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  • IV. Mōkihinui Sunrise

    IV. Mōkihinui Sunrise

    Recording: Digital rendition

    All is calm. Behind us the hills covered in native forest are just beginning to come to life. There's a moment of stillness. The first rays of amber sunlight break through the treetops, warming the campers below…

  • III. Mōkihinui Tides

    III. Mōkihinui Tides

    Recording: Digital rendition

    Mōkihinui Tides is descriptive of the myriad tidal moods of the Mōkihinui River at it's meeting with the ocean.

  • II. Mōkihinui Mists

    II. Mōkihinui Mists

    Recording: Digital rendition

    Mōkihinui Mists features the deep and mysterious sonority of the bass clarinet matched with a long held high note on violin to set the scene of forested hills cloaked in mist. The slow rising and falling of the melody suggests the all-enveloping movement of the ever changing mists.

  • I. Mōkihinui River

    I. Mōkihinui River

    Recording: Digital rendition

    This first piece in the Mōkihinui Suite is full of innocence. On a sunny day the Mōkihinui River is full of lively movement and reflected sunlight. Imagine deep emerald green swimming holes and rushing rapids.

  • Gentle Certainty

    Gentle Certainty

    Recording: Digital rendition

    This is part of a set of three ‘Dedications’ for solo violin, solo cello, harp and string ensemble. This one is dedicated to Jane.

  • Danza Assertiva

    Danza Assertiva

    Recording: Digital rendition

    This is part of a set of three ‘Dedications’ for solo violin, solo cello, harp and string ensemble. This one is dedicated to Viola.

  • Promenade

    Promenade

    Recording: Digital Rendition

    This is part of a set of three ‘Dedications’ for solo violin, solo cello, harp and string ensemble. This one is dedicated to my partner, Sonia.

  • Memory of a Friend

    Memory of a Friend

    Recording: Digital rendition

    This piece was written in memory of, and is dedicated to AJ Hickling, a beautiful human being and extraordinary musician…

  • A Dream of Mt Moehau

    A Dream of Mt Moehau

    Recording: Digital Rendition

    Moehau is a forested mountain at the far Northern end of the Coromandel peninsula…

  • The Aliveness of Spring

    The Aliveness of Spring

    Recording: Digital rendition

    This piece attempts to capture musically, the particular way that Spring feels as we suddenly know a touch of something bright…