• Instrumentation: piccolo
• Title: l'ucello (from Dalmatina)
• Composer:Mladen Tarbuk
• First published: 2025
• Difficulty Level: advanced (uk grade 7 - 8)

This bird song for piccolo solo is a bright new edition to the piccolo repertoire

Composed by the renowned Croatian composer Mladen Tarbuk, it forms part of a suite of pieces capturing the spirit of Dalmatia in a soundscape fusing colour, rhythm, and atmosphere across four captivating movements.

1. L’uccello / The Bird – a brilliant piccolo solo 

**Featured in the 2025 Flauta Aurea Competition** The opening first movement, L’uccello*, is included in the syllabus for the Disciplina Piccolo of the Flauta Aurea 2025 competition, hosted by the Croatian Flute Association (Hrvatsko Društvo Flautista – HDF). 

Piccolo players looking for a showy solo item, can download the two pages of l’ucello. While the the complete edition with all four movements of Dalmatina is available for purchase in print or digital PDF formats. 

Bring Croatia's coast to your stage — with this vibrant and expressive new addition to the contemporary repertoire.