Commissioned by the McLaren Vale Music Festival Association for the Coriole Music Festival
The Blessing (2021)
25 minutes
for mezzo-soprano and oboe
Voice and instrument
These pieces set to music poems by Anne Carson, Elizabeth Smart, Christina Rossetti and Shakespeare, together with words from the Book of Proverbs and the Girls’ Own Annual of 1919
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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. My Octopus Teacher (Alison Flett)
15. Waiting for the Clouds (Martha Marlow)
16. Syreeni (Maria Takolander)
17. South Golden Beach (Lisa Brockwell)
* Commissioned by Kim Williams + Commissioned by Opera Queensland for its Young Artists Program
The Moor (2019)
2 minutes
for mezzo-soprano and guitar
A song from the cycle Nature
Nigh-No-Place (2018)
3 minutes
for mezzo-soprano and flute
A song from the cycle Nature
No One Could Relax around Jezebel (2017)
14 minutes
for soprano and percussion
soprano, metal percussion
Commissioned by Julian Burnside AO QC for Jane Sheldon and Claire Edwardes
First performance by Jane Sheldon and Claire Edwardes, Port Fair Spring Music Festival, Reardon Theatre, Port Fairy, 13 October 2018
In transit (2014-16)
15 minutes
for piano and speaker
Commissioned by Ian Munro, Roy Howat, Joel Sachs and Aura Go, with the support of a project grant from the Music Funds of the Australia Council for the Arts
First performance by Ian Munro (piano), Andrew Ford (speaker), Arts in the Valley Festival, Kangaroo Valley, NSW, 6 May 2017
Nonsense (2012)
8 minutes
for medium voice and piano
1. The Owl and the Pussy-cat 2. The Quangle Wangle's Hat 3. The Jumblies
First performance by Michael Lampard (baritone), Shirley Trembath (piano), St Paul's Cathedral, Melbourne, 30 October 2013
Little Star (2010)
4 minutes
for medium voice and harp/piano
First performance by Tobias Cole (countertenor) and Meriel Owen (harp), Canberra International Musica Festival, Fitters' Workshop, Canberra, 30 April 2017
Golden Slumbers (2008)
3 minutes
for voice and piano
First performance by Iva Bittová and Lisa Moore, Canberra International Music Festival, Street Theatre, Canberra, 16 May 2008
Domestic Advice (2007)
16 minutes
for soprano and piano
Commissioned by Jane Edwards with funds provided by a composer fellowship from the Music Board of the Australia Council for the Arts
First performance by Jane Edwards (soprano) and David Miller (piano), Manly Council Chambers, Sydney, 14 September 2008