# Works — Josephine Stephenson

Source: https://josephinestephenson.com/works/

## That the sunrise not leave us unmoved

Year: 2026

for chorus and orchestra

Commissioned by BBC Radio 3

Duration: 9'

First performance: BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Chorus and BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Dalia Stasevska, Royal Albert Hall, London, 17.07.2026

## Fire, river, garden

Year: 2025

for cello and choir

Commissioned by the Royal Philharmonic Society through the support of an anonymous donor

Duration: 15'

First performance: Nicolas Alstaedt and the Carice Singers directed by George Parris, Kings Place, London, 13.12.2025

## Paysannes (chansons populaires)

Year: 2025

for soprano and ensemble of 8 instruments

Commissioned by ensemble TM+

Duration: 16'

First performance: Ensemble TM+ and Amélie Raison directed by Pascal Adoumbou, Maison de la Musique de Nanterre, 21.11.2025

## Aube

Year: 2024

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

## Rest(e)

Year: 2024

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

## In Time Like Air

Year: 2024

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

## Three Lunar Seas

Year: 2023

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

## Eja, Mater, fons amoris

Year: 2023

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

## Into the Wreck

Year: 2021

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

## Comme l'espoir/you might all disappear

Year: 2021

for voice 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

## BEET2-1

Year: 2020

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

## Ponts

Year: 2020

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

## Lands Unseen

Year: 2020

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

## Une saison en enfer

Year: 2019

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

## NARCISSE

Year: 2019

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

## Writhen

Year: 2019

for chamber orchestra

Commissioned by Britten Sinfonia

Duration: 10'

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

## Shuffle

Year: 2019

for 9 instruments

Commissioned by London Sinfonietta

Duration: 10'

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

## Cut Hold

Year: 2018

for solo cello

Commissioned by London Sinfonietta

Duration: 5'

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

[Embedded media](https://www.youtube.com/embed/Th7VisKoHbM?si=wBluAgvH3x_r0Rui)

## PREST0

Year: 2018

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

## Enero

Year: 2018

for solo guitar

Commissioned by Listenpony

Duration: 5'

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

[Embedded media](https://www.youtube.com/embed/1g5rEdSRhxE?si=mXXSHC0J5ZCA8hNX&controls=0)

## Now that heaven and earth and the wind are silent

Year: 2017

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

## Between the war and you

Year: 2017

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

## Lignéchos

Year: 2017

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

## Passing Figures

Year: 2017

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

## Float

Year: 2017

for solo viola

Commissioned by Listenpony

Duration: 6'

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

## Les Constellations - Une Théorie

Year: 2016

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

## A tendency to such changes

Year: 2016

for solo viola da gamba

Commissioned by Dulwich Picture Gallery

Duration: 8'

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

## Disquiet

Year: 2016

for 15 instruments

Duration: 5'

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

[Embedded media](https://www.youtube.com/embed/nNu_2S0f23A?si=ekJ1RCr2e_oPRAp-&controls=0)

## Ce n'était pas nous

Year: 2016

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

## Through the bleak midwinter

Year: 2015

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

## All casual bits and scraps, assembled

Year: 2015

for percussion quartet

Duration: 4'30

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

## Into thy hands (after Sheppard)

Year: 2015

for men's voices

Commissioned by Siglo de Oro

Duration: 4'

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

## If only

Year: 2015

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

## Tanka

Year: 2015

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

## Sestina

Year: 2015

for solo piano

Duration: 6'

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

## Movement still

Year: 2015

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

## On False Perspective

Year: 2014

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

[Embedded media](https://www.youtube.com/embed/P1f0_RAkC_8?si=N4svyaLU5M9bC0Hj)

## [at.      back. of.     mind.]

Year: 2014

for 6 instruments

Duration: 8'

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

## Abend

Year: 2013

for small orchestra

Duration: 10'

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

## if nomen boat

Year: 2013

for stereo tape (feat. violinist Fiona Monbet)

Duration: 8'

First performance: RADA Bar, London, 19.06.2013

## Anamnesis

Year: 2012

for solo cello

Duration: 3'30

First performance: Anne Chauveau, National Portrait Gallery, 14.12.2012

## hex12hex (étude 1)

Year: 2012

for solo piano

Duration: 4'

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

## The Infant King (Sing Lullaby)

Year: 2008

for SATB choir

Duration: 4'

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