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Home / Compositions / Instrumental (solo and duo)

Instrumental (solo and duo)

This largest section of the site contains solos and duos for most instruments in various combinations. The pieces range from solo piano works to a piece for carillon, a solo for sleighbells and a duo for recorder and harp.

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

Confused Alarms (2021)

8 minutes
for French horn and piano

Commissioned by the Australian National Academy of Music (ANAM) as part of The ANAM Set (2021), funded by the Restart Investment to Sustain and Expand (RISE) Fund – an Australian Government Initiative.

First performance by Eve McEwen (horn) and Louisa Breen (piano), The ANAM Set Festival, Australian National Academy of Music, Abbotsford Convent, Melbourne, 15 May 2022

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Merrily Kiss the Quaker’s Wife (2021)

3 minutes
for solo piano

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In My Solitude (2020)

8 minutes
for solo viola

Commissioned by Tim Senior

First performed by Tim Senior (viola), YouTube, 4 May 2020

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The Star of the County Down (2020)

3 minutes
for solo piano

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Shh… (2020)

3 minutes
for muted trumpet

Commissioned by Visa Haarala

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The Sea and the Mirror (2018)

12 minutes
for violin and cello

Commissioned by the Australian National University as part of the H.C. Coombs Creative Arts Fellowship

First performance by Tor Frømyhr (violin) and David Pereira (cello), Llewellyn Hall, ANU School of Music, Canberra, 4 October 2019

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Hook (2018)

6 minutes
for solo vibraphone

Commissioned for Claire Edwardes by Julian Burnside AO QC

First performance by Claire Edwardes (vibraphone), home Zoom concert, 26 April 2020

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Hearing Voices (2018)

9 minutes
for solo cello

Commissioned by the Australian National University as part of the H.C. Coombs Creative Arts Fellowship

First performance by David Pereira (cello), Larry Sitsky Recital Room, Australian National University, Canberra, 24 April 2018

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No One Could Relax around Jezebel (2017)

14 minutes
for soprano and percussion

Text: Anne Carson

soprano, metal percussion

Commissioned by Julian Burnside AO QC for Jane Sheldon and Claire Edwardes

First performance by Jane Sheldon and Claire Edwardes, Port Fair Spring Music Festival, Reardon Theatre, Port Fairy, 13 October 2018

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Lin-lan-lone (2016)

3 minutes
for carillon

Commissioned by the National Carillon, Canberra

First performance by Thomas Laue, Canberra International Music Festival, National Carillon, Canberra, 5 May 2017

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