A track from Bob’s second solo album Island Mist. The Ryan family of Scarteen, County Limerick,...

Destiny Bay was a music theatre piece for schools that I wrote with Ian McDonald in 2000 and which explored early interaction between Māori and whalers. Ia...

On Hearing the Shining Cuckoo borrows musical ideas (and its title) from the famous work by Frederick Delius. It is in six movements and includes the birds...

These pieces were written in response to John Rimmer's lectures on the chromatic system, and new ways of navigating it. One influence was the 'tone clock' t...

Gossip! is a short work for spoken voices, the more performers the better, using quotations from gossip magazines. This work was first performed by The Com...

This piece is the result of a commission from Bryan Holden and the Auckland Mandolinata Orchestra. They wanted a work that could be premiered at an Auckland ...

This piece was composed in response to a commission from Auckland band conductor Peter Thomas. The brief was for a slow, chorale-like piece. Several months p...

Egyptian Ella and The Sheik of Araby have always been two of my favourite tunes to play as a jazz clarinetist. I have also dabbled in Gypsy-influenced mu...

This work was purpose-written upon request from one of the schools I work in, as a companion piece for my solo work Hazine (Treasure). The musical material...

This work was written to accompany a short visual clip from the original cartoon of the same name.

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...

An orchestration of Philip Riley’s recent arrangement, from original 1876 anthem by John Joseph Woods.

‘Invitation to the Dance, my dear?’ – Carl Maria von Weber (1786–1826) is extending you his hand.

This is an affectionate tribute to this man’s music, in ...

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 is a traditional Celtic lament to the deaths of James IV, many of his nobles, and over 10,000 men – the titular "Flowers of the Forest" - at the Battle ...

The title and music really says it all, in this brief concert-opener.

In Australia, as opposed to in New Zealand, possums are a protected species. That still doesn’t make the prospect of finding one in your kitchen at four in t...

I wrote this piece for myself to perform as part of a solo programme. The title is the motto of my grandmother's Scottish clan, the McLeods – hence the influ...

a microscore for violin and cello, premiered by Johnny Chang (violin) and Jessica Catron (cello) on 2 May 2005 at 'line space line@selah', California, USA.

This piece is inspired by the day of a private function I played at in Wake Road, Coatesville, north-west of Auckland. Needless to say it was a rainy day – b...

The Maori place name Mangatangi can be loosely translated in two ways: babbling brook and weeping stream. The outer sections of this work reflect the first t...

_"I enjoyed performing and recording Eulogy very much. Such a warmth of texture and harmonies which created a sympathetic palette for Olivia Macassey’s word ...

A 'remix' or medley of the main themes from the first movement of Mozart's Symphony no. 40, and the first movement of Beethoven's Symphony no. 5.

I was co...

A song about taking care when you ride your skateboard!

An arrangement for children's voices and orchestra, of a song written by Karl Teariki.

J.S. Bach is sitting on your shoulder. He’s been there for a fair while now. And he makes no apologies for his boofy wig, facial powder that quite possibly e...

A very liberal arrangement/transcription of a Chinese folk song.

Think ‘Dixieland jazz funerals’. In New Orleans. Starts with a slow, solemn processional and ends with the uptempo celebration of someone’s life and their pr...

An orchestral and choral arrangement of the well-known Louis Armstrong version, originally written by Bob Thiele (as George Douglas) and George David Weiss.

A custom arrangement of Mussorgsky's work for the Auckland Philharmonia's 2018 'Play In South' workshop and concert.