Joe Wolfe: music page

Some orchestral and chamber music

• Concerto for trumpet and orchestra was written for Anthony Heinrichs of the Sydney Symphony. It has had seven performances so far in Australia and the US. Here is Anthony with Symphony Central Coast.
• Circle of Fourths was performed in the Sydney Symphony Orchestra's Playerlink program and (here) by the UNSW Orchestra for whom it was written. The principal theme is ... a circle of fourths.
• Quartet for flute, alto saxophone, bassoon and 'cello has had concert performances on all continents except Antarctica. A suite of five movements written because there is not enough chamber music combining saxophone with other instruments. Here being playd by Patricia Lazzara and friends in the Assisi Performing Arts Festival. (This work has also been arranged for saxophone quartet by Ellis Hendriksen.)

• The Stairway Suite is a collection of seven orchestral versions of the song 'Stairway to Heaven', each in the style of a different, well known composer. (Also regularly performed, mainly by youth or community orchestras.)
• Speech and music, effability and ineffability is a chamber opera, performed as a plenary session at the International Conference on Cognitive Science, held at Sydney in 2003. It was also performed as a plenary at the International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition. Although the debate was about as serious as one might expect from an opera, the issues discussed are scientifically interesting and the background paper from the proceedings is on the same site.
• Sydney Sketches is a symphonic tone poem. Four movements to evoke four locations during a summer's day in that city.



• Conjunction: An interactive introduction to the orchestra is written for school choirs and orchestra. I think that it is a good educational work for school students, but its attraction for community orchestras is that it produces large audiences.
• Anniversary Overture was written to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the University of New South Wales Orchestra.

And various miscellany, including 'Johnny's Big Red Bar and Grill' from my time spent at Cornell. This pre-concert talk about Wagner's Valkyrie.

Parts and scores. This music is self published and is available from me or downloaded from this site. For amateur orchestras, the score and parts may be available for the cost of post and handling, though I usually ask users of my music to make a donation to a charity. Write to:
Joe Wolfe / J.Wolfe@unsw.edu.au, phone 61-2-9385 4954 (UT + 10, +11 Oct-Mar).

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• Romano Crivici is an Australian composer of art music influenced by grooves and Slavic music.
• David Stanhope is an Australian composer and conductor known to many who saw the Sydney Olympic opening ceremony.
• Steven Stanke is an Australian composer who writes symphonic music and music scores.
• Rimshot music is the site for the music of Australian composer Nigel Westlake, well known for his film and concert music.