work list (chronological)

2025 & current projects

Music for a digital garden [working title] - partially improvised trombone concerto for Jess Bull Anderson

charms, trinkets, and offerings [working title] - string quartet

Glitter on the pavement - flute, Bb clarinet, percussion, piano, violin, cello, and electronics - commissioned by soundSCAPE

O great pachinko machine in the sky, what wonders do you have for me today? - piano and electronics - commissioned by Ilayda Deniz Oğuz

made for breaking (NOT slicing) - contrabass recorder and electronics - commissioned by Larli Davies

The vanishing point - soprano, stroh violin, trombone, and electronics  | text by Jess Bull Anderson 

Paperflocks - solo percussion and electronics - commissioned by Sophie Stevenson

Tide-rush - orchestra: 2(pic)222(cbn) / 42211 / 2perc / timp / harp / strings

Cello-cello-revolutions - solo cello and electronics - commissioned by Ozgur Kaya

dancing, dreaming, feasting, loving, warring - traverso flute - commissioned by Maria Filippova

2024

The un-annoucement of night - audio-visual work created in collaboration with Eli Barker for the RCM Museum's Facets of Festivity

Lipic: SEQUENCE 09812 - electronics - created for Niko Raic's audiovisual calendar, distributed by the City Museum Czestochowa

Shuck the moon - flute and harp - commissioned by Nika Pinter and Henriette Poos

LACUNA - organ // arr. for string quartet 

Speak gently, tread lightly - SSAA choir

Angels on the beach at night - concerto for recorder and orchestra: 2(pic)222 / 4220 / 2perc / solo recorder / strings - commissioned by Luca Imperiale and the Horsham Symphony Orchestra

Low-poly landscapes - French horn and electronics

Hymn (after de Grigny) - for string quartet

Five glances through glass horses - percussion, harpsichord, and historical strings

Mirabile mysterium - SSATB choir - shortlisted for National Centre for Early Music's Young Composer Award

When I dreamt of rain - recorder and tape loops

2023

O glittering bones, lay to rest - string orchestra

Dropping Pearls in Ponds - for solo piano

2022

Lily, her daughter's hand - solo piano

2021

Lullaby for the Things That Don't Sleep - flute, Bb clarinet, violin, and cello - shortlisted for the Commonwealth International Composition Award

Lakeside Bells - solo piano

 © 2025 Thomas Shorthouse