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Powell Kit

(02. 12. 1937)

Powell Kit
Powell Kit
Promenadenstr. 24
CH-8193 Eglisau (ZH)
Schweiz

Tel: +41 (0)44 867 13 48

kitpowell.ch



Genre: Classical Music
Professional activity: Composers
Biography
* 02. 12. 1937.

Kit Powell was born in Wellington, New Zealand. After graduating he taught music and mathematics at a New Zealand high school and later lectured at Christchurch Teachers Training College where he led numerous courses in new and creative music. He has lived with his family in Switzerland since 1984. Besides his activities as composer he is also a teacher for language and music theory and trained in computer music (Swiss Centre for Music and UPIC (Centre for Contemporary Music) in Paris.
He composes in almost all areas of music including choir (sung and spoken), orchestra, chamber music, brass band, percussion, music theatre, and electronic music. Kit Powell is the author of books on the subject of teaching music.


Work list

Suite, op. 3 (1961/1990)

Instrumentation: for trombone solo

Duration: 6' 00"
Editions Marc Reift
Case postale 308
CH-3963 Crans-Montana
Galgenlieder (1983)

Instrumentation: for speaking choir, solo speaker, piano, clarinet and percussion

Texts: Christian Morgenstern

Suitable for students at intermediate level.

Duration: 10' 00"
Pan Verlag
Gerbergasse 30
CH- 4001 Basel
Schweiz
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Nelson Songs (1986)

Instrumentation: for baritone and electronic tape

Texts: Michael Harlow

Experimental piece using extensive graphic notation.

Duration: 10' 00"

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CHF: 18.60
(Recorded material available on request)
Sonatina for Trombone (1986)

Instrumentation: for trombone and piano

Composed in four movements (like a sonata da chiesa).

Duration: 8' 00"

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CHF: 22.20
incl. part
Flötenspieler und Fledermäuse (1987)

Instrumentation: for transverse flute (c' - g) and electronic tape

A piece with various modern playing methods based on a picture bearing the same name by Kokoschka.

Duration: 6' 00"

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CHF: 21.00
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Devotion to the Small (1988)

Instrumentation: for Soprano and five percussionists

An experimental work with extensive graphical notation.

Duration: 12' 00"
Wai-te-ata Press
Victoria University of Wellington
PO Box 600
Wellington
sydney.shep@vuw.ac.nz
Chinese Songs (1988)

Instrumentation: for high soprano and electronic tape

Texts: Chinesisch, Lao-Tse

Texts from 'Tao Te Ching' and 'I Ching'.
A confrontation between two contrasting philosophies.


Duration: 16' 00"

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Concerto for 2 Violins and String Orchestra (1989)

Demanding solo voices with amateur choir.

Duration: 25' 00"

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CHF: 39.60
Father's Telescope (1989)
Musical theatre piece

Instrumentation: for singers, orator and electronic tape

Texts: Michael Harlow

Playful work dealing with power and submission.

Duration: 15' 00"

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CHF: 24.00
Tide Pools (1990)

Instrumentation: for speaker, choir, SATB and piano

5 short pieces with amusing texts about the New Zealand foreshore.

Duration: 8' 00"

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CHF: 29.40
Gargantua (1990)

Instrumentation: for wind orchestra

Based on the grotesque figures of the middle ages. This is an entertaining piece well suited to an amateur orchestra.

Duration: 10' 00"
Editions Marc Reift
Case postale 308
CH-3963 Crans-Montana
Metamorphoses (1990)

Instrumentation: for two trumpets and two trombones

A conversion of diverse non-metrical themes heading together in the direction a metrical theme.

Duration: 6' 00"
Manuscript
Three Chance Pieces (plus one) (1991)

Instrumentation: for piano

The four movements, three short and one long, were composed using the random technique.

Duration: 8' 00"
Wai-te-ata Press
Victoria University of Wellington
PO Box 600
Wellington
sydney.shep@vuw.ac.nz
Snakes and Ladders (1991)

Instrumentation: for cello and piano

A playful competition between cellist and pianist.

Duration: 6' 00"
Wai-te-ata Press
Victoria University of Wellington
PO Box 600
Wellington
sydney.shep@vuw.ac.nz
Vlaminck's Tie (1985-1992)

Instrumentation: for baritone and piano

Texts: Michael Harlow

A cycle of phrases in mirrored form.

