List of Works by Gemma McGregor:

Chamber Orchestra:

Legends & Sagas - chamber orchestra (4 wind 2 brass 1 percussion strings, 2023)

Greylighting  (Moderato-Allegro-Adagio-Scherzo) fl, cl, ob, hn, bsn & strings, commissioned and performed by Orkney Camerata (2015)

Bydlo & Tuileries (Mussorgsky) Arranged for orchestra (2015)

Chamber Music: 

Through All the Heavens of Ice - string quartet in three movements, commissioned by Orkney Arts Society and performed by Edinburgh String Quartet (2022)

Ahint Da Wheeshtit Chapel - string quartet (2022)

A Slaughter of Ravens - new arrangement for clarinet & piano, recorded by Tutl records, Faroe Islands (2021) 

On the Trysted Shore - flute & viola, commissioned by Orkney Arts Society (2020)

Carry His Relics - fl & va - commissioned by Nordic Viola (2019)

The Raven Banner - va & pf - commissioned by Nordic Viola (2019)

Dove - Baroque flute - commissioned by Georgia Brown (2019)

Almost the One - fl, ob, cl, bsn, c.bsn, tr, hn, trmb, percussion - commissioned by Sound Festival (2018)

The Enquiry – violin & piano - commissioned  & performed by Illuminate (2018)

Joy – solo violin (or viola) - commissioned  & performed by Illuminate (2018)

Almost White – shakuhachi - commissioned & performed by Illuminate (2019)

Scarvataing – fl/picc. cl/b.cl, vln, vc, pf, percussion (2017)

Betrayal - violin, viola, cello - performed at Dartington Festival (2017)

Strange Fish – solo bassoon - selected for performance at Sound Festival and recorded by Lesley Wilson (2017)

The Lookout Tower – fl, cl, vln, vc, pf, percussion (2016)

A Slaughter of Ravens - alto sax & pf (2015) 

Divisions - string quartet – selected for workshop performance by Edinburgh String Quartet (2014)

Reflections – clarinet, accordion, trombone, double bass - performed by Ensemble Thing at The Arches, Glasgow (2014)

Stormy Weather, Iona – fl & cl – performed at Painting in Sound event at Aberdeen Art Gallery, Sound festival (29.10.13)

Longed For – flute, harp and viola (2013)

Music for Film

Beside the Ocean of Time (2023, Film maker: Mark Jenkins, Artist: Anne Bevan)

Sagas and Seascapes (2021, Documentary by Nordic Viola, Film maker: Craig Sinclair) Available to watch at: www.youtube.com/watch?v=udr7f1vwuXU

Pund (Film maker: Mark Jenkins) Available to watch on Vimeo

Gunnie (Film maker: Mark Jenkins) Available to watch on Vimeo

Multimedia Performance Art

Oceans Shifting Tides (string quartet and narrator) was created in collaboration with poet, Christine De Luca, and commissioned by WayWORD Festival (2023).

Tu Hrafn (cl & loop pedal) & The Blackbird Pageant (va) commissioned by Modern Chants & Sound Festival for the sound walk, The Bard of the Birds (2022)

Drift - soprano & clarinet - collaboration with poet, Haworth Hodgkinson commissioned by Turning the Elements for online broadcast on 26th March 2022.

Stenness at Solstice –  bone flute, viola, bodhran & double bass, artwork by Samantha Gray, performed by The Experimental Music Project  (March, 2020)

Triptych – fl pf cb with live painter Alan Watson (Pier Arts Centre, 2019)

Waveform – flute, double bass, video, water, sculpture, soundtrack & scientist - performed at Pier Arts Centre (2018)

The Fabian Strategy - found sound recording, collaboration with Craig Ellis, Grays School of Art, commissioned by Sound Festival for installation at Gallery17 (2016)

Found – found sound recording for collaboration with sculptor, Craig Ellis at Grays School of Art (2013)

Opera:

The Story of Magnus Erlendsson – opera – soprano, mezzo, alto, boy tenor, 3 tenors, 2 baritones, bass, fl, cl, vln, va, vc, flugelhorn, 2 tenor trombones, organ, cathedral bells, male semi-chorus, SATB chorus – commissioned by St Magnus International Festival (2017)

The Locked Door - chamber opera – mezzo- soprano, alto, baritone, cl, fl, vln, va vc, pf - commissioned by Aberdeen Sound Festival (2015)

Solo Keyboard

Passing Spring - solo piano (2024)

Kali Kolsson's Journey - organ, commissioned by James D. Hicks (2023)

Unrest - solo piano, performed by Lynda Cochrane (2021) 

Always By the Shore - solo piano, in memoriam Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, performed by Rolf Hind, commissioned by Aberdeen Sound Festival (2016) 

Heraldic –  organ, commissioned by Ed Jones (2014)

Hawick Fragments I, II & III - solo piano, performed by Ed Jones, University of Aberdeen (2013)

Choral Music:  

Puer natus est nobis - SATB (2023)

Let Not Your Heart Be Troubled - SATB, performed by University of Aberdeen Chamber Choir (2022)

I Will Heal the Land - choir and organ (2022)

Ubi caritas - STB & alto saxophone (2020)

Love Was His Meaning- SSA & harp - commissioned by Godolphin Vocal Ensemble (2019) Performance by Aurora nova available at https://vimeo.com/652860371

Voyage to Inchcolm - SATB & Mixed Flexible Ensemble - commissioned by Inchcolm New Music Ensemble & CoMA for a four venue tour (2018)

Psalms for Rosemary - SAB & organ (commissioned by Peter & Judith O’Hanlon for performance by Strathclyde University Choir, Scottish Plainsong Choir and David Hamilton, organ (2018)

The Walls Will Fall – SATB & French Horn (2017)

Ode to Francisco Salinas - SATB & organ - commissioned by S. Kingston (2017)

Regina Coeli – Male Chorus, performed by Devanha Consort at Italian Chapel, Orkney (2016)

Hear My Cry – SATB & organ – selected for performance by Quodlibet Chorale at Greyfriars Kirk, Edinburgh (2015)

Egilsay Kirk – SATB & organ - selected for workshop performance by BBC Singers at Maida Vale Studios (2015)

Dove Unfurled – SATTTB – selected for workshop performance by Dunedin Consort at University of Aberdeen (2015)

The Last Brightest Rinsings – SATB for St Magnus Cathedral Choir (2013)

O sacrum convivium - SATB - performed by University of Aberdeen Chamber Choir at St Asaph Festival (2013)

Songs:  

And in the Garden, Moonlight - soprano, clarinet, harp, double bass (2019)

Whisper to the Night - tenor, treble lute & bass viol (2019)

Heaven Has No Rage - soprano & piano - commissioned by Jillian Bain Christie & performed at Aberdeen Sound Festival (2019)

Marigold Blooming - soprano/performing artist, performed by Rosie Howarth & newCELF (Cardiff New Music Group) (2018)

I, James Forsyth, Prisoner - baritone & piano - selected for workshop performance by Paul Tierney at Aberdeen Sound Festival (2013)

Winter's End - baritone & piano (2014)

Ice Aria - baritone & piano (2014)

The Winter Night - baritone & piano (2014)