The title refers to part of the coastline of Rangitoto Island where, between 1887 and 1947, 13 unwanted ships were disposed of by dumping. The music, “sugge...

Blimp [noun] a small, non-rigid airship or dirigible, especially one used chiefly for observation.

Blood Lilies was written in November/December 2007. It is a rondo built around the text of a poem from the composer's poetry collection _In an Auckland Cit...

"There are few of us who have not sometimes wakened before dawn, either after one of those dreamless nights that make us almost enamoured of death, or one of...

Primordial Chaos evokes a dark and disordered time, at the dawn of the universe. From out of the murky depths of the orchestra emerge free-floating clouds o...

Rakaia is a work for full orchestra characterised by the great Rakaia River in the South Island of New Zealand. The Rakaia begins its journey in the Southe...

The Whakarnewarewa Forest (Redwood Forest) in Rotorua is home to tens of thousands of Californian Coast Redwoods, among many other species of trees. Planted ...

For [Moses] said "I have been a stranger in a foreign land." – Exodus 2:22 NKJV

The title for the lyrical orchestral work was suggested by the main theme which gives the effect of moving in a step-like manner. The work is reflective - al...

Anxiety is a common psychological disorder in modern society. It is a state of uneasiness or tension caused by over-worrying about a possible future problem ...

Suite from "Autumn Floods"

A haiku cycle

What other people have said:

“We’ve got some issues with your ideas.” – Lee Martelli, APO Education Manager when assessing my application.

“ONE TWO...

Ray is a keen fly fisherman. The three movements - Pomare Creek, Mitchell Lake and Canmore were composed to celebrate the sites of his greatest fishing...

Second Rhapsody for Accordion and Orchestra was composed for world champion accordionist, Grayson Masefield. Grayson was born on Auckland's North Shore and...

A message to Han Cho (the Yangzhou magistrate) for orchestra was inspired by the Chinese poem, A message to Han Cho by Du Mu (803-852AD, China) in the Ch...

“Phantasmagoria” was a pre-cinema projection show that gained great popularity in the 19th Century. In a darkened theatre, all manner of lighting, shadows a...

one. is a short and simple piece depicting the speed at which moments come to an end. The tonality of the work is based on Jenny McCleod's Tone Clock Theor...

Open Waters an inclusive orchestral experience with and for people with disabilities.

Open Waters: the title itself suggests inclusiveness, which is what ...

“Me and him."

"Title from two showground rides at the Royal Easter Show, Sydney. He wouldn’t come but two of my lesbian buddies took me just the same. ...

"Are you waiting?" is one of several orchestral tone poems I am writing inspired by poems written by the Auckland poet Richard Taylor. This piece for solo b...

In Barbour St. Late Evening, I have amalgamated modern classical compositional techniques with echoes of jazz standards and spirituals. This is a further dev...

Imagine the harmonics associated with each musical sound as its "aura". This piece brings these auras into fuller consciousness: at the start the orchestra's...

Written for the Otago-Southland sesquicentenary celebration

The title Cirrus is taken from the first stanza of James K. Baxter’s poem, High Country Weather (1948).

Alone we are born And die alone Yet see the...

Trompe l'oreille. The aural equivalent to an optical illusion. Such images are often a blur, gradually coming into focus as the eye adjusts and changing fo...

This is a good old-fashioned fanfare – an introductory piece to kick-start a concert. It’s based around what I believe to be engaging tunes, inspiring brass ...

Auckland City is a harbour city and often referred to as the 'City of Sails'. This short fanfare, composed in 2002, is a salute to the sailing vessels that s...

Commissioned for the centenary celebrations of the University of Otago, New Zealand, in 1969, this work is built in five sections arranged as an arch. The fi...

Feral is the story of a creature that lives somewhere humans seldom go. His environment is dank and dark. Sunlight seldom penetrates the tree canopy – day ...

Fault had its genesis in the line 'phrases shifting tectonically' from an electro-acoustic work by John Cousins, and suggestions of subterranean tension an...

This work's gravitas (characterising quality or attribute) refers to the phenomenon in music where the most prominent or audible elements at any moment in ...