Helen Grime

Composed during the coronavirus lockdown of 2020 and scored for mezzo-soprano and pierrot ensemble, Prayer is a setting of Carol Ann Duffy's poem describing the unexpected resonance that can be sparke...

The Silver Moon è un breve brano pianistico per giovani e dilettanti. Il titolo deriva da una poesia di D H Lawrence intitolata Weeknight Service.

Braid Hills di Helen Grime è un breve brano per due corni, commissionato dalla St Mary's Music School di Edimburgo per il Seven Hills Project.

Five North-Eastern Scenes for oboe and piano was commissioned by the Kunstförderverein Kreis Düren e. V. for the 2016 Spannungen chamber music festival in Heimbach, Germany. 'The piece is in five sho...

Two Birthday Fragments was composed for the 60th birthday of oboist Nicholas Daniel. The two-minute piece comprises a rhapsodic opening and a sharply contrasting second movement subtitled 'After Ferna...

Commissioned by the Edinburgh Quartet with financial support from Creative Scotland, PRS for Music Foundation, Britten-Pears Foundation, RVW Trust and Hope Scott Trust. First performed on 21st May 201...

Commissioned by the Edinburgh Quartet with financial support from Creative Scotland, PRS for Music Foundation, Britten-Pears Foundation, RVW Trust and Hope Scott Trust. First performed on 21st May 201...

Il Quartetto per archi n. 2 di Helen Grime è stato commissionato dalla Wigmore Hall, con il generoso sostegno di Nicholas e Judith Goodison e del Radcliffe Trust, e dal Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival...

Il Quartetto per archi n. 2 di Helen Grime è stato commissionato dalla Wigmore Hall, con il generoso sostegno di Nicholas e Judith Goodison e del Radcliffe Trust, e dal Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival...

For Piano Trio. The Brook Sings Loud was commissioned by the Aberdeen Chamber Music Club for the Kungsbacka Trio. 'As this was one of the first pieces that the Club commissioned, I thought it would...

Three Whistler Miniatures, composed by Helen Grime for Piano Trio, was commissioned by the Claremont Trio Commission Consortium: Samuel B. and Deborah D. Bruskin, Robert F. and Jane G. Morse and Ronal...

To see the summer sky for Violin and Viola falls into four movements. The first movement opens with the two instruments sounding almost as one playing very high, glassy harmonics. Gradually, an expres...

Helen Grime 's Aviary Sketches is a composition for String Trio. This is the full score and parts for this wonderful work which lasts around 13 minutes. Co-commissioned by Wigmore Hall with the suppor...

Embrace is a work by Helen Grime for Clarinet in B Flat and Trumpet in C. Commissioned by the Tanglewood Music Center in honour of its 75th Anniversary Season, a full performance of this work lasts ar...

For solo Clarinet in Bb and Ensemble. Clarinet and Piano Reduction. Commissioned by the Tanglewood Music Center, through the generous support of the Mervyn Geffen M. D. and Norman Solomon M. D. New...

Three Miniatures for Oboe and Piano by Helen Grime.

Arachne by Helen Grime was commissioned by the Gregynog Festival (Artistic Director, Rhian Davies) and first performed by Nicholas Daniel on 28 June 2013 in the gardens at Gregynog.

Romance for violin and piano is a short, reflective piece that exploits the lyrical qualities inherent in the combination. Originally written for a very young but talented violinist, Romance travels t...

For Tenor and Piano. In the Mist was written whilst I was a Fellow at the Tanglewood Music Center in the summer of 2008. I had the opportunity to work with the poet Lloyd Schwartz, setting one of his...

Everyone Sang was composed by Scottish composer Helen Grime in 2010. It was commissioned by BBC Radio 3 for the 75th anniversary of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. It was first performed at City...

Virga is precipitation that falls from a cloud but evaporates before it reaches the ground. It can produce rather dramatic and beautiful scenes, especially during a sunset. Helen Grime's Virga was om...

Nobody Comes was commissioned by NMC for the NMC Songbook (2009). Duration: circa 3½ minutes

Helen Grime's Bright Travellers for Soprano and Piano accompaniment. Commissioned in 2017 by Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, President of the Foundation Hoffmann, aSwissgrant-making...