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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.

You Must Sleep, but I Must Dance (2010)

18 minutes
for viola and percussion

Commissioned by the University of Sydney to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Sydney Conservatorium of Music

First performance by Roger Benedict (viola), Daryl Pratt (percussion), Verbrugghen Hall, Sydney Conservatorium of Music, 17 September 2012

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Thin Air (2007)

5 minutes
for solo piano

Commissioned by the Sydney International Piano Competition of Australia with funds provided by the Music Teachers' Association of NSW, APRA and the Australia Council for the Arts. 

First performance by Hoang Pham (piano), Sydney International Piano Competition, Seymour Centre, Sydney, 21 July 2008

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The Tears of Geertje Dirx (2007)

3 minutes
for 2 clarinets

Commissioned by Duo Stump-Linshalm

First performance by Duo Stump-Linshalm - Petra Stump and Heinz-Peter Linshalm, Alte Schmiede, Vienna, Austria, 13 June 2008

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Bagpipe Music (2007)

8 minutes
for alto recorder (= tenor) and harp

Commissioned by Marshall McGuire

First performance by Genevieve Lacey (recorders), Marshall McGuire (harp), Utzon Room, Sydney Opera House, Sydney, 23 September 2007

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Chorales from an Ox Life (2007)

9 minutes
for viola and double bass

There is another version of this piece for viola, cello and double bass

First performance by Heidi von Bernewitz (viola) and Robert Nairn (bass), Esber Recital Hall, Penn State University, Pennsylvania, USA, 25 March 2008

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Folly (2006)

13 minutes
for solo piano

Composed for Michael Kieran Harvey as part of a fellowship from the Music Board of the Australia Council.

First performance by Michael Kieran Harvey (piano), Tasmanian Conservatorium of Music, Hobart, 11 October 2007

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Broadway Boogie-Woogie (2005)

3 minutes
for solo piano

Composed for Marcel Worms as part of a fellowship from the Music Board of the Australia Council

First performance by Marcel Worms (piano), Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 15 October 2005

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Soave sia il vento (2005)

4 minutes
for duo of vibraphone and marimba

Commissioned by Callum Moncrieff

First performance by Kitt Byfield (vibraphone) and Callum Moncrieff (marimba), West Australian Academy of Performing Arts, 9 September 2005

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The Crantock Gulls (2004)

7 minutes
for 2 drummers

For two drummers, situated as far apart as possible, each playing five drums of varying size, from bass drum to bongo

First performance by Match Percussion, Sydney Conservatorium of Music, 23 March 2005

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War and Peace (2004)

15 minutes
for violin and percussion
  1. March -
  2. No Man's Land -
  3. The Armed Man
  1. violin and drum (say darabuka or djembe)
  2. violin and mmetal percussion (including vibraphone)
  3. violin and drum kit

Commissioned by Claire Edwardes, funded by a composer fellowship from the Music Board of Australia Council for the Arts

First performance by Antipoduo - Sarah Oates (violin), Claire Edwardes (percussion), Noordekerk, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 29 January 2005

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