Opera / Ballet / Dance
OPERA THEATRE · 2028 · IN DEVELOPMENT
For soprano, tenor, piano, viola and two dancers
Two parents create a puppet show for their child in a war-torn city, using imagination and storytelling to make sense of the world around them.
Empire (OF MY BLOOD)
BALLET · 2026 · 60’
For orchestra, synth and electronics
An original dance work created with choreographer Nicola Wills for Origen Festival, Switzerland.
For 4 celli, percussion, and piano
BALLET · 2026 · 10’
For string orchestra
Original music for a ballet by Nicola Wills, created for Ballet Schwerin's Connection 5 Gala.
DANCE THEATRE · 2026 · 9’
For Bb clarinet, drum kit, and electronics (playback)
Music for a dance work by John-William Watson for English National Ballet Youth. Written in two versions: clarinet and percussion, and solo clarinet.
Music for a production by choreographer Joshua Junker for Dutch National Ballet's Junior Company. Includes Sich and Soir Embrumé.
BALLET · 2026 · 15’
312
DANCE · 2025 · 10’
Sound Design
Original music for a dance work by Oscar Ramos for DanceWorks Chicago.
BALLET-THEATRE · 2025 · 60’
For strings, voice, organ, accordion, synthesizer and electronics
A dance work created with Nicola Wills for Origen Festival, Switzerland. A surreal psychodrama exploring adult fear and empathy through time-warped fairy tale dynamics, tracking how childhood fantasy transforms into an adult understanding of the "monsters" within humanity
DANCE THEATRE · 2025 · 30’
For strings, piano, guitar, accordion, voice, and narrator
A surreal dance-theatre work by John-William Watson, created with Sadler's Wells Company of Elders. Set in a doctor's waiting room, the production explores identity, anonymity and human connection through absurdity and movement.
BALLET · 2025 · 20’
For strings, guitar, and electronics
Music for a ballet by choreographer Nicola Wills, created for the National Ballet of Albania.
BALLET · 2025 · 30’
For string quartet, harpsichord, banjo, and sound design
A re-interpretation and composition of Vivalid’s Summer as part of Terminus Modern Ballet Theatre’s Four Seasons programme, with choreographer Shane Urton
For string quartet and harp
BALLET · 2024 · 30’
Original music contributed to a ballet by Nicola Wills for BalletX, presented alongside existing music by Joep Beving.
BALLET · 2024 · 25 ‘
For pre-recorded string quartet, baritone sax, percussion, sound design, and live violin
An original dance work created for Terminus Modern Ballet Theatre in collaboration with Shane Urton, with an additional track re-composed from sketches of Finn Fransen.
DOS
DANCE · 2024 · 25 ‘
For strings, soprano, narrator, piano, percussion, sound design
A dance work created with choreographer Oscar Ramos and Andanza Dance company PR.
DANCE · 2024 · 15 ‘
For solo piano
A dance work created with choreographer Shane Urton for Utah Dance Theatre.
DANCE · 2024 · 25 ‘
For piano trio and sound design
A surreal, sci-fi dark comedy created by John-William Watson, exploring fate, decision-making and the absurdity of corporate life. Originally commissioned by Sadler's Wells in 2022, the production subsequently toured the UK and was restaged by National Dance Company Wales in 2025.
BALLET · 2019‘ · 10’
For electric guitar, cello, and sound design
Choreolab creation of Opera/Ballet Flanders with Daniel Domenech, Joseph Kudra, and Laura Walravens.
BALLET · 2018 · 20’
For cretan lute, violin, percussion, guitar, voices, and sound design
Choreolab creation of Opera/Ballet Flanders with Daniel Domenech.
DANCE THEATRE · 2018 · 40’
For sound design, organ, violin, cello, voice
Created in Troubleyn/Jan Fabre with Lore Borremans (Âmok/Âmok)
Chamber Ensemble
ORDINARY MEN
CHAMBER ENSEMBLE · 2028 · IN DEVELOPMENT
Mezzo-soprano, Great Highland bagpipes, flute, clarinet, viola, cello, piano, percussion and electronics.
