On the horizon I write your name was commissioned by Cwmni Mara and written between October and December 2022 for the pianist David Pepper, who premiered it in Theatr Gwaun, Fishguard, on 24th September 2023. The title is taken from the seventh stanza of Paul Éluard’s 1942 poem, ‘Liberté’:
Sur les champs sur l’horizon
Sur les ailes des oiseaux
Et sur le moulin des ombres
J’écris ton nom.
The name that Éluard writes on the horizon is ‘Liberty’. In my music the horizon has become the line where the sky meets the Irish Sea off the coast of Pembrokeshire. The name that I write there is that of my wife, Jobina Tinnemans.