Longing is a lied for soprano and divisi string orchestra including a solo string quartet. The text was drawn from one of the Chinese poets who provided th...

Folk Song Suite for Strings is an arrangements of three folksongs. A Long Time Ago is a halyard shanty, My Man's Gone is a song from the Depression era...

This Symphony is dedicated to the memory of my wife, Raydia, who died in 2001, and is based on material from my song-cycle, In Despite of Death, a work that ...

Suite No. 1 for String Orchestra is dedicated to Alex Lindsay, founder and conductor of the Alex Lindsay String Orchestra. It was completed in April 1956 a...

The basis of this work is the chorale which concludes JS Bach's cantata No. 99 Was Gott tut, das is wohlgetan ('What God does, is done well'). The idea for...

This work was written for the Taharoto Orchestra - a group consisting of students from both Westlake Girls and Westlake Boys High Schools conducted by Liz Ca...

My visit to Ireland in 1994 exposed me to the traditional music, and I came away from vague thoughts of using some of the more rhythmic music in an extended ...

This work is based on the harpsichord piece La Piemontaise by Louis Couperin.

'Puanga’ is the star known to astronomers as Rigel and appears in the north eastern horizon in late May or early June. It is the brightest star in the conste...

If there are affiliations between this violin concerto and Robert Schumann’s (the former's premiere was programmed alongside the latter), perhaps the closest...

The marking, in July 1999, of the 30th anniversary of the first moon landing finally provided a focus for my thoughts about this piece. Although each movemen...

In 1985 Epsom Girls Grammar and Auckland Grammar Schools presented a double bill of two New Zealand plays. Under the overall title of Family Benefits, the ...

This work was the winner of the Wellington Youth Orchestra Composition Competition in 1981.

An orchestral work which grew out of an earlier version for chamber orchestra, which in turn evolved from part of the wind octet Kaleidoscope. Overall it i...

This piece is essentially an extended fanfare. It opens with a single note gradually fanning out to a chord in the brass, and this idea returns at the climax...

The title of this work may seem unexpected as there is no Concerto Grosso No. 1 in my list of works! However I've always considered my 1985 work for string...