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Whirl

(2023)

Solo Snare Drum
Duration: 5 minutes
Commissioned by Melbourne Symphony Orchestra for the 2023 MSO Snare Drum Award.

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Seranade

(2022)

Viola and Double Bass
Duration: 3 minutes

Composed and Commissioned by Rob Nairn (double bass) and Heidi von Bernewitz (viola).

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Still

(2020)

Clarinet in Bb and piano
Duration: 5:30 minutes

Commissioned by Australia Ensemble for David Griffiths and Ian Munro.

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Performance Watch the Australia Ensemble perform Still – with interviews with performers and composer.

Earth Lullaby

(2017)

Shakuhachi + String Quartet
Duration: 10 minutes
For the 5 Elements Project.

Commissioned by and composed for Enigma Quartet + Riley Lee.

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From the 5 Elements Album

Culturally, we have lost the art of trusting our intuition as individuals or a group. This piece requires the musicians to trust their own instincts as well as each other’s sense of musicality. It requires trust ideally with one instrument not being more ‘present’ than another.

The musical and human elements must interlock in order to function fully.
Our environment – the Earth, is a most wonderful role model.

‘Taking Chances’ from Hidden Thoughts I: Do I Matter?

(2017)

Solo Percussion (2 hi-hats + crotales)
Duration: 2 minutes

This work, for solo player (2 hi-hats + crotales) is the opening movement of Hidden Thoughts I: Do I Matter?, winner of the 2019 Paul Lowin Prize for Composition (song-cycle).

The movement aims to be a palette cleanser for the audience as they settle in to the one-hour performance comprising of hidden thoughts.

Also available as a percussion quartet work (arr Eric Wilie, USA).

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Re-Echo

(2015)

Vibraphone + Cello
Duration: 5 minutes

FEATURED WORK

FEATURED WORK

Composed and arranged for Claire Edwardes (pc) and Julian Smiles (cello).

Kammerbox

It also appears as a recording on Kammerbox (ABC Classics)

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Interview with Katy Abbott on Re-Echo being chosen as one of three Australian pieces to be presented to the 2016 International Rostrum of Composers in Wroclaw, Poland.


Performance of Re-Echo by Claire Edwardes (vibraphone) and Blair Harris (cello)

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Glisten

(2013)

Solo Piano
Duration: 4 minutes

FEATURED WORK

PROFILE IN FULL

Structurally based on the Scarlatti Sonatas, Glisten is a sparkling, short virtuosic work. It is popular as a concert opener, post-graduate piano recitals and aims to bring lightness to a concert program.

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UndercurrenT

(2011)

Soprano Saxophone + Piano
Duration: 11:40 minutes
Incandescence

Appears on HD Duo’s disc Incandescence (Tall Poppies Records) Commissioned by HD Duo.

UndercurrenT II is an arrangement for trumpet, trombone and electric guitar.

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Excerpt of UndercurrenT

Valentine

(2011)

Flute + Piano
Duration: 7:30 minutes
Commissioned by Stewart Taylor for his wife Mary Taylor.

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The Australian Music Centre

MultiSonics!

(2010)

Solo Bassoon
Duration: 10 minutes

Composed for Mark Gaydon (bassoon). Also available for saxophone.

Advanced level.

Sunburnt Aftertones

Appears on Sunburnt Aftertones: The Chamber Music of Katy Abbott.

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Sapphire Shimmer, Silica Slide

(2005)

Piano: 4 hands
Duration: 4 minutes
‘Sapphire Shimmer, Silica Slide’ was written in response to a gift I received. The gift was to go on a morning sand dune safari, riding four-wheel drive motorbikes in the mountainous dunes near Nelson Bay, New South Wales, Australia. Although terrifying at first, it was magnificent.

The coast was spectacular; huge white dangerous dunes and the sparkling ocean. We were told we had to ride exactly in the path of the leader or risk being fatally surprised by a dune that could collapse or avalanche. We rode as we were told and the exhilaration coupled with the beauty made for a wonderful morning. The bikes were noisy but the stillness of the ocean and sand was magic.

This piece is dedicated to Mavis Shannon, my childhood neighbour and piano teacher, who encouraged me musically and was like my second grandmother.

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Promethean Editions

Egyptian Wish

(2001)

Soprano Saxophone + Electronics
Duration: 7 minutes

Also available as Soprano Saxophone Trio.

Sunburnt Aftertones

Appears on Sunburnt Aftertones: The Chamber Music of Katy Abbott.

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Echoes of Another Age

(2001)

Tuba and Piano
Duration: 5 minutes

Composed for Per Forsberg (tuba).

Also available for bass trombone and piano.

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Not Just Another Day

(2001)

Solo Piano
Duration: 2:30 minutes
Composed to celebrate the birth of Sophie Saunders, December 2001.

Recorded on Jeanell Carrigan’s Piano CD Skins (2011).

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The Australian Music Centre


Listen to Not Just Another Day

Autumn Song

(1996/rev.2001)

Saxophone + Piano (+ other arr)
Duration: 4 minutes

AMEB Alto Saxophone Grade 5 List.

Also available for most woodwind, brass and string instruments.

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