Compositions

Sheet music and audio samples available from Australian Music Centre

Lemuria

The composition is fashioned in a classical, new age guitar style, incorporating right-hand classical guitar picking technique. Also suitable for performance on electric or steel string guitar.

Year: 1994
Instrumentation: Nylon or steel string guitar.
Duration: 3 min.
Difficulty: Medium — Grade 4-6+.

Samba ’91

This piece is fashioned in a Latin American style, and incorporates the use of improvisation for the solo sections. Although it is intended for right-hand classical guitar technique, it can also be played using a flat-pick (plectrum)

Year: 1991
Instrumentation: 2 nylon string guitars, optional rhythm section. Also suitable for performance by 2 guitars, or guitar and flute, or guitar and piano.
Duration: 4 min.
Difficulty: Advanced

The Humming Bird Song

The piece is fashioned in a traditional classical guitar style, with a modern harmonic touch (#11 Lydian) in the middle section.

Year: 1985
Instrumentation: Nylon string guitar.
Duration: 3 min.
Difficulty: Medium — Intermediate to advanced.

The Patterns of Peru

This work is fashioned in a classical guitar style, incorporating right-hand classical guitar picking technique. Initially titled ‘Study 12’.

Year: 1987
Instrumentation: Steel or nylon string guitar.
Duration: 3 min.
Difficulty: Medium — Grade 4-8.

Warren Street Blues

This work comprises a jazz feel with a ragtime blues flavour to it. It incorporates the use of classical guitar right-hand picking technique.

Year: 2003
Instrumentation: Steel or nylon string guitar.
Duration: 3 min.
Difficulty: Medium — Grade 4+.