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Solos Duos Trios

Chamber music by Australian composer Haydn Reeder, performed by various artists.

With the exception of the piano solo Tolling Bell Song, all of the pieces are world premieres. That solo is the oldest piece: the others are relatively recent having been written during 2012 to 2023. Various styles and many different techniques will be discerned, ranging from chromaticism as in the expressionist-influenced Rondo to what I call evolving repetition as in Surrounding the Cello. Throughout, you will hear the influence of bells (Wheels Piece) and bell-ringing (Rondo).

Artists

Danae Killian

Dr Danaë Killian is an Australian pianist whose poetry-infused performances are known for their intense originality and expressive interpretive power. Her repertoire stretches across the complete solo piano music of the Expressionist Second Viennese School, major polyphonic works by JS Bach, and a wealth of Australian compositions. A passionate champion of modern art music, Danaë Killian typically performs some 40 contemporary compositions a year, from both Australia and abroad, around half of which are premieres.

Philip Nixon

Philip Nixon is a member of Orchestra Victoria, and has worked as a freelance musician with the Australian Chamber Orchestra, the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie, the Tasmanian Symphony and the Queensland Symphony.

Rosanne Hunt

Rosanne Hunt’s eclectic cello life includes playing contemporary music with Forest Collective, period cello with the Melbourne Baroque Orchestra and the Australian Classical and Romantic Orchestra and chamber music with the Inventi Ensemble.

Johanna Selleck

Johanna Selleck is a composer, musicologist, and flautist. She holds a PhD from the University of Melbourne, where she is currently an honorary fellow. Her compositions have been performed by internationally renowned artists including in Australia, Europe, the USA, Japan, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Singapore, Malta, and Israel.

Barbara Hornung

Barbara Hornung is an Australian violist from a large musical family. She was a member of the Australian Youth Orchestra and received her Bachelor of Music (Hons) degree from the Elder Conservatorium, Adelaide University in 1984.

Katia Mestrovic

Katia is an eclectic modern-classical harpist-composer. She’s a High Distinction graduate from The Sydney Conservatorium of Music (2022).

Susan Pierotti

Susan Pierotti began learning the violin at the age of six with Stella Nemet and continued her studies with her daughter, Mary Nemet, at the Victorian College of the Arts, and in London with Emanuel Hurwitz.

Elton Sun

Tianyi (Elton) Sun was born in Shanghai and began learning piano when he was 5 years old. Since arriving in Melbourne with his family in 2017 he has been studying piano with Betty Vergara-Pink. He was honoured to have been asked by Haydn Reeder to record some of the little studies on this CD when he was 12 years of age.


Audio previews

Track Listing

    Two Pieces for Piano Trio (2012) Haydn Reeder

  1. Growth and Transformation
  2. Flowering of the Resonances
  3. Lines in a Landscape (2016) Haydn Reeder
  4. Waxing and Waning (2019) Haydn Reeder
  5. Wheels within Wheels (2022) Haydn Reeder
  6. Tolling Bell Song (1998) Haydn Reeder

    7. Six Studies (2014) Haydn Reeder

  7. Study 1
  8. Study 2
  9. Study 3
  10. Study 4
  11. Study 5
  12. Study 6
  13. Wheels Piece (2022) Haydn Reeder
  14. The Spinning and Weaving of Destiny (2023) Haydn Reeder
  15. Surrounding the Cello (2023) Haydn Reeder
  16. Rondo (2021) Haydn Reeder

Performers

Composer

Haydn Reeder

Haydn Reeder holds Bachelor of Music and PhD degrees from the University of Melbourne and a Master of Arts degree from La Trobe University.


Where to buy

Solos Duos Trios is available as as CD. It can be purchased online through Buywell Music or the Australian Music Centre which both offer secure online ordering.

Move CDs can be ordered through music retailers across Australia including Readings.

Product details

List price
$25.00 AUD
Copyright
© 2024 Haydn Reeder
Phonogram
℗ 2024 Move Records
Categories
Australian, Classical
Catalogue number
MCD 666
Alternate catalogue number
MCD666
Barcode
EAN 9314574066623