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Home / Compositions / Chamber music / Chamber music - winds

Chamber music - winds

This section includes a wind quintet, a saxophone quartet, and a piece for massed flutes that is part of a continuing series (see Chamber Music: brass for similar pieces for cornet and trombones).

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

Polly’s Dance (2019)

3 minutes
for cor anglais, French horn and cello

Commissioned by Sandy Rendel in celebration of his sister Polly Woods's 75th birthday.

First performance by Dinah Woods (cor anglais), Jules Evans (horn), Helen Mountfort (cello), Midland Hotel, Castlemaine, Victoria, 20 July 2019

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Scenes from Streeton (2019)

26 minutes
for wind quintet and recorded voices

1. Golden Summer 2. Near Heidelberg 3. The Selector's Hut (Whelan on the Log) 4. The Spirit of the Drought 5. After Streeton

Text: interviews with Eda Ritchie, Bruce Pascoe, Vivienne Ritchie, Ian Langford and Gwenda Langford. Editing and sound engineering by Russell Stapleton.

Commissioned in celebration of the Melbourne Recital Centre's 10th anniversary.

First performance by Arcadia Winds, Primrose Potter Salon, Melbourne Recital Centre, Melbourne, 9 October 2019.

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“. . . in Paradiso” (2009)

6 minutes
for 9 or more flutes (minimum 3 flutes with digital delay)

Commissioned by the Australian National Academy of Music for the Melbourne International Arts Festival

First performance by Taryn Richards, Dominique Chaseling and Agatha Yim, St Patrick's Cathedral, Melbourne, 14 October 2009

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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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Ringing the Changes (1990)

10 minutes
for piccolo, bass clarinet and piano

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

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Four Winds (1984)

12 minutes
for saxophone quartet

Revised 1999

Commissioned by Rijnmond Saxofoon Kwartet

First performance by Rijnmond Saxofoon Kwartet, Delft, Netherlands, 28 September 1985

First performance of revised version by Continuum Sax, Four Winds Festival, Bermagui, NSW, April 1996

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Sonata for four instruments (1978)

9 minutes
for flute, oboe, clarinet and piano

First performance by the Park Lane Music Players conducted by Edwin Roxburgh, Guildhall School of Music & Drama, London, UK, October 1979

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