UPCOMING CONCERTS
Check out our 2024 Ensemble Offspring concerts here and my solo highlights in 2024 include:
2 May (Verity Lane) - Canberra International Music Festival - Solo Recital
30 May & 2 June (Melbourne Recital Centre) - Melbourne Chamber Orchestra - Natalie Williams Percussion Concerto and Vivaldi Vibraphone Concerto (originally for recorder)
16 & 17 October (Melbourne) - Momentum Ensemble, AYO - soloist
27 Otocber (Mount Macedon) - Claire with Blair Harris (cello) Macedon Music
28 November (St John Paul College Theatre) - Coffs Harbour Music Society - Solo Recital
REPERTOIRE
As a percussionist who is committed to the performance, promotion and dissemination of the music of our time, I have been a staunch advocate for my instrument throughout my 25 year career. I love to collaboratively commission and champion new works for percussion by both Australian and international composers and I’m very passionate about building the solo percussion repertoire with a big prioritisation on gender equity. I recently collated my MEGA LIST of percussion repertoire (by instrument) with the aim of focusing on better gender equity than other percussion repertoire lists I had located on the net. Let me know what you think and if you have any ideas for additions.
I recently collated a list of percussion representative works from the Australian Music Centre catalogue with a brief introduction on the history of percussion music in Australia here. And below is a list of over 50 solo works which have been written for me as well as a list of chamber works and concerto’s. Be sure to check out our brand new Ensemble Offspring website for a comprehensive list of even more newly commissioned chamber music. And please do feel free to contact me for more information about any of the works on this list. Many have been recorded on my five solo discs: Coil, Flash, One, Kammerbox and Clairaudient, can be found on YouTube or via the Australian Music Centre. All works are listed below in chronological order.
^ denotes written for Claire
🇦🇺 denotes Australian work
SOLO AUSTRALIAN COMmissions & premieres
Lachlan Skipworth - Ocean Pulse (marimba solo) 2023 ^🇦🇺
Hollis Taylor (& Jon Rose) - N’dhala Gorge (vibraphone & backing track) ^🇦🇺
Alice Chance - Mirroring (vibraphone solo) 2021 ^🇦🇺
Peggy Polias - Receptor (marimba solo) (2021) ^🇦🇺
Maria Grenfell - Stings & Wings (marimba solo) (2021) ^🇦🇺
Anne Cawrse - Dance Vignettes (marimba solo) (2021) ^🇦🇺
Bree van Reyk - Slipstreams (vibraphone solo) (2021) ^🇦🇺
Melody Eötvös - Antumbra (glockenspiel & electronics) (2022) ^🇦🇺
Elena Kats-Chernin - Poppy’s Polka (vibraphone solo) (2020) ^🇦🇺
Hollis Taylor/Jon Rose - Dalrymple 2013 (marimba & field recording) (2020) ^🇦🇺
Nicole Lizeè - Ribbon Windows A/B (percussion solo) (2019/2020) ^
Luke Styles - Hexaburst (hi hat solo) (2020) ^🇦🇺
Ciaran Frame - Triangle (1 minute triangle solo) (2020) ^🇦🇺
Ella Macens - Falling Embers (vibraphone & crotales solo) (2020) (premiered Bowral Autumn Music Festival 2020) ^🇦🇺
