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Home / Compositions / Chamber music / Chamber music - strings

Chamber music - strings

This category includes strings quartets, octets and a quintet, as well as a clarinet quintet and piano quartet.

Please click work titles for more information and resources (audio, sheet music, program note etc.) about individual works in this category.

The Scattering of Light (2010)

16 minutes
for piano quartet

violin, viola, cello and piano

Commissioned by the University of Queensland to mark its centenary

First performance by Elizabeth Sellars, violin, Patricia Pollett, viola, Patrick Murphy, cello and Liam Viney, piano, Customs House, Brisbane, 10 December 2010

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Sculthorpe Dreaming (2009)

2 minutes
for string quartet

Commissioned by Arts in the Valley to mark Peter Sculthorpe's 80th birthday

First performance by the Goldner Quartet, Kangaroo Valley Golf and Country Resort, Kangaroo Valley, NSW, 3 May 2009

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Chorales from an Ox Life (2007-09)

9 minutes
for viola, cello and double bass

A version of Chorales from an Ox Life for viola and double bass

First performance by Christa Jardine (viola), Richard Vaudrey (cello) and Douglas Rutherford (bass), Australian National Academy of Music, Melbourne, 23 April 2009

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A Reel, a Fling and a Ghostly Galliard (String Quartet No 2) (2006)

8 minutes

Commissioned by the Grainger Quartet for its inaugural series of concerts in October 2006. The commission was generously funded by Pamela Pearce and Wally Patterson.

First performance by the Grainger Quartet, Vebrugghen Hall, Sydney Conservatorium of Music, Sydney, 2005

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Oma kodu (2006)

9 minutes
for clarinet in A and string quartet

Commissioned by Colin Gray and Jenny Kena

First performed by Catherine McCorkill (clarinet), Australia Ensemble, Sir John Clancy Auditorium, University of New South Wales, Sydney 19 May 2007

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Sad Jigs (2005)

7 minutes
for string quintet

2 violins, viola, cello and double bass.

This piece may also be played by a string orchestra.

Commissioned by the Sydney Symphony Orchestra through Symphony Australia with funds from the Australia Council for the Arts

First performance by Fellows of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Verbrugghen Hall, Sydney Conservatorium, 5 July 2005

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Tales of the Supernatural (2002)

31 mins
folksongs for voice and string quartet

1. Niin mina neitonen -- 2. The great silkie of Sules Skerry -- 3. Den fortrollade barnafoderskan -- 4. The Bay of Biscay -- 5. The house carpenter -- 6. The unquiet grave -- 7. Niin minä neitonen.

Commissioned by the Ian Potter Cultural Trust

First performance by Jane Edwards and the Australian String Quartet, Elder Hall, University of Adelaide, 5 March 2004

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Epithalamium (1998)

5 minutes
for mezzo-soprano and srtring quartet

An elaboration, more than an arrangement, of Epithalamium for tenor and violin (with bell). See also Epithalamium for tenor, flute and cello.

Text:

William Shakespeare, Act IV of The Tempest 

First performance by Jenny Duck-Chong and Halcyon, 6 October 2007, Sydney Conservatorium of Music, Sydney

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Pastoral (1991)

12 minutes
for string octet

3 violins, 2 violas, 2 cellos and double bass

Commissioned by the Tasmanian Symphony Chamber Players with funds from the Performing Arts Board of the Australia Council

First performance by the Tasmanian Symphony Chamber Players, St Helens, Tasmania, September 1991

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String Quartet No 1 (1985)

11 minutes

Commissioned by the Petra Quartet with funds from the Australia Council

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