Paul grabowsky biography

Helix Variation
for viola
Composed for Kate Worley
First performance: 16 Nov 2021

Performed at the ANAM Set Festival by
Kate Worley (viola)

The ANAM Set · Paul Grabowsky's ‘Helix Variation’ performed by Kate Worley | The ANAM Set

This ANAM Set commission was generously supported by the Restart Investment to Sustain and Expand (RISE) Fund – an Australian Government initiative

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Program note:
Helix Variation is based on a piece I wrote several years ago simply called Helix, a vehicle for jazz musicians, inspired by certain music of the great US saxophonist/composer Wayne Shorter.

The ‘score’ for Helix exists as a lead sheet ie the melody and chord symbols which express the structure and generate the substance of any performance. The harmonic structure of Helix has generated virtually all of the pitch material of Helix Variation, which is in effect an extended iteration/improvisation of the 42 bars o