Six Recorder Duets

Here are six recorder duets I finished in January 2019. All are just over one minute long, most are fairly simply to play and they are all in the style of folk music. One, number 3 is an arrangement of an early Australian song titled A Nautical Yarn. I've written all these in minor keys, as I feel the tone of the recorder represents a sad and lonely voice. The score are free to download, play and record if you like, please just acknowledge...

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The Mystery of the Cave

The Mystery of the Cave As I suffer from claustrophobia due to an incident as a child, confined spaces are not for me. However, the thought of hearing beautiful recorder music in a cave won't stop me from writing a piece that is to be played in a confined space. This five-movement work is composed with the thought of using the ambience of the cave as a large part of the sound of the piece. The recorders needed to perform this suite...

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Journeys

Journeys is an album of orchestral music inspired by the artworks and displays in the exhibition Journeys in the National Museum of Australia Everyone goes on different journeys throughout their life, and this musical journey not only ties in with the exhibition but this album creates an emotional landscape that will make you feel you are somewhere else. This track titled, A Boy who became the Moon, was inspired by an artwork title Moon...

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Thrown into the World

Thrown into the World Famous philosophers Martin Heidegger and Jean-Paul Sartre both used the term, thrown into the world to describe how humans had no choice of being born and as Sartre said, "Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does." Both philosophers were talking about the struggle that humankind has to go through, just to be human. But, in that struggle, there...

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Nepal

Nepal 100% of all profits generated from this album will go to Oxfarm Earthquake Devastates Nepal Appeal www.oxfam.org.au/my/donate/earthquake-devastates-nepal/ I've long had a fascination with Nepal. Snuggled between India and China, it's a land of serene beauty, and an amazing multicultural, multi religious, and multilingual country. But it's the incredible landscape that gets me. Even though they have been through a very hard time...

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Songs of the Madman

Songs of the Madman Before I began writing my Songs of the Madman album, I’d always known how much I was pulled towards creating music as a concept. To begin with an abstract idea, then to shape it into something solid and unique, which has form and substance, fits my idea and love of storytelling through music. Some of the greatest music we know has come from a concept formed into something concrete. And not just in popular music...

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— Emily

— Emily Emily Dickinson. I doubt there would be many people who loved poetry, who didn't know the name of Emily Dickinson. In the art world, she was like no other. Her life, her poetry, her words fit in my ear with a form of unique perfection. As amazing as her beautiful short poems are, what is equally amazing is she lived through the American Civil War and wrote these amazing creations. Obviously, I am in love with Emily, so how could I...

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From the Beginning to the End

From the Beginning to the End On quite a few of my songs, I have collaborated with an amazing percussionist from Germany, Yatziv Caspi. He has a fresh and unique style, and from the picture above, you will see he is quite diverse in his voice and type of percussion instruments he chooses. We are collaborating on an album of piano and percussion music. It will be released in May 2016. You can listen to one of the tracks, Before the Middle. The...

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