The title of the work is a Māori saying which depicts a relationship with the land “whenua”. When looking for phrases which described the narrative of the mu...

The first movement contains two contrasting elements. The first element is thematic material of a clearly defined character and this occurs at varying pitche...

Two soloists represent the roles of Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida encapsulating the instinctive elements of musical expression – love caught in a world ...

The mythology of ancient Greece has had a deep and lasting influence on western European culture from the renaissance to the present day. In fact a real unde...

The first movement is in bipartite form. It opens with an expressive melody in the first violin leading to a developmental transitional section and a return ...

After the Meeting is based on a fragment from the opening flute solo of Meeting Place, a work I composed for the ...

In Composition 7, two main textures predominate. One is concerned with a close synchronisation of the instruments and the electronic sounds, and the other ...

Composed in f1984, Fantasia draws its inspiration and its melodic material from the famous plainsong hymn 'Veni Creator Spiritus'. The work presents a free...

Composed for solo violin and performed as part of the Michael Hill International Violin Competition, The Dance of the Sibyl was inspired by several paintin...

Elemental Shift is another motific composition based on a 2-bar phrase, transposed to fit an often-changing harmonic sequence. The harmonic shifts heard in...

The River Waltz, the composer's first work composed at the age of 10, is a short, gentle piece conveying the journey of a wide river through rolling countr...

Dance of Whatipu Cave is a jazz waltz played by the trio. It begins with a harmonically ambiguous 8-bar intro (moving between A major & A minor, and F ...

A slow ballad with solos for trombone, piano and trumpet.

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...

This quartet is inspired by words from a leading New Zealand poet, Ian Wedde:

“Pain abstract as white
abstract as light striking bones of winter hi...

Composed in 2018, this three movement work draws on previous works for string instruments.

The first movement “Murmures 3”, is a reworking of a cello quar...

The Astrolabe is the name of the strip of water between Adele Island and the Abel Tasman National Park in New Zealand’s Nelson Region. The Astrolabe Roadstea...

In response to Joy Cowley being awarded the Order of New Zealand in 2018, I composed this setting of her beautiful poem 'The Broken Heart'. Angela Wratt a...

Composed in 2016, Psalm of the Nativity is inspired by the glorious, evocative poetry of Joy Cowley. There are two settings of the text - this one for sopr...

This piece is an arrangement of The Broken Heart, a song for soprano and piano and a setting of words by Joy Cowley.

This piece is based entirely on redundant speech expressions which are sieved from a conversation then transformed and manipulated using the Csound computer ...

A series of sonic reflections on Hokusai’s famous wood print “The Great Wave of Kanogawa”. These focus particularly on the delicate details of the print with...

Computer generated sounds using "Alchemy" iPad software. The search for gold in medieval times inspired alchemists to investigate all manner of substances cr...

A few years ago one of my colleagues, violinist David Nalden, broke his bow during a performance of my [Composition 8 for Violin and Electronic Sounds](h...

Smooth Surfaces is a study in “legato” playing. The piece requires a lyrical approach in its fast and slow passages. There is a close dialogue between the ho...

This work is based on personal reflections of seven of my closest relatives and friends. Each piece portrays the character of each person and in musical ter...

Multus Amicus Nullus Amicus ('a friend to all is a friend to none') is a slow 48-bar ABA Bossa. Most of Multus Amicus Nullus Amicus consists of a horizon...

Written in 2015 for NCEA Scholarship Music, Te Tangi a Wairaka (The Cry of Wairaka) portrays the story of Wairaka, known as the woman from Maori legend who...