A contemporary audio meditation on the Stations of the Cross Album out now: listen on Apple Music, Spotify, YouTube, YouTube Music. Photograph by Stanislav Traykov CC BY 2.5 In the year 2000 I was commissioned to compose a piece for the inauguration of the ecumenical Way of the Cross march, organised by Melbourne City Churches …
Category Archives: Music
Compositions
Undeterred by a disastrous performance of my first song at a school camp, I have been composing in earnest since 1984. In 2000 I settled on an idiom that allowed me to fully indulge my enthusiasm for the expressive possibilities of counterpoint. Here is a incomplete list of my music. You may also find complementary …
Hymn arrangements for brass quintet
I have a number of exciting hymn arrangements. They have been performed over the years at Scots’ Church on Easter morning and at “Big Hymn Sings”. I am intending to put them all into the shop, but if you are interested, let me know, and we should be able to come to an arrangement. The …
Omnes angeli
motet for 40-part choir by Vaughan McAlley (2012) The idea for Omnes angeli came to me when I decided to organize a casual performance of Thomas Tallis’ Spem in alium for my fortieth birthday. With forty voices voices to be assembled, I decided to try writing a forty-part piece of my own. The text for …
