Written to open the second half of the National Band's only 2020 concert, Parade is a concert version of a New Orleans-style street parade, featuring stagg...

The score is available from the composer (contact info@sounz.org.nz).

The title refers primarily to the idea of a crag of land washed by the ocean. Hence the feelling of driving currents, eddies and waves. The suggestion of r...

Mata[hou]rua is the first in a series of solo works that focus on timbral exploration.

This piece was originally inspired by a painting by New Zealand ...

In writing this piece I was influenced by the concept of differing perspectives of time and also by Berio's Sequenzas. I have tried to incorporate his idea o...

This work began as an exercise in the use of L-Systems as a compositional tool, inspired by Hanspeter Kyburz's Cells and Michael Norris' research into method...

Inspired by the music of Italian composer Giacinto Scelsi, this work explores the timbral possibilities of the single note.

frames is a set of shorter ideas; each unique in character and in energy.

noun. a rigid structure that surrounds something such as a picture, door,...

This suite of eleven piano pieces is a celebration of the iconic public gardens in Hamilton, New Zealand. Covering 54 hectares on the banks of the Waikato Ri...

Shakespeare’s famous ‘All the world’s a stage’ speech (from As You Like It) provides the stimulus for these engaging character pieces for flute and piano t...

This is an arrangement of the version for SSA choir and piano.

William Blake published a set of poems in...

This work also exists in a version for SS (or SA) choir and piano.

The lyrics of these three songs are f...

The song cycle begins with a brief piano prelude that is repeated at the end as an epilogue. It is simple and direct in its expression – setting the tone for...

ANZACS - A Generation Lost in Legend is the first large-scale setting of New Zealand war poetry. The composer compiled the text from poems written during, a...

A work in five movements for flute and piano. Each movement explores an aspect of rhythm. The three main movements are separated by two short interludes – ...

A one movement piece written whilst sitting in New Zealand bush.

A cantata

This lament for unaccompanied mezzo-soprano is to a text by Harjo.
"The simple image of one woman onstage, barefoot, letting loose great octave leaps and ...

The original version is for SSAA choir.

Also available for SATB choir.

This short setting was originally scored for SATB voices with organ, with subsequent versions for SSAA voices with optional guitar and SATB voices. The text ...

This short cycle was written to mark the 60th birthday of Auckland conductor John Rosser, whose choir Viva Voce had performed many works of mine over the cho...