Extract performed by Terence Dennis (0'00" - 3'52"). Recorded in 1986.

Variations for Piano (1985)

Duration: ca.10 minutes

• Variations for Piano - Score, 8 pages, 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, New Zealand.

This single movement work is written using a dark, intensely atonal 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.

For other solo piano works by Nigel Keay, see: the dancer leads the procession, Little Tango Suite, Interlude, & Four Piano Pieces.

Variations pour Piano(1985)

Durée : environs 10 minutes

Executé par Terence Dennis, professeur de piano à l’université d’Otago, Nouvelle Zélande. Diffusé par Radio NZ. Prix Philip Neill (1985) de l’université d’Otago, NZ. Interpreté à un concert de musique contemporaine à Nelson, NZ (July 1989).

Terence Dennis

Terence Dennis is widely regarded as one of New Zealand's finest musicians, and has an international reputation as a highly-sought accompanist. His performances throughout New Zealand and overseas have received high acclaim, and he regularly partners leading resident musicians and distinguished visiting artists in recital and recordings (German cellist Maria Kliegel, American violinist Ian Swenson, American soprano Alessandra Marc, American mezzo-soprano Kathleen Kuhlmann, Scottish soprano Margaret Marshall, British mezzo-soprano Sarah Walker, and the German baritone Eike Wilm Schulte.)

Terence Dennis is the William Evans Executant Professor in Piano at the Department of Music, University of Otago, New Zealand. He has taught in masterclasses in Australia, Japan, Korea and Taiwan and since 1991 he has been the official pianist for the finals of the Mobil Song Quest.

Many of Terence's students have achieved high success in tertiary training in New Zealand and abroad, and have been prizewinners in all the national piano competitions.