Chamber works include a solo cello suite, wind quintet, octet (for the same combination as Schubert's) and "Paesaggi", a five-movement piece for 16 players. Vocal works include two song cycles: "Black Sea" for tenor to poems by Canadian Mark Strand and "Songs from the Middle Kingdom" for soprano on eight ancient Chinese poems. The Save the Children anniversary in St Paul's included Bolton's anthem "Children of Earth". "A Garland of Carols" (upper voices, harp), modelled on Britten's "Ceremony of Carols", premièred at St Paul's Cathedral in 2006.