tony@tony-osborne.com

Commissions and Performances

Three Nonsense Songs (soprano, cello & double bass) - Harlech Music Festival 1993
Concerto for Double Bass & String Orchestra - St. Pauls, Wokingham, March 1997
Songs from stage musical "A Fine Time for Wine" (words by Jonathan Posner) - St. Edwards, Windsor, April 1997 Intrada, Romanza & Scherzo (double bass duo) - Leighton Park School, 1997
The Clock Slows Down from "A Fine Time for Wine" (Sarah Poole - soprano with Gershwin & Co) - Purcell Room, October 1997
Time Travel (double bass quartet) - Wells Music School, November 1997
Free Spirit (soprano, double bass and piano) - In Memory of Diana, Princess of Wales - Leighton Park School, November 1997
Mood Swings (double bass, piano & drums) - Purcell Room, December 1997
Concerto for Four Double Basses & String Orchestra - Welsh College of Music, February 1998
Song and Dance (double bass & piano) - In Memory of composer, Wilfred Josephs - for the International Bass Convention in Blankenburg, Germany and at St. James Piccadilly in March 1998
Overseas Premiere - Intrada Romanza & Scherzo - 10 performances in Majorca, David Heyes & Martin Gregg
Chaconne Syncopations for Brass Quintet - May 1998 (written for Chaconne Brass). Further performances include; Winchester Festival 98 and Charterhouse.
Carnival Contrasts (12 Double Basses) and Sonnet for a Summer's Day (Soprano and Double Bass Quartet) - Bass Fest 98, Leighton Park School.
Requiem - commissioned by Voci Cantati, conductor Andrew Phillips, for November 1998, at Church of St. Michael & St. George, Aldershot.
Jazz Suite for Double Bass, Piano and Drums (optional), commissioned by Barry Green (author of "The Inner Game of Music"), premiered Jan 99 at University of Southern California Santa Cruz, with James Hart, piano, and Adam Green, drums. Further performances in San Fransisco, Memphis, Maryland, and the Richard Davis Bass Conference in Des Moines, Iowa. UK premiere, May 99, Leighton School, London (with Nadia Lasserson, piano) and at Dartington College and Wells.
Jazz Suite: version available for DB with Chamber Orchestra.
March 99: Song "What Right Have I?" (From "A Fine Time for Wine"), Sarah Poole - soprano, Gershwin & Co., Voci Cantati - conductor Andrew Phillips, Queen Elizabeth Hall, London.
April 99: "Bass Band Beat" commissioned by the Bay Bass Band (Barry Green), Bay Area, California.
July 99: Song "What Right Have I?" Sarah Poole with the Royal Philharmonic Pops Orchestra, conductor Iain Sutherland, Notley Bowl, Braintree, Essex.
July 99: "Bronco Ride" and "Old MacDonald had a Party", Bracknell Sports Centre, Junior Strings of South Berks. Music Centre (Berks. Young Musicians' Trust Commissions)
Sept. 99: Purcell Room, London: "Marimba Malimba" for doublebass quartet and percussion. Also at Bass Fest 99, Leighton Park School, August.
Oct. 99: Wells, new bass quartet
Yiddish/Klezmer piece for Barry Green.
Dec 12 '99: 'Shir Ha-Neshamah' - new version of 'Free Spirit', with added text. Cantor Rosslyn Barak (sop), Barry Green, (db), James Hart, (pno); Old First Church, San Fransisco
Dec 12 ''99: 'Suite And Light' - adapted for the Huqin Quartet (Singapore Chinese Orchestra); Jubilee Hall Singapore.
May 25/26 2000: Jazz Contrasts, The Soloists Ensemble, cond. Robert Turrell, Gloucester and Blackburn Cathedrals.
'Spinning Reels', commissioned by the The Soloists Ensemble/Robert Turrell (Southwark Cathedral, October 2000)
'Blue Suite', Mette Hanskow, (db), and piano, and Brontosaurus Rock, for junior Bass quartet, Bass- Fest, August 2000, Woldingham School.
'Space Mission' and 'Space Rock', DB/Pno, Trinity College of Music, October 2000
'Flight Lines"; Barry Green (DB), Adam Green (Marimba), Houston, Texas, November 2000
Bach Italian Concerto, arranged for Gershwin & Co, Bristol Cathedral, Winter 2000
Frere Jazzer, for South Berkshire Music Centre String Gala, 2001
Premiere of stage musical 'A Fine Time For Wine' (book & lyrics by Jonathan Posner), Riverside Players, Memorial Hall, Old Windsor, June 2001 - WEBSITE
Picnic Pieces for junior bass ensemble, Bass Fest 2002
Jurassic Jazz, for double bass and piano, Bass Fest 2002
Dream Time, for bass ensemble, prem. RAM 2002
Colonel Cody for bass ensemble and The Flying Cathedral, Bass Fest 2002
Song Cycle, on Sonnets by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, for Sarah Poole 2002
Aria e Choros Brasilieros, for double bass and piano, composed for Brazilian soloist Valeria Guimaraes
Performance of Jazz Contrasts by Junior Academy String Chamber Orchestra, conductor Susan Collier, Dukes Hall, RAM, June 2002
Performance of 'Groovy Strings' from Suite & Light' (Faber) at Youth Music Camp, Tsuen Wan Town Hall, as part of Hong Kong Youth Music Camp
'Firefly' for double bass duo and piano, commissioned for Basso! Basso! (David Heyes and Peter Leerdam, with funding from Dutch Foundation Aerium Sanctias. Premiered at Bass Fest, Downe House School, April 2002
Gershwin Fantasy for Barry Green
Margaret of Maidenhead - Community Opera, libretto by Rudi Sheldon, staged at Norden Farm Arts Centre, Maidenhead, July 2004
Many pieces, and specially commissioned studies, are included in ABRSM, TRINITY-GUILDHALL, LLCM, AMEB (Australia) other examination lists (various publishers).