Check out my highlight videos or delve into my solo YouTube page or Ensemble Offspring’s YouTube, to discover the breadth of music I am passionate about and the people I love playing with! Almost all of the works written for me throughout my career have been documented either in video or on one of my releases below. And you can check them all out on a streaming platform of your choice. Enjoy!
I have 6 solo releases with Australian labels - Move, Tall Poppies and ABC Classic - as well as a couple of releases on international labels - Metronome and Karnatic. All tracks are available through my artist Spotify and Apple Music as well as physical discs that you can purchase through the Ensemble Offspring Shop. Further to these I am featured on many and various artist and composer releases including Mindy Meng Wang’s 2022 release Phoenix Rising on Bandcamp, Kate Moore’s Revolver on Unsounds and Bruce Crossman’s Heaven to Earth Border House on Navona. Ensemble Offspring also has a huge range of recordings available here.
Move
Released 2021
Claire Edwardes (percussion)
TRACKS
Grenfell, Maria - Stings & Wings
Macens, Ella - Falling Embers
Macens, Ella - Verve
Chance, Alice - Mirroring
Polias, Peggy - Slipstreams
Kats-Chernin, Elena - Violet’s Etude
Kats-Chernin, Elena - Poppy’s Polka
Cawrse, Anne - Dance Vignettes
“I can guarantee that anything Claire Edwardes does (whether solo or with Ensemble Offspring) is going to be absolutely fascinating...I love the idea that these new works aren’t just going to disappear overnight, as so many new pieces tend to...An outstanding release.”
Move
Released 2017
GUEST ARTIST
Jason Noble
TRACKS
Ho, Vincent - Nostalgia
Eötvös, Melody - How does a Miller
Eötvös, Melody - Leafcutter
Eötvös, Melody - And I was Tired
Ricketson, Damien - Time Alone
Whale, Marcus - Work
Eötvös, Melody - No Man
Reich, Steve - Vermont Counterpoint
“Clariaudient is a fascinating collection of recent works for solo percussion and fixed-media electronic music, superbly interpreted by Claire Edwardes.””
ABC Classics
Released 2017
GUEST ARTISTS
Karin Schaupp (guitar)
Julian Smiles (cello)
Bernadette Harvey (piano)
Anna McMichael (violin)
Jason Noble (clarinet)
Christina Leonard (saxophone)
TRACKS
Cole, Amanda - Glocken Blocken (marimba & almglocken solo) (WP)
Edwards, Ross - Djanaba (guitar, marimba)
Abbott, Katy - Re-Echo (cello, percussion)
Edwards, Ross - Binyang (clarinet, claves)
Psathas, John - Fragment (piano, vibraphone)
Brophy, Gerard - We Bop (alto saxophone, vibraphone)
Kats-Chernin, Elena - Blue Silence (bass clarinet, marimba)
Grenfell, Maria - Di Primavera (guitar, marimba)
Ford, Andrew - No Man's Land (violin, vibraphone/crotales)
Sculthorpe, Peter - Djilile (cello, marimba)
Charlton, Richard - Carpenteria (guitar, vibraphone)
Dargaville, Tim - Invisible Dance (soprano saxophone, marimba)
Greenbaum, Stuart - Two Interludes in Space (piano, violin, vibraphone
“For Kammerbox, Claire Edwardes collects chamber works, mostly duos, by Australian composers for performances by herself and other high profile instrumentalists. There is an excellent standard of musicianship demonstrated by all the players and the works presented are compositionally outstanding...”
Tall Poppies TP223
Released 2013
TRACKS
Xenakis, Iannis- Rebonds B & A
Shlomowitz, Matthew - Hi Hat & Me
Griswold, Erik - Chooks! (from Old MacDonald’s Yellow Submarine)
Crane, Laurence - Solo for Claire Edwardes
Alvarez, Javier - Temazcal
Greenbaum, Stuart - Clockwork Lemon
Stockhausen, Karlheinz - Tierkreis (Aquarius & Taurus)
Rzewski, Frederic - To the Earth
Sierra, Roberto - Bongo-0
“4 1/2 stars - It all sounds like a wonderful musical magic mystery tour ... Edwardes continues to show amazing technique on a whole variety of colourful instruments and she’s now sorted, for the moment, the problem of accommodating her instruments in the back of the car!””
“Displaying brilliant solo work, this recording is...mesmerising with its repetitive strains, but is also highly energetic and exciting. The multitude of different colours, along with intricate rhythmic challenges, makes this a disc of exceptional bravery by a performer, who brings to her work a creativity and uniqueness, that is so often not experienced.””
