Compositions
Opera and music-theatre
Composition date: 2020
Text: the composer
Instrumentation: mezzo-soprano, bass-clarinet (doubling Bb), bassoon, cello
Length: 25 minutes
Composition date: 2018
Text: the composer
Instrumentation: six voices (sss,t,bar, bs) + flt, bsn, kbd, pno, vln, vlc, bass
Length: 75 minutes
Composition date: 1991
Text: April de Angelis
Instrumentation: mezzo-soprano, piano
Length: 7 minutes
Composition date: 2005
Text: Libretto by the composer
Instrumentation: Five singers with electroacoustic music and video
Length: 85 minutes
Composition date: 2009
Text: Words from the Hebrew Bible (The Book of Lamentations)
Instrumentation: solo soprano, electronics
Length: 30 minutes
Composition date: in progress
Text: Fraser Grace
Instrumentation: 8 voices (S, S, MS, CT, T, 2bar, b-bar). clt, vlc, perc, 3 keyboard, electronics
Length: 90 minutes (two acts)
Funding credit: Arts Council of England
Ensemble with electronics / computer
Composition date: 1989
Instrumentation: flute, cello, piano, electronics
Length: 8 minutes
Composition date: 1991
Instrumentation: violin, marimba and electronics
Length: 13 minutes
Composition date: 1997
Instrumentation: flt, ob, clt, trpt, hn, trbn, kbd, pno, vln, vlc, bs, sampler, electronics
Length: 21 minutes
Solo Instrument with electronics / computer
Composition date: 2002
Instrumentation: keyboard-synthesiser and sampler
Length: 16 minutes
Composition date: 2003
Instrumentation: soprano saxophone and electronics
Length: 16 minutes
Composition date: 2013
Instrumentation: cello with surround-sound electronics
Length: 14 minutes
Instrumental - solo and ensemble
Composition date: 2020
Instrumentation: seven players: flute, diduk, bass-clarinet, marimba, harp, violin, cello
Length: 8 minutes
Composition date: 2002
Instrumentation: (double) string orchestra
Length: about 25 minutes
Composition date: 2010
Instrumentation: flt, clt, perc, pno, vln, vlc.
Length: 16 minutes
Audio pieces and Compositions for tape / computer only
Composition date: 2004
Instrumentation: surround-sound installation piece
Length: 7 minutes
Solo Vocal Music
Composition date: 2021
Text: based on poems by Susan Barba
Instrumentation: soprano and piano
Length: 15 minutes
Composition date: 2020
Text: Leopardi Canto 36 (Scherzo) and 35 (Imitazione)
Instrumentation: soprano and piano
Length: 7 minutes
Composition date: 2019
Text: John Donne from An Anatomy of the World
Instrumentation: solo soprano, two trumpets, strings
Length: 9 minutes
Composition date: 2015
Text: Words from the Hebrew Bible (The Book of Samuel)
Instrumentation: countertenor and electronics
Length: 7 minutes
Composition date: 2016
Text: Words from the Findern Manuscript
Instrumentation: solo mezzo-soprano
Length: 5 minutes
Composition date: 2018
Text: Anonymous
Instrumentation: three female voices (S S M-S)
Length: 5 minutes
Composition date: 1989
Text: Georg Heym
Instrumentation: mezzo-soprano and piano
Length: 12 minutes
Composition date: 1998
Credit: Words by Primo Levi (trns?) Music A.C. Lovett
Instrumentation: soprano and piano ( with an optional introduction and coda for trumpet and piano)
Length: 25 minutes (30 minutes with introduction and coda)
Composition date: 2008
Credit: words Miroslav Holub, translated by Ewald Ewers and David Young, Music by A.C. Lovett
Instrumentation: mezzo-soprano and piano
Length: 12 minutes
Choral Music
Composition date: 2004
Text: Shakespeare Sonnet 116
Instrumentation: satb choir
Length: 7 minutes
Theatre (selected)
2008 CORRESPONDENCE (Menagerie)
2005 GAUGLEPRIXTOWN (Menagerie)
2004 TWO INTO WAR (Menagerie)
2004 HOTBED FESTIVAL (Menagerie)
2003 THE WAR MONOLOGUES (Menagerie)
2001 MICHELLE AND THE LANDLADY (Menagerie)
2000 MACBETH (Headway)
2000 THE YELLOW BOAT (Menagerie / Cambridge Drama Centre)
2000 WORKING TOGETHER Dance project with the Medici String Quartet
2000 BENEATH THE SURFACE Community Theatre project (Classworks Theatre Company)
1999 VISIONS IN A DREAM Community Theatre Project (Coleridge Theatre Group)
1998 THE LION IN JUDAH Community Theatre Project (Cambridge Community Theatre)
1995 THE DEATH OF IVAN ILLYICH (Cambridge Experimental Theatre
1995 BIRDS (ARISTOPHANES) (The Cambridge Greek Play)
1994 COMPLEX (Watson and Co)
1992 HOW FAR CAN YOU GO? (Watson and Co)
1992 JUSTIFIED (Entourage)
1992 HIPPOLYTUS The Cambridge Greek Play
1991 REFLECTIONS (Watson and Co)
1991 SOMETHING WICKED (Glance Askance)
Film, TV, moving image (selected)
2012 CROSSING POINTS (Lucy Harris)
2011 WRECKERS (Dictynna Hood)
2008 MARGARET MELLIS: A LIFE IN COLOUR (Sue Giovanni)
2004 THE CORRIDOR drama (Zoe Neirizi)
1999 CAMBRIDGE FUTURES documentary (Metaphorm)
1995 SMALL WAR drama (Dictynna Hood for Channel 4)
1993 ENCOUNTER drama ( Andrew Bampfield)
1992 A DIPLOMAT IN JAPAN documentary (Christopher Ralling BBC 2, Timewatch)
1992 THE TAMING OF THE SHREW drama (Dictynna Hood)