John Kefala-Kerr » Ensemble & Orchestral http://johnkefalakerr.com Wed, 31 Dec 2025 05:44:31 +0000 en hourly 1 The Outsider http://johnkefalakerr.com/the-outsider http://johnkefalakerr.com/the-outsider#comments Sun, 03 Jan 2021 17:13:44 +0000 JKK http://johnkefalakerr.com/?p=3475

Description

“Apparently we have nine lives? You only one. Be good to it. Treat it kindly.”

The Outsider was commissioned by Skipton Camerata for Lockdown Diaries. The text by Kamal Kaan tells the true story of David, a resident of Yorkshire and victim of covid-19. Narrated from the viewpoint of the deceased’s pet cat, the musical characterisation features a nine-beat dance rhythm (similar to the Greek zeibekiko), a touch of dubstep and a nod in the direction of a certain West End musical.

Duration
6′

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Plea 1

Plea 2

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Title

3 Pleas for Refugees

Description

Work for chamber orchestra, mixed chorus, solo cello, solo violin, digital sampler

Pelion Ensemble & Chorus

Greg Lawson (violin)

Jane MacFarlane (cello)

Duration
15′

]]> http://johnkefalakerr.com/3_pleas/feed 0 Blood Strings http://johnkefalakerr.com/blood-strings http://johnkefalakerr.com/blood-strings#comments Thu, 17 Nov 2016 11:28:34 +0000 JKK http://johnkefalakerr.com/?p=2895

A work for string ensemble that translates my diabetes blood glucose values into musical notes.

]]> http://johnkefalakerr.com/blood-strings/feed 0 Blow the Wind Southerly http://johnkefalakerr.com/blow-the-wind-southerly http://johnkefalakerr.com/blow-the-wind-southerly#comments Tue, 02 Jul 2013 11:35:40 +0000 JKK http://johnkefalakerr.com/?p=2575 A reworking for 6 choirs of the traditional song.
Commissioned by Create: Choral/Festival of the North East

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]]> http://johnkefalakerr.com/blow-the-wind-southerly/feed 0 Logos http://johnkefalakerr.com/logos http://johnkefalakerr.com/logos#comments Fri, 14 Oct 2011 14:23:16 +0000 JKK http://johnkefalakerr.com/?p=2249

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Title
Logos

3 readers, soprano, violin, piano, harp, soundtrack, inkjet printer, sonic greetings cards and ice cream van

Description
Commissioned by Woodhorn Gallery for Turning the Pages — the virtual exhibition of the Lindisfarne Gospels

First Performance
Woodhorn Gallery, Northumberland, 13 September 2001

Talisman Ensemble with Emily Hoyle (harp), Tracey Cadman (soprano), JKK (dir/sound)

Duration
25′

]]> http://johnkefalakerr.com/logos/feed 0 Eikonostasi 7Up http://johnkefalakerr.com/eikonostasi-7up http://johnkefalakerr.com/eikonostasi-7up#comments Mon, 17 Nov 2008 14:24:13 +0000 admin http://johnkefalakerr.com/?p=328 Title
Eikonostasi 7Up

soprano, violin, piano & soundtrack

Description

A work inspired by the roadside Eikonostasia (literally ‘icon-stands’). These shrines, erected to mark the sites of traffic accidents on roads in Greece, are extremely diverse in design, site placement and condition. Bearing testimony to lives lost, many house a small lamp that is fuelled with oil stored in a variety of receptacles. I came across an interesting one with a 7Up bottle inside it and was struck by the dissonant, yet curiously apt, combination of sacred and secular imagery. The shrine depicted here stands on the winding road between my home on Mount Pelion and the Aegean port of Volos.

Eikonostasi 7Up is in 4 movements with a sung text in Greek drawn from a number of sources. The work combines and conflates the autobiographical (parental love and yearning), liturgical (Kyrie Eleison, Doxa en Ipsistis) and metaphysical (brilliant eyes, golden cross, mad blood, bitter heart).

Commissioned by
Queen’s Hall Arts Centre, Hexham.

First Performance
Queen’s Hall Arts Centre, Northumberland, 25 June 1999

Liz Potter (soprano) Geoff Hannan (piano), Emma Welton (violin),

Duration
14′

]]> http://johnkefalakerr.com/eikonostasi-7up/feed 0 String Quartet No.2 http://johnkefalakerr.com/string-quartet-no-2 http://johnkefalakerr.com/string-quartet-no-2#comments Fri, 17 Nov 1995 14:23:10 +0000 admin http://johnkefalakerr.com/?p=326 Title
String Quartet No.2

First Performance
Unperformed

Duration
12′

]]> http://johnkefalakerr.com/string-quartet-no-2/feed 0 Motorola http://johnkefalakerr.com/motorola http://johnkefalakerr.com/motorola#comments Fri, 11 Sep 1992 13:50:40 +0000 admin http://johnkefalakerr.com/?p=96

AUDIO EXTRACT

Title
Motorola

Description
Saxophone quartet

Duration
12′

Commissioned by
Northern Saxophone Quartet

Performances
Teatro Rossini, Pesaro Sept 1992

]]> http://johnkefalakerr.com/motorola/feed 0 Pnoé http://johnkefalakerr.com/348 http://johnkefalakerr.com/348#comments Fri, 29 Nov 1985 11:24:08 +0000 admin http://johnkefalakerr.com/?p=348 Pnoé audio extract

Title
Pnoé

Description
Large chamber ensemble and sound effects.

Duration
11′

First Performance
Guildhall School of Music, May 1985, conductor: Stefan Asbury

]]> http://johnkefalakerr.com/348/feed 0 String Quartet No.1 (Meltemi) http://johnkefalakerr.com/string-quartet-no-1-meltemi http://johnkefalakerr.com/string-quartet-no-1-meltemi#comments Sat, 17 Nov 1984 14:22:06 +0000 admin http://johnkefalakerr.com/?p=324 Title
String Quartet No.1 (Meltemi)

First Performance
Hanson Quartet, Royal Over-Seas League, London, October 1987

Duration
15′

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