(b. 19 April 1942, Aldershot, Hampshire).

British composer of mostly orchestral, chamber, choral, and vocal works that have been performed in Europe and elsewhere.

Mr. Strutt studied composition with Sir Lennox Berkeley at the Royal Academy of Music in London from 1961–64, where he also studied orchestration with Leighton Lucas from 1962–64.

Among his honours are the Manson Bequest from the Royal Academy of Music (1964, for Symphony No. 1 in E minor), the Carolan Award in the competition for music for clàrsach (harp from the UK) in Dinan (1986, for Hibernian Rhapsody) and two prizes in the competition for church music Dr. William Baird Ross in Scotland (Second Prize, 1987, for The White Island; Third Prize, 1990, for A Glastonbury Carol). His music has been performed in Canada, France, Germany, Ireland, Norway, Russia, the UK, and the USA.

His publishers include Amoris, Lomond Music and Phylloscopus. Most of his unpublished scores are available through the Scottish Music Centre.

COMPLETE LIST OF WORKS

STAGE:

The Tragedy of Man (opera, libretto by the composer, after Imre Madách [translated by J. C. W. Horne]), mezzo-soprano, tenor, baritone, cast (boy soprano, 2/3 sopranos, mezzo-soprano, 3/5 altos, countertenor, 4/18 tenors, 4 baritones, 3/12 basses, basso profondo/2 bassi profondi), 50 mixed voices, on-stage ensemble (harmonica, 2 guitars, 2 mandolins, cimbalom, celesta, organ/electronic organ, organ/harmonium, Ondes Martenot, concertina/accordion, harpsichord), large orchestra, 1985

ORCHESTRAL:

William Cobbett (concert overture), 1963, revised 1975

Symphony No. 1 in E minor, large orchestra, 1964

Symphony No. 2 in C minor (texts by Publius Vergilius Maro, the composer, syllable "ah"), 4 mixed voices, orchestra, 1965, revised 1991

Symphony No. 3 in E-flat major, 'Visions of Albion' (text by William Blake), tenor, boys' chorus, 8 mixed voices, large orchestra, 1967

Threnody – The Funeral of Youth (imaginary ballet suite after Rupert Brooke), 1970 (two suites were arranged for harp as Suite No. 1 from Ballet 'The Funeral of Youth'; Suite No. 2 from Ballet 'The Funeral of Youth')

King Richard II (concert overture), 1973

Pluto (symphonic poem), large orchestra, 1973

Strange Philosophy (fantasy), cimbalom, orchestra, 1973

Symphony No. 5 in D, large orchestra, 1973

Communion Service for the Day of St. Magnus, Earl of Orkney, and Martyr, 1982 (version of movements 1, 13, 16–17 of choral work; also version of movements 6, 20 for male cantor, orchestra, 1982)

Lines, Circles, Scenes, Letters, Characters (symphonic fantasy), pan flute, orchestra (8 winds, 6 brass, harp, 2 guitars [2nd + Hawaiian guitar], piano [+ celesta], harpsichord, timpani, 7 percussion, strings), 1983

Suite of Three Folksong Medleys, clarinet, symphonic band, 1984

At the Tomb of the Sea-Eagles (text from the syllable "om"), 5 mixed voices, large orchestra, 1986

Symphony No. 4, 'Kenosis', large orchestra, 1986

Céilidh (concert overture), 1987

Symphony No. 6 in E-flat minor, 'Eclogues from a Vanished Land', 1987

Fantasia on the 'Palestine Song' of Walther von der Vogelweide, symphonic band, 1989

Russian Folksong Suite, string orchestra, 1989

A Wessex Suite, string orchestra, 1992

Byzantine Suite in the Ottoman Style, orchestra (10 winds, 8 brass, clàrsach, piano, electronic keyboard, timpani, 5 percussion, strings), 1993

Preludio and Presto Finale, piano, large orchestra, 1994 (also version for 2 pianos)

