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Compositions

  • Vocal Pieces
  • Solo Instrumental
  • Duets
  • Chamber Orchestra
  • String Orchestra

Vocal Pieces


Codex
Duration: 5:54
Instrumentation: alto, guitar, clarinet
Words and Music by: John Summers
Fetch
Instrumentation​: alto and string quartet
Words by: Dilys Rose
​Music by: John Summers
Hearts must Answer
Duration: 5:01
Instrumentation: SSAATTBB a capella
Intimations of Immortality
Words from ​William Wordsworth's "Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood"
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Duration: 9:52
Instrumentation: mezzo, oboe, clarinet, cello
Obituary
Duration: 6:47
Instrumentation: SSA
Words by: Dilys Rose
Music by:
John Summers
Raison d'Etre
Song cycle in 4 movements
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Instrumentation: soprano, string quartet
Words and Music by: John Summers​
The Fourth Way 
Song cycle in 4 movements
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​Instrumentation: SATB, oboe, bassoon​
Words and Music by: John Summers
The Other Love
Instrumentation: SATB
Vigilance
Traditional
Music by​: John Summers

Solo Instrumental


Solo Violin II
Instrumentation​: violin
Score: View Score
Moderato for solo cello
Duration: 9:04
Instrumentation​: cello
Score: View Score
Ancona for Solo Guitar
Instrumentation​: guitar
​Score: View Score
Melbourne Suite
4-movement suite
Instrumentation​: guitar
Preludes 1-5
Instrumentation​: guitar
Waltz in Bb
Instrumentation​: guitar
Solo Violin Prelude
Duration: 5:54
​Instrumentation​: violin

Duets


Piece for Violin and Cello
Duration: 5:11
Instrumentation​: violin and cello
Guitar Duet Prelude 5
Instrumentation​: two guitars
Score: View Score
Ancona Suite
3-movement suite
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Instrumentation​: guitar and oboe

Chamber Orchestra


City Poem
Duration: 7:08
​Instrumentation: string quartet​
Score:  View Score
Madonna of the Springbrook Rain
 A great poem by Sylvana Gardner - a visual artist and poet of  equal measures - was pleading to be set to music. Apparently her son had the same idea, but  before me. I have yet to hear his version. 
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Instrumentation: chamber orchestra and SATB
Words by: Sylvana Gardner
Music by​: John Summers
Score: 1st Mvt, 2nd Mvt, 3rd Mvt, 4th Mvt
String Quartet
3-movement suite
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Instrumentation: string quartet​
​Score:  View Score
Recordings: Playing on the Edge 2  (2020, Navona Records)

String Orchestra


Moderato for String Orchestra
Instrumentation: string orchestra
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