ravens and radishes (2013) 25’00″: soprano, electric guitar, and cello: words by Misha Penton ©2014 GHeathco (all rights reserved)

Misha Penton, soprano
George Heathco, electric guitar
Daniel Saenz, cello

Purchase it at: http://mishapenton.bandcamp.com/album/george-heathco-ravens-radishes

Ravens & Radishes - 01 Witch In Winter

The latest recording of my piece for solo bass clarinet, beautifully performed by Fabrizio Bardelli.

Czaplowski  Ocean Greyness (2003) Fabrizio Bardelli 2014

Estudio Tongolele

The recontextualisation of Bach's Invention #1, from Bach's Two Part Inventions.

Homage To A Bach Invention

Concierto Voltaje new version 2015

Concierto Voltaje-second and third movements-new version 2015

"My Concerto for oboe and strings was written at the request of Jeffrey Crellin, principal oboe of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. He gave the first performance on Tuesday August 19th 1997, with Australia Pro Arte, at Melba Hall, Melbourne Conservatorium of Music. The piece has since been performed by Jeffrey and the Geelong Chamber Orchestra, the Melbourne Symphony, and the Christchurch SO.

The concerto is one continuous movement about 12 minutes in length, but containing three easily discernible sections. The first part is fairly slow. After a broad and contrapuntal opening by the strings, the oboe enters, and the music continues in a lyrical vein. Eventually, the tempo increases somewhat, and the second section, a mostly contrapuntal passage, leads to a brief cadenza for the soloist. This eventually leads into to the last section, an allegro. Here, the music is more urgent and virtuosic. At one point the allegro is interrupted by a brief reminder of the slower music of the first section, before the allegro returns, and the work ends in an energetic and driving coda." 

Czaplowski - Concerto for Oboe & Strings

Recorded and mixed by Elmeri Pörsti
January 2018
Tampere, Finland

Matilda Seppälä: Response (2017)

World premiere, October 15, 2017
Alfred Newman Recital Hall
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, USA

Performed by
Andrew Leonard (cl), Jan Kalinowski (vc) and Marek Szlezer (pfte)
Recorded by Adam Borecki
© Polish Music Center at the USC Thornton School of Music
Los Angeles, USA

Concert in Los Angeles, October 15, 2017

"Death in Venice" for clarinet, cello and piano (2017)

Piece for Oboe and Contra Bass.  Performed @ Daniel and Joanna S. Rose Studio, Lincoln Center and Merkin Concert Hall by William Belfor, oboe; Orion Miller, double bass (Mar. & Feb. 2019)

Blood Moon (Oboe, Double Bass) (2018)

Philip Czaplowski (born 1958) is an Australian composer.

Czaplowski was born in London in 1958, and emigrated to Australia with his family in 1969. He lives in Melbourne, where he completed a PhD in music composition at Monash University (2007). During 2005 he also attended the Academy of Music in Kraków, Poland, where he worked with Zbigniew Bujarski, Krystyna Moszumańska-Nazar, Wojciech Widłak, and Anna Zawadska-Gołosz.

Philip's music is modern but approachable, eclectic but not conservative. "Although I try to write music that is obviously of our time, the most important aspect of composition for me is expression. For me composition is very much a form of communication, allowing me to express my thoughts and feelings."

Performers of Philip's music include the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Christchurch Symphony Orchestra, the New York Miniaturist Ensemble, Orquestra Antunes Câmara, Australia Pro Arte, the Canberra Wind Soloists, the Chamber Strings of Melbourne, Geelong Chamber Orchestra, the Australian Chamber Soloists, Australia Felix, the Monash Festival Orchestra, Kazimierz Dawidek, Harry Sparnaay, Prue Davis, James Strauss, Jeffrey Crellin, Carla Rees, and many of Australia’s leading musicians.

Philip Czaplowski’s music has featured in a number of festivals including the Encuentros Festival Internacional (Brazil 1995), International Double-Reed Society Conference (Arizona 1998), Federation Music Week (Melbourne 2000), Sonorities Festival of Contemporary Music (Belfast 2003), Szymanowski Festival 2003 (XXVI Dni Muzyki Karola Szymanowskiego, Poland), International Double-Reed Society Conference (Melbourne 2004), the Melbourne International Festival of Single Reeds (2005), and the Cortona Contemporary Music Festival (Tuscany, Italy 2006).

Czaplowski Ocean Greyness (2003) Fabrizio Bardelli 2014

Philip Czaplowski - Composer