Kevin Volans : Work List

• Orchestra
  •  Concerto for Double Orchestra (2001) - 20 minute(s)

    Orchestration   444(bcl)4/4330/2perc/pf/hp/88884

  •  One Hundred Frames (1991) - 20 minute(s)

    Orchestration   3(pic)2(ca)2(Ebcl)2(cbn)/4231/2perc/hp.pf(cel)/str

  •  Strip-weave for Orchestra 11 minute(s)

    Orchestration   3(pic)22(bcl)2(cb)/4231/2perc/str

  •  Symphony: Daar kom die Alibama (2010) - 22 minute(s)

    Orchestration   2222/2200/timp/strings (86442)

• Soloist(s) and Orchestra
  •  Cello Concerto (1997) - 22 minute(s)

    Soloist(s)   cello

    Orchestration   2(pic)2(ca)2(1Ebcl)2(cbn)/4220/hp/str

  •  Chakra for 3 percussionists and orchestra (2012) - 25 minute(s)

    Soloist(s)   3 Percussions

    Orchestration   2+pic.2(ca).2(2bcl).2(cbn)/4331/2perc/hp/str(9.8.5.4.3)

  •  Piano Concerto No. 2 "Atlantic Crossing" (2006) - 23 minute(s)

    Soloist(s)   Piano

    Orchestration   4(pic:pic).3.3(bcl).3(cbsn)/4.4.4.1/2perc/str (16.14.12.10.8)

  •  Piano Concerto No. 3 (2011) - 22 minute(s)

    Soloist(s)   Piano

    Orchestration   2(pic)23(2bcl)3(2cbn)/4221/2perc/hp.pf/str(10.8.6.6.6)

  •  Trio Concerto (2005) - 20 minute(s)

    Soloist(s)   Cello, Piano, Violin

    Orchestration   3(pic)33(2bcl)3(cb)/4231/2perc/hp/str

• Large Ensemble (7 or more players)
  •  Chevron (1990) - 25 minute(s)

    Orchestration   2.1.1+bcl.1/1.1.1+btbn.0/str(1.1.1.1.0)

  •  L' Isle Joyeuse (Debussy, arr. Volans) (1995) - 6 minute(s)

    Orchestration   3(pic).2+ca.3(bcl).2+cbn/4231/2perc/db

  •  Joining Up the Dots (2006) - 13 minute(s)

    Orchestration   2pf/2vn.va.vc.db

  •  Leaping Dance (1984) - 8 minute(s)

    Orchestration   1.1+ca.2+2bthn.2/2000
    (also available for two pianos)

  •  Looping Point (2012)

    Orchestration   1010/0000/pf/str(1.0.1.1.1)

  •  This Is How It Is (1995) - 10 minute(s)

    Orchestration   1.1+ca.2+2bthn.2/2000

• Soloist(s) and Large Ensemble (7 or more players)
  •  Concerto for Piano and Wind Instruments (Piano Concerto No. 1) 21 minute(s)

    Soloist(s)   piano

    Orchestration   3(2pic)33(Ebcl)2+cbn/4231/2perc/3db

  •  Untitled: In Memoriam G. H. V. (Graham Volans) (1996) - 14 minute(s)

    Soloist(s)   piano

    Orchestration   1.1+ca.2.2/2(offstage)000

• Works for 2-6 Players
  •   (2011) - 7 minute(s)

    Orchestration   2pf/vn.vc

  •  100 notes (2009) - 4 minute(s)

    Orchestration   violin, clarinet, cello

  •  1000 Bars (Long version) (2002) - 7 minute(s)

    Orchestration   vn,vc,2pf

  •  1000 Bars (short version) (2002) - 4 minute(s)

    Orchestration   2pf/vn.vc

  •  4 Guitars (2003) - 6 minute(s)

    Orchestration   2 6-string and 2 Brahms guitars

  •  cello:piano (a walk in the gardens of solitude) (2009) - 22 minute(s)

    Orchestration   vc;pf

  •  Chakra (2003) - 22 minute(s)

    Orchestration   Percussion Trio

  •  Desert Steps (2003) - 20 minute(s)

    Orchestration   2gtr/vn.vc

  •  Double Take (2004)

    Orchestration   cl, pf

  •  Into Darkness (1987) - 12 minute(s)

    Orchestration   cl/tpt/perc(mba,vib 1 or 2 players)/pf/vn.vc

  •  Leaping Dance

    Orchestration   fiedel, mar, hpd

  •  Matepe (1980) - 20 minute(s)

    Orchestration   two harpsichords and rattles

  •  Monkey Music (1976) - 6 minute(s)

    Orchestration   pf and speaker

  •  'Movement' for String Quartet (1987) - 8 minute(s)

    Orchestration   String Quartet

  •  Nine Beginnings (1976)

    Orchestration   pf, vn, tpt, Sop.

