Clowes writes extensively for small band contexts – see MY IRIS | Videos | Recordings – and in addition she has written for orchestra, big band, and chamber music line-ups. Works include:
All Things Arboreal Riot Ensemble (2025)
for cello and double bass
Generously supported by the Vaughan Williams Foundation
Premiered by Louise McMonagle & Marianne Schofield in October 2025, at the Listen! concert series in Cambridge
Radiant Resistance NDR Big Band (2024)
Project for Big Band and Tenor Saxophone, piece titles: Radiant Resistance, Like Trees, Another One (for Wayne), Token, Into the Air, A Song for the Sea, For The Surrealists
Carousel Trees London Sinfonietta (2022)
for voice, saxophone, piano, bass, drums, trumpet, bass clarinet, alto flute, violin & cello
Carousel Trees is a kind of ‘found poem’, drawing on material from the song ‘I’ll be seeing you’ – music and lyrics by Sammy Fain and Irving Kahal respectively. It was premiered on November 18th 2022 at the Purcell Room, Southbank Centre, London
The Historian Orchestra of the Swan (2022)
for tenor saxophone & chamber orchestra
premiered on April 26th 2022 in Stratford-Upon-Avon by Clowes and the Orchestra of the Swan, conducted by Michael Collins
Bounce (2021)
for tenor saxophone & strings
recorded with Orchestra of the Swan, appears on their album ‘Labyrinths’ (2021)
The Mighty Pen London Sinfonietta (2020)
for solo soprano saxophone, a Community Commission inspired by members of We Are Ageing Better St Pancras and Somerstown
Listen/watch on YouTube
Round By The Ness for Louise McMonagle (2020)
for solo cello
Sheet music (pdf file) available to purchase on Bandcamp
Earworm BBC Radio 3 (2020)
for solo violin, a miniature for BBC Postcards from Composers
Alison Architecture of Autonomy (2020)
for saxophone & piano/organ, music for film/dance
Three Rhythmic Vehicles for Colour London Sinfonietta (2020)
for school orchestra, reworking/orchestration of material provided by primary school pupils for Sound Out
Hero London Sinfonietta (2019)
for solo double bass, a Sinfonietta Short
The YouTube video below includes a performance by Enno Senft, from about 12 minutes in
A walk in the park – or so they say London Sinfonietta (2019)
for school orchestra, reworking/orchestration of material provided by secondary school pupils for Sound Out
Loujean & Lucy BBC Radio 3 commission (2017)
for orchestra, saxophone & piano
The Mighty Pencil Onyx Brass commission (2015)
for brass quintet, c. 4.13 duration
appears on ‘Onyx Noir’, NMC Recordings (2018)
Buy the sheet music from Onyx Brass Publishing
The Fox, the Parakeet & the Chestnut BBC Radio 3 commission (2014)
for orchestra and jazz quintet
Winner of a BASCA British Composer Award, 2015
Under Your Wing (2014)
for voice, saxophone, guitar, bass, drums & string quartet
(lyrics Mike Walker)
Chorale (2014)
for orchestra and jazz quintet
recorded with the BBC Concert Orchestra and released on Clowes’s album ‘Pocket Compass’ (Basho Records, 2014)
Balloon (2014)
for orchestra and jazz quintet
recorded with the BBC Concert Orchestra and released on Clowes’s album ‘Pocket Compass’ (Basho Records, 2014)
Radiation (2014)
for orchestra and jazz quintet
recorded with the BBC Concert Orchestra and released on Clowes’s album ‘Pocket Compass’ (Basho Records, 2014)
Iris Nonet (2011)
for jazz quintet & string quartet
Shortlisted for a BASCA British Composer Award, 2013
Released on Clowes’s ‘In The Nighttime She Is There’ (Basho Records, 2012)
The Musician’s Guide to the Galaxy (2006)
for narrator, string quartet, jazz quintet, percussion, woodwind quartet
