A new work has just been completed: Video Game Dreaming for clarinet quartet (1xEb, 2xBb, bass clarinets). It is a work in three movements with a duration of approximately 14 minutes. It was composed for the Clarity4 clarinet quartet, an excellent ensemble based in Canberra.
Here are the programme notes.
i. Start Select Pause [...]
I have recently completed a new work for woodwind quintet, commissioned by Fr. Arthur Bridge on behalf of Ars Music Australis. The work is entitled Light Music.
There are full programme notes available here, but in any case, suffice to say that at times my music has been derided by critics and maybe even some [...]
Two new works have recently been completed.
My Piano Trio was to have been premiered by the Macquarie Trio in 2006, however due to a range of factors it will now be premiered by a piano trio at the Camden Haven Festival in Kendall, NSW on 21 April 2007 as part of a concert of my [...]
Many of my works have been regularly performed for final year high school or university/college recitals. Often such recitals have strict requirements as to the length of the works that may be performed (this is currently the case with the HSC in NSW, the VCE in Victoria, as well as matriculation exams in other [...]
Next month (December) will be the premiere of my new Flute Concerto, which is entitled House Music. More information including programme notes is available on the relevant programme notes page.
It has been wonderful working with the soloist, Marina Piccinini. Flute concertos are definitely not the easiest type of piece to write - there [...]
There are wind band versions of both Headbanger and RPM available for purchase directly through my publisher, Faber Music.
These versions have been created by Phillip Littlemore, who works at Faber.
Links to these are given below:
Headbanger - wind band version
RPM - wind band version