Anne Boyd

For oboe d'amour and harp. Published 2003 Written for Okeanos First performance: Okeanos, Cambridge Music Festival, August 2003. Score.

15'; for five instruments and wind chimes Published 2005 for alto flute/piccolo (doubling gong and wind-chimes), bass clarinet in Bb (doubling wind chimes), piano, violin (doubling wind chimes), 'cell...

9'; for clarinet in Bb and string quartet. Published 2007 Commissioned by Father Arthur E. Bridge for Ars Musica Australis for 2007 SSO Fellows Ensemble Score.

For Piano Trio. Score.

Anne Boyd's Seraphim Canticles for Violin, Cello and Piano.

Published 2006. Commissioned by Ars Musica Australis for the Sydney Omega Ensemble First performance: 10 September 2006, Paddington Uniting Church, Sydney Score.

The Beginning of the Day by Anne Boyd, orchestral version. 5'; for orchestra (triple winds). Published 1994. 3(3rd=picc). 2. 3(3rd=bcl). 3(3rd=cbn) / 4. 3. 3. 1 / 3perc / strings

Score for solo voices, boys' choir, girls' choir, chamber choir, chorus, piano, 3 Violins, Handbell choir, Rrgan, 12 Trumpets, and Orchestra.

36'; for solo shakuhachi, 2 harps and orchestra Published 2007 Score.

For Bassoon and String Orchestra. First published in 2004. First performance: Kim Walker, 2005 Classical Music Awards, presented by APRA and Australian Music Centre, Sydney Conservatorium of Music, 1...

For Baritone Saxophone and Piano accompaniment.

Boyd studied music at the University of Sydney, where she was one of Peter Sculthorpe's first students. Her music is regularly performed world-wide. The hallmarks of her musical style are its tran...

Red Sun, Chill Wind was commissioned for Geoffrey Collins, and the first performance was given by Geoffrey Collins with Nicholas Routley on piano at the S.H. Ervin Museum and Art Gallery, New South Wa...

Bali Moods No.1 takes as its starting point traditional Balinese gamelan music and is written throughout in an equally-tempered version of the pelog scale, one of the two predominant scale systems ass...

Part of a series of 3 works for flute and piano - the other two being Bali Moods No. 1 and Red Sun, Chill Wind - to explore the varied characteristics of Balinese moods and modes.

Instrumentation: perc(5): 3 Orff xyl/chime bars/glsp/vib/xyl/3tambours/tamb/5 tgl/2 pair finger.cym/3 pairs cyms/tam-t/2 gongs/2 susp.cym/t.bells/SD/TD/BD

Written for, and inspired by, the remarkable virtuosity of Roger Woodward – though actually left unheard for five years after its composition in 1981 – Anne Boyd’s Book of the Bells is a 20-minute tou...

Influenced by the ecstatic pure melody of the Japanese Shakuhachi and the soft, infinitely subtle tones of Javanese Gamelan, Anne Boyd’s Angklung is music of radical simplicity: it employs only four n...

Jesus Reassures His Mother is a setting of medieval lyric poetry written anonymously in the 14th century. The poet recounts a vision of the young Mary rocking the infant Christ to sleep. The child req...

Instrumentation: The Little Mermaid (S); The Grandmother (contralto); the Witch of the Sea (contralto); Five Sisters (2sop, mezzo-sop, 2 contralto). 7 wind instruments: (1 very high; 4 medium; 2 low)...

For Piano solo.