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​Dave Flynn - Complete Works List and Scores
Click on works for info and sheet music (where available)

​Opera


Mná Brian Ború – Sean-Nós Opera in  4 Acts (2014) – 50'

Orchestral Works

Toccata for Obama (2009/2020) - 3'
Symphony No. 3 - The Vision Symphony (2019) - 30'
Symphony No.2 - The Clare Symphony (2013/2019) - 30'
Symphony No.1 - The Memory Symphony (2017) - 30'
The Clare Concerto (2013) - 60'
Aontacht - Concerto for Fiddle and Orchestra (2008) 30’
The Man from Maghera Rambles Through Africa (2010) - 6’


Chamber Orchestra

Le Cheile is in Aonar (2010/2018)  - 25' 
Stone Walls (2018) -  7' (Voices and Orchestra)
The Mad Magician (2018) - 5' (Voices and Orchestra)
 
String Orchestra

Music for the Departed (2010) -22’ 
 for fiddle, violin, guitar & strings
Echoes of Bamako (2003) – 5’
Mesh (2002) – 10’

 
Ensemble

Joy (2013/2014) for Amplified Ensemble  - 20'
Le Cheile is in Aonar (2010) for Irish traditional music ensemble – 25’

The Valley of the Lunatics (2010)  for fiddle ensemble – 15’
Manipulations (2004) (hn 2 perc [drums/vib, wdblock/glock] vn vc db). - 10’
Quirk No.5 ‘Horrific Spasm’ (2002/2004) – 6’ (fl/picc, cl, vn, pf, perc)
Quirk No.3 ‘Goss Face’ (2004) afl, ob, eb cl, sop sax, gtr. 5’
Polymetric Cycles (2003) – 8’. (picc fl ob cl bcl asax egui vib pf vn vc db)

Flute & Clarinet

Quirk No.7 ‘Slides, Cuts, Rolls and Crans’ (2011) fl, cl/bass cl, -11'
Quirk No.1a ‘Show me those jazz hands’ (2000) fl, cl. 3’

Flute & Electronics

'The Forest of Ornaments' (2009) for traditional Irish flautist and pre-recorded sound collage  – 11’.
Quirk No.1b ‘Show me those jazz hands’ (2002) vln, vcl. 3’

Uilleann Pipes

'Five Études for Uilleann Pipes' (2009) – 25’

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Percussion

‘Hyper-Reel’ for marimba and woodblock (2010) -3’

Works with electronics

'The Forest of Ornaments' (2009) sound collage – 11’
‘Electric Guichair’ (2004) sound collage - 7’

Orchestral Arrangements

Inside the Box: Outside the Box - Máirtin O'Connor (orch. Flynn) - 25' 
An Irish Farrago (for fiddle, guitar & strings) (arr. Flynn/Hayes/Cahill) - 17'
The Mountain Lark 
(fdl, gtr & orchestra) – (arr. Flynn, Hayes & Cahill) - 7'
Lost in the Loop - Liz Carroll (orch. Flynn) - 4' 
The Rebel Suite - A suite of Cork traditional tunes (orch. Flynn) - 10' 
Trad Boléro - Maurice Ravel (orch. Flynn) - 17' 
Christmas Eve - Tommy Coen (orch. Flynn) - 4' 
Carol of the Bells - Trad. Ukrainian (orch. Flynn, lyrics Billy Mag Fhloinn) - 3'
We Didn't Mean to Go to Sea - Declan O'Rourke (orch. Flynn) - 7'
Recorded by Declan O'Rourke and the RTÉ Concert Orchestra, cond. David Brophy on the album Declan O'Rourke - In Full Colour. Available here 

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String Quartets

Calmly Awaiting the End (2016) Uilleann Pipes & String Quartet - 10'
Stories from the Old World (2008) pipes, voice & string quartet – 20’​
String Quartet No.3 - The Keening (2007) – 20’
String Quartet No.2 – The Cranning (2004/2005) – 15’
String Quartet No.1 – Fairground Attractions (2003) – 15’

Guitar Quartets/Ensemble

Dún Laoghaire Guitars (2020) - 9'
​Sebene (2011) - 6'
Against Feldman (2007) – 2’

Errigal Suite (2007) (3 or 4 gtrs) – 15’
Cran Óg (2006) - 3’
Kora (2002) - 7’ 
Chimurenga (2000) – 4’


Solo Guitar

Music in the Time of Covid (2020) - 20'
A Tune for Noel (2020) - 3'
Winter Variations for solo electric guitar (2014) – 58'
An Irish Raga (2011) – 5’
The Mahatma of the Glen (2009) – 7’
Four Études for Five Fingers (2005) – 12’
Three Gymn O’Paddy’s (2000/2001) – 9’
5to9 (2000) – 6’
Two Minimalist Etudes (2000) – 8’
Passacaglia (2000) – 5’
Rainstorm (2000) – 4’
Homage Sonatina’ (1994/2001) – 10’
Rollercoaster (1998) - 4’

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Flute & Guitar

‘Omós do Frankie Kennedy’ (2006) – fl, gtr. 10’
Quirk No.2 ‘Shadowplay’ (2002) 7’

Violin & Guitar
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Quirk No.6 ‘Toccata for Obama’ (2009) vln, gtr.- 4’
‘Music for the Departed’ (2006) – Irish fiddle, vln, gtr. – 22’
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Sax & Guitar

Quirk No.6b ‘Toccata for Obama’ (2010) alto sax, gtr. - 4’

​Solo Violin/Fiddle

'The Valley of the Lunatics' for fiddles and loop technology (2010) – 15’.
'The Longest Reel' (2009) for solo Irish fiddle – 8’
'Tar Éis an Caoineadh' for solo violin (2007) – 10’

Violin & Piano

‘Tar Éis an Cran’ (2005) vln, pf or hpd. - 5’

Quirk No.4 ‘Between the Jigs and the Reels’ (2004) vln, pf.  - 8’

​Vocal/Choral

Ecclesiastes 3: Time For Everything (2020) - 5'
The Farmleigh Tree Alphabet (2019) - 20'
'Irreligiosity' (2016) SATB – 10'
'Protest Song' (2009/2011) SATB - 3'
‘Líadan agus Chuirithir’ (2009) SATB – 5’
‘Taibhreamh Ó Riada’ (2007) SSA, accordion, 2 vln, 2 fl/tin wh, harp – 10’
‘Full Circle’ (2003/2004) Song Cycle. Voice and piano – 12’
‘Two Nonsense Songs’ (2004) voice/voice+piano – 6’
‘I have always known’ (2001) voice+piano – 3’
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Piano

‘Seven/Eleven’ (2003) – pf (4 hands). 14’
‘7/11’ for solo piano (2002) – 7’
’12 Tone BACH’ pf or hpd (2001) – 5’

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