Vampire Dust is a colourful, inventive and dramatic work, exploring a wealth of colours and timbres, primarily in the lower register of the double bass. Each movement features musical and technical challenges in equal measure, creating atmospheric and evocative mini tone-poems of great breadth and character.

“In this piece, my first Double Bass Trio, the two movements’ colour worlds are:
Movement 1 – The mentioning of Ravel in the title of the first movement indicates a mixture of two ” French” ideas– a variation on the lovely English Horn solo melody from Ravel’s Piano Concerto and a pointed recurrence of harmonies involving the French Augmented 6th chord.

Movement 2 takes two of my so oft-used impression inspirations, drinks and all things funereal (this time a vampire’s casket) and weaves moody and brooding music about before an incredibly dramaticChorale-like section builds the piece to a loud and shattering Eb minor conclusion.”

[P. Kellach Waddle]