Composer

“Sublime and haunting. A new CD from the Ogen trio has been a long time coming, but worth the wait. This handsome album… acknowledges the pioneering role that the Ogens have played in commissioning and performing NZ music.”<br… more »

Serious songs of a serious young man – these cycles represent to some extent a spiritual journey. Though written at a time of happiness, newly married with a baby son, gainfully employed at Auckland and later Otago University and… more »

This second programme of unaccompanied Christmas choral music is performed by one of New Zealand’s most successful choirs and includes a wide variety o pieces: some well known Chirstmas favourites; some familiar tunes in new… more »

Upon their triumphant return from the New York Lincoln Centre Universities Choral Festival in 1972 under the direction of Peter Godfrey, the University of Auckland Festival Choir made these recordings containing choral works by… more »

Gala Concert of the Secondary Schools’ Choral Festival, National Finale, 1999. New Zealand works featured in this album include Hine e Hine by Dorothy Buchanan, The Mechanical Dragon, Laksin Mina Kesayona Kaymaan and… more »

This album received the Tui Classical Album of the Year 2006!

’This recording aspires to present works from over three decades of New Zealand composition which draw upon the words of New Zealand poets and takes their… more »

This collection of 20th century choral music from New Zealand’s outstanding Tower NZ Youth Choir directed by Karen Grylls, brings together a wide range of NZ choral music from waiata by Ngapo Wehi and Richard Puanaki to major… more »

Directed by world-renowned Karen Grylls, New Zealand’s premiere choir presents listeners with this delightful Christmas album. Included on the album is “Dormi Jesu”, a favourite by New Zealand composer David Griffiths, along with… more »

This album, the fourth in the Composer Portrait series from Waiteata Music Press, looks at music by Ross Harris. As a composer, he is described as "something of a chameleon, altering the surface of his musical language to suit the… more »