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Home / Compositions / Vocal / Voice and ensemble

Voice and ensemble

These works include the Lowin Prize-winning Learning to Howl, and the Lowin Prize finalists Willow Songs and Last Words. They set to music words by Shakespeare and Sappho, Anne Stevenson and Robert Louis Stevenson, Judith Wright and Craig Raine.

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

Barleycorn (2006)

18 minutes
for folksinger, wind quartet and piano

oboe (= cor anglais), clarinet (= bass clarinet), bassoon, horn and piano

Commissioned by Southern Cross Soloists with funding from a composer fellowship from the Music Board of the Australia Council for the Arts

First performance by Warren Fahey and Dave de Hugard (singers), the Southern Cross Soloists, Queensland Music Festival, Bangalow St Park, Brisbane, 15 July 2006

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Tales of the Supernatural (2002)

31 mins
folksongs for voice and string quartet

1. Niin mina neitonen -- 2. The great silkie of Sules Skerry -- 3. Den fortrollade barnafoderskan -- 4. The Bay of Biscay -- 5. The house carpenter -- 6. The unquiet grave -- 7. Niin minä neitonen.

Commissioned by the Ian Potter Cultural Trust

First performance by Jane Edwards and the Australian String Quartet, Elder Hall, University of Adelaide, 5 March 2004

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Learning to Howl (2001)

36 mins
For soprano, soprano saxophone (=clarinet, bass clarinet), harp and percussion

Text:

Lorrie Moore, Sappho, Emily Dickinson, Christina Rossetti, The Kanteletar, Ian Munro, Ann Timoney Jenkin, Queen Elizabeth I, Emily Brontë, Wang Wei and Elizabeth Smart

Commissioned with funds from the Music Board of the Australia Council for the Arts

First performance by Belinda Montgomery (soprano), Margery Smith (soprano sax, clarinet, bass clarinet), Daryl Pratt (percussion) and Marshall McGuire (harp); Eugene Goossens Hall, Sydney, 9 March 2003

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Epithalamium (1998)

5 minutes
for mezzo-soprano and srtring quartet

An elaboration, more than an arrangement, of Epithalamium for tenor and violin (with bell). See also Epithalamium for tenor, flute and cello.

Text:

William Shakespeare, Act IV of The Tempest 

First performance by Jenny Duck-Chong and Halcyon, 6 October 2007, Sydney Conservatorium of Music, Sydney

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Epithalamium (1994)

3 mins
for tenor voice, flute and cello

Arrangement of Epithalamium for voice and violin

Text: William Shakespeare from Act IV of The Tempest

First performance by Gerald English (tenor, Kathleen Gallagher (flute) and Sue-Ellen Pauslen (cello) Piper's Brook Vineyard, Piper's Brook, Tasmania, February 1994

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A Martian Sends a Postcard Home (1986)

12 mins
for tenor, horn and piano

Text: poem by Craig Raine

First performance by Gerald English, Gregory Hill and Peter Clarken, University of Tasmania, Hobart, 13 June 1987

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Sacred Places (1985)

12 mins
For tenor, flute (=picc, bass fl), bass clarinet, trombone, percussion, piano, cello and double bass

Text: poems by Christopher Reid

First performance by Gerald English and the Seymour Group conducted by the composer, Broadwalk Studio, Sydney Opera House, 9 August 1986

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Five Cabaret Songs (1985)

10 minutes
for voice and variable ensemble

1. Chanson d'automne (Verlaine)
2. La cloche fêlée (Baudelaire)
3. Being beauteous (Rimbaud)
4. Encore un chapelet ( Anon. 13th cent.)
5. Colloque sentimental (Verlaine).

Voice, melody instrument (can be played by clarinet, soprano, alto or tenor saxophone, violin or any other instrument), harmony instrument (piano, organ, guitar, vibraphone or accordion, or any combination); score includes percussion suggestions

Commissioned by Mini Dekkers with funds from the Music Board of the Australia Council

First performance by Marjanne Kweksilber (soprano), Mini Dekkers Trio, Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1 March 1987

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Est il paradis? (1981)

10 minutes
for soprano, clarinet in C (= bass clarinet) and percussion

Text: Three rondeaux and a motet, all anonymous, from 13th-century France

Commissioned by Poppy Holden, with funds from the Yorkshire Arts Association

First performance by Poppy Holden (soprano), Ian Mitchell (clarinet), Nic Shipp (percussion), Theatre-in-the-Mill, Bradford, UK, 30 November 1981

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