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Choral

Music for mixed choir and male choir, with and without instruments in response to words by Les Murray, David Malouf and Gwen Harwood, C.P. Cavafy, Sappho and St John of the Cross.

Please click work titles for more information and resources (audio, sheet music, program note etc.) about individual works in this category.

Magnificat & Nunc dimittis (2022)

7 minutes
SATB choir & organ

Commissioned by St John's Cathedral, Brisbane; St David's Cathedral, Hobart; Arts Foundation of St George's Cathedral, Perth; Christ Church North Adelaide; Christ Church St Laurence, Sydney; Trinity College, Melbourne

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Lullay, my liking (2021)

4 minutes
for SATB choir

Text: Anon. 15th-century English

Commissioned by the Arts Foundation of St George's Cathedral, Perth

First performance by Choir of St George's Cathedral conducted by Joseph Nolan, St George's Cathedral, Perth, Western Australia, 19 December 2021

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Red Dirt Hymns (2020 -)

Voices and instruments

This is a work in progress. Each song has words by a different Australian poet. Individual songs have different and variable instrumentation.

  1. Gone (Jordie Albiston)
  2. The New Summer (David McCooey)
  3. Hymn of the Garden (John Kinsella)
  4. dark cloud (Ellen van Neerven)
  5. Isolation Hymn (Judith Bishop) *
  6. Rain Hymn (Judith Beveridge)
  7. What Desire Knows (Sarah Holland-Batt) +
  8. Ultraviolet (Stephen Edgar) *
  9. Our Mother's Heart (Kate Fagan)
  10. Between Birds (Merlinda Bobis)
  11. To Whom Do We Sing? (Mark Wakely)
  12. Respair (Felicity Plunkett)
  13. This Is to You (Philip Harvey)
  14. The Shape of a Vase (Erik Jensen)
  15. Stand and Weep (Jill Jones) #
  16. Syreeni (Maria Takolander) ##
  17. My Octopus Teacher (Alison Flett)
  18. Waiting for the Clouds (Martha Marlow)
  19. South Golden Beach (Lisa Brockwell)
  20. Looking for Corners (Melanie Horsnell)

* Commissioned by Kim Williams AM + Commissioned by Opera Queensland for its Young Artists Program # Commissioned by Evergreen Ensemble ## Commissioned by Luminescence Chamber Singers

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Christmas List (2018)

3 minutes
for SATB choir and organ

Text: David McCooey

Commissioned by the Arts Foundation of St George's Cathedral, Perth

First performance by the Choir of St George's Cathedral conducted by Perry Joyce, Joseph Nolan (organ), St George's Cathedral, Perth, Western Australia, 16 December 2018

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Missa brevis (2015)

14 minutes
for SATB choir and organ

SATB (includes solos for all voices)

Commissioned by St John's Cathedral, Brisbane, St Stephen's Cathedral, Brisbane, St George's Cathedral, Perth, St Patrick's Cathedral, Melbourne and Father Arthur E Bridge for Ars Musica Australis

First performance by the Choir of St John's Cathedral, Brisbane, conducted by Graeme Morton, Andrej Kouznetsov (organ) St John's Cathedral, Brisbane, 13 December 2015

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Sometimes I Feel like a Motherless Child (2015)

2 minutes
for six voices or six-part choir

Arrangement of American Spiritual

Text:

Traditional

for six voices: SSAATB or SSATBarB

First performance by Choir of St John's Cathedral conducted by Graeme Morton, St John's Cathedral, Brisbane, 13 December 2015 

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Waiting for the Barbarians (2011)

9 minutes
for SATB choir

Text: freely adapted by the composer from the poem by C.P. Cavafy

Commissioned by the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Chorus and Sydney Philharmonia Choirs

First performance by Sydney Philharmonia Symphonic Choir conducted by Graham Abbott,
St Patrick's Cathedral, Parramatta, NSW, 20 July 2012

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Australian Aphorisms (2010-13)

14 minutes
for six solo voices

1. The Averted (Les Murray) - available separately

2. Death, an Ode (John Forbes)

3. At Night on the Beach (Judith Wright)

4. Sleep (David McCooey)

5. Spring (Maria Takolander)

6. The Highest Form of Love (Barbara Blackman)

7. Hear the Bird of Day (David Campbell) - available separately

Commissioned by Father Arthur E. Bridge for Ars Musica Australis, Barbara Blackman, The Song Company, Penny LeCouteur and Greg Dickson

First performance by the Song Company conducted by Roland Peelman, Canberra International Music festival, Albert Hall, Canberra, 17 May 2013

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A Singing Quilt (2008)

20 minutes
for recorded voices, SATB choir and percussion

SATB choir, percussion ensemble and recorded voices

Commissioned by Wingecarribee Shire Council with financial assistance from the Regional Arts Fund, an Australian Government initiative supporting the arts in regional and remote Australia

First performance by Combined Choirs of the Southern Highlands (drawn from the Berrima Singers, Highlandaires, Serendipity, Singing for Leisure, SHACappella, Southern Highlands Sing Australia, Southern Highlands Voices in Harmony, WENCHes), ANU DRUMatiX, conducted by Andrew Ford

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Elegy in a Country Graveyard (2007)

25 minutes
for recorded voices and environmental sounds, SATB choir and ensemble

This is a version of the radiophonic piece, suitable for live performance.

'Chimney-sweepers' (Fear now more...) from Elegy in a Country Graveyard is available separately for SATB choir and voice and piano.

Commissioned by ABC Radio, funded by the NSW Ministry for the Arts in association with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

First performance by the Berry Court House Choir and the Southern Highlands Concert Band, Daryl Pratt (percussion), conducted by the composer, Kangaroo Valley Hall, Arts in the Valley Festival, Kangaroo Valley, NSW, 22 April 2007

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