Works

Symphony No.1

Mahler said “a symphony should be like the world”. In our time, that means a symphony of ephemeral beauty and pressing chaos. Our world is still beautiful, still life-giving, still our ultimate inspiration of life and art. But around every mental corner is a growing disquiet.

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Finding the Sea
Piano Sonata

upcoming 2024

Flight
Piccolo Concerto

Flight is about adventure, freedom and joy. In the first movement Nimble, wrens, robins and sparrows dance in the glow of afternoon rain. Everything is lighter than air; A kind of anti-gravity scherzo. (Read more)

Folded Sky

Folded Sky is a landscape tone poem in the true romanticist sense. The piece depicts 19 hours of changing light over the plains of central west New South Wales, Australia

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A Splinter of the Sun

A Splinter of the Sun is a short, unexpected glance at a ray of light, the sort of still moment which catches you off guard and seems to stop time. (Read more)

Five Kinds of Seeing

Five Kinds of Seeing is a collection of light in different states. Simple impressions of the all-pervasive magic of being alive, or, sketches of life as art. Perhaps the real point of art is to help us recognise that life is art, after all.

Visions

Two tone poems for chamber orchestra

Keep an eye out for this pair of matching tone poems about light and space, written to parnter with Flight, my piccolo concerto for chamber orchestra.

upcoming 2024

Eight Ghosts

Eight Ghosts is a step into the unknown. The piece plays on the many ghosts and spirits of chinese folklore to explore the wide-open sonic world of the Guzheng — and the realm of the not-quite-dead.

Nocturnes
(Chamber Orchestra)

This is music about subtlety, warmth, sense of presence, soft emotion, spaciousness, delicateness— All the lucid, beautiful detail of life hidden under our daily servings of ideology, politics, technological excitement, and all the other harsh noises of daily life.

Nocturnes
(Piano)

These pieces are little meditations on the state of mind, the physical feeling, the transparent harmony of the night. These are deeply feeling, but simultaneously clear and unsentimental, responding to the long tradition of piano nocturnes from Lizst onwards.

Recorded live at Konzertprojekt: Frames on 8/9/17. Composer at the piano.