Seven Relics
soprano & cello
Premiered by Alison Morgan & Geoffrey Gartner, The Studio Music Sessions, July 2002, Sydney Opera House
Bucolica
bass clarinet & tenor saxophone
Premiered by Carl Rosman & James Nightingale 1998
Listen to an excerpt of Bucolica [MP3, 3.2 MB]
“Of the programmed pieces, it was Ricketson’s Bucolica that impressed this reviewer. Ricketson’s delicate duet for tenor saxophone [Michael Lichnovsky] and bass clarinet [Carl Rosman] is an essay in which the parts weave micro-tonally around one another to disclose a multitude of curious timbres.” The Age, Melbourne 6/06/00
Just Below Nausicaa
for orchestra
Premiered by the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra [cond. Richard Mills]
Inaugural 'New Voices' series, June 1998 Hobart
Hol - Spannen - Luiden (percoda)
solo percussion
Premiered by Claire Edwardes in the 1997 Sydney Spring Festival
Listen to the first movement Hol [MP3, 6.6 MB]
“…it was the Australian contingent of Damien Ricketson … that most impressed” The Age 26/03/04
Chirriar
small orchestra
Premiered by the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra [cond. David Porcelijn] Australian Composers Orchestral Forum, Dec. 1996, Hobart
Listen to an excerpt of Chirriar [MP3, 3.5 MB]
Lamina
trumpet & large ensemble
Spring Ensemble [tpt. Corrado Palleschi] Sixth Sydney Spring Festival of New Music, Sept 1995
“Damien Ricketson displayed genuine compositional talent in his understanding of perspectived dynamics and his fluent handling of texture and figuration were persuasive foils in the challenges in stamina he threw at the soloist” Sydney Morning Herald, 12/09/05
“Damien Ricketson generated the sense that his music was going somewhere, offering prominence and daring.” The Sun Herald, 17/09/05
“… undoubtedly talented, his Lamina for trumpet and large ensemble comfortably escaped the ‘student composition’ genre and proved to be particularly effective” The Sydney Review, Oct.95
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