Samantha Fernando Composer
Compositions & Recordings

Works & Media

Full repertoire categorised by instrumentation and scale.

2025 Orchestral 5 mins

Exoplanets: TRAPPIST-1e

Orchestra

Commission City of London Sinfonia and curious directive

Premiere Norwich Theatre Royal, 2025 (Naomi Woo). Hackney Empire, 2026 (Micah Gleason)

2025 Large Ensemble 27 mins

Wintering

SATB + string quartet

Commission Wigmore Hall

Premiere Manchester Collective & The Marian Consort

2023 Solo & Chamber 8 mins

Balconies

Solo violin (multi-tracked or ensemble of 5 violins)

Commission Olivia de Prato, for the Panorama album

New Focus Recordings (2023)

2023 Large Ensemble 12 mins

Sound Inhabitants

15 players (fl, cl, ob, bsn, hn, tpt, trb, perc, hp, pno, 2vlns, vla, vc, db)

Commission London Sinfonietta

Premiere Purcell Room, Southbank Centre

2022 Large Ensemble 15 mins

Breathing Forest

Solo soprano, strings and percussion

Commission Birmingham Contemporary Music Group (BCMG) & Anna Dennis

2022 Opera & Stage 50 mins

glass human

3 singers, 5 players & electronics

Commission Glyndebourne

Premiere Glyndebourne

Chamber opera created with Melanie Wilson

2021 Solo & Chamber 6 mins

4 Klee Miniatures

Solo horn

Commission Deepa Goonetilleke

2021 Opera & Stage 15 mins

Current, Rising

Soprano, ensemble, electronics

Commission Royal Opera House & Figment Productions

Hyper-reality opera experience

2021 Vocal & Choral 7 mins

Everything Passes, Everything is Connected

Unaccompanied choir

Commission The Crossing (USA)

Premiere The Crossing (USA)

2020 Vocal & Choral 6 mins

Have It All

Unaccompanied choir

Commission BBC Singers

Broadcast on BBC Radio 3

2019 Orchestral 12 mins

Breathing Space

Symphony orchestra

Commission Philharmonia Orchestra

Conducted by Martyn Brabbins

2018 Orchestral 14 mins

Echo of a Woman

Soprano and orchestra

Commission Royal Holloway University Symphony Orchestra

2018 Large Ensemble 10 mins

Formations

15 players

Commission London Sinfonietta 50th anniversary

Premiere Royal Festival Hall, conducted by Vladimir Jurowski

2018 Vocal & Choral 9 mins

The Way Home

Soprano, cello & piano

Commission Kettle's Yard

Premiere June 2018

2016 Vocal & Choral 7 mins

Sissay Settings

Soprano and piano

Commission York Late Music

Settings of poetry by Lemn Sissay

2015 Solo & Chamber 6 mins

Fault-Line

Solo cello

Commission London Sinfonietta

Premiere Peckham Asylum (June 2015)

2014 Vocal & Choral 11 mins

3 Songs for Soprano and Cello

Soprano and cello

Recorded and released by Riot Ensemble (Sarah Dacey & Louise McMonagle, 2020)

2014 Vocal & Choral 5 mins

Ganymede

Tenor and piano

Commission Oxford Lieder Festival

Associated venue: Holywell Music Room

2014 Vocal & Choral 12 mins

Look Up

4 voices, bass viol & electronics

Commission LOD Music Theatre & Silbersee vocal ensemble (Ghent)

2013 Solo & Chamber 6 mins

Kinesphere

Solo flute

Commission London Sinfonietta

Premiere Purcell Room

Released on NMC Recordings

2013 Large Ensemble 8 mins

Positive/Negative Space

Flute, clarinet, alto saxophone & cello

Premiere London Sinfonietta at Purcell Room, Southbank Centre

RPS Composition Prize commission

2013 Vocal & Choral 4 mins

Square of Light

Soprano and piano

Chamber vocal settings

2012 Solo & Chamber 8 mins

4 Illuminations

Saxophone quartet

Premiere Royaumont Abbey, France, by the Xasax Quartet