Title: Sepia Fragments
Year Completed: 2009/2012
Duration: 9 mins
Instrumentation: Piano or Carillon
Premiere: Piano version: 30/03/2012, National Arts Centre, Ottawa, ON: Petrowska Quilico.
Carillon version: 0/03/2012, Parliament Hill Carillon, Ottawa, ON: Andrea McCrady



Piano: Canadian Music Centre
Carillon: Canadian Music Centre



Sepia Fragments was commissioned by the St. Lawrence String Quartet. It won the 2012 Juno award for ‘Classical Composition of the Year’. Leading up to the Juno awards two arrangements were made for piano and carillon that were performed in Ottawa, Ontario. The piano arrangement was created for Christina Petrowska Quilico. She premiered this version on 30/03/2012 at the National Arts Centre Main Lobby for a programme entitled ‘Classical JUNOS in Concert’. The carillon arrangement was created for Dominion Carillonneur. She premiered this version on in Ottawa. Visit the original string quartet version.

derek charke sepia fragments piano
derek charke sepia fragments carillon