Repertoire suitable for school and tertiary level

PERCUSSION  |  SOLO + CHAMBER  |  STRING ORCHESTRA

percussion

Whirl

(2023)

Solo Snare Drum
Duration: 5 minutes

Commissioned by Melbourne Symphony Orchestra for the 2023 MSO Snare Drum Award.

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Available to purchase on this site.

solo+chamber

Still

(2020)

Clarinet in Bb and piano
Duration: 5:30 minutes

Commissioned by Australia Ensemble for David Griffiths and Ian Munro.

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Available on this site


Performance Watch the Australia Ensemble perform Still – with interviews with performers and composer.

Facing Forward

(2020)

Trumpet in Bb + Piano
Duration: 4 minutes

Suitable for Upper Level High School and University Level students, Facing Forward was commissioned by Naomi and Simon Miller for their son Hugo, on the occasion of his sixteenth birthday; to acknowledge Hugo’s love and enjoyment of music through its creation.

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Available on this site

‘Taking Chances’ from Hidden Thoughts I: Do I Matter?

(2017)

Solo Percussion (2 hi-hats + crotales)
Duration: 2 minutes

This work, for solo player (2 hi-hats + crotales) is the opening movement of Hidden Thoughts I: Do I Matter?, winner of the 2019 Paul Lowin Prize for Composition (song-cycle).

The movement aims to be a palette cleanser for the audience as they settle in to the one-hour performance comprising of hidden thoughts.

Also available as a percussion quartet work (arr Eric Wilie, USA).

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Available to purchase on this site.

‘Taking Chances’ from Hidden Thoughts I: Do I Matter?

(2017/arr. 2020, Eric Wilie)

Percussion Quartet
Duration: 2 minutes

Premiered at PASIC 2021: Percussion Arts Society International Convention, Indianapolis.

This work, originally for solo player (2 hi-hats + crotales) is the opening movement of Hidden Thoughts I: Do I Matter?, winner of the 2019 Paul Lowin Prize for Composition.

This arrangement could act as a ‘palette cleanser’ being fresh and short, yet is also a vibrant and energetic concert opener/closer.

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Australian Music Centre

Recorded and arranged by UNC Greensboro (Eric Willie, Director).

glisten

Glisten

(2013)

Solo Piano
Duration: 4 minutes

FEATURED WORK

PROFILE IN FULL

Structurally based on the Scarlatti Sonatas, Glisten is a sparkling, short virtuosic work. It is popular as a concert opener, post-graduate piano recitals and aims to bring lightness to a concert program.

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Available on this site

UndercurrenT

(2011)

Soprano Saxophone + Piano
Duration: 11:40 minutes

Incandescence

Appears on HD Duo’s disc Incandescence (Tall Poppies Records) Commissioned by HD Duo.

UndercurrenT II is an arrangement for trumpet, trombone and electric guitar.

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Reed Music


Excerpt of UndercurrenT

Valentine

(2011)

Flute + Piano
Duration: 7:30 minutes

Commissioned by Stewart Taylor for his wife Mary Taylor.

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The Australian Music Centre

Sapphire Shimmer, Silica Slide

(2005)

Piano: 4 hands
Duration: 4 minutes

‘Sapphire Shimmer, Silica Slide’ was written in response to a gift I received. The gift was to go on a morning sand dune safari, riding four-wheel drive motorbikes in the mountainous dunes near Nelson Bay, New South Wales, Australia. Although terrifying at first, it was magnificent.

The coast was spectacular; huge white dangerous dunes and the sparkling ocean. We were told we had to ride exactly in the path of the leader or risk being fatally surprised by a dune that could collapse or avalanche. We rode as we were told and the exhilaration coupled with the beauty made for a wonderful morning. The bikes were noisy but the stillness of the ocean and sand was magic.

This piece is dedicated to Mavis Shannon, my childhood neighbour and piano teacher, who encouraged me musically and was like my second grandmother.

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Promethean Editions

Egyptian Wish

(2001)

Soprano Saxophone Trio
Duration: 7 minutes

Composed for Barry Cockcroft.

Also available for Solo Soprano Saxophone and CD.

Sunburnt Aftertones

Appears on Sunburnt Aftertones: The Chamber Music of Katy Abbott.

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Reed Music

Not Just Another Day

(2001)

Solo Piano
Duration: 2:30 minutes

Composed to celebrate the birth of Sophie Saunders, December 2001.

Recorded on Jeanell Carrigan’s Piano CD Skins (2011).

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The Australian Music Centre


Listen to Not Just Another Day

Carmen Vitae: Orchestral Fanfare

(2000)

Orchestra
Duration: 4 minutes

2.1.2.0 (+ opt saxophone section). 4.3.3.1. Hp. Timp + 3.  10.8.6.4.2. 

Carmen Vitae: Orchestral Fanfare was commissioned by Presbyterian Ladies’ College, Melbourne for the school’s 125th Anniversary celebration concert at Hamer Hall in 2000.

It has since been performed by Sydney Symphony Orchestra together with the SYO, and the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra together with the AdYO, amongst other performances.

A version for Wind Symphony will be available later in 2024. Please contact if interested.

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The Australian Music Centre

Autumn Song

(1996/rev.2001)

Saxophone + Piano (+ other arr)
Duration: 4 minutes

AMEB Alto Saxophone Grade 5 List.

Also available for most woodwind, brass and string instruments.

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Reed Music

Bassoon 5

(2008)

Bassoon + Piano

5 pieces ca. 2 minutes

5 pieces for bassoon and piano (elementary – intermediate level)

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Reed Music

Flipside

(2002)

Solo Alto or Tenor Saxophone
Duration: 4 minutes

High School Level / Sax Solo Level C

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Reed Music

string-orchestra

Mirage

(2006)

String Orchestra (intermediate level)
Duration: 5 minutes

Commissioned: Orchestras Australia ‘Composers-Connecting-Community’

Margaret Sutherland Strings/ Van der Vis

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Rhythmania – Groove – Train

(2005)

String Orchestra (intermediate level)
Duration: 3 minutes

Commissioned: Newcastle Grammar School as part of a composer residency

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The Australian Music Centre

Target 30

(2003)

String Orchestra (intermediate level)
Duration: 3 minutes

Commissioned as part of a Composer Residency for Sydney Youth Orchestra and composed to celebrate the orchestra’s 30th Anniversary.

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The Australian Music Centre

A Convict Dreams of England

(2003)

String Orchestra (beginner level)
Duration: 2 minutes

Commissioned as part of a composer residency for Sydney Youth Orchestra

Composed for the Barbara Cran String Orchestra/Cran

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The Australian Music Centre

The Sydney News Blues

(2003)

String Orchestra (beginner level)
Duration: 2 minutes

Commissioned as part of a composer residency for Sydney Youth Orchestra

Composed for the Barbara Cran String Orchestra/Cran

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The Australian Music Centre

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