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Post 1. The italicized section below was written by my librettist Tracey Slaughter. This project aims to speak to the scale of the refugee crisis […]

I have begun to compose my third opera Prayer for Broken Shelter which is based on the world refugee crisis and I aim to write […]

Have a look at the link below to a piece I wrote a few years ago and was broadcast on ANZAC day this year, to […]

A heart attack during the Covid-19 Lockdown. In the midst of the Covid-19 lockdown, I had a heart attack on the 28th March and was […]

I will be speaking at the rally for RNZ Concert on Friday 28th Feb at Garden Place in Hamilton. We are trying our very best […]

Holidays don’t agree with me at all. The university is on summer break and I decided to take a break from composing for a few […]

My friend and member of the NZGQ (New Zealand Guitar Quartet, the beautiful Jane Curry, had a terrible accident body surfing on boxing day. She […]

Almost finished writing a new piece “Equinox” for the incredible NZGQ. A real labor of love. Please follow and like us:

A very moving concert on the 25th October in Sydney,  given by the wonderful Australian soprano Ayse Goknur-Shanal, of a new piece “Surah Al Ma’dah. […]

Music is a fickle mistress. She is wonderfully generous when daily attention is paid to her, but gets very sulky and stubborn when she is […]