Tall Poppies TP215
Released 2011
TRACKS
J.S. Bach - O Sacred Head, Now Wounded
J.S. Bach - Lute Suite in E minor BWV 996
Schmitt, Matthias - from Sechs Miniaturen
Kats-Chernin, Elena - Violet’s Etude
Bartók, Béla - from Mikrokosmos
Greenbaum, Stuart - April Revisited
Schumann, Robert - from Album for the Young
Keller, Andrea - Pierrot the Clown
Corea, Chick - Children’s Songs
Rojas, Daniel - Mirimba
Shostakovich, Dimitri - from Six Little Pieces & Ballet Suite No. 3
Brophy, Gerard - Trance Ripples
Kabalevsky, Dimitry - from The First Book for Pianists
Edwards, Ross - Marimba Dances (1st movt)
Tchaikovsky, Peter Illych – from Album for the Young
Hindson, Matthew - Flash
“The title track of the recording by Matthew Hindson is typical of his high-energy music - intense, fast-paced and virtuosic. As usual Claire Edwardes responds to the music’s challenges. The piece rounds off a recording that shows off not just a fine and versatile instrument, but one of the great performers that we have in Australia. This recording is for anyone serious about new Australian music.””
Tall Poppies TP193
Released 2007
TRACKS
Brophy, Gerard – Coil
Edwards, Ross – More Marimba Dances
Ricketson, Damien – Hol-Spannen-Luiden (per coda)
Karski, Dominik – Beginnings to no End
Ford, Andrew – The Armed Man
Pollard, Mark – Just a Moment, One Sweet Moment
Schultz, Andrew – Winter Ground
“... a very colourful array of Australian composers of different generations, which all have a pop-like drive as a vehicle, in common.””
“Edwardes plays with the vitality necessary to make these pieces really sparkle, as well as with sensitivity to their dynamic subtleties. Tall Poppies’ sound is bright and nicely present.””
Karnatic Lab
Released 2006
DUO VERTIGO
Neils Meliefste (percussion)
TRACKS
Vriezen, Samuel – Toccata III (glockenspiel duo) 2001
Weisser, Benedict – Study for Four Hands - Piano Drumming (marimba and vibraphone duo) 2004
Crawford, Drew – Quadrivium 1 (percussion duo) 1998
Stanley, Jane – Celestial Dance (marimba and congas duo) 2000
Vleggaar, Giel – Come Here Often? (percussion duo with tape) 2002
McGowan, Ned – Urban Turban (marimba duo) 2001
Crego, Cliff – The Magic Box (marimba and vibraphone duo) 2000
“Stylish precision and poised clarity characterise this enterprising disc of new percussion music by the brilliantly versatile Duo Vertigo.””
Metronome Records
Released 2004
Nicolas Hodges (piano)
TRACKS
Birtwistle, Harrison – The Axe Manual
Birtwistle, Harrison – Harrison’s Clocks
Birtwistle, Harrison – Ostinato with Melody
2005 Gramophone's Critic's Choice | 2005 CD of the Year in the Sunday Times (UK) | 5 stars BBC Music Magazine
“The performances are simply wonderful…He [Nicolas Hodges] combines well with percussionist Claire Edwardes in The Axe Manual, a monumental, 22-minute study in rhythmic layering that reinterprets the relationship between the two players; it may be one of the less accessible of Birtwistle’s recent pieces, but it’s an impressive one.””
ABC Classics
Released 2001
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Markus Stenz (conductor)
TRACKS
Donatoni, Franco - Omar
Ford, Andrew - Composition in Blue, Grey and Pink
Klatzow, Peter - Dances of Earth and Fire
Schwantner, Joseph - Percussion Concerto
These photos of me range from some taken by the fabulous Monty Coles when I was much younger to shoots with Cole Bennetts, Keith Saunders, Jordan Adams and Heidrun Lohr as well as with Rolling Media Productions and Nat Cartney - all photographers credited when you scroll over the image. Please email me if you need any of these in higher resolution and I can send dropbox links - I also have loads more to choose from if you are after something else - just get in touch!
Photo by Keith Saunders
Photo by Keith Saunders
Photo: Monty Coles
Photo: Monty Coles
Photo: Monty Coles
Photo by Nat Cartney
Photo: Jordan Adams
Photo: Monty Coles
Photo by Keith Saunders
Photo: Heidrun Lohr
Photo: Jordan Adams
Photo: Thijs Roozenbaum
Photo: Heidrun Lohr
Photo by Nat Cartney
Photo by Nat Cartney
Photo by Nat Cartney
Photo by Jordan Adams
Photo by Shane Leslie
Photo by Keith Saunders
Photo: Jordan Adams
Photo: Jordan Adams
Photo: Monty Coles
Photo: Monty Coles
