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suitable for ‘new music’ audiences and specialist performers
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The Underside Revealed

Year
1996
Category
Ambrosia, Utile Dulci
Genre
Concerto
Duration
18'
Premiere
Laura Brand, Sydney University Symphony Orchestra, Peter Platt; Great Hall, University of Sydney; 1997

for solo viola & string ensemble   

Solo Vla,  Vln I (2),  Vln II (2),  Vln III (2),  Vla (2),  Vlc (2),  D.B. (1)

Awarded the Royal Over-Seas League’s Bernard Shore Viola Composition Award

Selected Other Performances:  

James Wannan, Australia National Academy of Music Orchestra, John Harding; ANAM, Melbourne; 27 July 2004

Philip Dukes, BT Scottish Ensemble, Charles Hazlewood; Royal Academy of Music & Drama, Glasgow; July & London; July 1998

See Press for review


Media

Programme Note
Audio: complete
Score: bars 23-79
Audio: bars 24-79
Score: bars 95-129
Audio: bars 100-117