Composer and pianist Stephen Whittington is noted for giving the first Australian performances (in the 1970s) of music by Christian Wolff, Terry Riley, Cornelius Cardew, Howard Skempton, James Tenney, Alvin Curran, Peter Garland, Terry Jennings, Morton Feldman, and many others. “If Australia has produced a classic piece of musical minimalism, [Whittington’s ‘Windmill’] is it.” (The Australian)