SELECTED works

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Orchestral

2024                I START IN A HOLE, for orchestra (6’)

Premiered by the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Luke Dollman, Federation Concert Hall,

nipaluna/Hobart, TAS, 14/6/24

2024               <mutinies>, for orchestra (4’)

Premiered by the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Luke Dollman, Federation Concert Hall,

nipaluna/Hobart, TAS, 14/6/24

2023 THE HORROR OF THE AVANT GARDE(S), concerto for piano, percussion and large ensemble (c.38’)

Premiered at Chapter House, conducted by Elliott Gyger, Marc Hannaford (piano soloist), Satoshi Takeishi

(percussion soloist), Narrm/MEL, 17/8/23

2022                you are meadow, for orchestra (10')

                      Premiered by the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Carlo Antonioli, Deakin Edge at Federation Square,

Narrm/MEL, 28/1/23

 

2020                Delayed Forces, for orchestra (8’)

                        Premiered by University of Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Kenneth Myer Auditorium, Narrm/MEL, 7/5/21

 

2017                The Great Unrest, for chamber orchestra (10’)

                        Premiered by Ensemble Nouveau, University of Sydney, 26/4/17

 

2017                Mount Analogue, for chamber orchestra (9’30”)

                        Premiered by the Australian Youth Orchestra, tutor ensemble, Elder Hall, University of Adelaide, 20/1/17

 

Ballet

2022                Storm Approaching Wangi and Other Desires, for two channel audio, solo contrabass guitar and percussion (c. 52’)

Premiered at MAP mima, Lake Macquarie, NSW, 11/11/22

 

Chamber/Ensemble

2023 WATER. RUINS. EVERYTHING. (or, the quaking zone), for for flute, clarinet, trumpet, trombone, violin, viola, cello.

Upcoming premiere on 7 Dec 2023 at Iwaki Auditorium, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Academy.

2020                Moon Chant, for 11 percussionists (6’). Premiere cancelled due to Covid-19

2019                JOUSKA: A Psychodrama In Three Acts

for mezzo-soprano, flute, trumpet, tenor saxophone, accordion, violin, double bass (21’)

Premiered by The Music Box Project at Bendigo Internatonal Festival of Exploratory Music, VIC, 7/9/19

 

2019                The String Quartet Project, movements I and II, for string quartet (11’)

Premiered by Flinders Quartet, Library at The Dock, Docklands, VIC, 22/6/19

 

2019                The String Quartet Project, movement III, for string quartet (8’)

                        Premiered by Geist Quartet, Jewish Museum, SYD, 24/9/19

 

2019                Romantic Foam, collaborative composition with The Opera Company (40’)                   

Premiered at 107 Projects, Redfern, SYD, 19/6/19

 

2017                Descent, for soprano, alto flute, harp, celesta, piano, violin, viola, violoncello (7’).

Premiered at Sydney Conservatorium of Music

 

2016                Leviticus, for SATBB, piccolo, flute, tenor saxophone, organ and percussionist (7').

Premiered at Sydney Conservatorium of Music

 

2016                The Weathermaker, for flute, tenor saxophone, trumpet, violin and bass guitar (6’)

Premiered by The Music Box Project at Backstage Music, SYD, 19/8/16

2016                NON, for viola, cello and double bass (7’). Commissioned by ZOV trio, NED

 

Solo Instrumental

2023 a thousand tiny mutinies, for solo contrabass guitar and artefacts (33’)

Released 5 March, 2024 (Nice Music)

2021                (A)Biotic Forces, for solo guitar and foot percussion (12')

Premiered by Thomas Stewart-Toner for the MCM Guitar Perspectives series, 10/12/21

 

2021                Study #1 (2021), for solo bass guitar. Composed as repertoire for the VCE bass guitar syllabus.               

2019                Ataraxia, for violin and piano (12’)

Premiered by Kat Tsyrlin (violin) and Danaë Killian (piano), Melbourne Composer's League Elbow Room Concert, Saint Peter’s Anglican Church, 10/4/21

 

2016                Inshallah, for solo marimba (4’). Recorded by Claire Edwards.

 

2016                Minimum Optimum, for soprano voice and trumpet (7’)

Premiered by Tina Stefanou and Joseph Lisk, Sydney Conservatorium of Music.

2015                Initiations, for nylon-string contrabass and viola (18’)   

Collaborative composition and recording with Maya Felixbrodt  

                                          

Electro-Acoustic

2019                Estranged, fixed media and solo contrabass guitar (6’)

2016                All Thing Must Fall Into Ruin, audio-visual installation (3’). Exhibited at Blue House Exhibition, SYD, 14/7/16

selected FILM soundtracks

2023 Left / Write / Hook (90’)

Forthcoming feature-length documentary, directed by Shannon Owen

2020 Mourning Country (8’), directed by Andrew Kaineder

2018 Beyond The Noise (28’), directed by Andrew Kaineder

2016 Far North (2016), directed by Ben Player (sound design)

2016 MAR (10’), directed by Andrew Kaineder

2014 SKIN (15’), directed by Liselle Mei, co-composed with Basil Hogios         

                   

selected text

2023 A concerto, a horror, and the avant-garde. Reflections on a work that I haven't yet heard.

Article for the Australian Music Centre

2021 Album review: Solo Guitar I by Alexander Garsden.

Loudmouth, Music Trust Zine

2021 (Excerpts from) Blobs, Buzz and Rapid Patterning: Intra-active Tools for Composition, Improvisation and Analysis

ADSR Zine 013

2020 Blobs, Buzz and Rapid Patterning: Intra-active Tools for Composition, Improvisation and Analysis

Honours Thesis

2019 Between What’s Written and What Actually Is.

ADSR Zine 003