Chamber Works
Duets
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Fanfare for Two Trumpets - duration 1:12
(commissioned for the 'Bernard Brown Memorial Concert' 1986) |
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Sonatina for Cello and Double Bass - duration 9:00
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Hall of Mirrors
Album of Grade 1/2 piano duets - 'Twenty fingers - one piano'
Album of Grade 1/2 piano duets - 'Twenty fingers - one piano'
Trios
 Batik 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'' Excerpts |
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
By Scott-Hendryk Dillan Very beautiful, touching and well worthy of its subject" - Robert Oliver (of Palliser Viols) | ||||
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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 |
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Piano Trio No.3 - 'Fragments', for violin, cello & piano
- duration 17:43 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 Piano Trio No.5 - for violin, cello & piano New Work 'Unlikely Things Happen Through the Bodies of Beasts' (in memory of UK artist Adam White) Orreries I - III - duration 16:00 Adam created the painting 'Children's Games' for the premiere of my Symphony No.1 (The Gloucester Symphony). Sadly he passed away far too young at the age of 54 on Christmas Day 2022. As a student of composition I was discouraged from using diminished chords (something of the romantic past) and mixing styles. So I have done both of these in this eclectic work, which employs serial techniques such as inversion and retrograde inversion, fugue, stretto, counterpoint, melody and accompaniment, ostinato and dance forms. Adam's artwork was also quite eclectic so this seems to be a fitting piece in his memory. Adam was one-of-a-kind, a truly creative artist. |
Klezmer Trio Suite - clarinet in Bb, cello and piano. In four movements - duration 11:00 Wind Trio No.1 - Sonata da Camera
in three movements - for Flute, Oboe & Bassoon 1. Minuet 2. Sarabande 3. Paspy duration 9:40 
Orreries I - III
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Chorale for Three Bassoons - 3 Bassoons- duration 6:30
- This work was awarded First Prize and the Audience Award in the New Zealand Double Reed Society Chamber Music Competition July 2018 |
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." |
Quartets
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String Quartet No. 2
in three movements - duration 27:00 String Quartet No. 3
in four movements - duration 30:00 String Quartet No.4
in three movements - duration 15:00 String Quartet No.5
in two movements - duration 17:26 String Quartet No.6 - 'Daisian Chains'
in three movements - duration 18:00 String Quartet No.7
in three movements - duration 26:00 String Quartet No.8
in four movements - duration 24:00 String Quartet No.9 New Work
in three movements - duration 13:30 String Quartet No.10 New Work
'Circle Dances' in five movements - duration 24:15 Whilst writing this composition I had a vision of young couples in traditional costume holding hands and dancing in a circle. Not only did they dance the lively, joyful tunes but they also danced the more sorrowful ones by slowing down their movements as if in slow motion. The types of dances included are - Sarabande, Allemande, Gavotte, Irish Jig, Gigue, Sephardic Hora and a Ukrainian Dumka. The Dumka (Ukrainian Lament) was taught to me by my Ukrainian family when I visited them in 1994, shortly after the end of the Soviet era. It is also included in my Symphony No.2. The poignancy of the lament at the end of the six-movement work serves as a reminder of the Ukraine that has been lost to intolerable violence, stupidity and force.
String Quartet No.11 New Work in four movements - duration 19:47 |
String Quartet No.2
Suite for String Quartet - duration 15:00
The Opening of a Rose 9/11 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...” Harlequinade
for string quartet - duration 12:30 Stolypin's Necktie - for string quartet in one movement
duration 8:00 |
Quintets
Spirits of Our Age I - for piano and string quartet - duration 13:40
'Nihilism, Narcissism and Atavism'
'Nihilism, Narcissism and Atavism'
Angularity - for harpsichord and string quartet. In one through-composed movement - duration 15:00
Chamber Ensemble
Scored for - violin soloist, flute, 3 Clarinets in Bb, Trumpet in C, Harmonium Organ & 2/3 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 - duration 3:35
for ten double basses, French horn and piano 
photography by Ingrid Prosser
Three Studies in Time - mixed chamber group
Spirits of Our Age III - duration 14:00 scored for - Flute, Clarinet in Bb, Trumpet in C, Trombone, Piano, 2 Violin 1, 2 Violin 2, 3 Viola, 2 Cellos, 1 Bass 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 consortLord 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." |
Recorders |
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Zwischenspielen I - IV (Interludes) for Recorder Quartet
(descant, treble, tenor & bass) - duration 9 mins Zwischenspiele V (Interludes) 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 |
String Works