Category: Solo

Elements, Moments, and Phenomena

SOLO
guitar

Duration: 11′
Composed: 2020

Excerpt:

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Premiere:

Benjamin Borg, guitar, 21st Century Guitarfest, March 24, 2021 … Read More

Smoke darkened sky

SOLO
piano

Duration: 12′
Composed: 2021

Programme Note:

The pandemic has seared many images into our consciousness.  For me, one that made a deep impression was during the second wave in India.  There were so many deaths from Covid that … Read More

Dr. Blue’s Incredible Bone-Shaking Drill Engine

SOLO
percussion:  2 bongos, 3 tom-toms, 1 bass drum, bell metronome

Duration: ca. 10 minutes

Premiere: First performance by Zac Pulack, July 2017.

Sample:

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The Book of Elegant Feelings

SOLO
cello

Duration: ca. 10 minutes
Composed: 2017

Programme Note: The concept of elegance in science and mathematics refers to simplicity.  Mathematical elegance is exhibited when a theorem is surprisingly simple yet effective.  In chemistry one might strive for elegance … Read More

One For Solitude

SOLO
violin

Duration: ca. 5 minutes
Composed: 2010

Programme Note: “I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.” – Henry David Thoreau

One for Solitude for solo violin was commissioned for the … Read More

Let Hands Speak

SOLO
piano

Duration: ca. 8 minutes
Composed: 2003

Programme Note: Let Hands Speak was commissioned for the Fourth Honens International Piano Competition as the imposed piece to be played by all twenty-one finalists.  As a work that is meant to … Read More

Star Burning Blue

SOLO
piano

Duration: ca. 10 minutes
Composed: 2000

Programme Note: Star Burning Blue  was commissioned by the Esther Honens International Piano Competition for Maxim Philippov; first laureate of the 1996 competition.  It is a single movement work lasting approximately 8 … Read More

Illuminations

SOLO
harp

Duration: ca. 12 minutes
Composed: 2000

Programme Note: Illuminations was commissioned by Judy Loman through a grant from the Canada Council for the Arts, and was written especially for concert at the International Harp Congress in Cleveland, June … Read More

Aural Tectonics: Fragments, Shards, and Jagged Little Pieces

SOLO
piano

Duration: ca. 15 minutes

Programme Note: Some objects, either in art or in the physical world, are made up of smaller elements which have come together by accident or design.  Tectonics is the study of how the object … Read More

The Company of My Soul

SOLO
alto saxophone and digital delay

Duration: ca. 5 minutes

Premiere: First performance by Jeremy Brown, University Theatre, Calgary, March 19, 1995… Read More

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