How to buy my music:
Contact me and I will get back to you within 48 hours with a digital score and invoice.
Pricing:
$55 for a choir of less than 30 singers
$75 for a choir of more than 30 singers
(unless otherwise specified)
Once you purchase a score, you may print as many copies as you need for your choir and/or distribute digitally to your singers
Click the titles to hear a recording and see a preview score
Contact me and I will get back to you within 48 hours with a digital score and invoice.
Pricing:
$55 for a choir of less than 30 singers
$75 for a choir of more than 30 singers
(unless otherwise specified)
Once you purchase a score, you may print as many copies as you need for your choir and/or distribute digitally to your singers
Click the titles to hear a recording and see a preview score
Young voices: 2-part treble
A Journey You Keep In Your Heart **Popular**
Carry me on your wings. Show me mansions and midnights and mountain springs
A song about the joy of a good book, with two memorable melodies that come together at the end.
2-part + piano
Deep Blue Heart **New**
Every teaspoon of the ocean is alive
Every drop contains the story of a miracle planet
Inspired by the life and teachings of Sylvia Earle (b. 1935), a scientist, explorer and tireless advocate for the world's oceans.
SA + piano
Bird to Bird **New**
When the kitchen empties and sinks back to the ground, a crafter shapes a bird
A fledgling set to fly across a rolling sea...
A setting of Claire Saxby's wonderful picture book Bird to Bird, following the inter-continental journey of a single tree from seed to tree to boat lumber to house to bird.
Cockatoo Too
You can swallow a swallow and turn a tern or swan around with a swan, but can you cockatoo a cockatoo?
A light-hearted song full of bird puns.
2-part + piano
Bygone Days
Can you imagine a world so covered in ice that you can't see the ground? Where graves of creatures from warmer climes are restlessly frozen in time.
A pensive dorian melody that expresses wonder at the ways the earth has changed over millions of years. How will we be remembered?
2-part + piano
Cloths of Heaven
Tread softly, as you tread on my dreams
A simple setting of W.B. Yeat's famous poem "He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven" with celestial wine-glass accompaniment. Suitable for upper primary/lower secondary.
SA or SSA + wine glasses.
Advanced treble voices
Earth-Shaped Hearts
From song cycle "Earth-Shaped Hearts", commissioned by ABC Classic Composer Commission 2022 + Finalist in the 2024 Australian Art Music Awards: Choral Work of the Year
Perhaps this piece inside your arm once rose inside a tree
Perhaps the innards of your lips grew wings upon a bee
With simple harmonies that bring out the sweetness of treble voices, Earth-Shaped Hearts extends a warm invite to audiences to see themselves as recycled atoms drawn from a global history spanning billions of years.
SSA unaccompanied
Stay a Moment
From song cycle "Earth-Shaped Hearts", commissioned by ABC Classic Composer Commission 2022 + Finalist in the 2024 Australian Art Music Awards: Choral Work of the Year
Stay a moment. Learn the atoms of the soil. Listen
With a driving djembe groove, solo improvisations and building mantras, Stay A Moment evokes the thrill of surrendering yourself to your surroundings, of taking a moment to breathe in the day, to be a rock or a branch, to listen to the pulse of the world.
SSSAA and djembe
Also available SATBdiv
Hot Tin Roof
Where none can find me, sun don't blind me, wind can't blow me away - because we're sittin' on a hot tin roof
A playful and percussive piece that explores the sounds you make when you muck with a piece of corrugated iron. Includes a spot of rain.
SSAA with optional percussion. Also available SSAB
We Will Go No More
So, we'll go no more a roving
So late into the night,
Though the heart be still as loving,
And the moon be still as bright.
Lord Byron's famous poem "So We'll Go No More a Roving" set to simple melody, lamenting the end of youth.
Available SSA, SSAB, SATB. Unaccompanied.
Cloths of Heaven
Tread softly, as you tread on my dreams
A simple setting of W.B. Yeat's famous poem "He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven" with celestial wine-glass accompaniment. Suitable for upper primary/lower secondary.
SA or SSA + wine glasses.
