This symphony was created to enable blind and vision-impaired musicians to perform with an orchestra. It is written in such a way that it can be memorised by...

T.S. Eliot's fecund poem The Waste Land has as many meanings as it has readers. Like many of those readers the poem has preyed on my mind since my first co...

In many ways Symphony (1968) which was composed in Toronto while I was studying with John Weinzweig, encapsulates what I wanted to achieve stylistically as...

'Cello Symphony' originated in some sketches the composer made during a brief visit to San Francisco in 1985. Written for cellist Paul Mitchell, 'Cello Symph...

Arranged for cello and piano

I began my second symphony whilst attending the University of East Anglia in Norwich, where I was studying for a PGCE in secondary music education. It was fi...

This work was created for my ensemble 'The Irish Memory Orchestra', which mixes instruments from classical, Irish traditional, jazz and rock music. The orche...

“This tune had been sitting in the vault for around 3 years as a piece of manuscript on my desk. When I was putting together my proposal for this grant, I re...

The work begins with a simple motif that represents early Gloucester man. The development of the symphony is his journey through the city or through the land...

This work is excerpted from a larger work The Clare Concerto (2013).

The initial musical thoughts for Symphony No. 3 came from two related sources of inspiration - the paintings of Marc Chagall and Klezmer music. I had been ...

This work was composed during the period 2016–2018, including a residency at the Visby International Composers Centre, October 2016. It was written for The C...

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...

The title of this symphony comes from the ominous tam tam stroke that opens the first movement, a mysterious sound heard by two of E M Forster's characters i...

I wrote the work in the turbulent year of 1968 while I was undergoing graduate studies in composition at the University of Toronto with the prominent Canadia...

Symphony No. 6 was begun during the first lockdown in New Zealand March-April 2020, and to some extent was informed by the crisis enveloping the country an...

It became clear that with several symphonic poems under my belt the time was right to embark on a symphony, a somewhat daunting task in this post-modern era!...

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

Douglas Lilburn's Symphony No. 2 was given its first performance as a studio broadcast in December 1953 conducted by Warwick Braithwaite. The first public...

A central idea to 'Symphony in Five Movements' concerns aspects of timing. Its form was partially inspired by the martial arts treatise 'Go Rin No Sho' (A Bo...

Once upon a time (in the twentieth century) symphonies were considered 'old hat'. Today, on the other side of the modernist revolution, the form offers new ...

Richard Fuchs started writing his Symphony in C Minor in 1933 but it was never finished.

Symphony No.7 was the latest in the celebrated partnership between composer Ross Harris and the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra. In the New Zealand Herald W...

Harris’s Symphony No.5 is in seven movements, two Adagios and two Scherzos surrounding three short and rather simple songs based on texts by the Hungarian ...

The Short Symphony No. 10 was written in 1958, and is again based on an earlier String Quartet in C Major, written 20 years before, for Hill's resignatio...

This symphony has three movements. All three start with the same pulse (crotchet=60), and the third movement also ends at this tempo. Both the rhythmic confl...

A three-movement symphony for orchestra and turntables... a hip-hop symphony

A full-length symphony for large orchestra in three movements. It takes its title from the sequence of three sonnets The Islands by the New Zealand poet C...

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...

At age 15, during school holidays, I hitch-hiked the length of New Zealand from Dunedin to Auckland with various side trips in between. The sheer beauty and...

Described as “often beautiful and sometimes frightening” (NZ Listener), Ross Harris’s Symphony No 2 is a setting of poems on the subject of New Zealand soldi...

The first movement of this symphony opens quietly with a number of ideas in which the melodic interval of a fifth has some prominence. A faster section follo...