Reminiscences of Troldhaugen (sinfonia concertante after the sketches for Concerto No. 2 in B minor by Edvard Grieg), piano, orchestra, 1997

Symphony No. 8, 'Orkney Choral Symphony' (texts by Robert Rendall, Harriet Campbell, Ann Scott-Moncrieff, James Morrison, Edwin Muir, John Skea), 4 mixed voices, orchestra (12 winds, 11 brass, harp, organ, timpani, 7 percussion, strings), 1999

Symphony No. 7 in G minor, 'Athonite' (text from the Resurrection Apolytikia [liturgy of the Greek Orthodox Church]), boys' chorus, 4 male voices, large orchestra, 2003

Symphony No. 9 in D minor, 'The Fountain of Tears' (text by Federico García Lorca [English translation]), soprano, baritone, children's chorus, 4 mixed voices, guitar, large orchestra, 2004

CHAMBER MUSIC:

String Quartet No. 1, 1959–60, revised 2003, 2007

Rondo, oboe, piano, 1962

Prelude, violin, 1963

Soliloquy, viola, 1963

String Quartet No. 2, 1963, revised 1991

Capriccio, violin, 1964

Ballade, violin, 1965

Sonata, trombone, piano, 1965

Fantasia, 2 flutes, English horn, clarinet, bassoon, French horn, 1967

Suite No. 1 from Ballet 'The Funeral of Youth', harp, 1972 (suite from Threnody – The Funeral of Youth)

Suite No. 2 from Ballet 'The Funeral of Youth', harp, 1972 (suite from Threnody – The Funeral of Youth)

The Georgia Bagatelles, oboe d'amore, piano, 1976

Chaconne, clàrsach/harp, 1981

Helvetia Suite, oboe, oboe d'amore, English horn, 1982

Jig, clàrsach, 1982

Mirror Canon, clàrsach, 1982

Suite of Seven Dance Miniatures, flute, oboe, clarinet, bass clarinet, bassoon, French horn, 1982

Hibernian Rhapsody, clàrsach, 1983

Russian Folksong Suite, 2 flutes, oboe, 3 clarinets, alto saxophone, bassoon, any C-bass instrument, 1989

English Folksong Suite, oboe, oboe d'amore, English horn, bass oboe, 1990

Sabbath Polka (Polish Folk-Cabaret Song), English horn, bass shawm, 2 clarinets, sackbut, guitar, violin, cello, piano, 1990

Studies in Orkney Folk Music, English horn, violin, viola, cello, 1992

Introduction and Protiazhnahyah, bass oboe/bassoon, piano, 1993

Variations on the Hymn Tune 'Repton' of Sir Charles Hubert Hastings Parry (1848–1918), clàrsach, 1993

Bosnian Folk-Tune Suite, 2 soprano recorders, alto recorder, tenor recorder, bass recorder, 1994

String Quartet No. 3, 'from "The Frieze of Life (Edvard Munch)"', 1999

Variations on the Hymn Tune 'St. Catherine's Court' of the Hon. Richard Strutt (1848–1927), flute, oboe, bassoon/cello, violin, piano, 2005

CHORAL:

Madrigals, Book I – 'For Music' (text by Oscar Wilde), mixed chorus, 1967

Amergin (text from an unknown mediaeval source [English translation]), mixed chorus, string orchestra, 1968

Madrigals, Book II – 'Wind Flowers' (text by Oscar Wilde), mixed chorus, 1968

Madrigals, Book III – 'Flowers of Gold' (text by Oscar Wilde), mixed chorus, 1968

Madrigals, Book IV – 'Flowers of Gold Sonnets' (text by Oscar Wilde), mixed chorus, 1968

Madrigals, Book V (text by Oscar Wilde), mixed chorus, 1968

Communion Service for the Day of St. Magnus, Earl of Orkney, and Martyr (texts from liturgical sources of Christianity [English translations], "Kyrie eleison"), male cantor, mixed chorus, organ, 1982 (also versions of movements 1, 13, 16–17 for orchestra; of movements 6, 20 for male cantor, orchestra)

