Viola and Piano was commissioned for the Hindermith Viola Festival and Kim Kashkashian and written during the summer of 1995, Viola and Piano is the third in an erratic series of virtuoso works for solo instrument and piano. The first performance was given by Kim Kashkashian and Peter Nagy, London 1995. Duration 10 minutes. Score and separate viola part included. / Alto Et Piano

The arrangement for string quartet was made at the request of Alexander Balanescu for the Bicentenary of Mozart's death in 1991. It was first performed by the Balanescu Quartet at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, 1991. Duration 3 minutes. A set of parts is available for sale. / Quatuor A Cordes

The Top Ten Contemporary Classical Pieces To Play On Piano is part of a series that has been specially designed to help pianists of all levels to find the repertoire they really want to play. This volume contains 10 of the very best contemporary pieces for solo Piano.Some people associate classical music very much with the historic past, but there is a wealth of contemporary music out there from a new wave of distinctive and adventurous writers, including plenty of fantastic pieces written for solo Piano. Composers include the remarkable Ludovico Einaudi, whose music, rich in spiritual simplicity, has taken the musical public by storm - Jóhann Jóhannsson, who set the classical system to one side as a teenager to kick loose in indie bands - and multi-instrumentalist and composer Yann Tiersen, who similarly broke his Violin aged thirteen and never looked back!Whether you are already familiar with some of these composers or not, we are confident you will love playing their beautiful music. Often simple in style, there is something magical about the way these writers make the Piano sound, so delve in and enjoy... / Piano

This work, composed for Children's Voices and String Quartet, was commissioned by the Young People's Chorus of New York City. / Quatuor A Cordes

String Quartet #2 was commissioned by Shobana Jeyasingh as a solo dance work: Miniatures. It was first performed by her with the Balanescu Quartet on 15 September 1988, London. Duration 22 minutes. Score available on sale. / Quatuor A Cordes

String Quartet #3 was written for, and first performed by the Balanescu Quartet, February 1990 at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London. Duration 16 minutes. A score is available on sale.. Quoting composer: In the summer of 1989 I composed a choral work, Out of the Ruins , for Agnieszka Piotrowska's BBC2 documentary which dealt with the physical and emotional responses of some inhabitants of Leninakhan to the earthquake which devastated Armenia the previous December. When he heard the recording of the work that I made with the Holy Echmiadzin Chorus under the fervent conducting of Khoren Meykhanejian, Alex Balanescu suggested turning Out of the Ruins into a string quartet. There seemed no reason or opportunity to do this until I felt the need to add to the intensity of my experiences in Armenia the no less profound experience of witnessing the images of the Romanian revolution on television during the later part of December 1989. The compositional procedure was as follows: to take Out of the Ruins as a template on which the Romanian vocal or instrumental music would be superimposed, quite often stretched into new intervallic shapes though the demands of the completely performed harmonic structure. / Quatuor A Cordes

Les pièces se composent de l'accompagnement de piano, de la mélodie dans le Do, de la mélodie dans l'eb et de la mélodie dans le Bb. / Tout Instrument Et Piano