Sweeping in scope, devastating in tone and unwavering in its artistic vision, this collaboration between composer David Chisholm and poet Anzhelina Polonskay...

I have been fascinated by the beauty of sunsets as long as I can remember. Last year I saw a particularly memorable one as I stood on the Orakei Wharf in Auc...

The sonic material that forms the basis of the composition Or looked back to the flowing is heard at the end of the piece. In the process of composing, thi...

Configuration: Shape or aspect as produced by the relative position of the parts.

This piece requires the orchestra to be divided into two groups.

This piece requires the orchestra to be divided into two ensembles.

eye-glitter out of black air 3 is part of a cycle of works written for the Slovene wind quintet Slowind. To date, the cycle includes two wind quintets an...

Music plays with time in so many ways - bending it, compressing it, folding it, expanding it... What role can silence play in this game of temporal illusion...

A slow rhapsodic movement, originally called Romance, with flowing melodies richly harmonised. The title refers to a meditative thought state, so the inter...

For chamber orchestra consisting of 2 flutes and piccolo, oboe, 2 clarinets, bassoon, 2 horns; timpani, harp or piano; and strings. Commissioned by the Manaw...

The Ashburton Area Schools Music Orchestral Course was an annual event involving young student musicians of primary and intermediate school age. In 1995, the...

When Witi Ihimaera approached me with his cycle of poems he gave them to me with a very detailed description of how he wanted them set, even to suggesting th...

Composed during a gloomy wet autumn spent in central Auckland, this lament for strings evokes the bland emotional turmoil of being caught in a greyscape of c...

These pieces originated in a production of Shakespeare's play undertaken in 1993 by Epsom Girls and Auckland Grammar Schools. I was asked to provide music fo...

In Māori mythology, Te Ihorangi is the god who personifies rain and is one of the off-spring of Rangi (Ranginui - the sky father) and Papa (Papatuanuku - the...

Strobe lights and blown speakers

Fireworks and hurricanes

I'm not here
This isn't happening
I'm not here
I'm not here

— Fr...

This is an arrangement of the 'Hallelujah Chorus' from George Frideric Handel's Messiah (HWV 56), originally composed in 1741.

This arrangement of God Save the Queen was made to precede the New Zealand premiere of Benjamin Britten's comic opera Albert Herring in Auckland on 18 Ma...

"There is – though I do not know how there is or why there is – a sense of infinite peace and protection in the glittering hosts of heaven. There it must be,...

Scored for E flat, B flat and bass clarinets with orchestra this work was reviewed as, "a magnificent reward to the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra...a civil...

Kihikihi was written for an amateur orchestra with players of widely different abilities, therefore it is suitable for anything from a secondary school to ...

Tipping Point is formed as a pair of short, contrasting halves that can be played in either order.

This fanfare for full orchestra was "...refreshing... (Its) gradual thickening of layers of bird calls to abrasive Varesian dissonances near the end had a co...

Several of the melodic ideas in Other Echoes are based on New Zealand birdcalls: the first violin is the now extinct huia, the cor anglais is the endangere...

Premiered by the Wellington College concert band at the school's 150th celebrations, aiming to portray the variety of emotions that young soldiers would have...

Stardust was written about a person gazing at the night sky, watching planets, the moon and shooting stars go by. At first, everything is quite serene - th...

An essay in tension between soloist and orchestra. In the first movement long cello solos are contrasted with outbursts from the orchestra; in the second mov...

"And from about him fierce effusion roll'd
Of smoke and bickering flame, and sparkles dire"
– John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book IV

Smoke and bick...

The inscription on the north face of a sundial in the garden of Inverleith Park, Edinburgh, reads 'I number none but sunny hours'. On the south side it says,...

Shadows Without Sun explores issues of exile, identity and belonging. The text uses testimony of asylum seekers in UK as well as stories of Norman McLeod, ...

The Voice Inside, a concerto for violin, soprano and orchestra, was commissioned by the BBC and comprises settings of seven poems by Ron Butlin relating to...

This work for full orchestra was commissioned by the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. It is inspired by a quote from Comte de Salvandy, "Nous dansons sur un ...