The Sun, the Wind and the Rain features some of Dorothy Freed's most popular compositions, bringing together five songs to poems by A.R.D. Fairburn about N...

These quirky songs, demonstrating a modernism that exceeds many of Prentice's male contemporaries, were published in 1929 by Paxton Press in London. Charles ...

Vocalises to accompany a book by Lois M. Clausen

Songs that spring from the stories in the live theatre show of the same title. Hey, Piano Bar Lady! tells the tale of Linn's time in the Big Apple in the ...

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

Adjustments is essentially a study of a single harmony. A six-note chord (B3, E4, F#4, A#4, C#5, E#5) is distributed amongst the seven instruments in diffe...

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One of six songs from Alice Mackay's 'Maoriland' cycle (see also, 'Te whenua kura' and ['The Grey Ship'](ht...

How the Dead Live is inspired by the story of one of the early pioneers - Susannah Hawes. Susannah left her life in Gravesend, London to sail to New Zealan...

One of six songs from Alice Mackay's 'Maoriland' cycle (see also, 'Te whenua kura' and ['A Bush Song'](http...

One of six songs from Alice Mackay's 'Maoriland' cycle (see also, 'A Bush Song' and ['The Grey Ship'](https...

The music critic of the Canterbury Times writing in 1913 said ‘had she lived in the musical atmosphere of England her songs would no doubt, long ago have bee...

'My heart’s oppressed’ comes from Goethe’s Faust, most famously set as ‘Gretchen am spinnrade’ ('Gretchen at the spinning wheel') by Schubert.

The musi...

Eileen Duggan became one of New Zealand’s first internationally recognised poets. Her first volume of poetry was published in 1922. She was to produce four m...

The music critic of the Canterbury Times writing in 1913 said ‘had she lived in the musical atmosphere of England her songs would no doubt, long ago have bee...

“Endeavour” takes the listener on a brief but exciting musical journey within the instrumental context of four viole. A simple, fast mo...

The composer suggests that this could go well with Menotti's The Telephone or Poulenc's La Voix Humaine as similar subject matter is used.

Jazz Bites was composed for the chamber group Running with a Bass (Isla Norman flute, Amy Clucas violin, Joo-­‐Hyen Ahn piano and Sophie Mather double bass),...

This work for baritone and string quartet to a poem by Hone Tuwhare - Time - seeks to explore the sonorities of the stringed instruments and the voice. The...

De humani corporis fabrica, a 16th-century anatomy textbook by Andreas Vesalius, was an important step in the Renaissance advancement of medical and anatomic...

Atua Hine Raukatauri loves her flute so much that she becomes a case a moth so she can live out her days inside her instrument, a pūtōrino. Her playing...

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...

Sarrasine takes a pragmatic approach to so-called real-time interactive music technology. The environments I am using to perform this work, BigEye (video t...