Sleep (2015)
2 mins
for string orchestra
String Orchestra
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Bright Shiners (2009)
5min
for solo violin and string orchestra
Commissioned by the Australian Chamber Orchestra to mark Richard Tognetti's 20th anniversary season
First performance by Pekka Kuusisto (violin) and the Australian Chamber Orchestra, City Hall, Newcastle, NSW, 12 March 2009
Sad Jigs (2005)
7min
for string orchestra/string quintet
The Past (1997)
18 mins
For counter-tenor, flute (=boatswain's whistle) & string orchestra (also optional didgeridoo)
First performance by Russell Harcourt (counter-tenor), Lorna McGhee (flute and boatswain's call), William Barton (didgeridoo), Camerata of St John's conducted by Federico Mondelci, Australian Festival of Chamber Music, Riverway Arts Centre, Townsville, Queensland, 4 August 2009
Manhattan Epiphanies (1994-99)
32 mins
For 17 solo strings
i Motherwell at the Guggenheim
ii Rothko I
iii Utopia Parkway: 13 Cornell Boxes
iv Rothko II
v Blue Poles
N.B. Individual movements may be performed separately
5-5-3-3-1 (also toy instruments in 'Utopia Parkway')
First performance of Rothko I & II by the Australian Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Roger Smalley, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, 25 September 1994;
First performance of Utopia Parkway by the Australian Chamber Orchestra, conducted by the composer, Huntington Festival, Huntington Estate Winery, Mudgee, NSW, 1 December 1994;
First performance of Blue Poles by Canberra School of Music Chamber Orchestra conducted by Tor Fromyhr, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, October 2002;
First performance of Motherwell at the Guggenheim by Len Amadio Chamber Orchestra, conducted by John Harding, Llewellyn Hall, Australian National University, Canberra, 17 January 2004