Chamber Works
Duets
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Fanfare for Two Trumpets (commisioned for the Bernard Brown Memorial Concert 1986) duration 1:12
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Sonata for Two Pianos - 'Hridayam'
Hall of Mirrors - Album of beginners piano duets - 'Twenty fingers, one piano'
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Trios
 Batik painting by Greg Tricker
Piano Trio No. 1
- '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) Excerpts |
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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
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
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Chorale for Three Bassoons - 3 Bassoons
- This work was awarded First Prize and the the Audience Award in the New Zealand Double Reed Society Chamber Music Competition July 2018 |
Chorale for Three Bassoons by Wellingtonian Colin Decio brings a new voice to New Zealand composition, exploring a rich sound world almost Russian in its intensity." |
Quartets
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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...” |
Complete performance of String Quartet No2 in three movements
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Quintets
Piano Quintet No. 1 - 'Spirits of Our Age I' - (Nihilism, Narcissism, and Atavism)
- for piano quintet. In two movements - duration 15:00
- for piano quintet. In two movements - duration 15:00
Angularity - for harpsichord and string quartet. In one movement - duration 15:00
Chamber Ensemble
Deathdance
solo violin, fl, 3 Cl in Bb, tpt, 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 |
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Maidan Snowdrops II - for ten double basses,
French horn and piano 
photography by Ingrid Prosser
Three Studies in Time - mixed chamber group
Spirits of Our Age I - string orchestra and piano - duration 15:00 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 |
Lord Have Mercy for 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." |
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String Works