ContactFor musical enquiries, please contact James directly at: 50c Hunterfield Rd For acting work, please contact his agent: Agent (for Acting)DJW Talent 2 Union Square Darlington Co Durham DL1 1GL Tel: 07855-505551 For music: contact James direct Buy CDsYou can buy three CDs from this website. See the shop page. Children's musicFor an example of children's music, click here ReviewsThe work of someone with a clear vision... very original lyrics... the ideas come thick and fast Out of the bedroom Intelligent, thought-provoking... If we'd known him for the last 20 or 30 years he'd sell bushels of CDs MGCK The revelation was Bryce's music... complex and many-stranded Hi-Arts |
The music of James Bryce
Radio / TV Music
Theatre Music
Film MusicA Right Good DoParpi Films Marvo and DoreenParpi Films Jack and ZackA rather Pinteresque short based on "Jack and Jill went up the hill" Ten MinutesA film based on the actions of three people in the ten minutes leading up to the silence on Remembrance Sunday ManeaterA curious short tale on the theme of "pins in the voodoo doll" in which a woman takes revenge on her wayward lover by baking a cake in his likeness. Compositions: solo worksGilbert's Peace (for piano)
Invisible Waltz (for piano)
Piece for Bass Saxophone (11 mins)Premiered in Edinburgh by Andreas
van Zoelen (2000) and performed by David Brutti at the 2007 Ravenna
Festival in Italy. Bert Finds his Dancing Feet (Almost) (5 mins)For solo saxophone, this work was
premiered 1997 in a version for clarinet by Claire Hollyoake. Performed
several times in the saxophone version by Andreas van Zoelen (tenor
sax) 1999 onwards. Compositions: chamber worksPrayer (for accordion, trumpet and cello)
Welcome! (3mins 45secs) (for Three Wagner Tubas and narrator. Words by Rumi)First performed by Red Note on Noisy Nights at the City Halls, Glasgow 2014. In Memoriam, J (3mins) (for 2 Cellos and Kurzweil synthesizer)First performed by Red Note on Noisy Nights at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, 2014. Triumphal March (Nearly) (for trombone, electric guitar and drumkit)First performed by Red Note on Noisy Nights at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, 2013. She waits in whispers (5 mins) (for alto flute, viola, and contrabass)First performed by Red Note on Noisy Nights at the City Halls Glasgow, 2013. Performed by Richard and Ruth Beauchamp and Robin Mason at The Scottish Storytelling Centre, 2015, in a version for piano and two cellos The Twisted Ladder (for trumpet, flute and cello: 4 mins 30 secs)First performed by Red Note on Noisy Nights at the Travers Theatre, 2013.
* (5 mins) (for bass saxophone and piano)
Invocation (5 mins) (for freebass accordion, violin, cello and tapes)First performed by Red Note on Noisy Nights, Traverse Theatre, 2012 Fragment (4 mins) (for three cellos)First performed on Noisy Nights
at the Traverse Theatre, 2011
The Octave (5 mins)(for electric guitar, electric violin and electric cello)First performed on Noisy Nights
at the Traverse Theatre, 2011
La Muerta (5 mins)A tango, first performed 2003 by Tango Volcano Little Suite for Three Players (9 mins)For piano, cello and lead instrument. Premiered 2000 by Alex and Hesther Owen-Hill and James Hill. Note: this piece is suitable for Grade 3 players and aboves Perpetuum Mobile (3 mins)For eight handbell players. Three DaysFor bass saxophone and cor anglais. Not Yet (5 mins)Aleatoric piece for speaking voice and ensemble. Premiered at the Caithness summer School 1999 Quintette (15 mins)For wind quintet. Prayer for the Living (4 mins)For sprechstimme and four trombones, this piece was premiered in Aberystwyth in 1997 Cloud Dance (5 mins)For string quartet and two wind instruments Compositions: orchestral worksBert goes to the Funfair (20 mins)For orchestra. Premiered at the Canongate Kirk, Edinburgh, March 17th 2013. Fantasia on London Themes - version for orchestraJames's arrangement of London street songs was premiered by the Open Orchestra in March 2017. Compositions: brass bandFantasia on London Themes (10 mins)James's brass band arrangement of London street songs was performed by the The Edinburgh Brass Band on 21st April 2018. Compositions: choralFour Odes After Rumi (16 mins)For two choirs and three
trombones. Ode No. 1 was premiered by the Maesbury singers 2000 in a
version for solo choir and three trombones (SPNM shortlisted work -
2002/2003). Compositions: solo song settingsWill ye go to the Indies, My MaryWords: Burns |