At various stages of her career, Eileen has composed for different groups of people.
Whilst living in The Netherlands, she composed a number of melodies based on Feminist theological poems, and was also a co-editor. These are still popular, and published in the collection, "Eva's Lied".
As a teacher in Iceland, she composed pieces for groups at the Akureyri Music School, as well as making an arrangement of some Icelandic folk songs, now published by Peacock Press (P 47), at Recorder Music Mail.
In 2001, she composed the "West Country Suite" (OL 234) for a national festival of the SRP. This is based on folk songs from the West Country, and is published by Oriel. It is very popular in the UK and Germany.
More recently, she has composed a "German Suite" (P 181), based on German folk songs. This was given its first official public performance by the Dortmund Recorder Orchestra in October 2005, conducted by Dietrich Schnabel. German Suite sample. Another set of pieces is the "Bretton Suite" (P 182), a collection of simple trios. These are both available from Recorder Music Mail.
In October 2005, there was the first performance of a new "Playford Suite" (P 180), composed for the Bristol SRP, and also published by Peacock Press, at Recorder Music Mail. Playford sample.
Eileen also arranges existing pieces to be played by small and large groups of recorders. These include Renaissance choral repertoire, as well as the music of Rameau, Grieg, Strauss, etc. An arrangement of Bach's Orchstral Suite Nr. 1 is available from Peacock Press, P231, transcribed for ATBGbCb, available from Recorder Music Mail.