Percussion
Percussion works by Katy Abbott: solo percussion pieces, a percussion quartet, and works for percussion with cello. Solo snare drum, solo hi-hit pieces alongside a work for vibraphone and cello, for tertiary and professional players. Scores and parts are linked with each piece.
Solo and Ensemble Percussion
Whirl
(2023)
Solo Snare Drum
Duration: 5 minutes
Commissioned by Melbourne Symphony Orchestra for the 2023 Snare Drum Award
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‘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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‘Taking Chances’ from Hidden Thoughts: Do I Matter?
(2017/arr. 2020, Eric Wilie)
Percussion Quartet
Duration: 2 minutes
Premiered at PASIC 2021: Percussion Arts Society International Convention, Indianapolis.
This work, originally for solo player (2 hi-hats + crotales) is the opening movement of Hidden Thoughts: Do I Matter?, winner of the 2019 Paul Lowin Prize for Composition.
This arrangement could act as a ‘palette cleanser’ being fresh and short, yet is also a vibrant and energetic concert opener/closer.
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Recorded and arranged by UNC Greensboro (Eric Willie, Director).
Percussion and Cello
Composed and arranged for Claire Edwardes (pc) and Julian Smiles (cello).
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)
The Empty Quarter
(2008)
Percussion Duo + Cello
Duration: 15 minutes
Appears on Sunburnt Aftertones: The Chamber Music of Katy Abbott.
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