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Gillian Whitehead  

Ipu

Duration: 42' 00" Year: 1997
for narrator, taonga puoro (Maori instruments), jazz piano and cello

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Philip Dadson  

Songs for Heroes

Duration: 50' 00" Year: 1989
for tuned percussion

  • Instrumentation
    PVC pipes, drums, bass-drones, soprano saxophone, tone trees, zitherum, voices, hand-clapping, cello, harmonics and piano horns
  • Programme Note

    Heroes are travellers who journey into uncharted regions of human experience to tame the ‘tigers’ which dwell there. Songs for Heroes is a tribute to these people, echoing their search with a journey through rhythm and melody.

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Alex van den Broek  

Still Standing Silent

Duration: 50' 00" Year: 2009
for four musicians and a contemporary dancer

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  • Instrumentation
    for B flat clarinet, tenor saxophone, percussion, contrabass - there is improvisation within set structures mostly for the tenor saxophone and contrabass
  • Programme Note

    In my work as a composer I have found bringing together classical and jazz musicians to be a rich and unique way of working. I have experience in both fields and my compositional talent and interest lies genuinely across the two art forms.

    This piece has been specifically composed for these performers and their unique sets of skills. Each performer is of a very high calibre and each possesses something special and unique in their playing and approach to music making. Mike Kime and Reuben Derrick often have moments of freedom as they are both accomplished improvisers. Gretchen Dunsmore and Mark Le Roche are classically trained performers with excellent skills and intelligent ears and minds. I knew that each of them would bring something to the work that would be unique and exciting.

    More recently my creative interest in movement and form has expanded to contemporary dance and I wanted to involve and include another artistic discipline in this work. Collaborating with Julia Milsom has been an exciting new venture for me. The nature of the sounds within the piece are highly applicable to contemporary dance and have been interpreted and expressed with considerable talent and skill by Julia.

    Layers of sound in time is a theme I have developed extensively in the piece. The layers interact, evolve, contrast, compliment, and conflict with each other to create a depth of space and time between them.

    The work is an exploration of the timelessness that comes in moments of deep introspection through evocative sounds and movement.

    Alex van den Broek

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Annea Lockwood  

Thousand Year Dreaming

Duration: 45' 00" Year: 1990
for chamber ensemble and slides

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  • Instrumentation
    oboe, cor anglais, clarinet, contrabass clarinet, 4 didjeridus, 2 tenor trombones, 2 conch shells, percussion
  • Programme Note

    This work is scored for 10 piece ensemble of winds, brass, percussion and slides from the Lascaux Caves.

    “It opened with an arresting effect I’d never heard before: Art Baron and Scott Robinson blowing through conch shells, played a series of converging glissandi in opposition directions, creating wild beat patterns…Even had you closed your eyes, it was like the piece suddenly emerged from its lair and took over the atmosphere”. Gann, Village Voice, New York

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John Psathas  

Zeibekiko

Duration: 1h 15' 00" Year: 2004
collaboration for wind ensemble and Greek folk musicians

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