I am also a composer. This page exists to list some of my orchestral and chamber music, which may be downloaded as sound files or as sheet music.
Some orchestral and chamber music
Concerto for trumpet (and harp) and orchestra was written for Anthony
Heinrichs of the Sydney Symphony. It has had seven performances so far in Australia and the US. Initially a trumpet concerto, but I later added a prominent solo harp part. It works well in both formats. Here are Anthony and Marjorie Maydwell with Symphony Central Coast conducted by Steven Stanke.
Circle of Fourths was performed in the Sydney Symphony Orchestra's Playerlink program, by Symphony Central Coast, 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. (Occasionally performed 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.
Parts and scores. This music is self published. Some is on IMSLP. Some is available from me or downloaded from this site. Write to:
Joe Wolfe / J.Wolfe@unsw.edu.au, phone 61-2-9385 4954 (UT + 10, +11 Oct-Mar).The magazine Australasian Science did a profile on me recently. Margaret Throsby did an interview with me for the ABC's The interview.
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