SELECTED WORKS AND WRITINGS


ORCHESTRAL

<mutinies> [2024] 
for orchestra - 5'
Premiered by the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Luke Dollman, Federation Concert Hall, nipaluna/Hobart, TAS, 14 June 2024
SCORE // AUDIO

THE HORROR OF THE AVANT-GARDE(S) [2023]
concerto for piano, percussion and large ensemble - c.38’
Premiered at Chapter House, conducted by Elliott Gyger, Marc Hannaford (piano), Satoshi Takeishi (percussion), Narrm/Melbourne, 17/8/23.
SCORE


you are meadow [2022/23] 
for orchestra - 10'
Premiered by the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Carlo Antonioli, Deakin Edge at Federation Square, Narrm/Melbourne, 28 January 2023
SCORE // VIDEO

Mount Analogue [2017] 
for large ensemble - 9'
Premiered by the Australian Youth Orchestra Tutor Ensemble, Elder Hall, University of Adelaide, 20 January 2017
SCORE // AUDIO


CHAMBER / ENSEMBLE

WATER. RUINS. EVERYTHING. (or, the quaking zone) [2023] 
for flute, clarinet, trumpet, trombone, violin, viola, cello - 10'
Premiered by the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra (Academy), TarraWarra Museum, VIC, 7 December 2023
SCORE

Hyperesthesia (IV) [2022]
for trumpet, guitar, contrabass guitar and percussion - 60’
Premiered by Callum G’Froerer, Tom Stewart-Toner, Joseph Franklin, Duré Dara, Ian Potter Centre, Narrm/Melbourne, 15 September 2022
VIDEO

JOUSKA: A Psychodrama In Three Acts [2019]
for mezzo-soprano, flute, trumpet, tenor saxophone, accordion, violin, double bass - 21’
Premiered by The Music Box Project, Bendigo International Festival of Exploratory Music, VIC, 7 September 2019
SCORE // VIDEO

The String Quartet Project, I & II [2019]
for string quartet - 11’
Premiered by Flinders Quartet, Library at The Dock, Docklands, Narrm/Melbourne, 22 June 2019
SCORE // VIDEO

The String Quartet Project, III [2019]
for string quartet - 8’
Premiered by Geist Quartet, Jewish Museum, Sydney, 24 September 2019

Romantic Foam [2019]
collaborative composition with The Opera Company - 40’
Premiered at 107 Projects, Redfern, Sydeny, 19 June 2019

Descent [2017]
for soprano, alto flute, harp, celesta, piano, violin, viola, violoncello - 7’
Premiered at Sydney Conservatorium of Music, Sydney, 2017

The Weathermaker [2016]
for flute, tenor saxophone, trumpet, violin and bass guitar - 6’
Premiered by The Music Box Project, Backstage Music, Sydney, 19 August 2016


SOLO INSTRUMENTAL

an incomplete history of the art of the solo violin [2024]
for solo violin -  c.15’
Commissioned by Australian National Academy of Music (ANAM) for th ANAM Set 2025.
Premiere forthcoming.

a thousand tiny mutinies [2024]
for solo contrabass guitar and artefacts - 33'
Studio recording, released by Nice Music, 5 March 2024
AUDIO

Study #2 - meadow dog [2024]
for solo contrabass guitar - 5’
SCORE // AUDIO

(A)BIOTIC FORCES [2021]
for solo guitar and foot percussion - 12'
Premiered by Tom Stewart-Toner for the MCM Guitar Perspectives series, Narrm/Melbourne, 10 December 2021
SCORE // VIDEO

Study #1 [2021]
for solo bass guitar - 5’
SCORE

Ataraxia [2019]
for violin and piano - c.12'
Premiered by Kat Tsyrlin (violin) and Danaë Killian (piano), Melbourne Composer's League Elbow Room Concert, Narrm/Melbourne, 10 April 2019
SCORE // VIDEO

Initiations [2015]
for nylon-string contrabass and viola - 18'
Collaborative composition and studio recording with Maya Felixbrodt


BALLET

Storm Approaching Wangi and Other Desires [2022]
for two-channel audio, solo contrabass guitar and percussion - c. 50'
Premiered at MAP mima, Lake Macquarie, NSW, 11 November 2022


FILM SOUNDTRACKS

You Can’t See Speed [2025]
film soundtrack - 21’
Directed by Tina Stefanou

Left / Write / Hook [2023]
feature-length documentary - 90'
Premiered at Melbourne International Film Festival 2024, directed by Shannon Owen.

Mourning Country [2020]
short film - 8'
Directed by Andrew Kaineder

Beyond The Noise [2018], 
feature-length film - 38'
Directed by Andrew Kaineder
VIDEO // AUDIO

SKIN [2014]
short film - 15'
Co-composed with Basil Hogios, directed by Liselle Mei


INSTALLATION

Tina Stefanou: You Can’t See Speed [2025]
multiple compositions for Tina Stefanou’s exhibition
Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA), Narrm/Melbourne, 4 April—9  June 2025

All Thing Must Fall Into Ruin [2016]
audio-visual installation
Exhibited at Blue House Exhibition, Sydney, 14 July 2016

WRITINGS

A concerto, a horror, and the avant-garde. Reflections on a work that I haven't yet heard. [2023]
Article for the Australian Music Centre

Album review: Solo Guitar I by Alexander Garsden. [2021]
Loudmouth, Music Trust Zine

(Excerpts from) Blobs, Buzz and Rapid Patterning: Intra-active Tools for Composition, Improvisation and Analysis [2021]
ADSR Zine 013

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

Between What’s Written and What Actually Is. [2019]
ADSR Zine 003


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