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Category: solo

Rhythmic Etudes – Book One
Compositions, piano, solo

Rhythmic Etudes – Book One

13 April 20251 December 2025

Instrumentation: Piano Duration: c. 32′   Commissioned by the Performing Arts Fund in the Netherlands […]

Three Pieces for Quarter Tone Clarinet
clarinet, Compositions, microtonal, solo

Three Pieces for Quarter Tone Clarinet

13 April 202226 November 2025

1. Slow Piece 2. Groove 3. Fuss Duration: 10′ Written for Gregory OakesCommissioned by the […]

Volt
Compositions, solo, viola, with fixed media

Volt

13 April 20152 December 2025

Viola and tape viola tape playback   Duration: 15′ Written for Kim Sparr First Performance: […]

Hallucination
Compositions, piano, solo

Hallucination

13 April 20143 December 2025

Fortepiano On the Fantasia in A Major by C.P.E. Bach (H.278, Wq.58/7) Duration: c. 8′ […]

Torrent
Compositions, flute, solo

Torrent

13 April 20112 December 2025

Solo flute Duration: c. 4′ 30″ Torrent took me 32 years to prepare for, 4.5 […]

For Crying Out Loud
Compositions, harpsichord, piano, solo

For Crying Out Loud

20 August 200430 November 2025

solo harpsichord / solo piano For Anne FaulbornFirst performance: Paradiso, Amsterdam, September 9, 2004  Solo […]

Workshop
Compositions, recorder, solo, with fixed media

Workshop

13 April 20043 December 2025

Recorder and tape alto recorder tape playback Flute and tape flute tape playback Duration: 12′ […]

Moonrise
Compositions, flute, solo

Moonrise

13 April 19983 December 2025

Solo flute Duration: 11′ “Moonrise (1998), the earliest piece recorded here, is a haunting and […]

Why?
Compositions, flute, solo

Why?

13 April 199430 November 2025

Solo flute Duration: 7 minutes Why? was written in 1994 after reading about all the […]

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