While playing it, and also searching for a new mode of expression for this venerable instrument, it was discovered that the body and strings of the harpsicho...

Commissioned by the New Zealand Association of Organists, this colourful work for three manual pipe organ brings a distinctive local voice to a history-laden...

I started my second cruise ship contract as a sketch and improv music director for Second City with a resolution: I would compose and notate a brand new mini...

ELLIS, Robbie (1984–): The Piano Tuner's Performance Appraisal. File under (N) Novelty; (P) Piano Music; (S) Serialism.

Starting in a field close to Melbourne's Western Ring Road, a llama lives a placid and slightly bored existence. Absent-mindedly picking at a chain-link fenc...

Austen Found: The Undiscovered Musicals of Jane Austen is an improvised show for four or five actors plus a pianoforte player – a story in the style of Jan...

In September 2007 at the University of Auckland, I attended the launch of Spectrum 4, a book of short stories. These stories were the end-product of 24 wri...

Glowing Radioactive Elements started life as a semi-improvised piece with four movements. Radium is an element which glows pale blue, Plutonium glows deep ...

Early in 2010 I wrote Me he korokoro tui for a choral festival. The text of that work made reference to singing and the tui. A native bird of New Zealand. ...

The first movement contains two contrasting elements. The first element is thematic material of a clearly defined character and this occurs at varying pitche...