for harp
duration: 5 minutes
Audio Excerpt Coming soon.
Programme Notes
n-trance was composed especially for the Sydney-based harpist, Marshall McGuire. As the title suggests, it uses as its basis characteristics of trance music (such as slow-moving triadic harmonies), though in a very-diluted way.
It was premiered in September 1999 at the Sydney Spring Festival.
CD Recording Available?
Not currently, but if all [...]
for amplified acoustic guitar with effects pedals
duration: 10 minutes
Audio Excerpts Coming soon.
Programme Notes
Mace is a virtuoso work for solo guitar composed in 1992 for the outstanding Melbourne-based guitarist, Ken Murray.
The word ‘mace’ has two associations relevant to this work: firstly the medieval spiked club, and secondly, the spray used to ward off muggers. Both meanings give [...]
for solo violin duration: 4 minutes
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Programme Notes
Fr. Arthur Bridge is the progenitor and driving force behind Ars Music Australis, an arts support body in Australia that has commissed over 150 new works by Australian and international composers. Without Fr. Arthur Bridge, the Australian contemporary art music scene would be in a very sorry [...]
for violin, cello and piano duration: 16 minutes
Audio Excerpt: not at present.
Programme Notes
The structure of this Piano Trio follows that of many classical and romantic works for the same instrumentation: fast, slow, fast.
The work opens with a spirited, very fast movement that is scherzo-like in most of its character: light, airy and playfully rhythmic. It [...]
aka. Ride of the Viola Valkyries
for 8 violists
duration: 4 minutes
based upon The Ride of the Valkyries by Richard Wagner
Programme Notes
Siegfried Interlude No. 4 was commissioned by the Sydney Symphony Orchestra for first performance at the launch of their 1999 Season. At the time, the SSO viola section was made up exclusively by women, and since [...]
for string quartet or string orchestra
duration: 2 1/2 minutes
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Programme Notes
Gentle Giant was written an a short miniature, originally for piano. It is based upon a slowly undulating melody surrounded by clear harmonies.
notes by Matthew Hindson.
CD Recording Available?
This work is recorded on the disc Matthew Hindson: String Music for Young Players. This disc [...]