Please see below for a list of selected works. Click on a title for a link to a recording where available. The Seven Arches and The Oxen are published by Stainer & Bell. Most other works are available from Composers Edition Reference copies of Walpurghis Night and Susurrus are kept in the Sound and Music archives. For all other works please contact the composer directly at richard.bullen@gmail.com
Orchestra
Visioni Simultanee (2014)
2.2.2.2./4.3.3./Timp./Strings
Commissioned by the Finchley Chamber Orchestra
Shortlisted for a 2015 BASCA British Composer Award
Large Ensemble
Steradian (2014)
12 Trombones, 12 torch beams and dark space
Scenes from a Tragedy (2013)
Solo Trumpet, percussion, piano, harp, string quintet (amplified)
Commissioned by the London Symphony Orchestra Chamber Ensemble
I can't find brumm... (2010)
fretted orchestra
Winner of the 2011 BASCA British Composer Award 'Making Music' category
Firewire (2009)
Flute, Clarinet, Horn, Trumpet, Trombone, Percussion, Piano, Bass
Winner of the 2009 Alan Bush Composition Prize
Walpurghis Night (2007)
1.1.1.1./1.1.1./Hp Pf 2perc 1.1.1.1.1.
Premiered by Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, conducted Ryan Wigglesworth
Winner of the 2006 University of Birmingham COMPASS prize
Small Ensemble
Garden of Forking Paths (2012)
Bass Clarinet, B flat Clarinet and E flat Clarinet
Written for the London Symphony Orchestra Soundhub scheme
Night Circus (2009)
Flute, Clarinet, Harp and Cello
Performed by the London Sinfonietta, Purcell Room, Southbank Centre
Solo / Duo
Hikinuki (2015)
Clarinet
Commissioned and premiered by Anna Hashimoto, St John's Smith Square young artist
Hanamichi (2014)
Clarinet, CD and large building
Commissioned and premiered by Anna Hashimoto, Tokyo City Opera Recital Hall, Japan
Theatre of Resonance (2013)
Piano and video
Premiered by Christina McMaster, Royal Academy of Music, London
Rite (2011)
Viola
Comissioned and premiered by Diana Mathews, St John's Church, Wimbledon
Effaced (2009)
Violin and piano
Commissioned for the Mayor of London's Cultural Festival 2009
Ambuscade (2009)
Soprano Saxophone
Recorded by Joel Garthwaite on www.compositiontoday.com
Choral
The Oxen (2016)
SATB unaccompanied (with divisions). Text: Thomas Hardy
UK premiere by St Paul's Cathedral Choir, cond. Andrew Carwood
Published by Stainer & Bell Ltd
The Seven Arches (2013)
SATB unaccompanied (with divisions). Text: Steve Willey
Premiered by the Finchley Chamber Choir
Published by Stainer & Bell Ltd
Vocal / Theatrical
Dividuels (2013)
Onstage singer and violin, and offstage violin and singer. Text: Lydia White
Commissioned and premiered by Cevanne, Handel House Museum composer-in-residence
The House of Asteria (2013)
Mezzo Soprano, eight clarinets, eight strings, video, large building
Written during the London Symphony Orchestra Soundhub Residency
Premiered by Lore Lixenberg and musicians from the Royal Academy of Music
Susurrus (2006)
12 concealed voices in audience
Educational
Elemental Songs and Dances (2013)
Baritone, ensemble and 120 school children
Commissioned by Spitalfields Music and Open Academy
Nominated for a BASCA British Composer Award 2013 'Education / Community'
Elemental Songs and Dances, Duke's Hall, The Royal Academy of Music