dancing lights is a pair of two short movements, each inspired by different ideas or phenomenon. The first movement takes its inspiration from the aurora c...

The scene is set in a dance studio. The episodic nature of this work suggests the listener observing individuals and groups of dances scattered around the st...

This sheet music is available to purchase from Viscount Productions.

The Attic is a short animated film by the Otago University Computer Science Department. The score was recorded at Marama Hall, Otago University, 7th July, ...

An arrangement of Frescobaldi's organ pieces

This piece was written at the the invitation of Peter Scholes who made a call for scores for the final Auckland Chamber Orchestra concert for 2007 on 25th N...

This work was written for solo cello and orchestra in 2019, commissioned by The Wallace Foundation. The chamber orchestra version was premiered by New Zealan...

Sakura Trees was written for a 2nd year composition assignment at Otago University, where the task was to write an orchestral piece on the subject of 'Images...

Richard Fuchs started writing his Symphony in C Minor in 1933 but it was never finished.

Violin Concerto in F takes its themes and forms from folk song and dance music of old Europe. The first movement is an extended recasting of the classic Sc...

A Village Wedding combines two different conceptual approaches; that of the program piece wherein images or activity is described by music; and that of the...

Original programme note from the premiere:

For co-choreographer Anandha Ray, this dance is a very personal introspection. Ms. Ray dedicates this dance to ...

Ballet in one act based on the music of Offenbach with choreography by Jurek Shabelewski

Music by William Boyce arranged for string orchestra

This suite is taken from incidental music commissioned by Radio New Zealand Drama Department for a radio play of Tolstoy's novel "War and Peace"

This piece is a collection of impressions revolving around the mood of winter in its many aspects. It has an overall form that is not necessarily sequential:...

Pale Sun over Cold Land uses as its form an improvisatory melody over a simple, descending chord progression. In the long middle solo, elements of contempo...

Greenstone Sinfonia is a sinfonia concertante in the classical sense, a multi-movement work in which several soloists work together with the orchestra to m...

Ecstasy of Flight captures a moment in the life of a child who longed for a companion in her isolated life in the precise middle of nowhere. She was visite...

Variations on a Young Violinist has the standard form of the classical “theme-and-variations” model. Yet it explores and modifies more than just the ubiqui...

This cadenza represents part of an attempt to reestablish some of the bravura tradition of the late Baroque, so easily passed over in modern interpretations ...

Double Bass Concerto in e minor was written as a showpiece for the more natural characteristics of the double bass, such as the warmth and solidity of pluc...