, London, 04.12.2019

• Vendeur d'étoiles

  for children's voices SSA and piano

  Words by Marion Pellissier

  Commissioned by Arcal Lyrique

  Duration: 10'

  First performance: TBC (original premiere cancelled due to COVID-19)

vocal ensemble

• Equal parts star and dark

  for 5 voices a capella

  words by Ben Osborn

  Duration: 5'

  First performance: Eo Nomine, St Ethelburga's, London, 02.03.2016

• Lands Unseen

  for 6 voices a cappella

  words by Violet Jacob, Isis Copia, Nelly Sachs and Marjorie Agosín

  Commissioned by the Espace Culturel de Chaillol

  Duration: 10'

  First performance: Musicatreize, Abbaye de Silvacane, La Roque d'Anthéron, 19.06.2021

choral

• Ce n'était pas nous

  for children's choir (SSA)

  words by Antoine Thiollier

  Commissioned by Radio France

  Duration: 8'

  First performance: Maîtrise de Radio France conducted by Morgan Jourdain, Studio Olivier Messiaen, Maison de la Radio, Paris, 09.04.2016
• Eja, Mater, fons amoris

  for unaccompanied choir SATB

  Commissioned by the Choir of Clare College, Cambridge

  Duration: 3'30

  First performance: Choir of Clare College, Cambridge conducted by Graham Ross, Clare College Chapel, 12.03.2023

• If only

  for 40 voices (SATBarB)

  words by Ben Osborn

  Commissioned by Bristol Old Vic

  Duration: 4'

  First performance: The Erebus Ensemble conducted by Tom Williams, Bristol Old Vic, 01.08.2015

• Into the Wreck

  for mixed chorus and narrator

  Texts by Adrienne Rich, Sappho, Anne Bradstreet, Hedvig Charlotta Nordenflycht, Charlotte Smith, Sagawa Chika, Alfonsina Storni, Margaret Fuller, Edit Södergran, Else Lasker-Schüler, Christina Rossetti, Anne Wharton, Mary Coleridge, Emily Dickinson and Sarojini Naidu.

  Commissioned by Tenebrae with support from the PRS Foundation

  Duration: 20'

  First performance: Tenebrae with Juliet Stevenson conducted by Nigel Short, St. Mary's Parish Church, Haddington, 17.09.2021

• Into thy hands (after Sheppard)

  for men's voices

  Commissioned by Siglo de Oro

  Duration: 4'

  First performance: Siglo de Oro, St Sepulchre-without-Newgate, London, 25.09.2015

• Now that heaven and earth and the wind are silent

  for SATB choir

  words by Ben Osborn after Petrarch

  Commissioned by Spitalfields Music

  Duration: 5'

  First performance: The Erebus Ensemble conducted by Tom Williams, Shoreditch Church, London, 02.12.2017

• The Infant King (Sing Lullaby)

  for SATB choir

  Duration: 4'

  First performance: Choir of Clare College Cambridge, Clare College Chapel, Cambridge, 30.11.2008

electroacoustic

• if nomen boat

  for stereo tape (feat. violinist Fiona Monbet)

  Duration: 8'

  First performance: RADA Bar, London, 19.06.2013

• if nomen boat 2

  for violin and tape

  Made for KammerKlang's 'Fresh Klang'

  Duration: 8'30

  First performance: Eloisa-Fleur Thom & JS, Cafe Oto, London, 07.06.2016

• Ponts

  for children's choir and tape

  Text by Antoine Thiollier

  Commissioned by Radio France

  Duration: 2'45

  First performance: Maîtrise de Radio France, Auditorium Angèle et Roger Tribouilloy, Bondy, 15.10.2020