Composer, Writer & Broadcaster
This is a large section containing music for different combinations of winds, strings, percussion and keyboards, including four chamber concertos.
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After Mesomedes of Crete (c. 140 CE)
First performance by Peter Jenkin (clarinet), Daryl Pratt (celesta) and Alice Giles (harp), Kowmung Music Festival, Abercrombie Caves, NSW 27 March 1999
Arrangement of 13th-century English estampie
First performance by Kowmung Music Festival Ensemble, Kowmung Music Festival, Abercrombie Caves, NSW, 27 March 1999
clarinet (also bass clarinet), percussion (also celesta), off-stage percussion (2 players), harp and string quartet
Commissioned by the Kowmung Music Festival
First performance by Kowmung Music Festival Ensemble conducted by the composer, Abercrombie Caves, NSW, March 1999
Commissioned by the Song Company
First performance by Peter Jenkin (clarinet), David Montgomery (percussion), Kees Boersma, Via Crucis Australis, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, 9 April 1993
First performance by members of Australian Chamber Orchestra conducted by Richard Tognetti, Concert Hall, Sydney Opera House, Sydney 10 July 1993
Commissioned by Het Trio with funds from the Performing Arts Board of the Australia Council
First performance by Het Trio, De Ijsbreker, Amsterdam, Netherlands, October 1990
Solo part is virtually identical to Like Icarus Ascending
Commissioned by Terra Australis incognita with financial assistance from the Music Board of the Australia Council
First performance by Robert Davidovici and Terra Australis incognita conducted by Matthias Kriesberg, Houston International Festival, Rice University, Houston, Texas, USA, 10 April 1988
clarinet (= bass clarinet), percussion (1 player), mandolin, guitar, violin, viola, cello
Commissioned by Elision Ensemble with funds from the Music Board of the Australia Council
First performance by Elision Ensemble conducted by Robert Smallwood, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne, 28 April 1987
Commissioned by the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, for MusICA 1983
First performed by the Australia Ensemble conducted by the composer, Sir John Clancy Auditorium, University of New South Wales, Sydney, 28 October 1984
2 flutes (+ piccolo), bass clarinet, trombone, percussion (3 players), 2 cellos, 2 double basses
First performance by Lontano conducted by Odaline de la Martinez, BBC Radio 3, UK, 29 March 1984