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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.

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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The Armed Man (2004)

6 minutes
solo for drum kit

This is the third movement of War and Peace, minus the violin

side drum, 5 tom-toms. sizzle cymbal, hi-hat, bass drum

Commissioned by Claire Edwardes

First performance by Claire Edwardes, Sydney Conservatorium of Music, Sydney, 14 August 2005

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d’amore (2004)

5 minutes
for oboe d'amore and harpsichord

Commissioned by Geoffrey Burgess

First performance by Geoffrey Burgess (oboe d'amore) and Elaine Funaro (harpsichord), Old Darlington School, Sydney, 8 August 2004

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Extended Radiance (2004)

12 minutes
for electroacoustic harp

This is a version of Five Studies in Radiance

Commissioned by Alice Giles

First performance by Alice Giles, Canberra Museum, Canberra, 15 March 2004

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Lullaby and Fire Dance (2003-07)

9 minutes
for 2 violins

1. Lullaby (for Lillian) 2. Fire Dance

First performance by Natsuko Yoshimoto and James Cuddeford, Sydney Conservatorium of Music, Sydney, 23 October 2008

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Fear no more . . . (2003)

5 minutes
for solo piano

Commissioned by Ananda Sukarlan

First performance by Ananda Sukarlan (piano), University of Auckland, New Zealand, 25 July 2003

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Sounds and sweet airs (2003)

6 minutes
for flute and clarinet

First performance by Nano - Karina Erhard (flute) and Fie Schouten (clarinet), Ars Musica, Aub, Germany, 14 February 2004

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