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Beethoven was angsty and wrote a lot of stuff in C minor. This is ...

This is the early piano version of my orchestral work Requiem for a Bird.

It has sombre undertones, making use of different scales and birdsong, bringi...

Based on a theme taken from a chamber orchestral work of mine titled "Pandoras Jukebox" written with the intention of giving the listener the impression of a...

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This short tribute takes as inspiration the beginning of the orchestral work The Feeling of Sound, which had a grea...

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I did intend to sit down and compose an orchestral epic. I really, really DID, honest. Could I help it that as soon as I made that decision, the saxes starte...

I did intend to sit down and compose an orchestral epic. I really, really DID, honest. Could I help it that as soon as I made that decision, the saxes starte...

This set of short pieces was the second written at the request (suggestion?) of my friend Deirdre McOnie for her to play with musical friends. In this case o...

In 1913, French composer Claude Debussy revolutionised flute music with his short piece for solo orchestral flute Syrinx (originally called Flûte de Pan)...

I began work on this piece in 2006 at Trinity Beach near Cairns, Australia. It was intended for my old school friend, John Mc Caw and his wife, Ann. Followin...

Two single socks find their perfect match after a long time alone.

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A comic opera in one act which was professionally staged in 1996.

It played to enthusiastic audiences and reviewers, including Timothy Jones who comment...

These pieces were written to commemorate the passing of John Ritchie, composer and musician, and father of Anthony. They were commissioned by Margaret Nielse...

On the Way to the Airport is a multi movement piece which incorporates various moods one often experiences before air travel.

The five short movements a...

'Prelude' is anticipatory: little flurries hint at the later pieces. 'Tongue and Groove' explores some rhythmic patterns, particularly those whose notes are ...

I've worked with taonga pūoro in combination with western music ensembles for nearly three decades now, predominantly with the late Richard Nunns, rightly ce...

Summer Christmas speaks in evocative settings of things relevant to New Zealand referencing beach scenes, the warmth of the summer sun, native birds, the m...

Travels with Alex is a cycle of nine pieces for viola obbligato and various combinations drawn from an ensemble of 24 musicians (including two performers o...

Schramm must have had a particularly close relationship with Toller, a famous left-wing poet, as almost all of Schramm’s vocal music, which includes two oper...

During my 2012 Mozart Fellowship at the University of Otago, I started monthly gigs in Dunedin under the banner of Song Sale. Saran Goldie-Anderson and Rose ...

Kryptophones was commissioned by the NZBC in 1973 to be submitted as the New Zealand entry in the Italia Prize competition of that year. The Italia Prize ...

This trove of recordings is from the New Zealand composer archive of RNZ Concert.  Beginning in 2010 under the auspices of the NZ On Air-funded Resound proje...

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

The Concerto was commissioned by Matthew Marshall and the Wellington Regional Orchestra (now Orchestra Wellington), completed in May 1992 for a first perform...

An essay in tension between soloist and orchestra. In the first movement long cello solos are contrasted with outbursts from the orchestra; in the second mov...

Written for the Auckland Philharmonia Education concerts, this piece demonstrates the different sections of the orchestra.

After a short introduction play...

This music was originally commissioned by Richard Campion for the New Zealand Players' production of Ring Round the Moon by Jean Anouilh, translated by Chr...

This work for symphony orchestra was commissioned by the Wellington Youth Orchestra in 1963 and received its first performance in 1966 by the London School o...

A three-movement concert suite for string orchestra, originally commissioned for the Schola Musica of the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra.

This short work was written for the orchestra of Auckland Grammar School and a talented senior student percussionist. It is in a straight-forward tonal style...

Manukau Refrains is a delicate, colourful piece for 3 percussionists and community orchestra inspired by images of wading birds ('manukau'), shifting patte...

'surge' is a fanfare for orchestra in three sections, in which repetitive rhythms and ostinati pulsate throughout the piece, as forces within the orchestra p...

Waitaki Reflections was composed in memory of Victor Bartley, a long-time friend and trumpet player. I performed with Vic first in the Auckland Junior Symp...

Jangeran seeks to bridge the musical gap between East and West: a Balinese melody is appropriated by the Western orchestra and is recast in a range of West...

"It was the natural culmination of all the resonances - historical, cultural and national - that Norman has created with outstanding flair and skill. The Bal...

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'Kintsugi’ draws inspiration from the ancient Japanese practice of repairing broken pottery with gold-dusted urushi (lacquer). The work was originally compos...

The only piano concerto by Henry Shirley and possibly the first piano concerto written in New Zealand, was written in 1944 though it took over 14 years of tr...

Hudson River Pieces was originally written for Besser’s group Bravura. The Jade String Quartet (made up of four APO musicians) then requested an arrangemen...

Scored for full orchestra, this work is a revised and re-titled version of Ground Rules, which was commissioned and performed by the New Zealand Symphony O...

The composer writes: "Movements 3, 4, 5 and 6 were written before Edward (Harper) died, but he was already ill with cancer and the whole concerto was written...

Transcend celebrates the high technical and musical ability of the individual members of the modern symphony orchestra. Such increased standards in instru...

Cuba on Cuba is a piece written to provide an opportunity for Arohanui Strings to play independently alongside the professional musicians of Orchestra Well...

intransigent (adj): uncompromising, stubborn, persistently irreconcilable, unyielding, intractable, dogged, ceding not an inch, never giving in, always hav...

This was a commissioned work for accordion orchestra premiered at the Royal Festival Hall, London, February 1993, with the composer conducting. Its New Zeal...