Completed as the major work during Martin Lodge's year as composer in residence with the Auckland Philharmonia, this single movement symphony for large orche...

In 2010, I co-wrote The Lover's Knot with playwright Renee Liang as part of the 2010–2011 Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra Composer Workshops, which led to a ...

The title of the work is a Māori saying which depicts a relationship with the land “whenua”. When looking for phrases which described the narrative of the mu...

Two soloists represent the roles of Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida encapsulating the instinctive elements of musical expression – love caught in a world ...

The mythology of ancient Greece has had a deep and lasting influence on western European culture from the renaissance to the present day. In fact a real unde...

I wrote the work in the turbulent year of 1968 while I was undergoing graduate studies in composition at the University of Toronto with the prominent Canadia...

frames is a set of shorter ideas; each unique in character and in energy.

noun. a rigid structure that surrounds something such as a picture, door,...

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Beethoven was angsty and wrote a lot of stuff in C minor....

Concerto Ballabile was commissioned by the NZSO in 2001, to mark the occasion of Edwin Carr’s 75th birthday. The title comes from the Italian word for a da...

Hill's Symphony No. 5 in A Minor - The Carnival, was derived, in 1955, from the 1912 String Quartet in A Minor. At the time of the original composition h...

This work is described as a poignant and romantic orchestral piece.

As Night Falls is described as a Poem for Orchestra, and is originally apparently for piano.

The Short Symphony No. 10 was written in 1958, and is again based on an earlier String Quartet in C Major, written 20 years before, for Hill's resignatio...

Arranged by Michael Vidulich from Alfred Hill's "Maori Sonata" for violin and piano

Arranged by Thomas B. Gray

On Hearing the Shining Cuckoo borrows musical ideas (and its title) from the famous work by Frederick Delius. It is in six movements and includes the birds...