In Chinese philosophy and cosmology, the Five Phases (Wu Xing) are a taxonomy of the cycles and processes of the natural world. Every phase follows, overcome...

This piece was commissioned by The Royal New Zealand Navy Band based in Auckland, to celebrate its 75th centenary in 2016. It was written for an anniversary ...

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Interviewed about his experience witnessing the test detonation of the first atomic bomb, veteran David Hemsley recounted "If I was looking at you now, I wou...

Written for the 2004 Douglas Lilburn Trust Composition Prize competition, Fanfare of the Earth dates from my second year of undergrad at the University of ...

The original version (for soloist, SSA choir and chamber orchestra) of this cycle of pieces was written for the Epsom Girls’ Grammar School 1991 music tour t...

Two Soviet Love Songs for Vocalizing Pianist were composed in December 2003. The idiosyncratic mannerisms of performers have long fascinated me. Often I fi...

The Tempest is Shakespeare's most musical play; as Caliban says "...the isle is full of noises, sounds and sweet airs....". Its musical demands include man...

One afternoon Margaret Medlyn and I sat across her kitchen table to discuss poems I might set as the basis of a song cycle for her. She produced quite a sta...

Based on the Noh drama Kocho ("Butterfly"), this chamber opera was written as part of my composition folio for my Honours year of study at Victoria Univers...

Pig Iron Theatre Company
Directed by: Dan Rothenberg

An uproarious world of...

The No Man's Land Project is an 80-minute live cinematic concert, and a standalone feature film; a deeply moving multi-media work that spans generations, cul...

“The sanskrit equivalent for initiation is abhisheka, meaning ‘sprinkle’, ‘pour’, ‘anointment’. And if there is pouring, there must be a vessel into which th...

This work begins with two authentic folk melodies from two (European) ethnic groups that, most recently in 2008, were engaged in armed violence. The similari...

Donated by Cantor Fitzgerald: a threnody is a single movement, 60-minute work for a small, mixed chamber ensemble of improvising musicians and electronics. ...

Originally released in 1984 the Original Soundtrack to The Silent One features music written and arranged by acclaimed New Zealand composer Jenny McLeod. T...

String Quartet No.2 was composed in Devonport, Auckland, between November 1994 and February 1995 with financial assistance provided by the New Zealand Comp...

This piece is based on four stories as narrated by the famous Kerry Storyteller Peig Sayers. Each story is set to music with String Quartet accompaniment; ui...

Voices at the End was originally inspired by the film Planetary. In this film, author and environmental activist Joanna Macy...

Memories of Purakaunui was commissioned by Heleen Du Plessis for performance in a concert entitled Cellos of Aotearoa on October 3, during Festival Dunedin. ...

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The Auckland Choral Society requested that this commission reflect the theme of ...

The original version of this arrangement was one of several made in 1987 for my choir Opus at Epsom Girls Grammar School. They were intended as straightforwa...

Tango Suite was commissioned by Radio France in July 2002 and completed in October of the same year. Written immediately after Serenade for Strings, _Tan...

L'homme, l'homme, l'homme armé, L'homme armé doibt on doubter.

On a fait partout crier, Que chascun se viegne armer D'un haubregon de fer.

L'homme, ...

I was delighted when Justin DeHart suggested I write a piece for solo for drum kit – in 2019 he and his colleagues in the Los Angeles Percussion Quartet had...

In 1993 a Hungarian group called Muzsikas produced a CD of folk music entitled The Lost Jewish Music of Transylvannia. The recording was prompted by the d...

Programme Note by Michelanne Forster:

In 1814 seven men, four women and five children from the London Missionary Society were invited to settle on Nga P...