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This category includes strings quartets, octets and a quintet, as well as a clarinet quintet and piano quartet.
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Text: John Kinsella
Commissioned by the Australian Chamber Orchestra
First performance by Emily Sun, Emily Beauchamp (violins), Caroline Henbest (viola), Henry Say (cello), Phoebe Russell (double bass), Andrew Ford (narrator), Australian Festival of Chamber Music, Denise Glasgow Performing Arts Centre, Pimlico, Queensland, 31 July 2025
Commissioned by Owen J Conlan
First performance by the Australian String Quartet, William Mabo (didgeridoo), Australian Festival of Chamber Music, Townsville Civic Theatre, Townsville, Queenland, 28 July 2025
Commissioned for the Brodsky Quartet by Julian Burnside AO QC.
First performance by the Brodsky Quartet, William Barton (didgeridoo), Canberra International Music Festival, Fitters' Workshop, Canberra, 30 April 2023
1. Preludio —
2. Scherzo perpetuo
3. Lamentoso —
4. Sunrise with Wedding Dresses
5. Finale
Movements 2 and 4 may be performed separately.
Commissioned by the Flinders Quartet with support from David and Kaye Birks, Julian Burnside AO QC and Ben Quilty
First performance by the Flinders Quartet, Ballarat, Victoria, 28 October 2018
Text:
poem by Judith Wright
Commissioned by Katie Noonan with financial assistance from the Australia Council for the Arts
First performance by Katie Noonan and the Brodsky Quartet, Queensland Performing Arts Centre, Brisbane, 28 April 2016
Commissioned by Barbara Blackman for the Canberra International Music Festival.
First performance by the New Zealand String Quartet and Tinalley String Quartet, Canberra International Music Festival, Fitters' Workshop, Canberra, 9 May 2015
Commissioned by the Australian String Quartet
First performance by the Australian String Quartet, Adelaide Town Hall, Adelaide, 5 September 2013
Published by Wise Music G. Schirmer Australia
Commissioned by Julian Burnside QC for the NOISE
This piece is a version of Cradle Song for violin and piano. it is also the second movement of String Quartet No 3
First performance by the Shanghai Quartet, Melbourne International Arts Festival, Collins St Baptist Church, Melbourne, 21 October 2013
1. Flowing 2. Cradle Song (to the memory of Richard Pollett) 3. Rant 4. Elegy
Commissioned by the Brodsky Quartet with with financial assistance from the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body
First performance by the Brodsky Quartet, Queensland Music Festival, Powerhouse, Brisbane, 18 July 2013