Repertoire

A selection of works that Liam has performed as a soloist or an ensemble musician.
(A * following the title indicates a first performance)

Unaccompanied

→ E-flat clarinet
Ray Evanoff, Narratives*
Alex Jang, mormorano*
Max Murray, Sötétség ad Meridiem*
Paul Steenhuisen, pomme de terre

→ B-flat/A clarinet
Lucian Berio, Sequenza IXa
Antoine Beuger, dialogues (silences)
Pierre Boulez, Domaines
Thanos Chrysakis, Undercurrent*
Ann Cleare, eyam i (it takes an ocean not to)
Edison Denisov, Sonata
Ray Evanoff, Overwhelm*
Suzanne Farrin, Ma Dentro Dove
Dai Fujikura, Turtle Totem
Keith Hamel, Traces II
Helmut Lachenmann, Dal Niente (Intérieur III)
Alvin Lucier, In Memoriam Jon Higgins, Still and Moving Lines of Silence in Families of Hyperbolas
Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf, Kurtág-Cantus I
Stefan Maier, Territories Study #1*, Thicket II*
Chikako Morishita, Lizard (Shadow)
Jeffrey Ryan, Grace Period
Kaija Saariaho, Duft
W.O. Smith, Variants
Igor Stravinsky, Three Pieces

→ Basset horn
Ray Evanoff, Follow*
Thanos Chrysakis, Egress I*
Kimberley Manerkirar, twine*
Horațiu Rădulescu, Capricorn’s Nostalgic Crickets

→ Bass clarinet
Mark Andre, …in…
Ana-Maria Avram, Penumbra
Richard Barrett, CHARON
Elliott Carter, Steep Steps
Iancu Dumitrescu, Aura
Wolf Edwards, Um allein zu kämpfen
Ray Evanoff, Quieted*, Disposed*
Jürg Frey, Mit Schweigen Wird’s Gesprochen, L’ame est sans retenue II
Liza Lim, Microbiome
Michelle Lou, Telegrams
Tim McCormack, RAW MATTER
Max Murray, Ad Marginem des Versuchs*
Rebecca Saunders, Caerulean
Iris Ter Schiphorst, Hi Bill!
Sabrina Schroeder, Stircrazer II
Kimia Koochakzadeh-Yazdi, Change of Relativity*

→ Multiple clarinets!
György Kurtág, Játékok és üzenetek
Joan Arnau Pàmies, …es kömmt drauf an, sie zu verändern.*

+Piano/Orchestra/Band

William Alwyn, Sonata
Alban Berg, Vier Stücke
Leonard Bernstein, Sonata
Johannes Brahms, Sonatas
Aaron Copland, Concerto
Claude Debussy, Première Rhapsodie
George Gershwin, Three Preludes
Ernst Krenek, Kleine Suite, Suite
Franz Krommer, Concerto for Two Clarinets
André Messager, Solo de Concours
Ennio Morricone, Ipotesi
W.A. Mozart, Concerto
Francis Poulenc, Sonata
Giacinto Rossini, Introduction, Theme & Variations
Nino Rota, Sonata
Camille Saint-Saëns, Sonata
Robert Schumann, Fantasiestücke
Antoni Szalowski, Sonatina
Alec Templeton, Pocket Size Sonatas
Frank Ticheli, Concerto
C.M.v. Weber, Concerto 1+2, Concertino
Mieczysław Weinberg, Sonata

Karlheinz Stockhausen

→ Unaccompanied
AMOUR, 5 pieces for clarinet
EVAs SPIEGEL, for basset-horn
FREIA, for basset-horn
LIBRA, for bass clarinet and electronic music
SUSANI, for basset-horn
TANZE LUZEFA, for basset-horn
UVERSA, for basset-horn and electronic music
Xi, for a melody instrument with micro-tones

→ Chamber/Ensemble
AUS DEN SIEBEN TAGEN, intuitive music
BALANCE, for bass clarinet, English horn, flute
ELUFA, for basset-horn, flute
KNABENDUETT, for 2 instruments
STERNKLANG, park music for 5 groups
SUKAT, for basset-horn and alto flute
TIERKREIS, 12 Melodies of the Star Signs


