Westlake-Songs From The Forest (2S)-V/M/P/GT OS

Songs From the Forest is a duet for Guitar and Percussion. The guitar and percussion voices blend together for a unified sound in this composition from Nigel Westlake.

Number of Players: 4
Difficulty: Grade 5
Instrumentation:

Player I:Guitar

Player II: 2 Bongos

Player III:Vibraphone

Player IV:Marimba, Tom-Tom

Nigel Westlake's career in music has spanned more than 3 decades.

He studied the clarinet with his father, Donald Westlake (a prominent Australian musician & principal clarinettist with the Sydney Symphony orchestra 1961-1979) & subsequently left school early to pursue a performance career in music.
Nigel toured Australia & the world playing with ballet companies, a circus troupe, chamber music groups, fusion bands & orchestras to the cities of London, New York, Rome, Washington, Tokyo, Beijing, Paris, Amsterdam, Vancouver, Moscow, Hong Kong, Berlin, New Delhi & Singapore to name but a few.
His interest in composition dates from the late 1970's when he formed a classical/jazz-rock/world-music fusion band to play original music. During this time he started to receive offers to compose for radio & circus. Commissions for TV & film soon followed.