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Colin Decio - Pianist
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"Colin Decio’s playing sounded immediately authoritative...."
" ..intelligently and musically played ..."
"...a splendid performance..."

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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

(Video excerpt from Piano & Poetry DVD 1- made with the support of Creative New Zealand)


  • Piano & Poetry Recitals with performance poet Ingrid Prosser
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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

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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