Co-Composed with Turoa Pohatu and Moetu Smith.

The newly formed Māori music group, IA, is creating a unique genre of music it calls ‘Indigenous Soul’....

Hinetekakara is the ancestress of Aroha Yates-Smith, the kaikaranga (singer) who provided the idea and the text of this piece. Hinetekakara lived on the shor...

The Long White Cloud is my interpretation of NZ and it's landscape and soundscape. This piece is a journey through the many sounds and worlds that this small...

This chamber work, composed in 2002, is based on the music drama of the same title, with music by Helen Fisher, Maori composition by Wi Kuki Kaa and lyrics b...

Nga Tapuwae o Kupe is a music drama directed by Rangimoana Taylor. It is based on the story of Kupe's journey from Hawaiki to Aotearoa and his discovery o...

Sun Wu Kong "Monkey" is a tribute to mentor and friend Jack Body. Jack invited me to write this piece for his retirement concert "Gong Crazy" during my ter...

"Wang" in Chinese (including the archaic word) can mean about 48 different words. There are synonyms and antonyms, nouns, verbs, adjectives, prepositions, qu...

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Kura Tawhiti, also named Castle Hill by early European travellers, is a conservation area located between the Torlesse and Craigeburn mountain ranges in the ...

There are many Māori narratives about dogs, each tribe has their own historical narratives. This is our story about Waitete, Tūrongo’s pet dog. I have used t...

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Na Aroha Yates-Smith koropupu ake ana nga wai o te matapuna he wai matao he wai...

Perkins has made an intense study of important periods of innovation in the history of music composition which he refers to as historic nodal points. Drawing...

A karanga is a call which begins the Māori ceremony or welcome, the powhiri. Traditionally the karanga is performed by the women. It is an indication that th...

This work was commissioned as the SOUNZ Community Commission in 1999 for the Millennium Parade in Gisborne.

This one movement work for chamber ensemble and Indonesian zither was composed especially for to Dody Satya Ekagustdiman who was artist in residence 2003 at ...

Chimaera is a term to describe a mythical creature made of parts taken from various animals. It also describes concepts perceived as wildly imaginative.

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This work uses four short passages from Canadian composer and ethnomusicologist, Colin McPhee's famous account of his experiences while living in Bali in the...

The Maori Merchant of Venice, the Maori film version of the English bard William Shakespeare’s classic play The Merchant of Venice, brings an exotic loo...

Spencer Street Station is collaboration between the poet Spencer Jeffery and composer James Dunlop. It combines spoken word with music and sound scape art...

Te Hau o Tāwhirimātea is dedicated to Richard Nunns and Bridget Douglas. The music aims to create a space in which the musicians, and the voices of their i...

Just in the way music boxes are used to store keepsakes and ignite faded memories, the instrumentalists in this piece are called on to respond to the primary...

This piece uses material from a piano piece I concurrently composed for Ross Carey, which was based on bird song. I enjoyed the challenge of having to trans...

Performed at the 'Ang Ponarey Cambodia Fundraising Concert', St Andrews on the Terrace, Wellington, 17 June 2006, by Ramonda Taleni and Richard Nunns

Original music for the documentary Lands of Our Fathers - My African Legacy.

Original music for the documentary Lands of Our Fathers - My African Legacy.

Original music for the documentary Lands of Our Fathers - My African Legacy for vocalist and ensemble.

Original music for the documentary Lands of Our Fathers - My African Legacy.

Original music for the documentary Lands of Our Fathers - My African Legacy.

Original music for the documentary Lands of Our Fathers - My African Legacy.

Whetū meaning star, pays homage to taonga puoro experts who were part of the revitalisation of these instruments but have since passed on. In Māori beliefs, ...

In the tradition of the Māori, the indigenous people of New Zealand, Hine Raukatauri is the goddess of music and dance. She is embodied in the form of the fe...

Hinetekakara is the ancestress of Aroha Yates-Smith, the kaikaranga (singer) who provided the idea and the text of this piece. Hinetekakara lived on the shor...

Hinetekakara is the ancestress of Aroha Yates-Smith, the kaikaranga (singer) who provided the idea and the text of this piece. Hinetekakara lived on the shor...

Hinetekakara is the ancestress of Aroha Yates-Smith, the kaikaranga (singer) who provided the idea and the text of this piece. Hinetekakara lived on the shor...

Hine-pu-te-hue translates literally as the woman of the sound of the gourd, and she is the Māori goddess of peace. The work was written in 2001, at the tim...

Wan ge (Elegy) uses a poem by Tao Qian (Tao Yuanming) (365-427), who is one of the greatest poets in the Weijing period. The poem embodies the poet's conce...

Luminescence is a song cycle based on eight poems from Etel Adnan's Sea, and was commissioned by Thomas Buckner. It celebrates the three-way friendship o...

A setting of a poem from 'Titus Groan' by Mervyn Peake.

In these pieces for a 'chamber grouping' of just three gamelan instruments, I used as the basis for composition a combined scale made up of pelog and slendro...