Chamber Music- With Voice
She Who Knows Strange Songs (2024) c. 16 minutes
For Mezzo-Soprano, Violin and Cello
Text by Denise Levertov, Sappho, Amy Lowell and Elinor Wylie
Commissioned by Chamber Music Adelaide and the City of Adelaide as part of the Perspectives Commissions Cultural Strategic Partnership.
Premiered by Cheryl Pickering (Mezzo-Soprano), Helen Ayres (Violin) and Thomas Marlin (Cello) at 'Stars, Atoms, and Strange Songs', Adelaide Town Hall, May 10th 2024.
To read the full text of the song cycle, click here.
Please contact the composer if you are interested in a Mezzo-Soprano and Piano arrangement of this work.
For Mezzo-Soprano, Violin and Cello
Text by Denise Levertov, Sappho, Amy Lowell and Elinor Wylie
Commissioned by Chamber Music Adelaide and the City of Adelaide as part of the Perspectives Commissions Cultural Strategic Partnership.
Premiered by Cheryl Pickering (Mezzo-Soprano), Helen Ayres (Violin) and Thomas Marlin (Cello) at 'Stars, Atoms, and Strange Songs', Adelaide Town Hall, May 10th 2024.
To read the full text of the song cycle, click here.
Please contact the composer if you are interested in a Mezzo-Soprano and Piano arrangement of this work.
Snapshots of Love and Life (2023) c. 30 mins
For Soprano, Violin, Cello and Piano
Text by Anna Goldsworthy
Commissioned by Seraphim Trio with support of Emeritus Professor Anne Edwards AO and Emeritus Professor Mary-Jane Gething AO.
Premiered by Lorina Gore with the Seraphim Trio (Anna Goldsworthy, Helen Ayres, Tim Nankervis) at the Mildura Writers Festival, July 14th, and Elder Conservatorium of Music Evening Concert Series, July 15th.
Composed in response and as a companion work to Robert Schumann's Frauenliebe und Leben, Op. 42.
Please contact the composer if you are interested in a Piano and Sprano arrangement of this work.
For Soprano, Violin, Cello and Piano
Text by Anna Goldsworthy
Commissioned by Seraphim Trio with support of Emeritus Professor Anne Edwards AO and Emeritus Professor Mary-Jane Gething AO.
Premiered by Lorina Gore with the Seraphim Trio (Anna Goldsworthy, Helen Ayres, Tim Nankervis) at the Mildura Writers Festival, July 14th, and Elder Conservatorium of Music Evening Concert Series, July 15th.
Composed in response and as a companion work to Robert Schumann's Frauenliebe und Leben, Op. 42.
Please contact the composer if you are interested in a Piano and Sprano arrangement of this work.
Flame and Shadow (2019) c. 16 mins
for Soprano, Violin, Clarinet and Piano
Text by Sara Teasdale
Commissioned by the Women In Music Festival. Premiered by Greta Bradman (Soprano) and Plexus Collective, Storey Hall, RMIT, Melbourne on April 6th, 2019.
Read more about the inaugural Women in Music Festival here.
This work is also available in an arrangement for Soprano and Piano. Hear a performance by Bethany Hill (Soprano) and Jamie Cock (Piano) here.
Score for the ensemble version available for purchase here (AMC)
for Soprano, Violin, Clarinet and Piano
Text by Sara Teasdale
Commissioned by the Women In Music Festival. Premiered by Greta Bradman (Soprano) and Plexus Collective, Storey Hall, RMIT, Melbourne on April 6th, 2019.
Read more about the inaugural Women in Music Festival here.
This work is also available in an arrangement for Soprano and Piano. Hear a performance by Bethany Hill (Soprano) and Jamie Cock (Piano) here.
Score for the ensemble version available for purchase here (AMC)
Ozymandias (2018) c. 6 mins
for Baritone and Piano
Text by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Commissioned and Premiered by David Cox (Baritone), with Andrew Georg (Piano)
Purchase score here as part of 'Two Songs for Baritone and Piano' (AMC)
for Baritone and Piano
Text by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Commissioned and Premiered by David Cox (Baritone), with Andrew Georg (Piano)
Purchase score here as part of 'Two Songs for Baritone and Piano' (AMC)
Spring Songs (2017) c. 9 mins
Four songs for Soprano and Piano
Text by Sara Teasdale
1. Paris In Spring
2. The Look
3. Spring Torrents
4. Nightfall
Commissioned by The Firm New Music. Premiered by Kate Macfarlane (Soprano) and Michael Ierace (Piano), November 2017.
Listen here. Watch here.
Four songs for Soprano and Piano
Text by Sara Teasdale
1. Paris In Spring
2. The Look
3. Spring Torrents
4. Nightfall
Commissioned by The Firm New Music. Premiered by Kate Macfarlane (Soprano) and Michael Ierace (Piano), November 2017.
Listen here. Watch here.
I Think On Thee (2017) c. 4 mins
for Baritone and Piano
Text by William Wordsworth
Commissioned and Premiered by David Cox (Baritone) with Mark Sandon (Piano)
Listen here.
Purchase score here as part of 'Two Songs for Baritone and Piano' (AMC)
for Baritone and Piano
Text by William Wordsworth
Commissioned and Premiered by David Cox (Baritone) with Mark Sandon (Piano)
Listen here.
Purchase score here as part of 'Two Songs for Baritone and Piano' (AMC)
Three Persian Prayers (2016) c. 17 mins
Three songs for Mezzo-Soprano and ensemble
Text- trad, Baha'i prayers, as suggested by Mojgan Khadem
1. Manam
2. Komak
3. Thankfulness
Commissioned by Cheryl Pickering for Various People Inc. as part of the project 'Conversations'. Read more about it here and here.
