A medicine bundle is part of the traditional teachings and practices of the First Nations peoples of North America. The title of the first Medicine Bundle pi...

Counting through the tones of In a Landscape by John Cage, in the manner of counting a rosary. The title means an offering to Buddha; this is not so much a...

Three short pieces based on Chinese folk songs. The first presents a simple melody at various octaves of the piano; the second is a melody with varied accomp...

A musical snapshot taken in the vicinity of the Beehive, Wellington, in the autumn of 2003.

First performed by Ross Carey at the Indonesia-America Institu...

A memorial piece dedicated to Dunedin composer, conductor and teacher Jack Speirs; it includes motives based on transliterations of the composer's name.

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Toccatina (Elegy) (2010) for string quartet was composed directly after the passing of Australian singer-songwriter Ruby Hunter in February 2010, and is de...

Trois valses romantiques (2014) are three waltzes composed over a number of years, in their original forms for a variety of instrumental forces, before bei...

This score is published by Donemus, and can be purchased here.

'Nine Poems from "Meeting t...

Reverie (2001) for string quartet was composed in Auckland in March 2001. It was subsequently slightly revised in 2009 and 2015. Like several other composi...

Three Little Pieces for Toy Piano were composed in July, 2011 in response to a call for pieces for toy piano (with optional other toy instruments) by Ameri...

A spacious melody and a piano phrase; a meditation over a chordal progression

Five Pieces for Harpsichord were composed in Crows Nest, Sydney, Australia in February 1999, and slightly revised in Cyberjaya, Malaysia in July 2016. In t...

Five Songs for voice and piano is an arrangement of Five Songs for voice and cello, composed in July 2000 for the Ruth Dallas 80th birthday celebration a...

Hymns for string quartet was composed in York Bay, Lower Hutt in November 2003, and slightly revised in Cyberjaya, Malaysia in July 2016. The three pieces ...

Second Melody for bass clarinet in B flat and organ is based upon Melody for organ solo, composed while I was a second-year student at Victoria Universit...

Serene Song for clavichord (or piano) solo features a repeated cycle of chords presented solely on the instrument’s white notes and heard of the whole of i...

Summer Rose for piano solo was composed in late June 2018 as a 40th birthday offering to my friend and fellow lecturer at Sias University, Debbie Haile. T...

Three Concert Etudes, as the title suggests, are pieces designed for the recital hall requiring a degree of virtuosity in performance. The first etude begi...

Three Ink-wash Landscapes for 25-note toy piano take their cue from the Chinese ink-wash painting technique. They (apart from a few chromatic inflections i...

FanFaReS for solo trumpet in B flat, is written for the ‘Minute of Music Project’. The trumpeter spells out the fanfare-like theme consisting of the quotat...

The original version of this work, FanFaReS for solo trumpet in B flat, was written for the ‘Minute of Music Projec...

Melody for bass clarinet and organ is based on an earlier piece composed in 1988 also titled 'Melody' for...

Supplication features an expansive, expressive melodic line heard over the whole of the viola’s range, supported by insistent, slightly brooding harmonies ...

Earth Song for violin and piano is an arrangement of the original work composed for tenor trombone and piano which, along with a version for trumpet in B f...