Andrew Ford - Hook (vibraphone solo) (2018) ^🇦🇺
Christopher Fox - An Extraordinary Mildness (vibraphone solo) (2020) (premiered Lone Hemispheres: The Solo Sessions) ^
Claire Edwardes - Screechers and Sorrows (waterphone solo) (2019) (premiered Wollongong Sound Lounge 2019) ^🇦🇺
Tristan Coelho - A Line is a Dot that Went for a Walk (2018) (vibraphone & percussion solo) ^🇦🇺
Benjamin Drury - Stained Glass (2018) (vibraphone & backing track) *Commissioned by CIMF ^🇦🇺
Claire Edwardes & Paul Mac - Dual Attractor (percussion + electronics from RECITAL) (premiered SIMA 2018) ^🇦🇺
Rhyan Clapham - Drum Dreamer (2019) (snare drum & backing track) ^🇦🇺
Andrew Ford - No one could relax around Jezebel (soprano & percussion) (2017) (premiered Port Fairy Spring Festival 2018) ^🇦🇺
Kate Moore - Spel (vibraphone) (2018) 🇦🇺
Paul Stanhope - Raqad (marimba solo & duo) (2017) (premiered AFCM 2018) ^🇦🇺
Claire Edwardes - Fathom Soundtrack (2017) Vivid Sydney ^🇦🇺
Claire Edwardes - ether lines (waterphone) (2017) ^🇦🇺
Elizabeth Younan - Electors of Middlemarch (percussion & voice) (2017) ^🇦🇺
Natalie Nicolas - I beat with the world outside (percussion & pre recorded track) (2017) ^🇦🇺
Ella Macens - Colour Burst (multi-percussion) (2017) ^🇦🇺
Clare Strong - Moonlight (metal percussion) (2017) ^🇦🇺
Clare Strong - Behind Blue Eyes (vibraphone) (2016) ^🇦🇺
Hollis Taylor - Owens Springs Reserve 2016 & 2011 (vibraphone) (2016) ^🇦🇺
Ella Macens - Verve (marimba) (2016) ^🇦🇺
Elizabeth Younan - Agitation (marimba) (2016) ^🇦🇺
Amanda Cole - Glocken Blocken (marimba, almglocken) (2015) ^🇦🇺
Drew Crawford/Claire Edwardes - Percussion of the Stars (Babies Proms Show) (2015) ^🇦🇺
Marcus Whale/Tom Smith - Work (multi, electronics) (2015) ^🇦🇺
Peter McNamara - Amplitude (multi, electronics) (2014) ^🇦🇺
Damian Barbeler - Deviations on White (vibraphone) (2014) ^🇦🇺
Melody Eötvös - Counterpoint (multi, electronics) (2014) ^🇦🇺
Alex Pozniak - Surge (2014) (marimba, electronics) ^🇦🇺
Damien Ricketson - Time Alone (2014) (vibraphone, electronics) ^🇦🇺
Ekrem Mulayim - and we chart the topography of a moment (finger bells) (2012) ^🇦🇺
Matthew Shlomowitz - Hi Hat & Me (hi-hat, voice) (2010) ^🇦🇺
Stuart Greenbaum - April Revisited (marimba) (2010) ^🇦🇺
Elena Kats-Chernin - Violet's Etude (marimba) (2010) ^🇦🇺
Andrea Keller - Pierrot the Clown (marimba) (2010) ^🇦🇺
Daniel Rojas - Mirimba (marimba) (2010) ^🇦🇺
Peter McNamara - Voltage (multi) (2010) ^🇦🇺
Chris Williams - New Ecstasies (multi) (2009) ^🇦🇺
Matthew Hindson - Flash (marimba) (2008) ^🇦🇺
Andrew Ford - The Armed Man (multi) (2004) ^🇦🇺
Ross Edwards - More Marimba Dances (marimba, crotales, temple blocks) (2004) ^🇦🇺
Dominik Karski - Beginnings to no End (marimba, bongos) (1999) (marimba & woodblock solo) ^🇦🇺
Andrew Schultz - Winter Ground (vibraphone) (1998) ^🇦🇺
Mark Pollard - Just a Moment, One Sweet Moment & In the Heat of the Moment (vibraphone) (1997) 🇦🇺
Damien Ricketson - Hol-Spannen-Luiden (marimba, multi, gongs) (1997) ^🇦🇺
SOLO INTERNATIONAL ComMISSIONS & PREMIERES