Mixed choirs
Songs No Longer Sung **popular**
A song of sorrow for mourning shadows
A song of hunger for bread once broken whole
As song of longing for songs no longer sung
Is still a song
An homage to the songs that were written and sung by victims in camps and ghettos during the Holocaust.
SATB unaccompanied
Peat Brown Hours **popular**
Joint Winner of the National Youth Choir of Australia 2020 Ralph Morton Memorial Composition Competition
The gossip of grasses, the winnowing winds, the drip and the squelch of wet leavings.... and you, listening to all that muted music, stilled in the hold of roots.
Slow aleatoric passages and soundscapes contrast with joyful dance-like melodies, bringing to life Maria Wallace's wonderful poem "The Meenybradden Bog Woman"
SATBdiv unaccompanied
I am humbled
I am humbled by the stars, I am humbled by the worm, I am humbled by the mountain, I am humbled by the wren
A reflection on humanity's place in a world where ants sit alongside stars.
SATB unaccompanied
Stay a Moment
From song cycle "Earth-Shaped Hearts", commissioned by ABC Classic Composer Commission 2022 + Finalist in the 2024 Australian Art Music Awards: Choral Work of the Year
Stay a moment. Learn the atoms of the soil. Listen
With a driving djembe groove, solo improvisations and building mantras, Stay A Moment evokes the thrill of surrendering yourself to your surroundings, of taking a moment to breathe in the day, to be a rock or a branch, to listen to the pulse of the world.
SATBdiv and djembe
Also available SSSA
I am a fish
I am a fish of the land and the sea and the sand and the sun up above and the fire below.
Whispering, shouting and layered ostinatos make for a fast and sometimes raucous piece with a philosophical question at heart.
SATB unaccompanied
We Will Go No More
So, we'll go no more a roving
So late into the night,
Though the heart be still as loving,
And the moon be still as bright.
Lord Byron's famous poem "So We'll Go No More a Roving" set to simple melody, lamenting the end of youth.
Available SSA, SSAB, SATB. Unaccompanied.
Hole in the Bucket (A Marital Disupte)
Honestly, Liza, I don't know what to say. You didn't marry me for my practical skills, but you'd always said you'd love me anyway.
An expansion of a beloved folk song into a comedic exploration of domestic division of labour, learnt incompetence, and marital quibbles.
SSATTB unaccompanied
Hot Tin Roof
Where none can find me, sun don't blind me, wind can't blow me away - because we're sittin' on a hot tin roof
A playful and percussive piece that explores the sounds you make when you muck with a piece of corrugated iron. Includes a spot of rain.
SSAB with optional percussion. Also available SSAA.
Garden Dream
In a garden dream, I paint the sky...
A dreamy, visually striking piece that combines repeated patterns, aleatoric passages and artful choralography. Singers are instructed to create the impression of painting a vast invisible canvas
SSABdiv with movement
Combined Choirs
Mass for Tiny Voices
Mass for Tiny Voices elevates the words, voices, and wisdom of children in a playful take on the traditional Latin mass. Quotes from anonymous children, sourced from the popular “Live from Snack Time” Twitter feed, are paired in contrasting and complementary ways with the five movements of the traditional mass text.
From the repentance of the Kyrie (Lord have mercy/ “I have ten friends by I hate one of them”) to the message of peace in the Agnus Dei (Lamb of God/ “Hold my hand. Much better”), Mass for Tiny Voices highlights the elements of human emotional experience that transcend time, age, and creed
Children's choir (2-part) and SATB choir
Mass for Tiny Voices elevates the words, voices, and wisdom of children in a playful take on the traditional Latin mass. Quotes from anonymous children, sourced from the popular “Live from Snack Time” Twitter feed, are paired in contrasting and complementary ways with the five movements of the traditional mass text.
From the repentance of the Kyrie (Lord have mercy/ “I have ten friends by I hate one of them”) to the message of peace in the Agnus Dei (Lamb of God/ “Hold my hand. Much better”), Mass for Tiny Voices highlights the elements of human emotional experience that transcend time, age, and creed
Children's choir (2-part) and SATB choir