One of the most striking and memorable pieces performed at the International Computer Music Conference in Glasgow in 1990 was Haiku by the American compose...

Based on the Noh drama Kocho ("Butterfly"), this chamber opera was written as part of my composition folio for my Honours year of study at Victoria Univers...

Written over 1,000 years ago by Murasaki Shikibu, the novel, The Tale of Genji, has continuously captured imaginations through different media including mo...

Composed in collaboration with Emma Stacker.

The association and rich sounds of a Malay gong, Korean gong, small Japanese gong, Japanese bells (like large...

Unlike many New Zealand artists of the time Van der Velden became consumed – almost obsessed – by a single subject: a mountain stream at Otira. He painted it...

Clairmont Triptych was written in fulfilment of a commission by Chamber Music New Zealand for the Auckland Wind Quintet with pianist David Guerin to perfor...

Donated by Cantor Fitzgerald: a threnody is a single movement, 60-minute work for a small, mixed chamber ensemble of improvising musicians and electronics. ...

Cape Reinga is the final movement in a three piece orchestral suite exploring New Zealand landscape and their link to the four elements. Punakaiki (water...

In his 1974 collection 'The lives of a Cell', Lewis Thomas wrote a memorable essay devoted to the spectrum of sound made by all living creatures. He believes...

The Love Sonnets of Michelangelo I wrote for Michael Parmenter, with whom I worked on a programme entitled Between Two Fires (also included was a dance-t...

the dancer leads the procession was written for Jeffrey Grice while I was living in Caen in 1999, shortly after I had moved to France. I began working on t...

Nigel Keay’s Le Loup et l’Agneau was composed at the beginning of 2017, for the pianist Jérémie Honnoré and the narrator François Castang, as a musical ill...

The title is a phrase taken from a poem of my mother's:

"Were we to meet in unexpected places
A sudden warmth would fill the willing air..." ...

These two arrangements were written in December 1990 after a period of compositional inactivity, which had in turn followed a very busy early part of the yea...

In my work as a composer I have found bringing together classical and jazz musicians to be a rich and unique way of working. I have experience in both fields...

Having heard Adrianna Lis in concert, I was excited by the prospect of writing for her and was thrilled to contribute a piece for her CD Dialogue/Rozmowa p...

Puhake ki te rangi, which translates as "spouting to the skies" is a celebration of whales, and was written late in 2006 for the New Zealand String Quartet...

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...

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...

This piece was inspired by the famous Pink and White Terraces in New Zealand which were destroyed by the eruption of Mt Tarawera in 1886. The Pink and White...

'Organ Overture' was commissioned by the Southern Sinfonia to celebrate the orchestra's 40th anniversary. It was written and funded as part of the composer's...

This concerto is a sunny and life-affirming work. There are moments of reflection however, such as the slow introduction, where a long melody on piano is pic...