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Chamber Works


Duets

​Fanfare for Two Trumpets - duration 1:12
(commissioned for the 'Bernard Brown Memorial Concert' 1986) 
​Sonatina for Cello and Double Bass
​duration 9:00
​Sonata for Two Pianos - duration 20:00
-
'Hridayam'
Hall of Mirrors 
​Album of Grade 1/2 
piano duets - 'Twenty fingers - one piano'

Trios

Piano Trio No.1
Anne FrankBatik painting by Greg Tricker

'Het Achterhuis'
The Secret Annexe
(for Anne Frank) 

for piano, violin and cello
in six movements​
​
Duration 37 minutes

(​See also Souvenir d'Anne Frank)

.....serious, moving premiere'' 
(Charles Hutchinson The Press)
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Excerpts


​Download Souvenir d'Anne Frank Education Pack for high schools -
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I am deeply impressed by Ensemble's Souvenir d'Anne Frank project. It is in my opinion not only an educational production of high value to young people, but an amazingly fascinating theatrical and musical event, that I will never forget. The collaborative painting workshop is another addition to this project, which will surely influence everyone attending it in a most humanistic way in the ideals of my cousin Anne Frank. I wish Souvenir d'Anne Frank all the success it deserves.”
​Buddy Elias (Anne Frank's cousin)
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Buddy Elias
By Scott-Hendryk Dillan


 Very beautiful, touching and well worthy of its subject" - Robert Oliver (of Palliser Viols)

Piano Trio No. 2 - for piano, violin and cello. 
​In three movements - duration 11:42
Clarinet Trio - for clarinet in Bb, viola and piano. 
​In four movements - duration 18:40
Piano Trio No.3 - 'Fragments', for violin, cello & piano
- duration 17:43 ​​ - new work 2022
Piano Trio No.4 - for violin, cello & piano
- duration 11:30
I - A leisurely stroll through parliament grounds
II - Sleeping with the enemy
III - Dancing with the devils

​​ - new work 2022
​Klezmer Trio Suite - clarinet in Bb, cello and piano.
​In four movements - duration 11:00

​String Trio No. 1 - 'formalism'  - violin, viola and cello, in three movements 
​
- duration 23:00

Chorale for Three Bassoons​ - 3 Bassoons
​
 - This work was awarded First Prize and the Audience Award in the
​New Zealand Double Reed Society Chamber Music Competition July 2018 
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 Chorale for Three Bassoons by ...... Colin Decio brings a new voice to New Zealand composition, exploring a rich sound world almost Russian in its intensity."
Dame Gillian Whitehead ​

Quartets

String Quartet No. 1 -  'Of steel and concrete'  
in three movements - duration 15:00

String Quartet No. 2 
in three movements - duration 27:00

String Quartet No. 3 
in four movements - duration 36:00

The Opening of a Rose 
for string quartet in one movement - duration 6:00

The Jews of Old Prague 
for string quartet in one movement - duration 6:00
“The music was simply beautiful.. it was haunting.. it was heartfelt.. and the musicians received quite an applause.... I cannot begin to tell you how moving and powerful it was...”
​- 
audience member's response to live performance of The Jews of Old Prague
Suite for String Quartet  - new work 2021 - duration 15:00
  1. Person of ethnic origin
  2. Looking into the distance
  3. A fond memory
  4. Hilly Day

​Stolypin's Necktie - for string quartet in one movement
​duration 8:00

Piano Quartet
Piano, Violin, Viola, Cello - duration 11:20
You Tube video of 2nd Quartet entire

Quintets

Spirits of Our Age I - for piano and string quartet - duration 13:40
Angularity - for harpsichord and string quartet. In one movement - duration 15:00

Chamber Ensemble

Spirits of Our Age III - small chamber ensemble duration 13:44
fl, cl in Bb, tpt in C, trb, piano, 2 V1, 2 V2, 3 Va, 2 Vc, 1 bass 
Triumph of Death
Deathdance 
solo violin,  flute, 3 Clarinets in Bb, Trumpet, 
Harmonium & 2 percussionists.

Based on the painting - Triumph of Death 
(dated 18 April 1944) 
by Felix Nussbaum


Duration 8:00
​
World-premiere 1985 ​Birmingham School of Music

Deathdance

​Maidan Snowdrops II -
for ten double basses, ​French horn and piano
Winchcombe
photography by Ingrid Prosser

Three Studies in Time - mixed chamber group
The Opening of a Rose - string orchestra - duration 7:00
 - 'in memory of the victims of 911'
​

Space Ride - 'through an abundance of splendours' - (For Schools)
- flute choir, piano duet, synthesizer, electric guitar, bass guitar, drum kit and percussion
- duration 10:00

Viol consort

​short closing excerpt from premiere
'Lord Have Mercy' - for viol consort - duration 8:00
His compositional style reflects his Ukrainian heritage with echoes of Shostakovich, yet is entirely original in his harmonic language, melodies and articulations."
Robert Oliver of Palliser Viols

Recorders

Kyrie
for
Recorder Consort

1 Descant
2 Trebles
2 Tenors
1 Bass

- duration 4:00
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​​Zwischenspielen I - IV  (Interludes) for Recorder Quartet
​(descant, treble, tenor & bass) - duration 9 mins

​​​Zwischenspiele V  for Recorder Sextet
​(sopranino, descant, treble, tenor, bass and great bass) - duration 5:30 mins
 

​​Golden Threads - Suite for Recorder Consort​ in four movements
(1 sopranino, 2 descants, 2 trebles, 2 tenors, 1 bass, 1 great bass)
​- duration 10:00 mins ​- New work 2022

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String Works
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