While the piece follows in a large part a pastoral ideal, darker elements at times emerge within the musical flow. I was thinking about the less savoury aspe...

For piano, organ, harp, harpsichord and two speakers, Turtle Time was completed in 1968 and introduced by the NZBC at the International Rostrum of Composers ...

Written for the composition tutor at the 1985 Cambridge Music School, John Elmsly, Slides 5 received its first performance in 1987 at a University of Auckl...

In any quiet place there are secret messages in the air, and here carried on the water-wind are moments from imaginary dawn: echoes of words, flutes, violas ...

_"Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed on ...

Hau means 'breath' or 'wind', but can also mean 'to strike' or 'to stoke' (not too gently!). In these senses it can be related to the action of playing th...

Written during a month-long residency in November 2005 at the Visby International Centre for Composers, in Visby on the Swedish Baltic island of Gotland, thi...

Pilgrimage to Gallipoli is an extensive radiophonic work of 85 mins in two parts. It is the result of more than 14 years of research, audio recordings, and...

This installation includes a reel to reel tape machine, with a suspended pulley rig. The installation exposes the physicality of the lopping ideas that are p...

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Band Name: IA Featuring: Pianika Duncan Song Title: Pūmau Release Date: 20 Jan 2022 Compos...

While playing it, and also searching for a new mode of expression for this venerable instrument, it was discovered that the body and strings of the harpsicho...

This song takes inspiration from (among other things) medieval French songs or chanson to explore both quirky counterpoint, as well as highly structured poet...

hile working on 2019’s Fish in Pink Gelatine, I started thinking of the foregrounded musical element as a ‘fish’, and the accompanimental texture, the medium...

This composition for solo classical guitar is a musical tribute to Seringapatam, a town in the Mandya district of the Indian state of Karnataka and place of ...

Journeys was written in 2015 after beginning my study of historical keyboards at Te Kōki NZSM. The title makes reference to many types of journeys – both me...

Mary's song of praise is the longest New Testament text attributed to a woman—but was, of course, written by a man incorporating tropes from earlier writers....

ICON presents a making ready––or making real––of the trombonist and trombone. The idea of performance practice brings with it an anticipation that arises f...

At the 2010 Mazsalaca Young Composers Workshop in Latvia, Samuel made the acquaintance of young Latvian violist and champion of contemporary music Liene Klav...

It is customary for composers of contemporary orchestral music to write long programme notes explaining the intricate technical details of their music to the...

Music drama for choir, kapa haka, orchestra, Maori and Irish instruments and soloists. Directed by Rangimoana Taylor, it includes Maori composition by Wi Kuk...

Te Mana: the strength and dignity of Maori women.