Compositions

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Rohan Phillips at the Australian Music Centre

Ensemble / Chamber Music

• Fadensonnen

  dur: 6 min, completed 25 Jun 2023
  Clarinet and percussion (Wood-blocks, Bongos, Tom-Tom, Glockenspiel & Bass drum)
  For Timothy Phillips

  
  

• Invention VI

  dur: 1 min, completed 2 Mar 2022
  piano with violin
  For Matthew Breaden

  
  

• Invention (V) Still Life

  dur: 5'30", completed 4 Mar 2021
  flute and piano
  Written for Derek Jones, after “Still Life” by Antigone Kefala

  
  

• Meditations after «Der Krieg»

  dur: 15 mins, completed 8 Aug 2018
  flute (+picc), oboe, clar (+ bass cl), bsn, f.hrn, trpt, trob, 2 perc, piano, 4 violins, 2 violas, 2 'celli, double bass
  Written for the Arcko Symphonic Ensemble, after Otto Dix's «Der Krieg»

  
  

• Sarabande for piano and small ensemble

  dur: 12 mins, completed 6 Jan 2014
  Piano solo, flutes, clarinets, f.horn, trumpet (+ piccolo trumpet), percussion (one or two players), guitar, 3 violins, 2 'celli & double bass
  

• Brass Quintet

  dur: 4'30", completed 11 Apr 2013
  C trumpet, Bb trumpet, F horn, trombone & bass trombone
  Written for David Chisholm and the Bendigo International Festival of Exploratory Music

  
  

• Chamber Music

  dur: 10'30", completed 29 Nov 2006
  Guitar, Recorder (Treble & Sopranino), and Bass Drum
  

  
  

• Study/Prelude

  dur: 6 mins, completed 1 Aug 2005
  Piano Duo
  

  
  

• Little Dance

  dur: 1'30", completed 26 Jan 2004
  Piano and Horn (or piano solo)
  

  
  

• Klee Study

  dur: 5 mins, completed 1 Oct 2003
  Flute (also plays car-springs) - Percussion: 2 car-springs, Vibraphone, Marimba, 3 metal plates, Side drum
  Written for Timothy Phillips

  
  

• Introitus Omnia tempis habent

  dur: 5 mins, completed 1 Mar 2003
  2 Trumpets (B-flat), 3 F.Horns, 3 Trombones, Tuba & Percussion
  

  
  

• Seven Fragments after Paul Celan

  dur: 45 mins, completed 9 Dec 2002
  flute, clarinet, f.horn, piano, organ, 2 percussion, 6 violins, 2 v'celli, 6-9 women voices
  

  
  

• Fragment I Wachs,…das deinen Namen dur: 5 mins, completed 1 Feb 2001 Organ, F.Horn, Percussion (Bass Drum) Fragment II dur: 5 mins, completed 13 Jul 2001 2 Percussion, F Horn, Piano, Violins, 'Cello Fragment III in den/verflüssigten Namen/schellen die Tummler dur: 4 mins, completed 6 Oct 2001 flute, Clarinet, Horn (Playing Claves), 2 Percussion, Violin, 2 C'Cello also arranged for flute and piano (2019) Fragment IV Dien von wachen stößiger Traum dur: 6 mins, completed 1 Jun 2001 Clarinet, Voices, 2 Percussion, Piano & 'cello Fragment V Dien von wachen stößiger Traum dur: 5 mins, completed 26 Feb 2002 F.Horn, Flute, Clarinet, 2 Percussion, Voices, Piano, Organ, Violins, 'Celli Fragment VI Stretto dur: 4 mins, completed 9 Jun 2002 Flute, Clarinet, 2 Percussion, Organ, Voices (playing percussion), Violin, 'Cello Fragment VII Schweigen dur: 9 mins, completed 9 Dec 2002 flute, clarinet, f.horn, piano, organ, 2 percussion, 6 violins, 2 v'celli, voices

  
  

• ...Eepinno, I-i-o

  dur: 8 mins, completed 29 Dec 1997
  Piccolo, Bassoon, Trumpet, F.Horn, Trombone, Tuba, Harp, 2 Violins, Viola, V'Cello, D.Bass
  Written for the ABC ClassicFM 1997 Young Composers' Award

