Confetti Dirge - solo cello for Ozgur Kaya - late 2025
The Tarmac Lamb - solo viola for Declan Wicks, co-composed with Molly Frances Arnuk - late 2025
Untitled work - for the Figura Singers (late 2025/early 2026) - new text by Dylan Bradbury
Untitled work - percussion, string quartet, and electronics for Amiel Ang (early 2026)
charms, trinkets, and offerings - string quartet - commissioned by the Jasmine Quartet
And if ever I return again it will be in spring - solo violin and live electronics - commissioned by the Deleuze New Music Collective
Untitled Ballgame - cello, harp, ping-pong, and live electronics - co-composed with Ivy Fu
Mountains - an audio-visual installation in collaboration with members of the RCM Electronica Society & the Grantham Institute for their Music of the Earth project
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 fixed electronics - commissioned by İlayda 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 fixed electronics - commissioned by Ozgur Kaya
dancing, dreaming, feasting, loving, warring - solo traverso flute - commissioned by Maria Filippova
2024
The un-announcement of night - audiovisual work created in collaboration with Eli Barker for the RCM Museum's Facets of Festivity
Stitched in Sound: an electronic tapestry - a co-composed multi-media piece created by members of the RCM Electronic Society, and visual artists Charles Ryan Becker and Julia Mazur
Lipiec: SEQUENCE 09812 - electronics - created for Niko Raic's audiovisual calendar, distributed by the City Museum Czestochowa
Shuck the moon - flute and harp - commissioned by Duo Enchantée
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) - string quartet
Five glances through glass horses - percussion, harpsichord, and historical strings - written for the Something Old from Something New collaboration between the RCM Wolfson Centre and RCM composers
Mirabile mysterium - SSATB choir - shortlisted for National Centre for Early Music's Young Composer Award
When I dreamt of rain - recorder and tape loops - for Luca Imperiale in the Consort 21 RCM project
2023
O glittering bones, lay to rest - string orchestra
Dropping Pearls in Ponds - solo piano
2022
Lily, her daughter's hand - solo piano - for the collaboration between HeadOn Photo Festival and the RCM; based on a photo by Amy Woodward
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