The Southwark Consorts of Winds

Invitation to composers and arrangers

We welcome approaches from composers and arrangers, because we are always looking for more music. We would be please to hear from:

Composers of contemporary music who would like to write us a new piece, or arrange a piece of theirs, for our
Ancient and Modern Consort
Arrangers who would like to adapt a piece of music from the thirteenth to the early eighteenth century for our
Ancient and Modern Consort
Arrangers who would like to adapt a piece of clasical music to suit the players we have available in our Classical Consort
Arrangers who would like to write a new piece, or adapt a piece of clasical music for our Clarinet Consort

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The Ancient and Modern Consort

This Consort has a fixed instrumental line up. It plays newly commissioned music and arrangements of ancient music - from the baroque, renaissance, and mediaeval periods.

The instrumentation is:

flute
oboe
clarinet
alto sax
clarinet doubling bass clarinet
bassoon
trumpet
horn
trombone

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The Classical Consort

This Consort plays classical wind serenades, suites, and similar music written from the eighteenth century through to the twentieth. So far the Consort has played octet music, but flutes are also available. The total instrumentation is:

flute (1 or 2)
2 oboes
2 clarinets
2 bassoons
2 horns

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The Clarinet Consort

This is a standard clarinet choir, in our case with one instrument per line. The total instrumentation is:

Eb clarinet, doubling Bb
1st Bb clarinet
2nd bb clarinet
3rd Bb clarinet
Eb Alto clarinet, doubling as Bb clarinet - alternative transpositions of parts needed since we may not have an Alto available
Bb Bass clarinet
Bb Contra Bass clarinet

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