Genre: Solo piano

Spotify YouTube recording available Satellite Mapping Complete works for solo piano (1989–2014) Amir Farid Move Records, MD3402, 2016 score available from Reed Music program note This collection was devised by Damian Barbeler, Barry Cockcroft, Stuart Greenbaum and Adam Pinto in haphazard fashion at a dinner party, in October of 1999. After several reds, the proposal … Read more

Spotify recordings available Satellite Mapping Complete works for solo piano (1989–2014) Amir Farid Move Records, MD3402, 2016 Greenbaum Hindson Peterson Glenn Riddle, piano GHP9501 (mov.2) First Light Yvonne Lau, piano Fellowship of Australian Composers (mov.1, The Moon), score available from Promethean Editions program note Ice Man is a programmatic work in three movements. It can … Read more

Spotify recording available Satellite Mapping Complete works for solo piano (1989–2014) Amir Farid Move Records, MD3402, 2016 score available from Wise Music program note These two miniatures were commissioned by pianist, Elyane Laussade, to form a set of variations by Melbourne composers on the unofficial Australian anthem, Waltzing Matilda. Being a national theme, it has … Read more

Spotify recordings available Satellite Mapping Complete works for solo piano (1989–2014) Amir Farid Move Records, MD3402, 2016 Tunes for Mademoiselle John Martin, piano Wirripang Giants in the Land Ian Holtham, piano Move Digital score available from Wise Music program note This piece is inspired by M. C. Escher’s famous 1960 lithograph, Ascending and Descending, showing … Read more

Spotify score available from Wise Music program note i. Remote Connection ii. Satellite Mapping iii. Journey into Darkness The phrase ‘remote connection’ has an inherent friction to it, conjuring both distance and closeness. Its common usage refers to wireless devices sharing information; but I’m interested in the human allegory. We can experience loneliness in the … Read more

Spotify recording available Satellite Mapping Complete works for solo piano (1989–2014) Amir Farid Move Records, MD3402, 2016 score available from Wise Music program note In 2006 Google Earth was just a year or two old and provided an unprecedented ability to view the Earth as photographed from satellites in space on a home computer. One … Read more

recording available Satellite Mapping Complete works for solo piano (1989–2014) Amir Farid Move Records, MD3402, 2016 score available from Promethean Editions program note These pieces present rhythmic puzzles which ‘allude’ to corresponding visual ‘illusions’. Solar Eclipse explores the ratio 3:4. The syncopation within this ratio seems to generate a vortex of rhythmic gravity within a … Read more

Spotify recordings available Satellite Mapping Complete works for solo piano (1989–2014) Amir Farid Move Records, MD3402, 2016 Veiled Virtuosity Amir Farid, piano Move Records score available from Wise Music program note This piece was commissioned to commemorate the life of Daniel McCluskey, who died suddenly in January of 2006. He was an accomplished law and … Read more

Spotify recordings available Satellite Mapping Complete works for solo piano (1989–2014) Amir Farid Move Records, MD3402, 2016 First Light Yvonne Lau, piano Fellowship of Australian Composers Oneness Diana Blom, piano Wirripang score available from Promethean Editions program note Around 1997, I started thinking more deeply about the music of composers such as Chopin – effectually … Read more

Spotify recording available Mercurial Patrick Lawrence, Hildy Essex (pianos) Reed Music score available from Wise Music program note The title of this piece deliberately separates ‘forever’ into its two constituent parts: not because the meaning is radically different, but to underline its implications. We use the word in phrases like ‘forever and a day’ which … Read more