  
  

• Slow Movement for Trumpet and Piano from Concerto for Trumpet and Orchestra

  dur: 8 mins, completed 31 Dec 1994
  Trumpet in B flat and Piano
  Arrangement of middle movement of trumpet concerto for trumpet and piano

  
  

• Wind Quintet after 'The Outsider'

  dur: 13 mins, completed 31 Dec 1994
  Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, F.Horn, Bassoon
  

  
  

• 6 Pieces for Piano with F.Horn From 'Petron'

  dur: 12 mins, completed 1 Jun 1992
  Piano and F.Horn
  

  
  

Choral

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• Is it the mid-watch past

  dur: 8'20", completed 17 Jan 2020
  Choir SSATB
  Text: Christpher Brennan (1870-1932)

  
  

• Agnus Dei

  dur: 3'30", completed 22 Jan 2017
  Choir (SATB) & Organ (opt.)
  

  
  

• In conspectu Angelorum In the presence of the Angels will I praise thee

  dur: 1'30", completed 16 Jun 2016
  Choir and organ
  

  
  

• Lord, purge our eyes Judge not according to appearance

  dur: 1min, completed 1 Mar 2015
  Choir (SATB) & Organ
  Text: Christina Rossetti (1830-94)

  
  

• Gradual for All Souls Transit II

  dur: 45", completed 23 Oct 2014
  Choir (SATB)
  Text: Psalm 112

  
  

• Tu es Petrus after Sarum

  dur: 1'30", completed 1 Jun 2014
  Choir: Sop, Alt, Men and organ
  

  
  

• Mass for Lent

  dur: 4 mins, completed 30 Mar 2014
  Choir (SATB) & Organ
  Kyrie, Sanctus, Benedictus, Acclamations, Agnus Dei (no gloria)

  
  

• Laetare Carol for Advent

  dur: 1'45”, completed 13 Oct 2013
  Choir (SATB) with Bells
  English Trad. 15th Century

  
  

• Prayer: Almighty, most holy Prayer of St Francis

  dur: 3'30", completed 27 Apr 2013
  Choir (SATB)
  Text St Francis of Assisi (1182-1226)

  
  

• Teach me, o Lord, the way of Thy statutes

  dur: 1 min, completed 12 Sep 2012
  Choir (SATB)
  Text: Psalm 119 (v33, 34, 36 & 40)

  
  

• Out of your slepe carol for recorder and high voices

  dur: 2 mins, completed 1 Sep 2011
  recorder (alto & sop), soprano solo, sopranos and altos
  Text anon. cir 1450

  
  

• Response Give Peace in our time, O Lord

  dur: 1'30", completed 6 Jun 2011
  SATB - keyboard (opt.)
  Text taken from Book Of Common Prayer (1662)

  
  

• Now is the time of Christmas

  dur: 1 min completed 23 Dec 2010
  SATB
  Written for the choir of St Paul's Cathedral.

  
  

• Magnificat and Nunc dimittis For small choir and organ, after tones VIII & IV

  dur: completed 13 Oct 2010
  Choir: Sop, Alt, Men and organ
  

  
  

• The Ashwell Carol Gloria in Excelsis Deo

  dur: 2 mins, completed 1 Dec 2009
  Choir acapella
  Arrangement of Christmas Carol - for the choir of St Paul's Cathedral

  
  

• Little mass for St Paul's

  dur: 4 mins, completed 1 Apr 2009
  For one or more voices including congregation.
  