Steve Reich - Vermont Counterpoint (vibraphone, xylophone, CD version) (2015)
John Adams - Alleged Dances (arr. by Claire Edwardes for percussion & string quartet)
Richard Pressley - Patina (glockenspiel solo) (2013) (Aus premiere)
Joao Pedro Oliviero - Vox Sum Vitae (vibraphone, electronics) (2013) (Aus premiere)
Vincent Ho - Nostalgia (vibraphone) (2011) (Aus premiere)
Sam Hayden - Impetus (multi) percussion (2005) ^
Laurence Crane - Solo for Claire Edwardes (vibraphone, almglocken, bass drum, electronics) (2005) ^
Yannis Kyriakides - Lab Fly Dreams (multi, electronics) (2003-2005) (German premiere)
Oscar Bettison - Krank (multi) (2004) ^
Seung-Won Oh - Circle (multi) (2004) ^
Louis Andriessen - Woodpecker (marimba, woodblocks, temple blocks) (1999) (premiered as part of Tromp Percussion Competition Finale 2000)
Toshio Hosokawa - Reminiscence (marimba solo) (2002) (UK premiere)
PERCUSSION CONCERTO COMMISSIONS, PREMIERES & REPERTOIRE FAVOURITES
Anne Cawrse - Marimba Concerto (2023) ^🇦🇺
Natalie Williams - Steeling Fire (percussion concerto with string orchestra) (2022) ^🇦🇺
Kim Bowman - Black Wind (marimba, multi, string orchestra) (2005) ^🇦🇺
Elliot Carter - Two Controversies and a Conversation (percussion, piano, chamber orchestra) (2010)
Unsuk Chin - Double Concerto (multi, piano, chamber orchestra) (2002) (NL premiere)
Joe Duddell - Snowblind (concertante for percussion & string orchestra)
Mary Finsterer - Silva (vibraphone, multi, instrumental quintet) (2012) ^🇦🇺\
David Gillingham - Concerto no. 2 for Marimba (marimba & wind band)
Iain Grandage - Dances with Devils Percussion Concerto (marimba, vibraphone, multi, full orchestra) (2015) ^🇦🇺
Stuart Greenbaum - Chamber Concerto (vibraphone, flute, chamber orchestra) (2008) ^🇦🇺
Matthew Hindson - String Quartet no.4 (vibraphone, string quartet) (2016) ^🇦🇺
Heinz Holliger - Ma’mounia (multi, instrumental quintet) (2002) (Aus premiere)
Elena Kats-Chernin - Golden Kitsch (vibraphone, multi, full orchestra) (2009) ^🇦🇺
Steve Mackey - Micro Concerto (1999) (NZ premiere)
James MacMillan - Veni Veni Emmanuel (1992)
James MacMillan - Percussion Concerto no. 2 (2014) (Aus premiere)
Karlo Margetic - Xylophone Concerto (2009) (Aus premiere)
Peter McNamara - The Styx (multi, chamber orchestra) (2009) ^🇦🇺
Richard Mills - Soundscapes (1983) 🇦🇺
Kevin Puts - Marimba Concerto (marimba, orchestra) (1997)
Einojuhani Rautavaara - Incantations (percussion concerto) (2008)
Daniel Rojas - Marimba Concerto (marimba & full orchestra) (2013) ^🇦🇺
Emmanuel Sejourne - Vibraphone Concerto (vibraphone & string orchestra) (1999)
Joseph Schwantner - Percussion Concerto (marimba, vibraphone, multi, full orchestra) (1994) (Aus premiere)
Toru Takemitsu - Gitimalya (marimba & string orchestra) (1986)
Juan Felipe Waller - Detone Retune (multi, instrumental quintet) (2014) ^
MY FAVOURITE
EXISTING SOLO
WORKS
Javier Alvarez - Temazcal (maracas, tape) (1984)
Harrison Birtwistle - The Axe Manual (marimba, vibraphone, multi, piano) (2000) (CD recording premiere)
