Rough, unpredictable weather and a lengthy, often treacherous coastline meant many ship were wrecked in the early days of New Zealand's history. Fortunately,...

Carmen ad Celebrandum (A Song to Celebrate) is based on the Auckland Grammar School Song (Ein Feste Burg ist unser Gott by Martin Luther). It was written to ...

six pieces for orchestra grew out of another, more substantial piece for wind quartet, which in turn was inspired and heavily influenced by Ligeti’s _Ten P...

Sintel (directed by Colin Levy) is a dark fantasy epic about a girl, her dragon, and the long journey she goes on to get him back.

Inspired by the orc...

‘Aontacht’, meaning unity, is a concerto for an Irish traditional music soloist to perform with a classical orchestra. There is also a version orchestrated f...

In 1985 Epsom Girls Grammar and Auckland Grammar Schools presented a double bill of two New Zealand plays. Under the overall title of Family Benefits, the ...

A message to Han Cho (the Yangzhou magistrate) for orchestra was inspired by the Chinese poem, A message to Han Cho by Du Mu (803-852AD, China) in the Ch...

No Riff received it's one and only public performance in the Wellington Town Hall in 1995, with Michael Houstoun conducting. This performance was later bro...

Originally sketched in December 1982, this work remained in that incomplete form until early 1985 when I returned to it and decided it would at least make an...

A large scale orchestral work that abstractly explores the history and future of Aotearoa through music, narration, and song. Features orchestrations of thre...

My first experiences of the soundworlds of Mahler's late orchestral works revealed to me the vast distances over which late romantic harmonic language can tr...

The text for this work draws on ideas and images from a number of sources, ranging from contemporary poetry to the psalms of the bible. It is a son of celeb...

Symphony No. 3 was composed as part of Anthony Ritchie's work as senior lecturer in composition at the University of Otago, in Dunedin, New Zealand. It was...

I wrote this the first movement of this symphony entirely without recourse to a musical instrument. It was the first and only time that I ever attempted tha...

Originally written for solo piano and orchestra, this work was commissioned by the New Zealand Symphony Orchest...

These three songs were first performed by Ana Good and Rare Byrds in Dunedin in 2016. The orchestration is not set - appropriate instruments can be substitut...

Arrangement for orchestra of Lilburn's piano work.

Arrangement for vocal duet and orchestra of original music by Dave Loggins.

Arrangement of NZ Expo song, for male and female vocal soloists and orchestra.

Arranged from the text and original music by Randy Newman for voice and orchestra.

Arrangement of a song by Duke Ellington for voice and orchestra with solo clarinet.

Arrangement of Joel Haine's "Serial Minds"

With apologies to Bach, Handel, Beethoven and Schumann.

This sheet music is available to purchase from MusicForAccordion.com.

The original music for this film is by Jan Preston, for a film directed by Werner Meyer for Topshelf Productions.

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

The Violin Sonatina and the later orchestrated version, the Concertino, was composed over many years from 1962 to 1984. The piece is a favorite of the co...

Originally written for quintet for piano & strings (op. 44) in Eb, this arrangement is orchestrated by Matthew de Lacey Davidson.

This original version of this work for SATB choir accompanied by two pianos was first performed by the Auckland Dorian Choir in 1987, followed by performance...

Requiem for Bird is my attempt in using colouristic and textural orchestration to create sounds (or rather, my own imagined soundscape) of a tragedy in nat...

After the premiere of my first symphony I was asked to write a new one with more exuberance. I accepted the challenge. The work proceeded quickly and I foun...

The Thanksgiving Mass here is huge. Last year, for this particular Mass, I harmonised and orchestrated (for choir and orchestra) the Chorale melody 'Schwing ...

This work was originally sketched as an unashamedly ‘light’ piece for orchestra, using traditional rhumba rhythms and harmonic ideas as a starting point. Sev...

Orchestrated from the 2010 original, for soprano and piano.

The concerto is composed in the form of a three-part tone poem. Each movement is intended to evoke a different color and aspect of New Zealand scenery, and ...

_"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 ...