Solo Vocal Music

1978 Canticle 1 baritone, oboe, piano

1981 Canticle 3 medium voice, flute, piano

1983 Canticle 4 mezzo-soprano, cor anglais, piano

1992 Two Songs Of Travel high voice, violin (or flute or clarinet) and piano (arranged from the choral cycle “Ports of Call”)

1996 At the Lighting of the Lamps soprano, piano (a cycle of six songs to words by Ursula Bethell, commissioned by Judy Bellingham)

1996 Pied Beauty soprano, piano (commissioned by Deirdre McOnie)

1996 Two songs for a production of “Petrouchka” medium voice, clarinet, piano (commissioned by Mercury Bay Area School, Whitianga)

1997 No Other Heaven tenor, guitar (or piano) (a cycle of five New Zealand love songs, commissioned by Tony Donaldson with funding from Creative NZ)

1997 Canción de la Noche mezzo-soprano, flute, 2 horns, and piano

1988/9 3 songs from “From Age to Age Endure” medium voice, piano (arranged from the choral cycle “From Age to Age Endure”)

1999 Just Desserts medium voice, piano (4 songs about food for young singers)

1999 3 songs for a production of “The Pied Piper” medium voice, piano (commissioned by the Junior School, Diocesan School for Girls, Auckland))

1999 Garbage Delight medium voice, piano (4 more songs about food for young singers)

1983/9 Willow Song medium voice, piano (arranged from the choral cycle “3 Songs from ‘Othello’”)

1999 Three Shakespeare Lyrics medium/high voice, piano (arranged from the choral cycle “A Shakespeare Garland”)

2001 Sibling Rivalry medium voice, piano (5 songs about brothers and sisters for young singers)

2002 Out to Lunch! medium voice, piano (5 culinary songs for young singers)

2002 Night Songs baritone, piano

2003 Wish You Were Here medium voice, piano (5 travel songs for young singers)

2004 No Room at the Inn soprano (or tenor), piano (4 Christmas songs)

2005 Dreams for Sale medium voice, piano (4 easy lullabies for young singers)

2005 Furry Friends medium voice, piano (5 songs about animals for young singers)

2005 Character Sketches tenor, guitar

2005 Ask Me No More soprano, piano

2006 Darling Johnny O NZ folk song arranged for mezzo-soprano, piano

2007 Kiwi Stew medium voice, piano (4 songs on NZ texts for very young singers)

2008 The Wings of Desire soprano, guitar

2010 You are… mezzo-soprano, guitar

2010 Cat Suite mezzo-soprano, piano (3 songs about cats - commissioned by Margo Knightbridge)

2013 This Shining Night (Night Songs II) baritone, piano

2013 Sure On This Shining Night baritone, piano
(from “This Shining Night (Night Songs II)”

2013 Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night     baritone, piano
(from “This Shining Night (Night Songs II)”

2013 In Flanders Fields baritone, piano

2014 Mothers medium voice, piano

2014 Cautionary Tails medium voice, piano
(6 songs about animals for young singers)

2015 Powhiri medium voice, piano

2015 Three Tuwhare Songs medium voice, piano

2015 Sing No Sad Songs Today  soprano (or tenor), piano

2015 Yellow Songs tenor, piano

2015 A Small Garden of Songs soprano, violin, harp

2018 Three Love Songs of Sara Teasdale soprano, clarinet, guzheng, piano

2019 The Distance soprano, flute and piano

2019 A Summer Night medium voice, guitar or piano

2020 Night Songs III baritone, piano

2020 Canticle 6: Fragments from Lorca mezzo-soprano, violin, piano

2020 Childhood mezzo-soprano, baritone, piano (9 songs about childhood)