Te Puoho, friend and ally of Te Rauparaha, invited the Rangitane chief Mahuri and his people to a feast at Kukutauaki in return for previous kindnesses. Kuk...

A set of variations within a variation. Short contrasted sections leading to an extremely robust treatment of the theme in which it is joined by one or two o...

Lyell Cresswell describes his work Ara Kopikopiko, which takes its title from the Maori word for Labyrinth, as a concerto for orchestra in which the instru...

First performed by the Scottish Chamber Orchestra conducted by Joseph Swenson with Christian Lindberg as soloist in St. Andrews 18 February 1998.

'Kaea': ...

This orchestral work with mezzo-soprano and baritone soloists was commissioned anonymously for the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and is inspired by "Macbet...

This eight-movement orchestral work, commissioned by the St. Magnus Festival, is concerned with different aspects of sorrow. Along with the music there are p...

This orchestral work was commissioned by the Gisborne Community Arts Council for the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra and celebrates 100 years of work by the S...

A three-movement concert suite for string orchestra, originally commissioned for the Schola Musica of the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra.

The word 'skirl' describes both the shrill sound of a bagpipe and the keening of the bereaved. There is something in it that is mournful, overwhelming, and p...

This work was developed from two sections of The Ring of Fire (1976) - Lahar and Lament.

Originally conceived as a work for violin and piano, it quickly became apparent that the work was better suited for a solo violin and orchestra. Concertino r...

In this work I have returned to one of my favourite compositional devices: the re-working of an existing piece of music in a type of inverted variation form...

One of the most striking and memorable pieces performed at the International Computer Music Conference in Glasgow in 1990 was Haiku by the American compose...

A commission for 1986, the Year of Peace, this work for tenor and orchestra takes its text from the writings of conscientious objector Archibald Baxter. The...

Prelude for Allegro and Strings was commissioned by the Alex Lindsay String Orchestra. The whole work generates from a six-note pattern announced in the op...

Children's ballet for orchestra

'Ao' is a word that means many things – it can be the cloud which resides in the name 'Aotearoa', or it can mean 'mist'; it can mean 'earth', or this whole w...

The Great Harbour of Tara is a tone poem about Wellington. A conductor's score and fully edited parts are available.

The work starts with atmosphere - ...

This work has been performed by the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra and broadcast live by Radio New Zealand.

New Year Fanfare attempts to capture the spirit of a New Year's Eve spent in Yogyakarta, Java. The main street "Jalan Malioboro" was thronging with jubilan...

Study in Scarlet (2009) is a short work for orchestra focusing on woodwind and metal percussion timbres. The motivic and harmonic material is derived from ...

Comic was written for the Howick School of Music Youth Orchestra. It was premiered in December 2004 at Elim Church, Howick, Auckland

When one views the work of Mark Rothko (1903-70) one is struck first by the emotional impact of these monumental paintings and then by their similarity - all...