Blair returns to the UK each year in a series of live performances alongside his very own Warwick Blair Ensemble (WBE) featuring global and UK musicians.

 

Works List

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2024

  • Wave (11’) elec

  • Daughter (13’) elec

  • Yellow (28’) elec

2023

  • Taboo #4 - Salvation Drift (58’) elec

  • Voice of God #1 - Human (42’) 4 perc and elec

  • Sunset Kiss Darkness Come (5’) orch

  • David Williamson (10’) elec

  • New World Maniac [an opera in four scenes] (60’) voice and elec text Blair

  • Groove (20’) elec

 

2022

  • Taboo #1 - Chant (22’) str quartet, elec

  • Taboo #2 - The Moon (24’) str quartet, elec

  • Taboo #3 - Birds (32’) elec

  • Ritual #3 - Summer (61’) str quartet, elec

  • Ritual #4 - Snow (73’) str quartet, elec

  • The Bell Tolls For Thee (5’) orch

 

2021

  • Ritual #1 - Darkness (71’) str quartet, elec

  • Ritual #2 - The Kiss (50’) str quartet, elec

  • Union (43′) for Warwick Blair [male voice & electronics] text Blair, Kandinsky 

  • The Picture Project (varies) video, elec

  • Submerged Night (8′) extensible for orch 

  • Lull (4′) extensible for cello, pno 

  • Lull (3′) extensible for cello 

  • Lull (4′) extensible for pno 

  • Lull (4′) extensible for cello, choir, pno 

  • Lull (4′) extensible for str quartet

 

2020

  • Intimacy (33′) for Warwick Blair [male voice & electronics]

  • The Earth Began To Heal (11’) vn, tru, harp, 2 perc, any number of performers, elec

  • Shenker Hymns (47’) sop, str orch, elec text Kandinsky

  • Protest (4′) extensible for bs drum, elec

 

2019

  • Ancestors (10’) video, adult speaker, taonga puoro, ‘found’ instruments (musical and non-musical), elec

  • Submerged Night (8′) extensible for sop, str orch, elec

  • The Children Have No Bodies (10’) child speaker, taonga puoro, ‘found’ instruments (musical and non-musical), elec

  • She (10′) vn, orch, elec

  • Every Love Story is a Ghost Story (10’) sop, bass, any number of performers, elec

  • Death (11′) elec

  • Joy (tūī) [in memoriam my mother, Joy Blair] (12′) elec

  • Protest (4′) extensible for pūrerehua, elec

 

2018

  • Whakaahua (Transformation) (10’) extensible for optional sop, orch, elec

  • Whakaahua (Transformation) (5’) extensible for optional sop, orch, elec

  • Whanau (Family) (19’) any number of performers, elec

  • Āngi (Air) (18’) any number of performers, elec

  • Pūrerehua (Moth) (16’) any number of performers, elec

 

2017

  • Lull (8′) extensible for cello, pno, elec

  • School of Velocity [dedicated to John Rimmer] (8′) pno, elec

  • Piano Traders (varies) any no. of pianos

  • Visible Invisible primary (varies) performers, DJ

  • Visible Invisible book 1 (91′) 2 keyboards, perc, elec, DJ

  • Visible Invisible book 2 (146′) voice, DJ

 

2016

  • Melusine (28′) extensible for sop, elec

  • Multitrack (5′) [Warwick Blair & Rupert Carey] 10 turntables

  • Feet of Clay [Kingston University] 3 group pieces

 

2015

  • Melusine (28′) extensible for sop, orch, elec

  • Harp from Accordion (Edmund Spacek remix 1) (2′) elec

  • Harp from Accordion (Edmund Spacek remix 2) (4′) elec

 

2014

  • Etuden (21′) [dedicated to Gilius van Bergeijk] sop, pno, elec

 

2013

  • Lieder (smooth version) (41′) baritone, pno, elec

  • Lieder (rough version) (25′) elec

  • Electric (aka State of Being) (88′) solo voice (S, Mezzo, 2 Baritone), wind (picc/fl/ten sax/bar sax), fret (kalimba/oud/mand/acgt/elgt), kyb (org/bskyb/elecpno/hpschrd), perc, elec

 

2009

  • Stars (24 hours) female voice, elec

 

2006

  • Accordion (51′) female voice, male voice, tru, marimba, 3 perc, harp, elecgt, pno, bskyb or bsgt, elec

 

2003

  • Improvised Performance Warwick Blair & Stephen Small

 

1998

  • Electric Karen Walker fashion show (07′) elec

 

1996

  • Begin mini album by glory box [Warwick Blair & Sara Parry] elec

 

1990

  • Call (04′) orch (2+1 2 2 2+1/4 2 3 1/timp 2 perc/str)

  • Group Piece Rangitoto College any no.

