NZCT Chamber Music Contest repertoire list
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String Chamber Music
Trios:
Adams: Prelude and Fugue for two violins and cello
Bray: Rena
Crehan: Trio Fantasia for two violin and cello *
Lilburn: String Trio *
Pruden: String Trio *
Quartets:
Adams: The Arianna Suite (version for four violins available)
Biddington: Two Pieces for four violins *
Gray: the silence *
Harris: String Quartet No. 3 (Blood Red Roses) *
Hill: String Quartets
Holmes: Fragment *
Lilburn: String Quartet in E minor *
Ritchie, J.: String Quartet
Statham: "Ina" an original Scottish Air *
Statham: Elena's Waltz *
Statham: Happy Days *
Statham: Pastorale *
Statham: Romance No.1 *
Statham: Such Sweet Sorrow *
Taylor: four landscapes *
Woodwind Chamber Music
Trios:
Biddington: A Little Trio for Recorders
Biddington: Five Stories for Three Winds (mixed)
Biddington: Rosehips in Winter (mixed)
Biddington: Tongue in Cheek * (saxophones or clarinets)
Biddington: Trio for Recorders
Holloway: Malleus * (clarinets)
Quartets:
Audain: A Charleston Kick With Steel Caps (saxophones)
Audain: bulletproof petals * (saxophones)
Biddington: Festival Dance * (clarinets)
Biddington: Lincoln Green Suite * (mixed)
Biddington: Nelson Breezes (clarinets)
Biddington: Theatre Music Suite * (mixed)
Biddington: Two Pieces for Saxophone Quartet *
Ellis: Banda Chiflada (saxophones)
Ellis: Huff (saxophones)
Hunt: Microscores for Clarinet Quartet *
Norman: A Short Suite * (saxophones)
Ryan: Scherzo 1994 (saxophones)
Wilson: Variations on a Theme by Paganini * (clarinets)
Quintets:
Audain: Swimming with Dinosaurs (recorders)
Biddington: Nursery Rhyme Suite * (mixed)
Lilburn: Wind Quintet (mixed)
Brass Chamber Music
Quintets:
Camm: Four Pieces for Brass Quintet
Farquhar: Homage to Stravinsky *
Rimmer: A Cambridge Canzona
Ritchie, J.: Partita
Piano Chamber Music
Six Hands:
Farr: Dua Lagu
Hamilton: Tui
Hamilton: Three Rags
Holmes: A Tedious Brief Scene: Bottom's Dance
Utting: Onslow College Suite
Eight Hands:
Carr: Foxtrot from "Coup de Folie"
Carr: In the Rangitaki Valley
Percussion Chamber Music
Trio:
Quartet:
Farr: Volume Pig
Rimmer: Clouds over Pirongia
Piano Trios
Biddington: Music for Friends *
Body: Fire in the Belly *
Buchanan: Pacific Bolero
Farr: Ahi *
Psathas: Three Island Songs
Ritchie, A.: Piano Trio *
Mixed Chamber Music
Trios:
Adams: Contemporary Triptych * (fl, bsn, pno)
Biddington: Adagio Triste (vln, vln, pno)
Biddington: Trio * (fl, cl, pno)
Biddington: Trio (fl, vlc, pno)
Biddington: Trio (fl, vln, pno)
Biddington: Trio * (vln, vln, pno)
Biddington: Trio (vln, vla, pno)
Biddington: Trio Nr.2 (vln, vla, pno)
Carey: The Big Swim (fl, cl, pno)
Crehan: Trio Fantasia * (vln, vln, pno)
Gray: Trio (fl, vla, harp)
Grenfell: Poems of a Bright Moon (fl, cl, pno)
Hextall: Marx or Smith? * (cl, vla, pno)
Hunt: A Dragon Named Blake (sax, sax, pno)
Hunt: Beneath (cl, vln, pno)
Norton: Trio (vln, vln, pno)
Psathas: Three Island Songs * (cl, vlc, pno)
Ritchie, A. Trio (cl, vlc, pno)
Statham: Flora * (cl, fl or vln, pno)
Statham: Landsdown Gardens * (cl, fl or vln, pno)
Wilby: Tri-Me-Trio (fl, cl, pno)
Quartets:
Bowater: Banshee (vln, vln, vlc, pno)
Hamilton: Hurdy Gurdy * (fl, cl, vln, pno)
Norman: Bridgewater Quartet * (fl, cl, vln, pno)
Norton: Quartet (vln, vln, vln, pno)
Quintets:
Hamilton: Kristallnacht (fl, gtr, pno, perc, perc)
Rimmer: Summer Street (cl, str quartet)
Statham: Four Pieces for oboe and string quartet *
Statham: Suite for flute and string quartet *
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There are still many more chamber music works in the SOUNZ Catalogue! Please click here to browse the full catalogue of works at SOUNZ - use the facets on the left-hand side of the page to narrow your search. Please contact us for recommendations, tailored for the instrumentation of your group!
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