Genre: Sonata project

Spotify recordings available Mercurial Marianne Rothschild (violin), Glenn Riddle (piano) Reed Music Infinite Heartbeat Duo Sol: Miki Tsunoda (violin), Caroline Almonte (piano) ABC Classics score available from Wise Music program note This violin sonata is programmatic in a very general sense, following a journey (in four movements) into space and back to Earth. It does … Read more

score available from Wise Music program note i. bridge ii. crop circles iii. city lights This Sonata for Violin and Viola was commissioned for Music Viva Australia by Dr Victor Wayne and Dr Karen Wayne OAM. It was written for Sophie Rowell and Christopher Moore as part of the Greenbaum Sonata Project, and the premiere … Read more

score available from Wise Music program note i. Uyuni Train Cemetery, Bolivia (abandoned, 1950’s) ii. Rusting merchant ships, The Aral Sea, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan (stranded, 1960’s) iii. Douglas Super DC–3 cargo plane, Sólheimasandur, Iceland (crashed, 1973) iv. Soviet tanks, Kabul Military Training Centre, Afghanistan (abandoned, 1989) v. Balaklava Submarine Base, Crimea, Russia (closed, 1993) This … Read more

score available from Wise Music program note i. celebrate being unique ii. daughter universe iii. space time is flat iv. eternal inflation v. universes can start repeating themselves vi. the multiverse “Is our universe unique? From science fiction to science fact, there is a concept that suggests that there could be other universes besides our … Read more

Spotify recording available Viney Grinberg Piano Duo ABC Classics, ABC 481 4591, 2016 score available from Wise Music program note i. Solar ii. The Expanding Universe iii. Earthrise This Sonata for Piano, 4 Hands presents three different solutions to the challenges of 16 fingers and 4 thumbs playing at the one keyboard. Running in parallel … Read more

Spotify recording available Return Journey Ensemble Three plays Sonatas by Stuart Greenbaum Lyrebird Productions, LB061116 ABC Classics, digital, 2018 score available from Wise Music program note This work started with a few bars first explored at my Bernstein upright piano at home in Moonee Ponds on the 2nd of January 2015. In the following week, … Read more

Spotify recording available Return Journey Ensemble Three plays Sonatas by Stuart Greenbaum Lyrebird Productions, LB061116 ABC Classics, digital, 2018 score available from Wise Music program note i. journey to Mars: 6 to 8 months interlude: the surface ii. return journey This Sonata for Trumpet and Piano is written for my colleague Joel Brennan. It is … Read more

score available from Wise Music program note i. Akiyoshido Limestone Cave, Japan, Paleozoic Age “hollowed by the work of water over immensities of time” ii. Navigating the Labyrinth, Paris Catacombs, early Middle Ages “over 600 years of quarrying…the invisible city” iii. Drilling for ice-core samples, Antarctica and Greenland, 1950’s “Ice has a memory and the … Read more

YouTube score available from Wise Music program note i. Realisation (we have to go) ii. Earth Abandoned iii. Memory of life on Earth This Sonata for Viola and Piano is written for the Australian National Academy of Music as part of the Greenbaum Sonata Project (low string sonatas). It is the 11th in a series … Read more

YouTube (3rd mov.) Spotify score available from Wise Music program note i. desolate ii. celestial iii. alone, unto the end of the world This Sonata for Clarinet and Piano is written for Paul Dean. It is the 9th in a series of sonatas undertaken in the new millennium. ‘A trillion miles of darkness’ is a phrase … Read more