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Life without you, certainly it would be beautiful, but you too pain, are worth experiencing. Lou Salome

Two world premières evoke the spirit of Anzac Day in Auckland By Simon Holden, 24 April 2015 The New Zealand Symphony Orchestra chose to mark Anzac Day this year with their ‘Spirit of Anzac’ concert, commemorating the centenary of the Gallipoli landings with two new com

Well, well. Just got word from Melbourne University that apart from some minor changes, my PhD is done and can graduate later in the year. I have been working on this for 6 years now. I am sure that this will be a best seller — right up there with 50 Shades of Grey. In tr

The premier of Letters from the Front took place on the 22nd May at the Michael Fowler Center in Wellington New Zealand with the NZSO and a simultaneous concert at the Sydney Opera House with the SSO. What a night! I was absolutely delighted with the performance. I attended

I am in the process of composing a new symphony for the New Zealand Symphony orchestra and have decided to start a blog. The piece is for the 100 year anniversary of the battle of Gallipoli in WWI where many New Zealand soldiers fought and died. It will also touch on other W

There are people in this life who have the uncanny ability to sap creative energy and and inflict negativity and cynicism on me. I call them creativity sappers who are never satisfied with anything, are self-centered, narcissistic, mean spirited and generally somewhat parano

Finally finished this piece yesterday. Now it goes on a trip to London to record the violin part with Jenny Bae, to Italy to record the soprano and guitar parts with Laura De Santis and Alessanrdo Minci and back to NZ for mixing and mastering. A real global effort!

I will be setting the following poem “The Future is not war” by Renzo Nanni for a piece I have been asked to write for the 70th anniversary of the battle for Montecassino in 2014. A beautiful poem and I am very much looking forward to working with soprano Laura d

I have recently been commissioned by New Zealand Symphony Orchestra to write a symphony for the Gallipoli Commemorations for 2015. This is a huge responsibility and will be approaching it with the utmost care. It will be for full orchestra with soprano and narrator and title

Project Developer and inaugural composer Michael Williams has written a composition of around 1 minute in duration.  This has been forwarded toa composer of his choice who will add a further minute, once completed sends on to another composer of their choice etc. Each compo