Brett Dean
About Brett Dean
Brett Dean (b.1961) is a Grawemeyer Award-winning composer and viola player. Dean studied in Brisbane until 1984, when he moved to Germany to join the Berliner Philharmoniker’s viola section, a position he held for 15 years. He began composing in 1988, becoming established in his own right through works such as the clarinet concerto Ariel’s Music, which won a UNESCO International Rostrum of Composers award, the piano quintet Voices of Angels and Twelve Angry Men, written for the 12 cellists of the Berliner Philharmoniker.
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Komarov's Fall
Viola Concerto: I. Fragment
Epitaphs: III. Der Philosoph
Carlo
Now comes the dawn
In spe contra spem, Part One: Were we but as two milkmaids - Live
3 Memorials: Ceremonial - Live
The Siduri Dances
Cello Concerto: Slow, spacious, and still - Live
Intimate Decisions for solo Viola
Pastoral Symphony
Miss Genevieve's Nocturne
Viola Concerto: III. Veiled and Mysterious
Amphitheatre (scene for orchestra) - Live
Viola Concerto: II. Pursuit
Water Music: III. Parched Earth
Intimate decision for solo viola
Winter Songs: I. (Introduction) - (1. "E") - (2. "N")
Testament
Epitaphs: I. Only I Will Know
Variation for Rudi
Dean: Pastoral Symphony
Game Over
Shadow Music: I. Prelude
Epitaphs: II. Walk A Little Way With Me
Shadow Music: II. Forgotten Garden
12 Angry Men
To Look Yet Not Find
Water Music: II. Coursing
Was it a voice? (Music for Ascension Day)
Intimate Decisions
I. Fragment
Water Music: I. Bubbling
Epitaphs: V. Between The Spaces In The Sky
Epitaphs: IV. György Meets The Girl Photographer
Shadow Music: III. Voices and Shadows
Etüdenfest
Viola Concerto: Fragment - Live
Moments of Bliss, Hotel Room (Awakening)
Moments of Bliss, Heart of the Matter
Moments of Bliss, Knocking at the Hell Gate
Moments of Bliss, Family Secrets
Dramatis personæ: I. Fall of a Superhero
Winter Songs: I. (Introduction) - (e) - (n)
Electric Preludes: 1. Abandoned Playground - Live
Dramatis personæ: III. The Accidental Revolutionary
Winter Songs: II. 3. "If In Beginning Twilight Winter Will Stand"
The Lost Art of Letter Writing: I. Hamburg, 1854
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…the scene of the crime…
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