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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.

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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A Whole Lot of Shaking (1988)

7 minutes
for cello and piano

Revised 1999

Commissioned by Lisa Moore with financial assistance from the Music Board of the Australia Council

First performance by Symeron - Adrian Wallis (cello), Daniel Herscovitch (piano), Eugene Goossens Hall, Sydney, May 1994

First performance of revised version by Da Capo Chamber Players - Andre Emilianoff (cello) Lisa Moore (piano), Anthology Film Archive, New York, USA April 1999

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A Kumquat for John Keats (1987)

8 minutes
for solo piano

Commissioned by Lisa Moore with funds from the Music Board of the Australia Council

First performance by Lisa Moore (piano), National Library of Australia, Canberra, June 1987

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Swansong (1987)

10 minutes
solo viola

Commissioned by Elision Ensemble with funds from the Music Board of the Australia Council

First performance by Nicole Saintilan (viola), Music Centre, University of Wollongong, NSW, 25 May 1989

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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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Like Icarus ascending (1984)

12 minutes
solo violin

First performance by Dene Olding (violin), Sir John Clancy Auditorium, University of New South Wales, Sydney, 28 October 1984

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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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Portraits (1981)

8 minutes
for solo piano

First performance by Peter Donohoe (piano), Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, St Paul's Hall, Huddersfield, 25 November 1982

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