Australian music

"Midnight Mass" was commissioned by Father Arthur Bridge for premiere in 2007 at St Patrick's Church, Blacktown, NSW. The Mass setting includes some traditional carols.

Set to poetry of Judith Wright, this piece invites us to listen to the voice of stillness, moss and rain amidst the green glow of a timeless forest where "all is one and one is all".

While writing this score for concert band, I was inspired by thoughts of a rough-and-tumble seascape, with fresh, salt-laden winds transforming waves into myriad white horses.

Scored for SATB choir, this setting of James McAuley's poem 'Nativity', depicts the birth of light in an extraordinary world of dewdrops, spider webs and tender snails' horns.

"If Christ had been born in another time..." is an energetic Australian Christmas carol commissioned by Oriana Chorale, ACT, Australia. It is scored for a cappella SATB choir.

This score was commissioned by Concordis Chamber Choir (VIC). It is a setting of a poem of Nicolette Stasko, after the painting of the same name by Frieda Kahlo.

Premiered by The Australian Voices, this setting of Michael J. Smith's poem depicts colourful butterflies fluttering to the ocean from mountains, valleys, hills and plains.

"Arrival of the baby elephant", "Hippopotamusic" and "Big Cats" are three animal-inspired intermediate band works which I composed in 2009 at the invitation of publisher, Reed Music.

"The Blue Gum Forest" (for a cappella SATB choir and bass baritone) was commissioned in 2009 for the 60th Australian Intervarsity Choral Festival, Hobart, Tasmania.

Described in the national press as "deeply satisfying", this SATB choral setting is based on a profound and beautiful text by Sr Mary Julian Baird RSM.