  
  

• Stella fulgore - greeting of the Magi motet for choir, organ, and brass

  dur: 4'15", completed 1 Dec 2008
  Choir, Organ, Brass ensemble: f.horn, 2 trumpets in B-flat, trombone & tuba
  text The play of Herod (12th Century). Written for the Bendigo Chorale, with funding from Regional Arts Victoria

  
  

• O sweet woods Madrigal for Choir and Guitar

  dur: 6 mins, completed 6 Jan 2008
  Choir (SATB) and guitar
  text Sir Philip Sidney [1554-86]. Written for the Bendigo Chorale, with funding from Regional Arts Victoria

  
  

• Lulle Lullay Text 15th Century

  dur: 2'30", completed 10 Oct 2006
  Choir (SATB) and piano
  Arrangement of trad. Tennessee folk melody

  
  

• I did in heart rejoice Psalm 122

  dur: 4 mins, completed 26 Jun 2006
  Choir: Sop, Alt, Men
  Text William Kethe (? - 1594)

  
  

• Little Mass

  dur: 6 mins, completed 8 Jun 2004
  Choir SATB (with solos) & Organ
  Written for the choir of St Paul's Cathedral, Bendigo, and dedicated, with thanks, to my parents: Valerie (Secretary to Bishops, Vicars-General & Administrators, Diocese of Bendigo: 1978-2000, 2003-4) and Barry (Advocate, Dioces of St Arnaud & Diocese of Bendigo.

  
  

• Prelude: O magnum mysterium after T.L. de Victoria

  dur: 3 mins, completed 17 Sep 2003
  Soloists SSAT; choir SATB; Hand Bell (B-natural)
  Written for the Bendigo Chorale

  
  

• Bells

  dur: 60 seconds completed 9 Jan 2001
  Choir - Divided into three groups; Flute, Clarinet, F.Horn, Trumpet, Percussion (1 to 3 players), Piano, Violin, D.Bass
  Written for the Astra Choir and its musical director: John McCaughey, on the occasion of the Choir's Half-Centenary

  
  

• Verse for choir When I see on Rode

  dur: 1'30", completed 8 Feb 1999
  SATB
  Text: Anon 14th Century

  
  

• Psalm 139 Oh Sun...

  dur: 2 mins, completed 4 Jun 1997
  Solo Soprano and Choir
  Text: Psalm 139 v.7-12, from translations of psalm 139 by Mary Herbert, Countess of Pembroke (1561-1621) and Sir John Denham (1612-69)

  
  

• Stabat Mater

  dur: 4 mins, completed 31 Dec 1995
  Choir and organ
  Written for the choir of St Paul's Cathedral, Bendigo

  
  

• Work for choir: We Dream -

  dur: 8'30", completed 31 Dec 1993
  A Cappella choir SSAATTBB
  Text Emily Dickenson

  
  

Orchestra

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• Fade Prelude for Orchestra

  dur: 6'30", completed 18 Nov 2016
  flute, 2 clar (A), 2 bsn, 2 f.hrn, 2 trpt, 3 perc (2 glock & tam-tam), strings (inc. solo 'cello)
  Written for the Bendigo Symphony Orchestra - inspired by Hugh Waller's exhibition 'Fade'

  
  

• Eine sehr kleine sinfonie

  dur: 10 mins, completed 30 Apr 2012
  2.2.2.bcl.1. 4.2.1.0. timp perc strings
  Written for the Bendigo Symphony Orchestra as a companion piece to Mozart's Symphony in G-minor K.183

  
  

• Concerto for flute and small orchestra Missa brevis

  dur: 16 mins, completed 16 Jun 2008
  Solo flute, clar (+b.cl), 2 trpts, timp, perc, org, violins (min. 6), v'celli (min. 2), c.bass
  Written for Jenny Gogolin and the Bendigo Chorale orchestra, with funding from Regional Arts Victoria

  
  

• Stretto for small orchestra

  dur: 7 mins, completed 27 Mar 2007
  2 flutes(2nd picc), oboe/c.ang, clar, b.clar, c.bsn, 2 f.hrs, trumpet, 3 trombs, tuba, 2 perc, harp, strings
  

  
  

• Quondam

  dur: 7 mins, completed 1 Sep 1999
  Solo Flute, Horn, & Violin; Orch: 2 flutes, bassoon, horn, 2 trumpets, trombone, 2 percussion, piano, violin I/II, viola, 'cello
  Written for the Bendigo Youth Orchestra

  
  

• Three Arias for Orchestra after Ezra Pound

  dur: 8 mins, completed 31 Dec 1998
  2 flutes (1st doubling piccolo, 2nd doubling alto flute in G), 2 oboes (2nd doubling cor anglais in F), 2 clarinets in A (1st doubling E-flat clarinet, 2nd doubling bass clarinet in B flat), bassoon, contra-bassoon, 4 horns in F, 2 trumpets in C, 2 tenor
  Written for the 1998 Australian Orchestral Composers' Forum - Workshopped but not selected for performace.

