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String Chamber Music

Trios:

Adams: Prelude and Fugue for two violins and cello
Bray: Rena
Crehan: Trio Fantasia for two violin and cello •
Lilburn: String Trio •
Pruden: String Trio •
Ritchie: Spring String Trio •

Quartets:

Adams: The Arianna Suite (version for four violins available)
Biddington: Two Pieces for four violins •
Gray: the silence •
Harris: String Quartet No. 3 (Blood Red Roses) •
Hill: String Quartets
Holmes: Fragment •
Lilburn: String Quartet in E minor •
Ritchie, J.: String Quartet
Statham: "Ina" an original Scottish Air •
Statham: Elena's Waltz •
Statham: Happy Days •
Statham: Pastorale •
Statham: Romance No.1 •
Statham: Such Sweet Sorrow •
Taylor: four landscapes •

Woodwind Chamber Music

Trios:

Biddington: A Little Trio for Recorders
Biddington: Five Stories for Three Winds (mixed)
Biddington: Rosehips in Winter (mixed)
Biddington: Tongue in Cheek • (saxophones or clarinets)
Biddington: Trio for Recorders
Holloway: Malleus • (clarinets)

Quartets:

Adams: The Arianna Suite (flutes)  
Audain: A Charleston Kick With Steel Caps • (saxophones)
Audain: bulletproof petals • (saxophones)
Biddington: Festival Dance • (clarinets)
Biddington: Lincoln Green Suite • (mixed)
Biddington: Nelson Breezes (clarinets)
Biddington: Theatre Music Suite • (mixed)
Biddington: Two Pieces for Saxophone Quartet •
Ellis: Banda Chiflada (saxophones)
Ellis: Huff (saxophones)
Hunt: Microscores for Clarinet Quartet •
Norman: A Short Suite • (saxophones)   
Rimmer: Brooklyn Dances (recorders)      
Ryan: Scherzo 1994 (saxophones)
Wilson: Variations on a Theme by Paganini • (clarinets)
Wilson: Slow Piece (clarinets)    

Quintets:

Audain: Swimming with Dinosaurs (recorders)
Biddington: Nursery Rhyme Suite • (mixed)
Lilburn: Wind Quintet (mixed) 
Wilson: Wind Quintet (mixed)   

Brass Chamber Music

Quartets:

Quintets:

Camm: Four Pieces for Brass Quintet
Farquhar: Homage to Stravinsky •  
Rimmer: A Cambridge Canzona
Ritchie, J.: Partita

Piano Chamber Music

Six Hands:

Farr: Dua Lagu
Hamilton: Tui
Hamilton: Three Rags
Holmes: A Tedious Brief Scene: Bottom's Dance
Utting: Onslow College Suite

Eight Hands:

Carr: Foxtrot from "Coup de Folie"
Carr: In the Rangitaki Valley

Percussion Chamber Music

Trio:

Harris: Ricochet 

Quartet:

Farr: Volume Pig 
Farr: Ukare Funk   
Farr: Tubes    
Rimmer: Clouds over Pirongia

Piano Trios

Biddington: Music for Friends • 
Biss: Dance Trio 
Body: Fire in the Belly • 
Buchanan: Pacific Bolero 
Cowan: Subtle Dances    
Farr: Ahi •   
Holmes: When Expectation Ends    
Psathas: Island Songs  
Ritchie, A.: Piano Trio •  

Mixed Chamber Music

Trios:

Adams: Contemporary Triptych • (fl, bsn, pno)
Biddington: Adagio Triste (vln, vln, pno)
Biddington: Trio • (fl, cl, pno)
Biddington: Trio (fl, vlc, pno)
Biddington: Trio (fl, vln, pno)
Biddington: Trio • (vln, vln, pno)
Biddington: Trio (vln, vla, pno)
Biddington: Trio Nr.2 (vln, vla, pno)
Carey: The Big Swim (fl, cl, pno)
Crehan: Trio Fantasia • (vln, vln, pno)
Gray: Trio (fl, vla, harp)
Grenfell: Poems of a Bright Moon (fl, cl, pno)
Hextall: Marx or Smith? • (cl, vla, pno)
Hunt: A Dragon Named Blake (sax, sax, pno)
Hunt: Beneath (cl, vln, pno)
Norton: Trio (vln, vln, pno) 
Norton: Trio • (cl, bsn, pno)
Psathas: Island Songs • (cl, vlc, pno) 
Rimmer: Kokako Dreams (fl, cl, pno)
Ritchie, A. Trio (cl, vlc, pno)
Statham: Flora • (cl, fl or vln, pno)
Statham: Landsdown Gardens * (cl, fl or vln, pno)
Wilby: Tri-Me-Trio (fl, cl, pno)

Quartets:

Bowater: Banshee (vln, vln, vlc, pno)
Hamilton: Hurdy Gurdy • (fl, cl, vln, pno) 
Hamilton: Jade Variations (fl, 3 vln, vlc)   
Norman: Bridgewater Quartet • (fl, cl, vln, pno)
Norton: Quartet (vln, vln, vln, pno)

Quintets:

Hamilton: Kristallnacht (fl, gtr, pno, perc, perc) 
Harris: Fjärran (cl, str quartet)  
Rimmer: Summer Street (cl, str quartet)
Statham: Four Pieces for oboe and string quartet •
Statham: Suite for flute and string quartet •

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