The WORLD PREMIERE
took place on
Wednesday 12 November 2025,
performed by
Kathleen Carter Bell, Cor anglais &
 Sarah Rushing, piano
WTAMU, Canyon, TX, USA

​LIVESTREAM: starting at 31:12

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Second Performance
Sunday 29 March 2026 at 1700 CDT
 Scott Erickson, Cor anglais & Collaborator
Recital @ The Jazz Lab
University of Central Oklahoma, Edmond, Oklahoma, USA

Third Performance
Saturday 18 April 2026 at 1300 CST
​Amelia Johnson, Cor anglais  & Jacob Coleman, Piano
Masters Recital, The John Jacob Niles Gallery
The University of Kentucky, Lexington, USA​

DUTCH PREMIERE
Saturday 16 May 2026 at 1600, CEST
Theo-Hans Kuijvenhoven, Cor anglais & Cees-Willem van Vliet, Piano
De Amersfoortse Zwaan, Langestraat 61, 3811 AC Amersfoort,
The Netherlands

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BYZANTION III - δελφίνια (Dolphins)
for Cor anglais (English Horn) & Piano
Duration: 6'30" mins

​"Astraddle on the dolphin's mire and blood, 
Spirit after spirit! The smithies break the flood,
The golden smithies of the Emperor!...
​That dolphin-torn, that gong-tormented sea."

W.B. Yeats (1865-1939): Byzantium (1932)
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​Read Byzantium in full, by W.B. Yeats

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Find out more about Byzantion: a cycle of works referencing the Byzantine Empire, poems by W.B. Yeats and historic Byzantine chant, composed for double-reed piano trio, in varying combinations. ​

About Byzantion  
The Cycle's Artistic Programme

Byzantion I - Hagia Sophia (EH, Bsn & Pf)
 Feature Page with Information & Videos 

Byzantion II - Through Space & Time  (Bsn & Pf)
Feature Page with Information & Videos 

Byzantion IV - Apokalypsis 
​(2026; EH, Bsn, Pf)
CONSORTIUM NOW CLOSED

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Byzantion I: Cor anglais, Bassoon & Piano
​Byzantion II: Bassoon & Piano

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Byzantine Mosaic, Basilica of San Vitale, Ravenna, Italy