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Colin Decio - Pianist
Colin Decio
Colin Decio’s playing sounded immediately authoritative...."
" ..intelligently and musically played ..."
"...a splendid performance..."
The finest performance came in Cotswold Love, where the pianist’s most beautiful introduction continued to mingle lush and interesting textures…”
Jill Hopkins (Malvern Gazette)

(Video excerpt from Piano & Poetry DVD 1- made with the support of Creative New Zealand)
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Colin Decio - piano
Credits: Director/Producer - Jeremy Macey, Cinematographer - Waka Attewell nzcs, Sound Recordist - Ken Saville, Editor - Shane Loader, Post-production - POW Studios, Sound edit and mix - Callum Scott, Grade - Katie Parkinson


  • Piano & Poetry Recitals with performance poet Ingrid Prosser
Ingrid Prosser & Colin Decio
Piano & Poetry Recitals
Claire Graham - cello
Andy Wood - Bass
Catalin Chelaru - violin Philip Handy - cello
Talitha Annan - bass
Matt Spillett - tenor
Nella Hunkins - cello
Shulah Oliver - viola
Duo Dolcetinni
Colin Decio - piano

​Please visit Piano Works for more sound samples

                                           excerpts from DVDs on YouTube

Solo repertoire

William Byrd (1543 - 1623)
The Battell (Elizabethan Virginal Music)

J.F.Dandrieu (1682 - 1738)
Les Fifres
La Gemissante

Rameau (1683 - 1764)
Tambourin

JS Bach (1685 - 1750)
Preludes: BWV 846, 847, 848, 926, 927, 935, 936, 999 
Gavotte BWV 816
Two-Part Inventions: 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 13, 14
Three-Part Inventions: 5,11
Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring

Handel (1685 - 1759)
Sarabande HWV 437
Air "The Harmonius Blacksmith" HWV 430
Chaconne in G major HWV 435

​D. Scarlatti (1685 - 1757)
Sonatas: selection


​Liszt (1811 - 1886)
Mephisto Waltz no. 1
Piano Sonata in Bm
Etude no.3 - Un sospiro
Grand Etudes de Paganini no.3 - La Campanella
In dulci jubilo S186

Brahms (1833 - 1897)

Intermezzi Op 117
Rhapsody Op79 No.2
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Grieg (1843 - 1907)
Wedding Day at Troldhaugen
Lyric Pieces
Notturno
Heimwe
Solveig's Song


Sinding (1856 - 1941)
Rustle of Spring
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Gershwin (1898 - 1937)
Three Preludes

Poulenc (1899 - 1963)
Trois Novelettes
Mouvements Perpetuelles
Toccata
​Nocturnes


Khatchaturian (1903 - 1978)
Toccata
Waltz (from Masquerade)


​Shostakovich (1906 - 1975)
Piano Sonata No.2
Three Fantastic Dances

Preludes Op34
Preludes Op87 - selection
Polka

Daquin (1694 - 1772)
Le Coucou

CPE Bach (1714 - 1788)
Solfegietto
Variationen "Ich schlief, da traumte mir"


Haydn (1732 - 1809)
Sonatas: selection 
Ochsen-menuett
La Roxolane


Mozart (1756 - 1791)
Rondo alla Turca KV 331
Fantasie in Dm KV 397
Rondo KV 485
Sonata in C major K545


Beethoven (1770 - 1827)
6 Ecossaisen
Fur Elise
'Moonlight' Sonata
Sonata in Dm (Tempest)​
​Sonata in G major 


​Debussy (1862 - 1918)
Preludes No.6, No.10 (La Cathedral Engloutie)
Children's Corner Suite
Nocturne
Pour le piano

L'isle Joyeuse
Reverie
Clair de lune (Suite Bergamasque)

Satie (1866 - 1925)
Gnossiennes 1- 6
Trois Gymnopedie
Avant-Dernieres Pensees


Scott Joplin (1868 - 1917)
The Entertainer


Rachmaninoff (1873 - 1943)
Preludes: Op 3 No.2
Op 32 Nos. 5,10 & 12
​Op 23 Nos.1, 3, 4, 5, 6 & 7

Nocturne in Am
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Britten (1913 - 1976)
Night (from Holiday Diary)
​Notturno

Bryan Kelly (1934 - )
Oxford Nocturne


Decio
own works
Schubert (1797-1828)
Impromptus D899
Scherzo in Bb D593


Mendelssohn (1809 - 1847)
Lied ohne worte (various)

Schumann (1810 - 1856)
Von fremden Landern und Menschen Op15 no.1 & 7
Traumerie

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Chopin (1810 - 1849)
Waltzes: Op34 no.2, Op64 no.1,2,3, Op69 no.1, 2, Op70 no. 2, KK IVa no. 15, KK IVb no. 11
Mazurkas: Op7 no. 1, 2, 5, Op24 no. 1, Op28 no. 4, 6, 7, 15 Op34 no.2, Op64 no. 2, Op70 no.2 
Preludes: Op28 no. 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 15, 20, 22, Ab 
Fantasie Impromptu Op 66
Nocturnes: Op9 no.1, 2, Op15 no.1, 3, Op27 no. 1, Op37 no.1 2, Op48 no. 1, 2, Op55 no.1, Op72 no. 1, C#m BI 49 (posthumous)
Polonaises: Op26 no.1,Op40 no.1 & 2,Op71no.1  
Etudes: Op25 no. 1, 2, 12, Three Etudes: no. 1, 2
Ballades: Op 23, 38, 47, 52


​Holst (1874 - 1934)

Toccata
Nocturne


Schoenberg (1874 - 1951)
​6 little pieces

Ravel (1875 - 1937)
Sonatine
Jeaux d'eau
Alborado del gracioso
Pavanne pour une infanta defunte
Ondine (from Gaspard de la nuit)


Bartok (1881 - 1945)
Allegro Barbaro
Szonatina


Prokofiev (1891 - 1953)
Peter and the Wolf (with narrator)
Piano Sonatas: Nos.1, 6, & 9
Suggestion Diabolique
Musiques d'Enfants
​Montagues and Capulets


For those who kept saying it can't be done:
Never are the victories or the honours won.
But, rather,
By the believing, doing kind,
While the doubters watched
From
Far Behind."

​Bruce Lee
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