By:

• Karlo Margetic

Duration:

17' 00"

Instrumentation:

2(picc)22(bcl)2; 221Btbn0; 2perc; pn; strings(88663min) xylophone solo

Contents:

three movements

Samples

Score (586k)

Page 20 - 23, 51 - 52, 62 - 63

© Karlo Margetic

Availability

• This work has 2 scores and a recording

Programme Note

We often think of the xylophone as an inexpressive colour instrument, best suited for slapstick cartoon music or to fortify those wonderful orchestral tutti by Shostakovich. However after hearing Brent Stewart play a virtuosic piece by a classmate of mine I realised that in the right hands a xylophone is actually not the ‘joke instrument’ it is commonly perceived to be. In its lower range it is capable of (almost) marimba-like sostenuto sonorities and its high range is brilliant and commanding, capable of cutting through the entire orchestra.

The Xylophone Concerto was written for percussionist Brent Stewart.

Commissioned:

• Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra

Difficulty:

Advanced

Dedication:

Dedicated to Brent Stewart

Performance History

	17 Aug 2008	Performed by Wellington Youth Orchestra with Brent Stewart (xylophone) and conductor Greg Squire at the Wellington Town Hall.
		Wellington Youth Orchestra
	16 May 2008	Performed by Brent Stewart (xylophone) and the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Tecwyn Evans at Auckland Town Hall First movement of Xylophone Concerto
		Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra    Tecwyn Evans
	03 Sep 2009	Performed in a rehearsed reading by the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra with soloist Brent Stewart conducted by Ben Northey as part of the NZSO-SOUNZ Readings
		New Zealand Symphony Orchestra

Awards

• NZSO-SOUNZ Readings (2009)
  

  Xylophone Concerto by Karlo Margetic was performed at the NZSO-SOUNZ Readings in September 2009.