String Music
| Sonatine 1 for solo viola | 2009 | 5' |
| Editions BIM, Switzerland | ||
Commissioned as the set work by the Lionel Tertis Foundation for the 10th Lionel Tertis International Viola Competition, Erin Arts Centre, Isle of Man, March 2010. It received its first public performance by Milena Pajaro-Van de Stadt on Saturday March 27 2010 in the Isle of Man Bank Concert Hall, Erin Arts Centre, Isle of Man. The French premiere is scheduled by Adrien La Marca as part of the 2010 Uzerche Festival of Music, Abbatiale Saint-Pierre, August 22, 2010. The London premiere is scheduled by Milena Pajaro-Van de Stadt on January 30, 2011, in the Wigmore Hall.
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| Sonatine 2 for cello and piano | 2009 | 8' |
| Editions BIM, Switzerland | ||
Commissioned by American Landmark Festivals and written for Stefan Reuss, principal cellist with the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, New York, and first performed by him with the composer as pianist, in The Smith Opera House, Geneva, New York, on 19th September 2009. The New York Manhattan premiere was at the English-Speaking Union, New York on 22nd September 2009 |
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| Concerto for cello and chamber orchestra | 1991 | 25' |
| Stainer & Bell Ltd. London | ||
solo cello, orch: 1.2.0.2. - 2.2.0.0. - timp – str (6.5.3.3.2. min) Commissioned by the 1991 Peterborough Cathedral Festival with financial assistance from Eastern Arts. ''There is a fullness of life in this piece that sweeps through its four dance movements with passionate, almost ecstatic immediacy.'' ''Fastidiously crafted. Steptoe is an accomplished writer...... The work has moments of real beauty;'' ''Stands clearly in the line of the other great British cello concertos of our century....... in its respect for the essential lyrical nature of the solo instrument.''
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| Sonata for violin and piano No. 2 | 1986 | 13' |
| Stainer & Bell Ltd. London | ||
Commissioned by the Royal Academy of Music, London, for Tina Gruenberg. ''It is a natural, expansive work, unostentatiously tuneful and reflective....'' ''In a single-movement sweep it explores moods of virtuosic exuberance and introspective wistfulness.'' |
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| Sonata for violin and piano No. 1 | 1983 | 12' |
| Stainer & Bell Ltd. London | ||
| Commissioned by Paul Manley 1st perf: Paul Manley (vln), Iain Ledingham (pf), Purcell Room, London, 25 October 1983. |
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| Three Pieces for viola and piano | 1982 | 8' |
| Stainer & Bell Ltd. London | ||
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1st perf: Michael Ponder (vla), John Alley (pf), Temple Speech Room, Rugby School, 9 October 1983. |
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| Study for solo violin | 1978 | 7' |
| Stainer & Bell Ltd. London | ||
1st perf: Peter Oundjian, Charterhouse School, Surrey, 25 February 1979. |
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