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Premiere of new work


Old wall, Skye, Scotland

Then I Heard a Great Voice from Heaven …
will be premiered at Evensong, 6.00pm, at the Newcastle Cathedral, Newcastle NSW, on the 27th of September 2009.

New works

My new works — Magnificat, Nunc Dimittas, and Gloria were recently completed.

Creative Arts Fellow

Awarded a Creative Arts Fellowship funded by ArtsACT, Canberra for 2009.

I will be composing a series of vocal works including:

  1. Three children's songs for Canberra Children's Voices, directed by Dr Susan West.
  2. Wimmera Songs a song cycle for Halcyon, a Sydney based chamber ensemble. Scored for two female voices (Jenny Duck-Chong and Alison Morgan), piano, and clarinet — a setting of the evocative texts of the Victorian desert region by Australian poet Kevin Hart, from the book Wicked Heat.
  3. A Fold in the Light a cycle of three works premiered in Canberra by the SCUNA choir conducted by Dr Jonathan Powles. Texts by Australian poet, Alan Gould.
  4. A choral cycle of five pieces for children's choir Gondwana Voices (Sydney) directed by Lyn Williams.
  5. Song cycle based on religious texts written by Prof. Dorothy Lee (poet and Doctor of Theology at Trinity College Melbourne). The theme of the cycle will be the Annunciation and the religious and symbolic significance of Mary.
  6. A series of sacred choral works for SATB including Magnificat, Nunc Dimittas, Gloria and Then I Heard a Great Voice from Heaven …