Corpus, for chamber orchestra, was written as part of the London Philharmonic Orchestra's 2018 - 2019 Young Composers scheme and was first performed by members of the London Philharmonic Orchestra, alongside players from the LPO's Foyle Future Firsts scheme, conducted by Sir James MacMillan in July 2019.

It takes inspiration from Salvador Dalí's 1954 painting Crucifixion (Corpus Hypercubus), and uses my piece for solo clarinet, Hypercubus, for its melodic and harmonic content. Hypercubus was commissioned by John Slack, a member of the Berkeley Ensemble and first performed by John as part of the Berkeley Ensemble's Spring Chamber music series in St. Saviour's Church, Warwick Avenue, on 27 March 2018.

The brief for the project, set by James MacMillan, was to use a pre-existing melody, or cantus firmus, to create, inform or inspire the piece of music. Corpus follows the model established by Luciano Berio, who converted a number of his works for solo instruments, Sequenzas, into stand-alone pieces for ensemble or orchestra, his Chemins. I have used the essence of all the gestures, melodies and phrases in Hypercubus to create every line in Corpus.