Marianne SchofieldDouble bassist and composer

List of compositions and arrangements


    ORCHESTRAL

  • Air and Recitative from Les Printemps Cantatille by Julie Pinel (2025) - reimagining for string orchestra and soprano voice (8')
    Commissioned and performed by Scottish Ensemble and Héloïse Werner
  • SOLO/DUO

  • Inter Ligna (2025) – cello, double bass (5')
  • CHAMBER

  • Orbital (2025) – soprano, harp, clarinet, double bass, organ/keyboard (7')
  • Reimagining of BWV 721 by J.S. Bach (2025) – soprano, harp, clarinet, double bass, organ/keyboard (6')
  • Sombres Lieux by Julie Pinel (2024) - reimagining for soprano, viola, cello, and double bass
    Performed and recorded by Héloïse Werner, Max Baillie, Colin Alexander and Marianne Schofield; features on Werner's album close-ups.

    "Time appears to stand still during these points… in a hauntingly beautiful arrangement…"

    Pwyll ap Siôn, Gramophone Magazine (Aug 2024)
  • For The Hermes Experiment (soprano, clarinet, harp, double bass)

  • Islands (2024) – soprano, harp, clarinet, double bass (6')

    "In a song about seeking connection, in a world where we are kept ever more apart by our technologies, the connection in the music gives a glimmer of hope. It is our memories that will sustain us and, by extension, our music as well."

    Maureen Buja, Interlude HK (October 2025)
  • Les Rossignols by Elizabeth Jacquet de la Guerre (2022) - reimagining for soprano, harp, clarinet, double bass (5')

    "Schofield is also behind a gorgeous version of Les Rossignols by Élisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre, initially halting and ethereal, then coalescing into something approaching its 17th-century original."

    Erica Jeal, The Guardian (October 2025)
  • Sarabande from Water Music Suite 3 by G. F. Handel (2022) – reimagining for harp, clarinet, double bass (no voice)
  • La Lune Paresseuse by Cécile Chaminade (2021) - arr. for soprano, harp, clarinet, double bass (3')

    "Chaminade's La lune paresseuse (1905), beautifully reworked by Schofield"

    Guy Rickards, Gramophone online (October 2025)
  • Ma Première Lettre by Cécile Chaminade (2021) – arr. for soprano, harp, clarinet, double bass (3')
  • Roman Holiday by Olivia Chaney (2021) - arr. for soprano, harp, clarinet, double bass (4'30")

    "This follow-up…[The Hermes Experiment album, SONG]… is equally delightful and, if a touch less edgy, focuses more on lyricism in the 18 songs – apparent right from the start, with double-bassist Marianne Schofield's enchanting arrangement of Olivia Chaney's Roman Holiday."

    Guy Rickards, Gramophone (February 2022)
  • Attente by Lili Boulanger (2020) – arr. for soprano, harp, clarinet, double bass (2')
    Reflets by Lili Boulanger (2020) – arr. for soprano, harp, clarinet, double bass (3')

    "The light-filled arrangements of Lili Boulanger's 'Reflets' and 'Attente' surpass even the originals."

    Natasha Loges, BBC Music Magazine (December 2021)
  • Fin like a Flower by Anna Meredith (2019) - arr. for soprano, harp, clarinet, double bass (3')
  • Visions Fugitives op. 22 nos 1, 7, 8, and 16 by Sergei Prokofiev (2018) – arr. for harp, clarinet, double bass (no voice)
  • Fantoches by Claude Debussy (2017) - arr. for soprano, harp, clarinet, double bass (3')
  • Riguadon from Le Tombeau de Couperin by Maurice Ravel (2018) - arr. for harp, clarinet, double bass (no voice)