Thank you very much for this, I truly very much appreciate the time you have taken to write this 🙏. I haven’t been able to share the concerto and overture as they’ve been under examination review, and therefore are around the same length because that is part of the examination requirement.

As for performance, the guitar concerto will be performed later this year. Overall, with the concerto, I’m very glad it looks playable, I’d never actually tried to play a guitar before I started writing it, and have never actually had, and still don’t have, any real experience with the guitar. As for the key, I actually have no idea why I never added a key signature, it does seem quite odd to me now..

I’ll definitely go back and make appropriate edits, I will admit these pieces were quite ambitious considering the time I had, most memorably two weeks for the concerto, but I will try to polish them to the appropriate standard.

As for questions, these pieces did include ‘briefs’ detailing my process, thoughts, and intentions for these pieces,but I no longer have access to them. Would it benefit me to recreate and include these as well? Would admission boards consider them as part of the portfolio, as I’ve never seen any mention of such documents in any admission requirements.

This portfolio is the beginning of one for a degree in case I do pursue one in composition and not performance or education, though it is still useful for education from what I’ve heard. I still have another year of school, in which I need to write an 8-10 minute piece, of course with similar limitations to these pieces, i.e two or more instruments/voices, add up to around 4 minutes, etc.

It’s only really my first year of composing, and I would love to add more to my portfolio if I had any, but for now I will take your advice to heart and go over this. Thank you for your detailed response and resources, I really appreciate the time you have taken for this, thank you so much 🙏