The Ballad of Kastriot Rexhepi was commissioned by the Santa Monica Museum of Arts as an original score for the installation The Ballad of Kastriot Rexhepi by MaryKelly. The words are used/reproduced by permission ofMary Kelly. The first performance was given by Sarah Leonard (soprano) with Gaby Lester and Cathy Thompson (violins) Kate Musker (viola) and Tony Hinnigan (cello) on 11 December 2001 at the Santa Monica Museum of Arts.

For String Quartet.Published in 2002.Commissioned by the Vale of Glamorgan Festival.First performed by Chamber Domaine Museum of Welsh Life Cardiff as part of the Vale of Glamorgan Festival September2002.Score.

Homunculus is a short (circa 12 minutes) work for string quartet which the composer wrote during the Autumn months of 2007 for the Johannes Quartet.He wanted to compose a piece that would be very compact in form andduration but still contain many different characters and textures. In other words a little piece that behaves like a big piece.He has long been fascinated (and amused) by the arcane spermists’ theory who held the beliefthat the sperm was in fact a 'little man' (homunculus) that was placed inside a woman for growth into a child. This seemed to them to neatly explain many of the mysteries of conception. It was later pointed out that if the spermwas a homunculus identical in all but size to an adult then the homunculus may have sperm of its own. This led to a reductio ad absurdum with an endless chain of homunculi. This was not necessarily considered by spermists afatal objection however as it neatly explained how it was that 'in Adam' all had sinned: the whole of humanity was already contained in his loins.He decided to call my piece Homunculus despite the obvious weaknesses of thespermists’ thinking as he found the idea of a perfect little man strangely moving.

Par RHODES PHILLIP. Score - Set Of Parts (Ep 66620A) Also Available / Contemporain / Répertoire / Quatuor à Cordes