Duration: 5 minutes

Interlude for Piano - Full Score, (PDF, 168Kb)

Interlude for Piano is written in a pointillistic melodic style first used in the previous work for piano, Diffractions for Piano & Chamber Orchestra. Interludes is a brief, freely evolving abstract piece with a somewhat improvisational feel to it, and is concerned with splashes of harmonic colour across the keyboard in the context of sinuous angular melodic fragments, hence the suggestion of the pointillistic aspect to the work.

Interlude for Piano was commissioned by Judith Clark on behalf of the Wellington Branch of the Institute of Registered Music Teachers. It was written for the IRMT conference in Nelson in January 1988 and the piece was given its first performance by Mark Secker at the Nelson School of Music.

The recording of Interlude was released in 1994 on CANZ/ODE CD Manu 1478 with David Guerin performing. This recording was also released on a Fine Music promotional CD by SOUNZ - the Centre for New Zealand Music. The CD recording is "out of print" but may be borrowed from SOUNZ.

Duration: ca. 10 minutes

Variations for Piano - Full Score, (PDF, 243Kb)

Variations for Piano was first performed by Terence Dennis who also recorded it for national broadcast by Radio NZ. This work was awarded the Philip Neill Memorial Prize in Music in 1985 by the University of Otago, NZ.

This single movement work is written using a darker, harmonic language. It is an abstract work that is constructed in an arch form with a brooding opening and closing and a rhythmically active central section.

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Duration: 8 minutes

Four short piano pieces from the composer's "strictly atonal" period.

Four Piano Pieces (PDF, 380Kb)

Piano Piece 1 is constructed using the "12 note fixed-register" technique. The notes are grouped relatively closely around the centre of the keyboard to create 3 different transpositions of the melodic motif which creates a modulating effect.

Piano Piece 2 is constructed using rhythmic groupings of 6 or 12 notes with some cross-rhythmic elements.

Piano Piece 3 is written around the idea of harmonic resonance.

Piano Piece 4 makes use of modes of limited transposition, in this case the reccuring tone/semitone/tone/semitone etc pattern derived from the last chord of Piano Piece 1. Piano Piece 4 was published in "University Commissions 1984" organised by the combined NZ University Music Depts. and printed by the University of Otago Music Department.

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