SELECTED WORKS

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ORCHESTRAL

<mutinies> [2024], for orchestra (4')
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 soloist), Satoshi Takeishi (percussion soloist), Narrm/MEL, 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 chamber orchestra (9'30")
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), structured long-form improvisation, for trumpet & electronics, prepared guitars, prepared contrabass guitar, percussion
Premiered by Callum G’Froerer, Tom Stewart-Toner, Joseph Franklin, Duré Dara, Ian Potter Centre, Narrm/MEL, 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, movements I & II [2019], for string quartet (11')
Premiered by Flinders Quartet, Library at The Dock, Docklands, Narrm/MEL, 22 June 2019
SCORE // VIDEO

The String Quartet Project, movement III [2019], for string quartet (8')
Premiered by Geist Quartet, Jewish Museum, SYD, 24 September 2019

Romantic Foam [2019], collaborative composition with The Opera Company (40')
Premiered at 107 Projects, Redfern, SYD, 19 June 2019

Descent [2017], for soprano, alto flute, harp, celesta, piano, violin, viola, violoncello (7')
Premiered at Sydney Conservatorium of Music, SYD, 2017

The Weathermaker [2016], for flute, tenor saxophone, trumpet, violin and bass guitar (6')
Premiered by The Music Box Project, Backstage Music, SYD, 19 August 2016


SOLO INSTRUMENTAL

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
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/MEL, 10 December 2021
SCORE // VIDEO

Study #1 [2021], for solo bass guitar
SCORE

Ataraxia [2019], 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, Narrm/MEL, 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

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], short film (28')
Directed by Andrew Kaineder
VIDEO // AUDIO

SKIN[2014], short film (15')
Directed by Liselle Mei, co-composed with Basil Hogios


INSTALLATION

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


WRITINGS

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



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