Jacob Druckman - Reflections on the Nature of Water (marimba) (1986)
Franco Donatoni - Omar (vibraphone) (1985)
Ross Edwards - Marimba Dances (marimba solo) (1982)
Morton Feldman - The King of Denmark (multi) (1964)
Vinko Globokar - ?Corporel (body percussion) (1984)
Peter Klatzow - Dances of Earth and Fire (marimba) (1987)
Per Norgard - I Ching - The Gentle The Penetrating (thumb piano, temple bowls, timpani) (1982)
Kaija Saariaho - Six Japanese Gardens (multi & backing track)
Roberto Sierra - Bongo-0 (bongos) (1982)
Frederic Rzewski - To The Earth (flower pots, voice) (1985)
Iannis Xenakis - Rebonds A/B (1988), Psappha (1975) (multi)
Joe Chindamo - Triangolo de Pensieri (vibraphone, clarinet, piano)
Damien Ricketson - Hectic Tulip (marimba, bass clarinet & electronics)
Eric Avery - Biamanga Juxtaposed (movt 2. Wind (of Ancestors) for violin & marimba
Jessica Wells - Rain Goddess (marimba & harp)
Natalie Nicolas - Catch Me If You Can (marimba & saxophone)
Elena Kats-Chernin - Dance of the Paper Umbrella’s (marimba & harp)
Gene Koshinsky - Get It! (arr. for cajon & cello)
Stuart Greenbaum - Life in a Day (marimba & saxophone)
Gerard Brophy - Three Places in Van (marimba & bass clarinet)
Nardi Simpson - Of Stars & Birds (vibraphone, clarinet and flute)
Melody Eötvös - Tardigradus (flute, vibraphone & electronics) (2017) ^🇦🇺
Lachlan Skipworth - Intercurrent (bass clarinet, piano, marimba) (2016) ^🇦🇺
Connor d’Netto - Brief Moments (guitar, vibraphone) (2016) ^🇦🇺
Alister Spence - Time is Time Enough (saxophone, vibraphone) (2015) ^🇦🇺
Kezia Yap - Coalesce (cello, percussion, electronics) (2015) ^🇦🇺
Gerard Brophy - dervish (guitar, vibraphone) (2015) ^🇦🇺
Fiona Loader - Lorikeet Corroboree (flute, clarinet, vibraphone) (2015) ^🇦🇺
Katy Abbott - Re-Echo (cello/vibraphone) (2015) ^🇦🇺
Jeremy Rose - Rites (trumpet, percussion) (2014) ^🇦🇺
Bruce Crossman - Double Resonances (multi, piano) (2009) ^🇦🇺
Tim Dargaville - Invisible Dance (saxophone, marimba) (2009) ^🇦🇺
Cyrus Meurant - Ritournelle (vibraphone, piano) (2008) ^🇦🇺
Alex Pozniak - The Tower of Erosion (drums, piano) (2008) ^🇦🇺
Andrew Ford - War and Peace (violin, percussion) (2004) ^🇦🇺
Michael Smetanin - Finger Funk (2 players, 1 marimba) (2004) ^🇦🇺
Benedict Weisser – Study for Four Hands (Piano Drumming) (marimba, vibraphone) (2004)
Juan Felipe Waller – Teguala (tiles duo) (duo version) (2002)
Giel Vleggaar - Come Here Often? (multi duo) (2002)
Ned McGowan - Urban Turban (marimba duo) (2001)
Samuel Vriezen - Toccata III (glockenspiel duo) (2001)
Drew Crawford - Quadrivium I (mallet percussion duo) (1998) ^🇦🇺
Jane Stanley - Celestial Dance (marimba, conga duo) (1998) ^🇦🇺
Georges Aperghis - Quatre Pièces fébriles (marimba, piano) (1995) *
Paul Dresher - Double Ikat (percussion, violin, piano) (1990) *
Toshi Ichiyanagi - Paganini Personal (marimba, piano) (1983-86) *
Please visit www.ensembleoffspring.com for many more new chamber works featuring percussion by Australian and international composers.