Kevin Volans

Kevin Volans ' This Is How It Is (2017) for String Quintet. Score and parts. Duration: 8 minutes.

This version of Kevin Volans' Matepe was commissioned by CALEFAX Reed Quintet, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Kevin Volans' Leaping Dance arranged by Ivar Berix for Reed Quintet. Score and parts.

Commissioned by the Wigmore Hall for the composer's 60th birthday with funds from ACNI. 'viola:piano is one of a set of 6 pieces which I wrote in 2008 and 2009. Two of the others, violin:piano and ce...

For Bob. arranged for Viola and Piano. First performed by Elisabeth Smalt and Kevin Volans, London 2016. Composers Note: I have no idea where this piece came from and how it is structured. Butbefore...

Kevin Volans ' A Short Walk In The Gardens Of Solitude for solo Cello (2007).

A Walk In The Gardens Of Solitude is a work by composer Kevin Volans for Solo Cello. A full performance of this solo work lasts around 24 minutes.

For Bob is arranged for Cello and Piano. First performed by Elisabeth Smalt and Kevin Volans, London 2016. Composers Note: I have no idea where this piece came from and how it is structured. But befor...

Written for the Durban Art Gallery. Scored for Flute, Harpshichord (Piano), and Handclappers.

Double Take is a work by South-African composer Kevin Volans, arranged for Clarinet in A, with Accompaniment. Double Take was commissioned by the Music Network with the assistance of the Arts Council...

Scored for Percussion Solo. Written for Robyn Schulkowsky and first performed by her at the Museum Carolino Augusteum in Salzburg 1985. By limiting the instrumentation to drums only, the composer exp...

Duration 8 minutes.

Commissioned by the Swedish Concert Institute. The title of this work - Akrodha - is a Sanskrit word meaning 'Freedom from Anger'. The piece was written without any conscious system whatsoever and con...

Kevin Volans ' Passi Leggieri for solo Violin.

violin:piano is a work by Kevin Volans for Violin and Piano, in which the two instruments play at different tempi. This unusual and challenging piece was commissioned by Chris Alexander and premiered...

Cicada was commissioned for Double Edge Piano Duo by the Mary Carey Foundation, the first performance was given by Double Edge in Los Angeles 1994. The piece should be played half-pedal throughout, an...

Shiva Dances for two pianos was written for Jill Richards.

Commissioned by Sisu with the assistance of the Arts Council of Ireland and the Fond for lyd og bilde, Oslo. Written for Sisu. Each player has 8 drums played with sticks (one high set and one lower se...

For one large and two smaller Choirs. Suitable only for Xhosa Speakers.

Commissioned by Elizabeth Chatwin in memory of her husband Bruce Chatwin. First performed by the National Chamber Choir of Ireland, conducted by Paul Hillier in Dublin on 22 July 2010.

Commissioned by the Guardian Dulin International Piano Competition.

Pint-Sized Piano Pieces is the first in a series of three books featuring fun and enjoyably challenging Piano miniatures composed by South African pianist and composer Kevin Volans. If you're tired of...

In the second book of South African pianist and composer Kevin Volans's Piano miniature series, progressively more challenging pieces are presented, for intermediate players while still retaining the...

The third in South African pianist and composer Kevin Volans's brilliant series of Piano miniatures, Progressively Prickly Piano Pieces is a collection of ingenious and witty practice pieces that are...

Composers Note: Most of the piano music I have written has focussed on a number of 20th century musical concerns: with complex rhythmic patterning, a- and poly-tonality, multiple layering of parts, on...