Duration: 18' 00"

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CHF: 39.00
The Green Man (1989-1992)
Musical theatre.

Instrumentation: for solo percussionist

Work based on a poem by Michael Harlow, which is about the conflict between anima and animus – instruments are arranged as "male" and "female" left and right of the player.

Duration: 10' 00"

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CHF: 22.20
Suite for Solo Tenor Trombone (1992)

Five short passages alternating between four and twelve tone material.

Duration: 5' 00"
Editions Marc Reift
Case postale 308
CH-3963 Crans-Montana
Amselbaum (1992)

Instrumentation: for soprano and piano

Texts: Brigitte Powell

A cycle in three movements with bird themes.

Duration: 15' 00"

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CHF: 30.60
Whale (1993)

Instrumentation: for trombone (tenor or bass) and electronic tape

An experimental dialogue between man and whale.

Duration: 10' 00"
Manuscript
Mayenzeit (1993)

Instrumentation: for brass band

Minnesang themes and variations for amateur choir.

Duration: 5' 00"
Editions Marc Reift
Case postale 308
CH-3963 Crans-Montana
Dies Irae (1995)

Instrumentation: for Soprano, male choir and instrumental ensemble ( flute, clarinet, (bass clarinet), violin, violincello and percussion)

Texts: Thomas a Celano, Konrad Bänninger

Text by Konrad Bänninger and a sequence from the requiem.

Duration: 27' 00"
Manuscript
After Babel (1995)

Instrumentation: for Soprano, piano, two trumpets two trombones and electronic tape

Cycle taking the restoration of language as its theme.

Duration: 25' 00"
Manuscript
Clara Schumann (1996)

Instrumentation: for Soprano, piano and electronic tape

Cycle of recitatives and variations on the last years of Robert Schumann.

Duration: 25' 00"
Manuscript
Piano Poems (1996)

Nine short pieces with experimental forms.

Duration: 20' 00"
Wai-te-ata Press
Victoria University of Wellington
PO Box 600
Wellington
sydney.shep@vuw.ac.nz
Boundaries (1997)

Instrumentation: for two string orchestras and percussion

Stereophonic work for two amateur choirs and percussionists.

Duration: 17' 00"

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CHF: 43.20
(parts: 90.00)
Der Wal (1998)

Instrumentation: for speaking choir and four-handed piano

Texts: Jürg Schubiger

A short piece suitable for youngsters.

Duration: 4' 00"

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CHF: 21.60
Concerto, op. 90 (1998)

Instrumentation: for five percussionists and orchestra (1.1.1.1/1.1.1.0/str)

A work in three movements for a junior choir.

Duration: 21' 00"

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CHF: 50.70
Koauau, op. 91 (1998)

Instrumentation: for transverse flute ensemble (8 players with 16 flutes ranging from piccolo to contrabass flute)

A commissioned work for 'les joueurs de flûte'.

Duration: 10' 00"

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CHF: 21.60
Salmagundi, op. 92 (1998)

Instrumentation: for brass ensemble (4 trumpets, 2 horns, tuba and 4 trombones)

An entertaining piece from German and English folk songs.

Duration: 10' 00"

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CHF: 30.00
Credo, op. 94a (1999)

Instrumentation: for organ and tape recorder

Duration: 6' 00"
Manuscript
Credo, op. 94b (1999)

Instrumentation: for organ solo

Duration: 4' 00"

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CHF: 13.20
Die Poppa, op. 95 (1999)

Instrumentation: for baritone and tape

Duration: 17' 00"
Manuscript
Home Thoughts from Abroad, op. 97 (2000)

Instrumentation: for orchestra (3.3.3.3/4.3.3.1/timp.2perc/hp/str)

Duration: 10' 00"
Manuscript
Ophelia Songs (1999)

Instrumentation: for soprano (or mezzo-soprano) and piano

Texts: William Shakespeare

Four of Shakespeare's texts dealing with the increasing loss of Ophelia's sanity are set to music.