  •  No Translation (2009) - 23 minute(s)

    Orchestration   3perc/2vn.2va.2vc

  •  Piano Trio No 1 25 minute(s)

    Orchestration   pf.vn.vc

  •  Piano Trio No 2 (2009) - 21 minute(s)

    Orchestration   viola, viola, piano

  •  Renewed Music/Reviewed Music (1981)

    Orchestration   6 perc

  •  String Quartet No 1 "White Man Sleeps" (1986) - 22 minute(s)

    Orchestration   String Quartet

  •  String Quartet No 10 (2006)

    Orchestration   vn.vn.va.vc

  •  String Quartet No 11 (2011) - 20 minute(s)

    Orchestration   2vn.va.vc

  •  String Quartet No 2 "Hunting: Gathering" (1987) - 22 minute(s)

    Orchestration   String Quartet

  •  String Quartet No 3 "The Songlines" (1988) - 26 minute(s)

    Orchestration   String Quartet

  •  String Quartet No 4 "The Ramanujan Notebooks" (1990) - 26 minute(s)

    Orchestration   String Quartet

  •  String Quartet No 5 "Dancers on a Plane" (1994) - 30 minute(s)

    Orchestration   str4tet and taped natural sounds

  •  String Quartet No 6 (2000) - 24 minute(s)

    Orchestration   str4tet and tape

  •  String Quartet No 7 (2002) - 9 minute(s)

    Orchestration   vn.vn.va.vc

  •  String Quartet No 8 "Black Woman Rising" (2004) - 22 minute(s)

    Orchestration   string quartet

  •  String Quartet No 9 "Shiva Dances" (2004) - 24 minute(s)

    Orchestration   String Quartet

  •  This is How It Is (2009)

    Orchestration   pf, vn, vc

  •  Trumpet and String Quartet 1 (2002) - 6 minute(s)

    Orchestration   Eb tpt/vn.vn.va.vc

  •  Trumpet and String Quartet 2 (2002) - 8 minute(s)

    Orchestration   C tpt.2vn.va.vc

  •  Trumpet Vibe Cello Piano (2009) - 21 minute(s)

    Orchestration   Tpt,vib,vc,pf

  •  Turning Point (2013) - 15 minute(s)

    Orchestration   fl.cl/2pf/vn.db

  •  viola:piano (2009) - 20 minute(s)

    Orchestration   viola, piano

  •  violin:piano (2009) - 25 minute(s)

    Orchestration   violin, piano

  •  Walking Song (1984) - 6 minute(s)

    Orchestration   fl.hpchd/virginal [=pf].four hand-clappers/finger clickers

  •  Wanting To Tell Stories (1993) - 27 minute(s)

    Orchestration   pf.cl.vla.db

  •  White Man Sleeps (1982) - 22 minute(s)

    Orchestration   2 hpsd, viola da gamba, percussion

• Solo Works (excluding keyboard)
  •  Akrodha (1998) - 27 minute(s)

    Orchestration   percussion

  •  Asanga (1997) - 8 minute(s)

    Orchestration   percussion

  •  passi leggieri (2003) - 6 minute(s)

    Orchestration   Hardanger fiddle or Violin

  •  She Who Sleeps with a Small Blanket (1985) - 16 minute(s)

    Orchestration   percussion

  •  A Short Walk in the Gardens of Solitude (2007) - 5 minute(s)

    Orchestration   Cello

• Solo Keyboard(s)
  •  3 rhythmic etudes (2003) - 20 minute(s)

    Orchestration   Piano

  •  3 structural etudes (2003) - 20 minute(s)

    Orchestration   Piano

  •  Cicada (1994) - 26 minute(s)

    Orchestration   two pianos

  •  Etude No 8 (1988)

    Orchestration   piano

  •  Kneeling Dance (1992) - 8 minute(s)

    Orchestration   6pf

  •  Kneeling Dance (1984) - 10 minute(s)

    Orchestration   2pf

  •  Leaping Dance (1984) - 6 minute(s)

