Adlais Music Publishers

15/05/2025

Adlais Music Publishers are delighted to be the publishers of Ben's Concerto for Jazz Harp & Symphony Orchestra. We expect to make the score and parts available for purchase / hire in early 2026.

31/03/2025

We’re very excited to be releasing our first studio album on our tour next month. If you want a chance for a first listen then head over the BBC Wales Introducing show with Adam Walton tonight to hear our version of Dinah!

You’ll be able to purchase hard copies of the album on the tour, and for our friends worldwide you can purchase or stream online. The link to presave the album is in the comments below. We’re very proud of how this recording has come out and so we can’t wait to share it with you!

Violin - Adrien Chevalier
Harp - Ben Creighton Griffiths - Music
Bass - Edouard Pennes
Guitar - Adrien Tarraga
Clarinet - Corentin Giniaux

'The quality of the playing was exceptional throughout' - The Jazz Mann

'High Octane' - Nation Cymru

UK tour dates 2025:

24/04/25 - Concert - Guildford Jazz
25/04/25 - Concert - Pavilions Teignmouth
26/04/25 - Concert - Under The Edge Arts, Wotton Under Edge
27/04/25 - Concert - Insole Court, Cardiff
30/04/25 - Concert - Ludlow Assembly Rooms
01/05/25 - Dinner Jazz - Maison de Bouef
02/05/25 - Concert - Speakeasy Jazz at Clarence House, Portishead
03/05/25 - Concert - Ullenhall Village Hall
04/05/25 - Concert - Aberjazz, Ffwrn, Fishguard

27/02/2025

27/02/2025

The harp competitions at the 2025 North London Festival are open for entries. There are classes on Monday 5th May for lever and pedal harpists of all ability levels adjudicated by Anne-Marie O’Farrell. Over the same weekend, the United Kingdom Harp Competition will take place in two rounds. This competition adjudicated by Anne-Marie O’Farrell and Veronika Lemishenko is for advanced level lever and pedal harpists and prizes include cash and performances.
The competitions are sponsored by the UKHA and supported by Salvi London who will provide harps on both days.
Entries to by made via the North London Festival website by 5.4.25

https://northlondonfestival.org.uk/harps/

27/02/2025

27/02/2025

05/10/2024

New Publication by Adlais Music Publishers.
Music For A While On The Wales Coast Path
(Ar y Llwybr Arfordir Cymru)
Composed by David Watkins for pedal harp.

http://www.creighton-griffiths.co.uk/acatalog/David_Watkins_SM.html

Dan Llywelyn Hall, artist and lead curator for Celf Coast Cymru Arts Project, asked me to compose a piece of music to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Wales Coast Path completion, and commissioned by the Wales Coast Path. The whole of Wales is encircled by a continuous foot path made up by the Wales Coast Path and Offa's D**e Path. They embrace a country famous for its music and poetry.
Music for a While starts with a brief Introduction and then the 'Walking Theme' (Promenade) is repeated between four folk song arrangements.The first, The Bells of Aberdovey, reminds one of the legend of a drowned kingdom between Ramsey and Bardsey Islands. Standing on the shore, you might just be able to hear the bells from under the sea. Over the Stone. Back from war, Rhys the soldier hurries back to his Lady Love in Anglesey. It is quite a journey over stony paths and many stiles, and he expects a great welcome. "Raise the Dragon and wake the happy harps of Wales". David of the White Rock. The dying harpist asks his family to bring him his harp so he can play it for the last time. "Last night," he said, "an angel appeared to me saying, 'Please play your harp all the way on your journey up to heaven.'" The Miller's Song. This Miller is very positive and happy as he sings a rather impressive catalogue of everything he owns: the animals in his field and a dresser full of china in his parlour. He is looking for a wife!

21/01/2024

New flute & harp music published by Creighton's Collection:
Eight Noble Miniatures for Flute and Harp by David V. Montoya.

Of the four Noble Truths of Buddhism, the last is the Eightfold Path to happiness and to the elimination of suffering. Eight Noble Miniatures is a meditation on that philosophy. This path is often pictured as a wheel with eight spokes. Each spoke on the wheel represents a way of seeing life from a compassionate point of view, for both oneself and for others. In my setting each movement stands for each spoke, beginning and ending with Right Mindfulness.

Musically, each movement is based on a mode that is different from our traditional western major/minor paradigm. Every mode is drawn from other world cultures. While the entire piece may seem very chromatic at times, the unique harmony comes from the various combinations of tones from each mode creating possibly unfamiliar sounds to the western-conditioned ear. Where these pieces can sound very chromatic to some listeners, they are in fact all diatonic!

Since the piece was conceived as a wheel, it begins and ends with the same movement. Great care has been taken to balance the various musical elements around the wheel. So, for example, a piece with a minor third from tonic to mediant, is balanced with one using a major third. Further, a movement in a simple meter is balanced with a movement in a compound meter - slow vs. fast, solo harp vs. solo flute, etc. This arrangement creates a smooth and flowing progression of miniatures that leads the listener on a unique journey from a place of repose to the exact same mindful movement.

Each movement has a different tonic. If one tracks those notes clockwise starting from G, they will discover a mode called Bairov-with-Two-Fourths spelled G - Ab - B - C - C # - D - Eb - F # - G. This helps in the organization of the piece, but is not necessarily crucial to the auditory experience.

http://www.creighton-griffiths.co.uk/acatalog/David_Montoya.html

Listen to a recording of the work on YouTube that is synchronised with images of the sheet music: https://youtu.be/HDqkyWkUZgU