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Commissions 4-MALITY have commissioned works from Ian Vine, Eric Sammut, Julian Warburton and Dinuk Wijeratne. Ian Vine's Siri2 was premiered at the Newbury Spring Festival May 2000, being originally written for Peader Townsend as a solo percussion and Tape piece. Since, Siri2 has been performed at the Purcell Room and for BBC World Service in Bristol. For more details on Siri, Siri2 and Ian Vine's works, visit Ian Vine's Website Eric Sammut is one of the worlds leading marimbists, and is principal timpanist with L'orchestre de Paris. 4-MALITY performed the world premiere of his quartet, Extreme Ice Cream at the Stratford English Music Festival in October 2001. Julian Warburton is a freelance percussionist based in London. Julian wrote Jugalbandi for himself and 4-MALITY to perform at Rhythm Sticks 2000, Purcell Room, 16 July 2000, performed again at the Lindbury Studio, January 2001. Written as a solo piece for Marimba and Log Drum with percussion quartet. Influenced by a recent trip to India. Dinuk
Wijeratne is a composition student at the RNCM. In June 2000 Adrian
Spillett premiered Wijeratne's Percussion Concerto with the
RNCM Chamber Orchestra. 4-MALITY and Appollo Saxophone Quartet premiered
his octet at Chelmsford Festival in June 2001 with support from
the Chelmsford Festival.  |