 

1989

  • Pinapi e Meangiti: The Good Seeds Are So Small (22′) orch (2 0 2 0 1 sax/0 1 2 0/2 perc bsgt SSAATB soloists 2 kyb/str 4tet) text Cook Is.

 

1987

  • Encore fl, cl, vn, pno

  • Etude in 2 movs (07′) orch (2+2 2 2 2/2 1 1 1 btro or tub/perc pno/str)

  • Finale (07′) pno, elec

  • Out Loud SAT soloists & SSAATTBB choir

  • Distanced (15′) elec

  • UPIC (02′) elec

 

1986

  • Opening/Closing 3 tro, tub

  • Quiet Piece (02′) perc

  • Peace (varies) any no.

  • Without (17′) str. orch text Spencer

  • 6 Little Piano Pieces Op. 19 by Schoenberg (07′) orch (2+1 2 2+1 2/2 1 3 0/2 perc harp/str)

  • Lie With Me (09′) S solo & optional glock text Beer

  • 3 Variations on Ross Careys Piece for Piano Solo (04′) elec

  • Big Jesus Trash Can (03′) elec

  • Across (12′) elec

 

1985

  • Group Piece 1985 Cambridge any no.

  • Euphoria (10′) 5 perc

  • We Are Us school Piece (03′) S solo, SAATTBB choir text Haiku

  • A Corruption of Innocence (13′) cl, elec sounds text Thomas

  • Ambience (varies) any no.

  • Natyam (17′) T solo, fl, cello, pno, perc text Sanskrit

  • Evening (06′) A solo, fl, pno, db, 2 perc text Staff

  • Rain for film (05′) elec

  • Variations on Freds Tune from Bachs Musical Offering (10′) elec

  • Dream State (15′) elec

 

1984

  • Epitaph for 1984″ 4 vocal groups text Orwell

  • Group Piece Cambridge

  • What Is Cambridge All About? (varies) 6 perf

  • Rising/Falling (varies) 2 tru, 2 tro, 2 perc

  • Symphony 1″ (08′) vn, va, pno

  • Symphony 2″ (06′) A solo, cello text Sanskrit

  • Contrast of Metre ob, cl

  • Motor Rhythm xylo, 2 pno

  • Plainsong and Isorhythm vn, tru, pno

  • 3 Short Pieces pno

  • Fanfare 2 tru

  • Melody fl

  • Continue pno

  • Piece vn

  • We (03′) amplified voice & cymbal, elgt

  • -phony orch (4+1 3 4+1 3+1/4 3 3 1/4 perc/str 10 10 8 8 6)

  • Mozart Is Dead (varies) any no.

  • Poem (03′) B solo & tamtam, 4 perc, 1 db text Sanskrit

  • The Party Is (02′) elec

  • Vox (04′) elec

 

1983

  • 3 Variations fl, pno

  • Rain Chant (04′) SSAATTBB choir

  • Work For Douglas (11′) 2 vn, pno

  • M.A. fl

 

1982

  • Tunnel Beach A solo, ob, tro, vn, 1 perc, choir, 1 kyb, str, elec text Baxter

  • Phylo/sophic Statement (varies) any no.

  • Te Awamutu Primary School Song voice, pno

  • Their Freckles Tell Us Stories ob, elec text Cruz

 

1981

  • The Sea A solo, pno text Dallas

  • Nativity espressivo (02′) A solo, SATB choir text Sasson

 

1980

  • Spring Haze an Air in 2 movs (07′) pno

  • Prelude pno

 

1979

  • Satirical Games a March vn, pno

  • The Sea S solo, pno text Dallas