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Home / Compositions / Instrumental (solo and duo) / Instrumental - wind

Instrumental - wind

This section contains a lot of frequently played music for flute (Including piccolo, alto and bass flutes), as well as solos for oboe, clarinet and bass clarinet.

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

Mondriaan (1993)

13 minutes
for flute (= piccolo, = bass flute) and percussion

1. Composition with Yellow Square

2. Female Nude

3. Composition in blue, grey and pink

  1. piccolo and metal percussion
  2. alto flute and wooden percussion (inc. marimba)
  3. bass flute and hand drums

Commissioned by Strange Attractions

First performance of movements 1 and 2 by Strange Attractions - Kathleen Gallagher (flutes), Sue Dennis (percussion), Old Darlington School, Sydney, 29 October 1993

First performance of third movement by Lamorna Nightingale (bass flute), Joshua Hill (drums), Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney, 9 August 2009

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. . . les débris d’un rêve (1992)

7 minutes
for piccolo and electronic reverb

First performance by Kathleen Gallagher, Old Darlington School, Sydney, 1992

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At a slight angle . . . (1991)

5 minutes
for solo bass clarinet

First performance by Bronwen Jones, Bloomingdale's House of Music, New York, NY, USA, October 1992

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Clarion (1990)

5 minutes
for alto clarinet

See also James Nightingale's version for alto saxophone.

Commissioned by Harry Sparnaay with financial assistance from the Performing Arts Board of the Australia Council

First performance by Harry Sparnaay, De Bleeker, Haarlem, Netherlands, September 1991

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Clarion (1990)

5 minutes
for alto saxophone

Version by James Nightingale, 1997. Originally composed for alto clarinet.

First performance by James Nightingale, Sydney Classical Saxophone Convention, Sydney Conservatorium of  Music, Sydney, April 1998

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The Art of Puffing: 17 elegies for Thomas Chatterton (1989)

27 minutes
for bass clarinet (= alto sax) and percussion

Commissioned by Duo Contemporain with financial assistance from the Performing Arts Board of the Australia Council

First performance by Duo Contemporain, De Link, Tilburg, Netherlands, November 1992

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Spinning (1988)

5 minutes
for solo alto flute

First performance Tara Helen O'Connor (alto flute), Aspen Festival, Aspen, Colorado, 4 July 1988

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Foolish Fires (1985)

9 minutes
for clarinet in a (= bass clarinet) and piano

Commissioned by Murray Khouri with financial assistance from the Music Board of the Australia Council

First performance by Murray Khouri (clarinets) and Stephanie McCallum (piano), Music Ausitorium, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW, April 1986

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Boatsong (1982)

12 minutes
for bass clarinet (= alto saxophone) and percussion

percussion: marimba, vibraphone, gong, tam-tam

Commissioned by Duo Contemporain

First performance by Duo Contemporain - Henri Bok (bass clarinet), Evert le Mair (percussion), De Suite, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2 May 1983

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Pictures of Lily (1981)

12 minutes
For treble recorder and harpsichord (with amplification, digital delay and pre-recorded tape)

Commissioned by the Yorkshire Arts Association

First performance by Joan Dixon and Peter Seymour, Theatre in the Mill, University of Bradford, 28 January 1982

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