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John Psathas  

Spike

Duration: 08' 00" Year: 1998
for percussion and piano

Kit Powell  

The Green Man

Duration: 08' 00" Year: 1989
music theatre piece for solo percussionist

Gareth Farr  

Three Little Pieces for Eve

Duration: 06' 00" Year: 2006
for percussion and piano

  • Instrumentation
    percussion: 5 bottles, 4 flowerpots, 4 mixing bowls, triangle.
  • Programme Note

    “Serious fun” is the best way to describe this lively and entertaining set of three contrasting pieces. Gareth Farr wrote Three Little Pieces for Eve for the occasion of a friend’s birthday. It showcases Farr’s comic wit and clever writing. The percussionist uses household objects including bottles, flowerpots, mixing bowls and a triangle. Three Little Pieces for Eve is sure to add a good mixture of variety and demonstration of skill to any recital programme and perhaps a fun birthday celebration too.

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Gareth Farr  

Tuatara

Duration: 09' 00" Year: 1998
for percussion and piano

  • Instrumentation
    marimba, unpitched percussion, gong, and piano
  • Programme Note

    As part of the 1998 Sunday Concert series of the Wellington Chamber Music Society, Gareth Farr and pianist Dan Poynton presented a concert of music for percussion and piano, which had the unifying theme of the New Zealand forest. The concert hall was decked out with potted plants and giant fern fronds for the occasion, and the eclectic programme included the new arrangement of Poyton’s Moa and the specially-composed companion-piece, Tuatara. Each was named after a creature unique to New Zealand’s native fauna – the moa was a giant, flightless and now extinct bird, and tuatara is a remarkable reptile, thought to be a species which has existed since the time of the dinosaurs.


    Tuatara is based on two musical idea which are heard concurrently at the beginning. A jaunty, angular, syncopated theme in the piano part is set against the marimba’s running semiquavers. The musical argument of the work is entirely derived from these two ideas, which are exchanged between the instruments and subjected to development by variation. The percussion part is enhanced through the additional of tom toms and cymbals as the work proceeds.


    from Tangaroa – Trust Records

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Ross Carey  

Two Pieces for Three Gamelan Players

Duration: 06' 00" Year: 1999
for two sarons, and one demung

  • Instrumentation
    two sarons - one tuned in slendro and one in pelog; one demung tuned in slendro
  • Programme Note

    In these pieces for a ‘chamber grouping’ of just three gamelan instruments, I used as the basis for composition a combined scale made up of pelog and slendro. The first piece combines a repeated ostinato and melody in a laid-back ‘bluesy’ kind of way. The second piece is a wholly serial composition consisting of a repeated cycle; the three performers play each note of their instrument once only (making a complete cycle) before again the notes are played in the same order, although the ensemble can be varied in the subsequent repetition. Written for Wellington’s Gamelan Padhang Moncar to perform at the Beat International Festival of Gamelan held in Wellington in 1999, and recorded on CD by them on Portal 1001/2.

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David Sanders  

Two Speckled Frogs

Duration: 07' 00" Year: 2001
for Africo-Cuban percussion and Kendang

John Psathas  

Waiting : Still (arr. by Omar Carmenates)

Duration: 05' 00" Year: 2012
arr. by Omar Carmenates for keyboard percussion and gamelan

John Psathas  

Waiting : Still (arr. by Omar Carmenates - alternate version)

Duration: 05' 00" Year: 2012
arr. by Omar Carmenates for keyboard percussion and tuned gongs

Lissa Meridan  

without a sound

Duration: 08' 00" Year: 1998
for piano, percussion and electronic sounds