Frogstomp (2015)

for flute/piccolo, bass clarinet, and percussion

Duration: 4’30”

Commissioned by Penny Le Couteur and Greg Dickson, and first performed by Lamorna Nightingale, Jason Noble, and Joshua Hill

Version 2.0 for flute/piccolo, baritone sax, and percussion

Duration: 4’30”

Adapted for and first performed by Ensemble Garage (DE)

Percussion List

Squeaky frog, small bass drum (w/pedal), jam blocks (low and high), small cowbell, bongos, hi-hat (w/drop-clutch), 6-8” steel mixing bowl, 2 empty win bottles (approx C and C#, or a semi-tone apart), shaker, toy glockenspiel

Performances

29 April, 2021, Rubiks Collective, The Salon, Melbourne Recital Centre, VIC

11 December 2019, Walters-Coleman-Wiering, Musica Viva Sessions, Wigg and Sons Building, Adelaide, SA

30 November 2018, Enyato Duo, Melbourne Athenaeum Library, Melbourne, VIC

2 December 2017, Ensemble Garage, Frau Musica (nova), Cologne Deutschlandfunk, Germany

30 March 2017, Ensemble Offspring, Playhouse Theatre, Western Sydney University, NSW

26 July 2016, Violet Collective, New Music Edmonton, 30th Anniversary concert, Holy Trinity Anglican Church, Edmonton, Canada

20 March 2016, Violet Collective, NME 2016 Now Hear This Festival, Holy Trinity Anglican Church, Edmonton, Canada

26 July 2015, Ensemble Offspring, 2015 Limelight Australian Composition Seminar, Santa Sabina College, NSW world premiere