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Michael Smither  

21 Piano Pieces

 Year: 1978

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  Some of these pieces, written between 1968 and 1978 were for the entertainment of the composer’s children; others as gifts or tributes for friends.

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  • Smither: 21 Piano Pieces; facsimile  Year: 1983 

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  • Smither: 6 paintings and 21 piano pieces 

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Barry Anderson  

A Book of Dreams

 Year: 1957
Short pieces for solo piano

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Hamilton Dickson  

A Country Suite (Opus 13)

Duration: 10' 00" Year: 1932
three piano solos

• Programme Note

  A Country Suite depicts memories of a drive through the Canterbury countryside in the Model T Ford before proposing marriage to Eileen Decima Hughson – his future wife.

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  • Dickson: A Country Suite; computer set 

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Gary Daverne  

A Jazz Burlesque

Duration: 03' 00" Year: 1992
for solo piano

• Programme Note

  A Jazz Burlesque was originally was compose as a piano solo.

  It was later arranged for accordionist, Kevin Friedrich, one of New Zealand’s leading accordionists and a member of the International Trio from Kansas in America. The International Trio premiered A Jazz Burlesque in Auckland, June 1991, at the New Zealand Accordion Championships. It was later arranged for accordion orchestra and a string orchestra arrangement followed for the all female string ensemble ‘String Silhouette’. They premiered it in Auckland, June 1993.

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John Wells  

A Little Birthday Suite

Duration: 07' 00" Year: 2008
for organ

Jillian Bray  

A Seasonal Landscape

Duration: 09' 03"
a suite of four pieces for solo piano

• Programme Note

  This suite of four Grade 7 pieces marks the passage of the Seasons.

  It was written for a Questa Musica concert held in the Senior Citizens’ Hall in Waikanae on 21st July 2012 and performed by the composer specifically for the residents of Waikanae.

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Maurice Faulknor  

A Student's Suite

 Year: 1998
for piano

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Ross Carey  

A Won for Buddha

Duration: 18' 00" Year: 2001
for piano - four hands

• Programme Note

  Counting through the tones of ‘In a Landscape’ by John Cage, in the manner of counting a rosary. The title means an offering to Buddha; this is not so much a material offering but more that of a good heart.

  Composed in Toronto in June, 2001 and first performed by the Natsuki Emura Piano Duo in a concert of New Zealand piano music at MusiCasa, Tokyo in October 2001.

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Brent Parker  

Achill Suite

Duration: 16' 00" Year: 2002
for piano

• Programme Note

  This piano suite contains five pieces describing the local scenery and legends of Achill Island in Ireland.

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  • Parker: Achill Suite; computer-set 

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  • Parker: Achill Suite and Other Works  Year: 2003 

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Matthew Davidson  

After Brahms

Duration: 10' 00" Year: 2000
nine concert tangos for piano four hands

• Programme Note

  This work is an hommage to the piano-four hand waltzes and hungarian rhapsodies of Johannes Brahms (with tougue firmly in cheek, comme d’habitude).

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  • Davidson: After Brahms; computer-set 

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  • Matthew Davidson: After Brahms 

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