Madrigals, Book VI – 'The Silence of Love' (texts by Oscar Wilde, Lord Alfred Douglas), mixed chorus, 1984

Madrigals, Book VII – 'Requiescat' (text by Oscar Wilde), mixed chorus, 1984

Masters in This hall (Christmas carol, after the melody from France Chartres, text by William Morris), soprano/boy soprano, mixed chorus, organ, 1984

Festal Eucharist in honour of Saint Olaf, King and Martyr: Missa 'Sine Nomine' pro translationi Sancti Olavi (texts from the Bible [English translation], liturgical sources of Christianity [English translations], Henry Wadsworth Longfellow), bass, male celebrant, mixed chorus, French horn, trumpet, trombone, tuba, organ, vibraphone, 1985

The Litany of Dunkeld (text from Reliques of Ancient Scottish Devotion, adapted by the composer), bass, 6 mixed voices, 1987

Star Carol (text by the composer), mixed chorus, 1987

La Tapisserie de Sainte Geneviève (Prologue to a Gnostic Symphony) (text by Charles Péguy), mixed chorus, harp, 1987

The White Island (anthem, text by Robert Herrick), mixed chorus, 1987

Bearing Myrrh and Spices Sweet (text from a source from Greece [translated by J. Brownlie]), mixed chorus, 1988

A Glastonbury Carol (text by the composer), mixed chorus, 1989

Hymn to Brahman Supreme (text from the Shvetashvatara Upanishad [translated by Swami Prabhavanandra, Frederick Manchester]), 4 female voices, 1989

Logia (from 'The Gorikai' of Kawate Bunjiro) (text by Kawate Bunjiro [English translation]), mezzo-soprano, alto, 4 altos, alto flute, flute, English horn, 2 cellos, piano, vibraphone, 1989

The Song of Rūmī (text by Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī [English translation]), 4 female voices, 1989 (also version for mixed chorus incorporated into The Song of Rūmī and Two Poems from the 'Divan Shamsi Tabriz')

The Song of Rūmī and Two Poems from the 'Divan Shamsi Tabriz' (text by Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī [English translation]), mixed chorus, 1989 (incorporates a version of The Song of Rūmī)

Three Hymns in Praise of St. Magnus (text from a mediaeval source in Latin), 4/7 mixed voices, 1989

Respond (Confractorium): 'Fiat, Domine, Misericordia' (texts from a source in Latin, the Gallican Rite from the Stowe Missal), mixed chorus, 1990

Trecanum (text from Mozarabic Chant [English translation]), mixed chorus, 1990

Madrigals, Book VIIIa – 'Voces Intimæ' (texts by Oscar Wilde, Lord Alfred Douglas), mixed chorus, 1991 (also version as Madrigals, Book VIIIb – 'Voces Intimæ', countertenor, 2 tenors, baritone, 1993)

Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis (Evening Canticles), boy soprano, 3 mixed voices, 1992

Is not this the Fast that I choose (text from the Book of Isaiah [English translation]), mixed chorus, organ, 1993

Refrain & Hymn for Feasts of the Holy Cross (texts from the liturgy "Crux fidelis", an anonymous source, hymn Pange lingua gloriosi prœlium certaminis by Venantius Fortunatus), mixed chorus, 1993

Two Bosnian Folksongs (texts from traditional sources from Croatia), mixed chorus, 1994

Seven Basque Christmas Carols (texts from traditional sources in Basque [translated by Sabine Baring-Gould, J. O'Connor, John Gray], Matthew Bridges, adapted by Richard Terry, an anonymous 16th-century source from the UK), 8 mixed voices, 1995

Wilderness (text by Gwenllian Armour), mixed chorus, 1995

Behold! The Mountain of the Lord (text from the Book of Isaiah [Scottish paraphrase]), mixed chorus, 1996

Præludium & Trisagion (after Johann Sebastian Bach, text from the Coptic Liturgy of St. Basil [English translation]), soprano, mezzo-soprano, 3 mixed voices, cello, 1996