    Orchestration   2pf

  •  March (1996) - 5 minute(s)

    Orchestration   piano

  •  Mr Barry, Lebenskunstler (1980)

    Orchestration   piano

  •  Mr Handel's Return (2008) - 5 minute(s)

    Orchestration   2pf

  •  Newer Music for Piano (1981) - 8 minute(s)

    Orchestration   piano

  •  Nine Beginnings (1976) - 10 minute(s)

    Orchestration   2pf

  •  Piano Etude no. 9 (2009) - 20 minute(s)

    Orchestration   piano

  •  Shiva Dances (2006) - 29 minute(s)

    Orchestration   2 Pianos

  •  Walking Song (1984) - 6 minute(s)

    Orchestration   organ
    (also available for chamber ensemble)

  •  Wrist Rock (1999) - 1 minute(s)

    Orchestration   pf

• Chorus a cappella / Chorus plus 1 instrument
  •  Canciones del Alma (2009)

    Chorus   SSATTBB

    Orchestration   piano

  •  Glosa a lo divino (2006) - 22 minute(s)

    Orchestration   double mixed-voice chorus

  •  One Day Fine (2000) - 4 minute(s)

    Chorus   1 large and 2 smaller choirs

• Opera and Music Theatre
  •  Confessions of Zeno (2002) - 45 minute(s)

    Orchestration   For shadow puppets, actor, bass, 2 sopranos, string quartet, video projection

  •  The Man With Footsoles of Wind (1993) - 1 Hour(s) 30 minute(s)

    Soloist(s)   Treble, 2 Sopranos, Tenor, Baritone, spoken part

    Orchestration   1(pic)02(Ebcl:bcl)0/2.1.0+btbn.0/2perc/pf(cel).hp/str

  •  Zeno at 4am (Confessions of Zeno Part 1) (2000) - 30 minute(s)

    Orchestration   shadow puppets, actor, bass, string quartet, and video projection

• Dance
  •  Correspondences (1990) - 1 Hour(s) 15 minute(s)

    Soloist(s)   Baritone

    Orchestration   Str4tet

  •  Duets (1995) - 45 minute(s)

    Orchestration   tape
    (piano and tape)

  •  Surface Tension (1999) - 28 minute(s)

    Orchestration   harpsichord and tape

  •  The Stop Quartet (1995)

    Orchestration   pf and tape

  •  Things I Don't Know (1998) - 30 minute(s)

    Orchestration   tape

  •  Wanting to Tell Stories (1992)

    Orchestration   2.1.1+bcl.1/1110/pf/2vn.va.vc

  •  White Man Sleeps

    Orchestration   str qt

  •  Wild Air (1998) - 1 Hour(s) 0 minute(s)

    Orchestration   2gui, 2vc

  •  Wild Translation (1995)

    Orchestration   large chbr ensemble

• Music for Film / TV
  •  Blue, Yellow (1995) - 12 minute(s)

    Orchestration   str4tet

  •  Compositions for a Composer (1970)

    Orchestration   2pf, fl, vn, vc.

  •  Grafik (1974)

    Orchestration   Graphic score

  •  Incidental Music to Pirandello's 'Die Riesen vom Berge' (1981)

    Orchestration   soloists, electronics, chbr orch

  •  Module (1973)

    Orchestration   Graphic score

  •  Plane-Song (1994) - 30 minute(s)

    Orchestration   str4tet and taped natural sounds (recorded by Volans in Southern Africa)

• Electroacoustic Works
  •  Cover Him With Grass (1979) - 17 minute(s)

    Orchestration   tape of natural sounds (stereo)

  •  Delay in Glass (1979)

    Orchestration   soprano, C, 2pf, medieval hp, portable cassette player with tape of natural sounds.

  •  Kwazulu Summer Landscape (1979) - 1 Hour(s) 10 minute(s)

    Orchestration   tape of natural sounds (stereo - originally quadrophonic)

  •  Studies in Zulu History (1979) - 34 minute(s)

    Orchestration   electronic tape (stereo - originally quadrophonic)

  •  Walking Music (1996) - 18 minute(s)

    Orchestration   perc/tape
    (2perc)

• Other
  •  The Partenheimer Project (2007) - 1 Hour(s) 30 minute(s)

    Orchestration   3 ensembles pieces: a) 2va.2vc b) cl(bcl)/2hn,2tr,1tb c) pf/perc