  
  

• Episode IV Leibeslied - for piano and orchestra

  dur: 15 mins, completed 31 Dec 1997
  Solo Piano, Orchestra: 2.1.2.2. 4.2.3.1. timp 2 perc, strings
  

  
  

• Poem / eleven hours...

  dur: 10 mins, completed 31 Dec 1996
  2 flutes (2nd doubling piccolo), oboe, cor anglais in F, 2 clarinets in B flat (2nd doubling bass clarinet in B flat), bassoon, contra-bassoon, 4 horns in F, 2 trumpets, 2 tenor trombones, bass trombone, tuba, timpani, percussion (1 player), strings (8.6.
  Written for the 1996 Australian Composers' Orchestral Forum

  
  

• Odyssey

  dur: 22 mins, completed 1 Jan 1994
  5.2.2.3. 3.4.1.1. 2 perc. Cel/harm. Strings
  Commissioned by the Bendigo Symphony Orchestra with funds made available from the Community Arts Network, supported by Arts Victoria

  
  

• Episode (I)

  dur: 4'15", completed 1 Oct 1993
  Strings: 10 vln, 3 vla, 2vc, 1db.
  Revised December 2006

  
  

• Serenade

  dur: 10 mins, completed 1 Jul 1993
  2.2.2.2. 2.1.0.0. timp. perc. piano, strings
  Written for the Bendigo Symphony Orchestra

  
  

• Symphony in three movements: 1991-1992

  dur: 20 mins, completed 31 Dec 1992
  3 flutes, 2 oboes, c.ang, 2 clar, 1b.cl, 2 bsn, 1c.bsn, 4 f.hrns, 3 trpts, 3 trob, tuba, 3 perc, piano, cel, Strings
  

  
  

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• Invention VII

  dur: 4'45", completed 28 Dec 2023
  Piano
  

  
  

• Out of Time

  dur: 30", completed 13 Aug 2022
  Piano
  To accompany Lauren Starr's "Out of Time" as part of the Bendigo ARt Trail

  
  

• Invention IV

  dur: 24", completed 20 Nov 2020
  Piano
  

  
  

• Invention II

  dur: 1'30", completed 28 Apr 2020
  Glockenspiel
  

  
  

• Transit 6 short pieces for piano

  dur: 4 mins, completed 13 Jun 2015
  Piano
  Inspired by Julie Andrew's 'Artist in Transit' program.

• Prelude Dance Study

  dur: 3'40", completed 6 Jun 2006
  Treble Recorder
  

  
  

• Barcarole Becalmed

  dur: 3'30", completed 16 Aug 2004
  Piano
  Written for Sarah Robertson's music assignment 'cause all my other pieces were too hard!

  
  

• Episode V after Brian Castro's "Birds of Passage"

  dur: 6'30", completed 1 Jul 2000
  Piano
  

  
  

• Study for percussion after Andrew Browne's 'Untitled: Nocturne'

  dur: 7 mins, completed 31 Dec 1999
  4 wood blocks, marimba, bass drum, vibraphone, glockenspeil, 4 log drums, gong
  Written for Timothy Phillips

  
  

• Poem

  dur: 4 mins, completed 1 Nov 1998
  Solo Piano
  

  
  

• Study after Paul Celan

  dur: 2 mins, completed 31 Dec 1997
  solo guitar
  Published as part of: Australian Guitar Miniatures (ISBN 0 9587342-1-6), Red House Editions

  
  

• Episode III

  dur: 8 mins, completed 1 Oct 1995
  Solo Piano
  

  
  

• Piano Piece Romance

  dur: 11 mins, completed 1 Jun 1995
  Solo Piano
  Written as part of M.Music composition folio

  
  

• Study Bechstein Moore Double Keyboard Piano

  dur: 4 mins, completed 1 Jan 1993
  (Bechstein Moore) Double Keyboard Piano
  

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