Shuraya (Antiphon before the Apostles) (text from the Nestorian Liturgy of the Catechumens [English translation]), 7 mixed voices, 1996

Turgama (Hortatory Hymn before the Apostle) (text from the Nestorian Liturgy of the Catechumens [English translation]), mixed chorus, 1996

Hymn to the Creative Word (text from an Orthodox Christian hymn [translated by Antony McGuckin]), mixed chorus, 1997

Seven Scottish Christmas Carols (texts from an anonymous 17th-century source [translated by Arthur Geddes], William Dunbar, A. F. Bayly, adapted by the composer), 4/6 mixed voices, 1997

Christmas Lullaby: 'Sleep, Baby, sleep' (text by John Addington Symonds, adapted by the composer), mixed chorus, 1998

VOCAL:

Six Japanese Songs (texts by Keichū, Mabuchi, Naoyoshi, Taku Boku, Banri [all English translations]), alto, oboe, 1963

Five Japanese Songs (texts by Toson Shimazaki, Rofu Miki, Fuyuhiko Kitagawa [all English translations]), soprano, flute, clarinet, 1967 (also version for soprano, flute, oboe, clarinet, 1987)

Japanese Sketches: Book I – 'Winter Haiku' (texts by Oemaru, Kobayashi Issa, Shohaku, Chine-jo, Onitsura, Sōkon, Ransetsu, Shirao, Masaoka Shiki [all translated by Peter Beilenson]), mezzo-soprano, flute (+ alto flute, bass flute), oboe (+ English horn), clarinet (+ E-flat clarinet, bass clarinet), bassoon, French horn, violin, viola, cello, double bass, piano, marimba, 1986

Karakoram Highway (text by Kathleen Jamie), soprano, English horn, 1987

Japanese Sketches: Book II – 'Spring Haiku' (texts by Chosu, Bora, Roka Shonin, Hokushi, Kobayashi Issa, Kyōroku, Yosa Buson, Masaoka Shiki [all translated by Peter Beilenson]), mezzo-soprano, flute (+ alto flute, bass flute), oboe (+ English horn), clarinet (+ bass clarinet), bassoon, French horn, violin, viola, cello, double bass, piano, marimba, 1989 (also version for mezzo-soprano, alto flute, 2 cellos, piano, vibraphone, 1990)

Japanese Sketches: Book III – 'Summer Haiku' (texts by Ryōta, Kobayashi Issa, Matsuo Bashō, Hokushi, Ryuho [all translated by Peter Beilenson]), soprano, clarinet, bassoon, violin, cello, piano, 1993

A Chorister in Avalon (text by Humbert Wolfe), soprano, piano, 1995

The Unknown Goddess (song-cycle, text by Humbert Wolfe), mezzo-soprano, piano, 1996

Japanese Sketches: Book IV – 'Autumn Haiku' (texts by Yosa Buson, Meisetsu, Seibi, Chora, Matsuo Bashō, Rikei, Takarai Kikaku, Kobayashi Issa, Masaoka Shiki, Oemaru, Chasei, Raizan [all translated by Peter Beilenson]), soprano (+ wind chimes), shakuhachi (bamboo flute from Japan) (+ flute, piccolo), marimba/pentatonic G-flat folk marimba from Africa, 2007

Three Athonite Impressions (text by Vincent Berquez), mezzo-soprano, piano, 2007

PIANO:

Sonata No. 1 in B minor, 1964

Sonata No. 2 in D minor, 1969

36 Variations & Fugue on a theme of Ralph Vaughan Williams, 1979

Sonata No. 3, 1992

Preludio and Presto Finale, 2 pianos, 1994 (version of work for piano, large orchestra)

ORGAN:

Estampie on Two French Tunes, 1993

DIDACTIC MUSIC:

Prise de la Bastille (Scene for Schoolchildren) (text by Hugo, Comte de Montbéliard), 5 children's voices, 2 children's choruses, glockenspiel, any unpitched drum, güiro, 1967