SCORES

Four Rustic Dances

piano duet

ABOUT

1. East Ukranian Dance Tune

2. Kolo

3. Tarantella

4. Kruhové Tance

Four lively duets based on European folk dance melodies from East Ukraine, Serbia, Slovakia and Italy. The score is dedicated to the composer’s mother and are ideal for non-advanced pianists though pianists of all ages have been known to perform them.

INSTRUMENTATION
piano duet – four hands

DURATION
3:30

DATE OF COMPOSITION
1990

PERFORMANCES

8 December 1996 Roy Howat & Wendy Hiscocks
Billy Mayerl Society, Thames Ditton, UK

Piano students Julia Oxley, Niirangali Jeerasinghe, Mareeni Raymond from St. Albans Music School, Hertfordshire, UK

2002 Students from Abingdon School of Music
Abingdon Arts Festival, UK.

2003 Roy Howat & Wendy Hiscocks
4th International Piano Festival, Aveiro, Portugal.

Roy Howat & Wendy Hiscocks, 20 August 2017, St Judes Music Association, Bowral, NSW.

 

East Ukranian Dance Tune, Kolo and Kruhove Tance appear in Australian Piano Music volumes 2, 3 and 4 ed. Sally Mays published by Currency Press.