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Ned McGowan

composer, flutist, researcher, teacher

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List of works

  • 2023
  • Ik Neem Je Mee – flute, piano and spoken poetry
  • Rhythm of Life – flute and contrabass flute, violin, cello, synthesizer
  • 2022
  • Concerto for Indian Percussion – Indian percussion and ensemble
  • Three Pieces for Quarter Tone Clarinet – Solo clarinet
  • 2021
  • The Appointment – clarinet and tape
  • Found in Translation – solo contrabass flute and ensemble
  • 2019
  • Sydney Polypulse – mixed sextet
  • Cycle Games 1 – percussion sextet | duet
  • 2018
  • Organillero – 31 tone Fokker organ, tape & video
  • 2017
  • Naruto Strait – flute orchestra | reed quintet
  • Kras – oud & bass clarinet
  • 2016
  • Garden of Iniquitous Creatures – mixed sextet
  • Earthly Chants – six similar instruments
  • Benson Town – contrabass flute and indian percussion
  • Cleveland Times – flute & piano
  • 2015
  • Volt – viola and tape
  • Rickshaw Zip – piccolo & piano
  • Stupid Neck Chain – mixed ensemble
  • For Bob – ensemble | flute ensemble
  • No Permission Without Trespassing – reed quintet
  • 2014
  • Hallucination – solo fortepiano
  • The Beating Heart of the City – installation
  • Rhythmic Etudes – Book One – piano solo
  • Ricochet – contrabass flute and percussion bass clarinet and percussion contrabass flute and piano
  • 2013
  • Building Music – large ensemble
  • 2012
  • Hydraulic Principles – orchestra | pianola
  • Concerto for iPad and Orchestra “Rotterdam Concerto 2” – solo iPad and orchestra
  • six pièces mécaniques – six players
  • Stop Horn Please OK – jazz ensemble
  • The Deccan Queen – jazz ensemble
  • Chamundi Hill – flute and harp | flute and piano
  • 2011
  • Torrent – solo flute
  • SMAK! – woodwind sextet, mezzo soprano and actor
  • Destroy Recycle Construct – mixed quintet
  • Three Amsterdam Scenes – voice, viola and keyboards
  • 2010
  • Solar Neon – mixed septet
  • Sound Becomes Visible in the Form of Radiance – mixed sextet
  • 2009
  • LITH / A Mausoleum of Redshifted Endeavors – two pianos 
  • Chaaya – music for dance
  • 2008
  • Bantammer Swing – solo contrabass flute and orchestra
  • Heads or Tails – jazz ensemble
  • Hymn – improvising string quartet | string quartet | saxophone quartet | flute octet
  • 2007
  • Plantae Magnoliophyta Liliopsida Poales Poaceae Spinifex – jazz ensemble
  • Second City – mixed quintet
  • Spectra – solo contrabass flute, flute and flute orchestra
  • 2006
  • Tempest in a Teapot – orchestra
  • Not Pseudopetiolate Triodia 2 – jazz ensemble
  • Devil’s Dust – string quartet
  • 2005Alap – soprano and chamber ensemble
  • Wood Burn – reed quintet | chamber ensemble | chamber ensemble 2
  • 2004
  • For Crying Out Loud – harpsicord | piano
  • Workshop – alto record and tape | flute and tape
  • Annabel – narrator and chamber ensemble | narrator and chamber ensemble 2 | narrator and woodwind sextet
  • 2003
  • Capsule – chamber orchestraSong – mixed quartet
  • Tools – mixed quartet | mixed sextet
  • 2001/2002
  • In the Land of Cheese – flute octet | flute orchestra
  • 2001
  • Stone Soup – jazz ensemble
  • Tusk – mixed quintet
  • Urban Turban – two marimbas | alto saxophone and marimba | flute and marimba | flute and piano | fl, b.cl, pno | fl, vln, pno | a.sax, gtr, pno | mixed quartet
  • 1999
  • Ios Duo – flute and clarinet
  • 1998
  • Moonrise – flute solo
  • 1997
  • Melting Igloos – mixed quartet
  • ios – mixed sextet
  • 1994
  • Why – flute solo

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