This symphony was created to enable blind and vision-impaired musicians to perform with an orchestra. It is written in such a way that it can be memorised by...

T.S. Eliot's fecund poem The Waste Land has as many meanings as it has readers. Like many of those readers the poem has preyed on my mind since my first co...

In many ways Symphony (1968) which was composed in Toronto while I was studying with John Weinzweig, encapsulates what I wanted to achieve stylistically as...

'Cello Symphony' originated in some sketches the composer made during a brief visit to San Francisco in 1985. Written for cellist Paul Mitchell, 'Cello Symph...

Arranged for cello and piano

I began my second symphony whilst attending the University of East Anglia in Norwich, where I was studying for a PGCE in secondary music education. It was fi...

This work was created for my ensemble 'The Irish Memory Orchestra', which mixes instruments from classical, Irish traditional, jazz and rock music. The orche...

“This tune had been sitting in the vault for around 3 years as a piece of manuscript on my desk. When I was putting together my proposal for this grant, I re...

The work begins with a simple motif that represents early Gloucester man. The development of the symphony is his journey through the city or through the land...

This work is excerpted from a larger work The Clare Concerto (2013).

The initial musical thoughts for Symphony No. 3 came from two related sources of inspiration - the paintings of Marc Chagall and Klezmer music. I had been ...

This work was composed during the period 2016–2018, including a residency at the Visby International Composers Centre, October 2016. It was written for The C...

Symphony No. 3 was composed as part of Anthony Ritchie's work as senior lecturer in composition at the University of Otago, in Dunedin, New Zealand. It was...

The title of this symphony comes from the ominous tam tam stroke that opens the first movement, a mysterious sound heard by two of E M Forster's characters i...

I wrote the work in the turbulent year of 1968 while I was undergoing graduate studies in composition at the University of Toronto with the prominent Canadia...

Symphony No. 6 was begun during the first lockdown in New Zealand March-April 2020, and to some extent was informed by the crisis enveloping the country an...

It became clear that with several symphonic poems under my belt the time was right to embark on a symphony, a somewhat daunting task in this post-modern era!...

This symphony was composed for The Christchurch Symphony Orchestra with financial assistance from The University of Otago. It is in one movement, divided int...