Duration: 11' 00"

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CHF: 38.70
Sextett (2000)

Instrumentation: for clarinet, bass clarinet and string quartet

Duration: 11' 00"

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CHF: 27.60
(Parts: CHF 42.00)
Scheint denn die Sonne heut nicht? (2001)

Instrumentation: for soprano and piano

9 settings of texts by Robert Walser.

Duration: 20' 00"

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CHF: 37.20
Fanfare Helvetica, op. 100 (2001)

Instrumentation: for fanfare

Duration: 5' 00"
Manuscript
4 Rothko Bilder, op. 102 (2002)

Instrumentation: for 4-handed piano

Duration: 7' 00"
Manuscript
Das Ausland (2003)

Instrumentation: for soprano, bass clarinet, trombone and percussion

1) for soprano and trombone
2) for soprano, bass clarinet and percussion.
Setting of a short story by Jürg Schubiger.

Duration: 7' 00"

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CHF: 21.60
(Parts: CHF 25.00)
Today is the Piano's Birthday (2003)

Instrumentation: for soprano and piano

Setting of a prose poem by Michael Harlow.

Duration: 7' 00"

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CHF: 24.60
6 Fragments for 4 Trombones (2004)

Instrumentation: for 3 tenor trombones and bass trombone

For professional players.

Duration: 10' 00"

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CHF: 22.80
(Parts: CHF 30.00)
Verschiedene Tiere (2004-2005)

Instrumentation: for soprano, trombone and piano

Setting of 4 prose texts by Jürg Schubiger.

Duration: 17' 00"

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CHF: 45.60
incl. parts
5 Schwitters Songs for Andres (2005)

Instrumentation: for soprano, alto and piano

Settings of 5 texts by Kurt Schwitters.
For Andres Giedion's 80th birthday.

Duration: 8' 00"

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CHF: 31.30
Kapiti (2005)

Instrumentation: for Piano

Sound picture of the New Zealand island Kapiti and it's many bird-inhabitants.

Duration: 4' 30"

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CHF: 21.60
A Shout (2005)

Instrumentation: for soprano, female choir & piano

4 texts by Michael Harlow.
Im memoriam William Cumming, NZ painter.

Duration: 10' 00"

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CHF: 28.80
Rothko Variations (2005)

Instrumentation: für Orchester (3.3.3.3/4.3.3.1/timp.2perc/hp.pf.xyl/str)

4 Variations with 3 Interludes, inspired by the pictures of Marc Rothko.

Duration: 17' 00"

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CHF: 61.30
(Parts: CHF 150.00)
Wedding Fanfare (2006)

Instrumentation: for horn and organ

Duration: 3' 30"

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CHF: 18.60
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Mother Goose Medley (2006)

Instrumentation: for trombone and piano

A medley of English nursery songs.

Duration: 5' 00"

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CHF: 16.80
(Parts: CHF 18.00)
Francesca e Paolo (2007)

Instrumentation: for a-cappella choir

Setting of the famous story of Francesca da Rimini by Dante.

Duration: 10' 00"

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CHF: 28.20
Alles unter einem Hut (2008)

Instrumentation: for soprano and string orchestra

Setting of texts for children by Jürg Schubiger.
Suitable for an amateur orchestra.

Duration: 20' 00"

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CHF: 46.80
(Parts: CHF 36.00)
Discography
Missa Digitalis (stv/asm Nr. 11, 2000)
Interpreters:
Kern, Susanne
Works:
Powell, Kit: Credo, op. 94b (1999)
Heisch, Michael: Agnus Dei (1999)
Lee, Junghae: Kyrie-Umkehr (1999)
Neukom, Martin: 15. Sanctus (1999)
With more works of: Olivier Messiaen, Philippe Kocher
Info: www.fonoteca.ch
Schweizerisches Zentrum für Computermusik (stv/asm Nr. 4, 1999)
Works:
Powell, Kit: Whale (1993)
Neukom, Martin: Studie 8.3 (1994)
Spoerri, Bruno: De- / In- / Formation (1995)
Spoerri, Bruno: Etude pour usines à fer (1996)
Berger, Gary: im selben raum (1997)
With more works of: Bruno Spoerri, Brigitte Schär, Harold Vasquez, Michael Horowitz, Simon Jaunin, Nicolas Sordet
Info: www.fonoteca.ch


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