A prize winner in the 1999 BIBF Composition Competition, Two Dances displays two different sides of the composer's character and personality. The first dance is waltz￾like, within a modern and rhythmic idiom, contrasted by a reggae-like dance which has proved a great success in performance - particularly when Bass 3 was played by the composer! Both dances utilise the entire range of the bass ensemble and would be accessible for any adventurous intermediate double bass quartet. The composer explores and exploits a wide palette of colours in music which has spirit and drive, alongside musical and technical challenges for each bassist. The quartet is both player and audience friendly demonstrating the many sound worlds and tone colours available to the modern double bass quartet. Dance No.1 has a constant and repetitive high harmonic waltz-like rhythm against which the other basses weave their independent lines of melody and accompaniment, gradually fading away and ending simply and effectively. Dance No.2 has been performed across the world and its 'reggae groove' from basses 3 and 4, produce a unique work of imaginative inspiration. The melodic interest is provided by basses 1 and 2, throughout the solo register, and there is vast scope to explore the sonorities and dramatic moods of the bass quartet medium.