I am a British composer, artist and guitarist working with video, photography, field recording and acoustic instruments. I use various analogue and digital technologies to create experimental audiovisual works.
In 2016 I completed a masters in music composition at the Royal College of Music, studying with Jonathan Cole, Simon Holt and Gilbert Nouno.
Cloud Study 1 (Haarmonica) - video projection and sound (flexible duration) 2025
a field of shells and bone - video projection and sound (flexible duration) 2024
after O'Hara - video projection and sound (flexible duration) 2024
the shew-stone and the measuring-organ - video projection and sound (35') 2023
Antes - wind (0.2.2.2), percussion (crotales), piano, strings (8’) 2023
Earth Diver - Organ and Orchestra (3.3.3.3 4.3.3.1 14.12.10.8.6) (25’) 2022
Haar - String Orchestra (20’) 2022
Trickster - Orchestra (3.3.3.3. 4.3.3.1 timp, 1perc 16.0.12.10.8) (18’) 2022
Fantasie en double - Violin (6’) 2022
Organ Book - Solo Organ (25') 2022
Net - Tenor, Trumpet and String Trio (4’) 2021: A setting of Larissa Reid’s poem ‘Net’ composed for the George Mackay Brown Fellowship and Orkney Camerata for their Words into Music collaboration. Performed by Paul Rendall tenor, Brian Jones trumpet, Lesley Macleod violin, Lynn Procter viola and Valerie Webster cello in St Magnus Cathedral, Kirkwall, Orkney, 23 May 2022.
Intervolve - 16 voices (4S,4A,4T,4B) (16.5’) 2021
Blue Shift - Harpsichord (8.5’) 2021
Cernunnos - Clarinet and Guitar (8.5’) 2021
Five Short Solos - Guitar (18') 2021
Translations - Orchestra (2.2.2.2. 4.2.2.1. 2hp 14.0.12.10.8) (13') 2020
Piano Book 1 - Solo Piano (37') 2020: Fulcrum was performed by Jonathan Powell at the Cello Factory, London, as part of the London Ear Festival, March 2018.
andar por los cerros de Úbeda - Wind Quintet (7’) 2019
On the Shadows of Ideas - Brass Quintet (10') 2019
Guitar Duo - (8.5') 2019
Innig - String Quartet (23') 2019
After Rauschenberg - String Quartet (8') 2018
Ricercare - String Quartet (8') 2018
Red Meander - Flute and Piano (8’) 2018
Prosodion - Septet (7’) 2017
Harlequin and Pierrot - Two Guitars (16’) 2017
Copyright © Ian Richard Murray 2025
