Genre: Orchestral

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YouTube score available from Wise Music program note i. The Tunnel ii. Bones Laid Headlong iii. Timed in Light iv: The Calendar v: Missing Pieces vi: The Escalation This choral symphony was written at the invitation of Mark Shapiro, conductor and Artistic Director of Cantori New York. Toward the end of the last millennium, Mark … Read more

YouTube score available from Wise Music program note i: The Gate ii: Pulse of the Earth This symphony in two movements was written for The University of Melbourne Orchestra, under the direction of my colleague, Richard Davis. It was conceived at the Akiyoshidai International Art Village (AIAV) in Japan, where I was Artist in Residence … Read more

score available soon from Wise Music program note This fanfare was written for the opening of the Ian Potter Southbank Centre – the new home of the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music. Written for 23 brass and percussion players and fixed media, the work was written specifically to take advantage of the layout and acoustic properties … Read more

score available from Wise Music program note The title of this piece is taken from Louis Nowra’s play, The Temple. I composed music for the premiere production by Playbox (directed by Bruce Myles) in 1993. Nowra uses ‘The Killing Floors’ of an abattoir as a metaphor for the floors of the stock exchange, particularly in … Read more

score available from Reed Music program note Stay close now as winter’s White fuse burns across The lake and the hinterland (excerpt from Late Autumn Lullaby by Ross Baglin) A hinterland is a district behind a coast, or river’s banks with the suggestion of sparse population. The full text to Baglin’s poem is one I … Read more

Spotify CD available Collective Wisdom ACO Collective ABC Classics, ABC 481 7374, 2018 score available from Wise Music program note While we don’t directly feel the constant physical rotation of the Earth, we observe the Sun rising in the east and setting in the west. We synchronise our clocks to this daily cycle and organise … Read more

score available from Wise Music program note On 15 August 2021 at around 9pm, 823 Afghan citizens packed onto a US C–17 military cargo plane at Hamid Karzai international airport. Amid chaos and confusion during the fall of Kabul to the Taliban, those desperate to escape were crowded on the runway trying to board from … Read more

score available from Wise Music program note For the 45th birthday of Brenton Broadstock, a number of colleagues and students wrote orchestral variations (in miniature) based around the opening flute theme from Aureole 4. Those contributing variations included Chris Dench, Linda Kouvaras, Tim Davies, Daniel Bendrups, William Hughes and Matthew Hindson – all of whom … Read more

CD available The Studio Album Melbourne University Big Band, Ian Godfrey Independent score available from Reed Music program note Vodka Meets a Martini is written with a laid-back, lounge feel over a slightly more complex ‘classical’ structure which repeats a 26-bar cycle five times. It is dedicated to Tim Davies and Kate Moran, whose names … Read more