Sometimes more somber, sometimes more wistful, but always with a sense of soft languidness. There are wonderfully subtle contrasts in tone between the like instruments (bass clarinets and flutes), never going for mere effect, the tenderness coming first, elegiac but not sorrowful. All slow, tonal, with no repeating melodies or rhythms, the lines from each pair of instruments gently entwining. The compositions are of a piece, in a sense, though well differentiated. Four pieces, all duets: 'folie à deux i' (Erin Cameron and Luke Ellard, bass clarinets), 'somewhere, some place else' (Jonathan Kierspe, saxophone, Samuel Anderson, bass trombone), 'folie à deux iii' (Alaina Clarice and Linda Jenkins, flutes) and 'hiro yokose' (Mia Detwiler, violin, Reeder, piano). In addition he teaches piano, theory and composition, examines, and works as a music editor and copyist.'I believe this is the first recording of Reeder's work (fwiw, I can't see any listing for the seven other musicians on Discogs either). Included in their repertoire are Reeder’s duets, Duet 1 (Hidden melodies) and Duet 2. In 2007 he formed a duo piano partnership with his brother Max.

Available also is a CD entitled amBivALAeNCE, containing Molto espressivo for violin and piano, Chants at Play with Solid Background played by Het Trio, Glances, Repose for violin, Mandala Rite for clarinet and guitar and Interplay for guitar and electronics.Īn APA Scholarship enabled Haydn Reeder to gain his PhD degree in 2005 at the University of Melbourne.īesides composing, he continues to perform. His ensemble work After the Cry and Strong Song and Display for two pianos were released on CD by the Melbourne Composers League. His piano solo Masks has been recorded on the Move label, and in 1996, Vienna Modern Masters issued a CD containing Lark 2 for saxophone and orchestra. In 1992, two of his works, Games of Balance for harp solo and Celebration of the Mandala for seven trombones, reached the final round in the Fukai International Harp Music Competition (Japan) and the International Trombone Association Contest (USA), respectively. In addition he has written a chamber opera and orchestral, live-electronic, vocal and choral works. He has been commissioned by ensembles and soloists in London (the Australian Sinfonia, the Omega Guitar Quartet, the West Square Electronic Music Association) and Australia (Jochen Schubert, the Seymour Group, Flederman, Elision, the Melbourne Windpower, The Song Company). His awards include one of two equal prizes in the 1976 Premio ‘Città di Trieste’ for an orchestral piece, Attract and Repulse, two composer fellowships from the Australia Council and a similar fellowship from the Victorian Ministry for the Arts in 1989. There he later gained his Master of Arts for his compositions and a thesis. After his return to Australia in 1983 he lectured in theory and composition at La Trobe University, Melbourne. During this time his music was influenced by his contact with musicians such as Alfred Brendel, Harrison Birtwistle and Gyorgy Ligeti.

Later he worked extensively as an editor and proof-reader of contemporary music for Universal Edition in Vienna and London. He undertook postgraduate studies in piano and composition at the Graz and Vienna Academies of Music, Austria graduating with a Reifepruefung in composition.

Haydn Reeder was born in Melbourne and graduated from the University of Melbourne.

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