Chamber/Ensemble

→ The classics
Samuel Barber, Summer Music
Béla Bartók, Contrasts
L.v. Beethoven, Trios (opp. 11, 38)
Johannes Brahms, Trio, Quintet
Max Bruch, Eight Pieces
Aaron Copland, Appalachian Spring
Antonín Dvořák, Serenade op. 44
Georges Enescu, Dixtuor
Jean Francaix, Petit Quatour, Quartet, Quintets
Vincent d’Indy, Trio
György Ligeti, Bagatelles
Felix Mendelssohn, Konzertstüke Nr. 2
Olivier Messiaen, Quatour pour la fin du temps
W.A. Mozart, Gran Partita, Parto! Parto!
Francis Poulec, Sonata for two clarinets
Carl Reinecke, Trio op. 274
Arnold Schoenberg, Pierrot Lunaire
Richard Strauss, Serenade op. 7
Igor Stravinsky, Histoire du Soldat (suite), Octet
Edgard Varese, Intégrales
Anton Webern, Concerto op. 24, Quartet op. 22

→ The modern and soon-to-be classics
J.L. Adams, The Light Within, 10,000 Birds
Mark Andre, iv4
Luciano Berio, O King
Pierre Boulez, Dérive 1
Laura Bowler, FFF
Annette Brosin, Winter*
Elliott Carter, Esprit Rude/Esprit Doux, Poems of Louis Zukofsky
Raven Chacon, Voiceless Mass
Dorothy Chang, Beyond Shadows
Wolf Edwards, Libra/Scorpio/Sagittarius*
Ray Evanoff, Notables*
Brian Ferneyhough, In Nomine (à 3)
Nathan Friedman, Incarnadine*, Prosopopoeia*
G. F. Haas, Sextett
Yota Kobayashi, Duo Augmented*
György Kurtág, Játékok és üzenetek, Hommage à R. Sch.
Liza Lim, How Forests Think, Spirit Weapons II
Michelle Lou, Untitled Three-Part Invention
Alexina Louie, Cadenzas
Max Murray, Zweite Versuch über Homo Sacer*
Luigi Nono, A Pierre. Dell’azzurro silenzio, inquietum
Anna Pidgorna, The Stockhausen Menagerie*
Steve Reich, Double Sextet, Music for 18 Musicians, Radio Rewrite
A. Adnan Saygun, Sezisler
Giacinto Scelsi, Ko-Lho
Salvatore Sciarrino, Muro d’orizzonte, Omaggio a Burri
Nina Šenk, Srebrno
Linda Catlin Smith, Infinity (For Morton)
Jane Stanley, Helix Reflection
Steven Takasugi, Strange Autumn
Michael Tenzer, Three Island Duos
Hiroki Tsuromoto, equipo de sondido 2*
Claude Vivier, Kopernikus
Iannis Xenakis, Charisma
Frank Zappa, Times Beach II

Some past programs…

Pulse Tide
Solo basset horn and electronics
– Ana-Maria Avram, Penumbra
– Alvin Lucier, Still and Moving Lines of Silence in Families of Hyperbolas
– Thanos Chrysakis, Egress I
– Horațiu Rădulescu, Capricorn’s Nostalgic Crickets

Holobiont: Single-instrument polyphony
Solo clarinet/bass clarinet
– G.Ph. Telemann, Fantasia No. 2 in A minor
– Dai Fujikura, Turtle Totem
– Liza Lim, Microbiome
– Rebecca Saunders, Caerulean

Dunkel wird LICHT! (Darkness will be LIGHT!)
Excerpts from Karlheinz Stockhausen’s LICHT cycle
EVAs SPIEGEL + SUSANI, for basset-horn
ZUNGENSPITZENTANZ, for piccolo
ZWEI PAARE, electronic and concrete music
ELUFA, for basset-horn and flute

(2018–present)

20th Century Clarinet Sonatas
Clarinet and piano
– Camille Saint-Saëns, Sonate
– Mieczysław Weinberg, Sonata
– William Alwyn, Sonata
– Francis Poulenc, Sonata

Fin-de-Siècle
Clarinet and piano
– Johannes Brahms, Sonata No. 2 in E-flat major
– Alban Berg, Vier Stücke, op. 4
– Alban Berg, Sonata, op. 1
– Johannes Brahms, Sonata No. 1 in F minor