Louise Drewett

Daylighting (2022)

A 40-minute community opera, with a libretto by Clare Shaw, commissioned for the Royal Academy of Music’s 200th Anniversary.
Premiered in the Susie Sainsbury Theatre in February 2022, with four performances directed by Hazel Gould and conducted by Otis Enikodo-Lineham. Featuring 105 children from local primary schools – Netley, and St Albans CE – coached by Suzi Zumpe, alongside Academy soloists and instrumentalists.

The piece was nominated for an Ivor Novello Award in the Community & Participation category at the Ivors Composer Awards 2022.

Read a review of the premiere here.

Rowing Tune (2022)
For solo cello

Part of a set of variations on Benjamin Britten’s ‘Tema’, written and recorded in collaboration with cellist Amy Jolly.

Return to Kintail (2021/2022) 

Commissioned by St Luke’s Music Society and premiered in St Luke’s Church, Battersea, in June 2021, performed by Anna Harvey (mezzo-soprano), Katy Hill (soprano), Samuel Staples (violin), Chris Hill (double bass) and Anna Tilbrook (piano).

Recorded in concert in June 2022, in an alternative arrangement performed by Lotte Betts-Dean (mezzo-soprano), LeOui Rendsburg (soprano), Eva Richards (cello), Eleanor Grant (double bass) and Kari Novilla (harp).

Tree of Hundreds (2020)
For solo guitar

Commissioned by the International Guitar Foundation in 2020.
Premiered by guitarist Pavel Ralev in October 2020 at Kings Place, London.

Pizzica (2020)
For solo harp

Commissioned by the Royal Academy of Music for ‘200 Pieces’.
Premiered by Bianca Beng in November 2020 at the Royal Academy of Music.

Quiver (2018)
for string quartet

Written for the Echéa Quartet, inspired by a series of paintings by Bridget Riley of the same name.
Recorded for ‘Strings in the Earth and Air’ at St John’s College, Cambridge, in July 2021.

Stairway (2018)
A 20-minute site-specific choral piece developed with and premiered by Sing Healthy choir members.

Video shot and edited by Thom Seaman, capturing the piece’s premiere in November 2018 at SPACED festival, at the Royal Academy of Music.

Read an interview about the piece on The Sampler.

Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right (2019)

Choral arrangement written for The Civil Service Choir, dedicated to Jeremy Heywood (1961–2018), and premiered at the 2019 Civil Service Awards.
Virtual performance of the arrangement released in June 2020.

Black Lagoon (2020)
For solo piano

Written in April 2020 for the first volume of Twenty, a collection of solo pieces suitable for pianists of all levels, free to download and play at home, with proceeds going to the WHO COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund.