Commissioned by Ken Murray with financial support from Creative Australia
First performance by Ken Murray (electric guitar), Tempo Rubato, Melbourne, 20 March 2025
Deep Riffs (2024)
15 minutes
for electric guitar with looping pedal
Instrumental (solo and duo)
This largest section of the site contains solos and duos for most instruments in various combinations. The pieces range from solo piano works to a piece for carillon, a solo for sleighbells and a duo for recorder and harp.
Please click work titles for more information and resources (audio, sheet music, program note etc.) about individual works in this category.
Sad Steps (2024)
11 minutes
for solo flute
First performance by Lina Andonovska, Kaleidoscope Night, Bello Bar, Dublin, 2 April 2025
Confused Alarms (2021)
8 minutes
for French horn and piano
Commissioned by the Australian National Academy of Music (ANAM) as part of The ANAM Set (2021), funded by the Restart Investment to Sustain and Expand (RISE) Fund – an Australian Government Initiative.
First performance by Eve McEwen (horn) and Louisa Breen (piano), The ANAM Set Festival, Australian National Academy of Music, Abbotsford Convent, Melbourne, 15 May 2022
Irish Tunes (2020–24)
10 minutes
for solo piano
- 1. The Star of the County Down
- 2. She Moved through the Fair
- 3. Merrily Kiss the Quaker's Wife
First performance by Rhodri Clark (piano), Port Fairy Spring Festival of Music, St Patrick's Hall, Port Fairy, Victoria, 12 October 2024
First performance of 'Merrily Kiss the Quaker's Wife' by Simon Docking (piano), The Music Room, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, 12 April 2023
Shh… (2020)
3 minutes
for muted trumpet
Commissioned by Visa Haarala
First performance by David Elton, Bowral Autumn Music Festival, St Jude's Church, Bowral, NSW
In My Solitude (2020)
8 minutes
for solo viola
Commissioned by Tim Senior
First performed by Tim Senior (viola), YouTube, 4 May 2020
First live performance by Katie Yap (viola), Canberra International Music Festival, Juliet Room, Verity Lane Market, Canberra, 3 May 2023
The Star of the County Down (2020)
3 minutes
for solo piano with optional singing
The Sea and the Mirror (2018)
12 minutes
for violin and cello
Commissioned by the Australian National University as part of the H.C. Coombs Creative Arts Fellowship
First performance by Tor Frømyhr (violin) and David Pereira (cello), Llewellyn Hall, ANU School of Music, Canberra, 4 October 2019
Hook (2018)
6 minutes
for solo vibraphone
Commissioned for Claire Edwardes by Julian Burnside AO QC
First performance by Claire Edwardes (vibraphone), home Zoom concert, 26 April 2020
First live performance by Claire Edwardes (vibraphone), Bowral Autumn Music Festival, St Jude’s Church, Bowral, NSW, 26 March 2021
Hearing Voices (2018)
9 minutes
for solo cello
Commissioned by the Australian National University as part of the H.C. Coombs Creative Arts Fellowship
First performance by David Pereira (cello), Larry Sitsky Recital Room, Australian National University, Canberra, 24 April 2018