A new work created in response to Wim Henderickx's Atlantic Wall, exploring the relationship between ordinary life, violence and memory.
Commissioned by HERMESensemble
PIANO FOUR HANDS · 2027 · 20’
Two pianists on the same piano
A six-movement sonata reflecting on home and the different lives we might have lived, written for Michelle Lynne and Dimitri Malignan.
With support of the Canada Council for the Arts
CELLO DUET · 2025 · ca. 4’
Two cellos
A short work for two cellos, commissioned and recorded by India Gailey and Leah Plave on their album The Way Appears (Redshift Records, 2026).
DUETS FOR VIOLIN
PRÉLUDE
VIOLIN DUET · 2023 · ca. 20’
Two violins
A collection of 23 violin duets drawing on Balkan musical traditions
MLADOST IV
VIOLIN SONATA · 2023 · ca. 4’
Violin and piano
A short work for violin and piano, performed by Nicolas Dupont and Olga Kirpicheva.
CHAMBER MUSIC · 2019 · ca. 4’
Guitar duet
A short duet inspired by the district Mladost IV of Sofia, Bulgaria.
THE RE-ENCHANTMENT OF EVERYDAY LIFE
CHAMBER MUSIC · 2019 · ca. 20’
Soprano, clarinet, piano, violin, cello, djura gaida (Bulgarian bagpipe)
A chamber work combining Western classical instrumentation with the Bulgarian bagpipe and Eastern European musical traditions. Created for Est-Ouest with the support of the Canada Council for the Arts.
CHAMBER MUSIC · 2019 · ca. 7’
Flute, Bb Clarinet, piano, violin, cello
Composed for ‘the new what now’
Orchestra
EST-OUEST II
CONCERTO · 2028 · IN DEVELOPMENT
Concerto for clarinet, piano violin, cello, and string orchestra
Composed with the support of the Canada Council for the Arts
STRING ORCHESTRA · 2026 · 10’
Composed for Nicola Wills’ creation for Ballet Schwerin
CONCERTO FOR VAGABONDS AND ORCHESTRA
Clarinet, piano, violin, cello and orchestra
CONCERTO · 2018 · ca. 4’
Composed for Antwerp Symphony Orchestra as part of SoundMine
OHNE FURCHT
STRING ORCHESTRA · 2012 · ca. 4’
A short work for strings.
Solo
NEREIDES
SOLO PIANO · 2026 · ca. 4’
A solo piano work composed for Michelle Lynne, released on the album TIDES
Commissioned with support of the Canada Council for the Arts
SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT
SOLO CLARINET Bb · 2026 · ca. 8’
The solo clarinet version of SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT, originally composed for the English National Ballet Youth Company
IXELLES
SOLO PIANO · 2025 · ca. 43’
Solo piano work commissioned by Elias Decourty
SOIR EMBRUMÉ
PUPO
SOLO PIANO · 2025 · ca. 5’
Extended solo piano version of Soir Embrumé, originally composed for the Dutch National Ballet Junior Company & “You Do Not Have To Be Good” choreographed by Joshua Junker
DORNEI
SOLO PIANO · 2023 · ca. 20’
The piano basis for the opera-theatre work PUPO. Composed originally as this sonata for French pianist Dimitri Malignan and released on the album TIDES
SOLO PIANO · 2024 · ca. 12’
Composed for Radu Szekely and those of the confederacy of the humble.
BALLADE
VIOLIN SUITE NO. 1 ‘ZSOFIA’
SOLO CELLO · 2019 · ca. 5’
A solo cello work composed as part of the work contr (a / o) vers (e / u) s
SOLO VIOLIN · 2018 · ca. 20’
A five-movement work for solo violin
LIFE
SOLO GUITAR · 2015 · ca. 8’
A solo guitar work for alternate tuning
Sweetspot with Shane Urton - RDT Utah.
“Sie geht ein organisches Ganzes ein mit der kongenialen Komposition von Adam Vincent Clarke.”
Solo One
PUPO Movement VI performed by Dimitri Malignan
Prélude
Two People in Love Never Shake Hands - BalletX & Nicola Wills