Version 1 for Mezzo Soprano, Violin and Piano. Premiered at Ukaria, Mount Barker by Cheryl Pickering (Mezzo), Elizabeth Layton (Violin) and Penelope Cashman (Piano), November 27th, 2016
Version 2 for Mezzo Soprano, Oud and Violin
Version 3 for Mezzo Soprano, Violin and Cello (Manam and Komak only). Hear the work here.
Three songs for Mezzo-Soprano and ensemble
Text- trad, Baha'i prayers, as suggested by Mojgan Khadem
1. Manam
2. Komak
3. Thankfulness
Commissioned by Cheryl Pickering for Various People Inc. as part of the project 'Conversations'. Read more about it here and here.
Version 1 for Mezzo Soprano, Violin and Piano. Premiered at Ukaria, Mount Barker by Cheryl Pickering (Mezzo), Elizabeth Layton (Violin) and Penelope Cashman (Piano), November 27th, 2016
Version 2 for Mezzo Soprano, Oud and Violin
Version 3 for Mezzo Soprano, Violin and Cello (Manam and Komak only). Hear the work here.
Parting Songs (2016) c. 13 mins
Four songs for Soprano, Tenor and Piano
Text by Anna Akhmatova
1. Not Weeks, Not Months
2. The Ghost of Our First Days
3. Departure
4. The Last Toast
Commissioned by The Firm New Music. Premiered by Robert Macfarlane and Kate Macfarlane, December 2016.
(Song 1 & 3 for Soprano with Piano accompaniment; Song 2 & 4 for Tenor with Piano accompaniment)
Listen here.
Purchase score here (AMC)
Four songs for Soprano, Tenor and Piano
Text by Anna Akhmatova
1. Not Weeks, Not Months
2. The Ghost of Our First Days
3. Departure
4. The Last Toast
Commissioned by The Firm New Music. Premiered by Robert Macfarlane and Kate Macfarlane, December 2016.
(Song 1 & 3 for Soprano with Piano accompaniment; Song 2 & 4 for Tenor with Piano accompaniment)
Listen here.
Purchase score here (AMC)
Alena Songs (2012) c. 14 mins
Three songs for Tenor and Guitar
Text by Alena Synkova
1. To Olga
2. I've Met Enough People
3. Tears
Commissioned by The Firm New Music. Premiered by Robert Macfarlane (Tenor) and Aleksander Tsiboulski (Guitar), June 2012.
Purchase score here (AMC)
Three songs for Tenor and Guitar
Text by Alena Synkova
1. To Olga
2. I've Met Enough People
3. Tears
Commissioned by The Firm New Music. Premiered by Robert Macfarlane (Tenor) and Aleksander Tsiboulski (Guitar), June 2012.
Purchase score here (AMC)
Songs of Sorrow (2012) c. 14 mins.
Three songs for Tenor and Piano
Text by Edna St Vincent Millay
1. Conscientious Objector
2. Dirge Without Music
3. Lament
Commissioned by The Firm New Music. Premiered by Robert Macfarlane (Tenor) and Stephen Whittington (Piano), May 2012.
Purchase score here (AMC)
Recorded by Kyle Stegall (2024) on Visions- Song sets for Tenor and Piano
Three songs for Tenor and Piano
Text by Edna St Vincent Millay
1. Conscientious Objector
2. Dirge Without Music
3. Lament
Commissioned by The Firm New Music. Premiered by Robert Macfarlane (Tenor) and Stephen Whittington (Piano), May 2012.
Purchase score here (AMC)
Recorded by Kyle Stegall (2024) on Visions- Song sets for Tenor and Piano
This Too Shall Pass (2009) c. 19 mins
Four songs for Soprano and Piano
Texts by D.H. Lawrence, Goethe, Chidiock Tichborne, and Emily Dickinson.
1. Since I Lost You
2. Speak Ye Stones
3. My Prime of Youth
4. I Shall Know Why
Commissioned by The Firm New Music. Premiered by Greta Bradman and Leigh Harrold, July 27th, 2009.
Purchase score here (AMC)
Please contact the composer for access to a reference recording.
Four songs for Soprano and Piano
Texts by D.H. Lawrence, Goethe, Chidiock Tichborne, and Emily Dickinson.
1. Since I Lost You
2. Speak Ye Stones
3. My Prime of Youth
4. I Shall Know Why
Commissioned by The Firm New Music. Premiered by Greta Bradman and Leigh Harrold, July 27th, 2009.
Purchase score here (AMC)
Please contact the composer for access to a reference recording.
A Woman's Song (2005/2018) c. 15 mins
Three songs for Soprano and String Quartet*
Texts by Purnette du Guillet, Amy Levy & Emily Bronte
1. Chanson
2. June
3. Stanzas
Commissioned and premiered by Zephyr Quartet, with Emma Horwood (Soprano).
*Also available in Soprano/Piano arrangement. Piano version premiered by Bethany Hill (Soprano) and Mark Sandon (Piano).
Listen to Chanson for Soprano & Piano here.
Purchase score for string quartet version and piano version from Wirripang Publishing here.
Three songs for Soprano and String Quartet*
Texts by Purnette du Guillet, Amy Levy & Emily Bronte
1. Chanson
2. June
3. Stanzas
Commissioned and premiered by Zephyr Quartet, with Emma Horwood (Soprano).
*Also available in Soprano/Piano arrangement. Piano version premiered by Bethany Hill (Soprano) and Mark Sandon (Piano).
Listen to Chanson for Soprano & Piano here.
Purchase score for string quartet version and piano version from Wirripang Publishing here.