It always takes courage to create something, to stare down a blank page and dare to put something on it, ...anything. To dare to regard yourself as a writer or a creative, to embrace it as a calling, a vocation, is quite another thing. That takes considerable courage. It is...

On ear and ear two noises too old to end Trench—right, the tide that ramps against the shore; With a flood or a fall, low lull-off or all roar, Frequenting there while moon shall wear and wend.   Left hand, off land, I hear the lark ascend, His rash-fresh re-winded...

This piece is based on a poem by Miriam Wei Wei Lo called "Home". Miriam's poem is not a placid description of place but a journey of longing and wrestling with homesickness. It explores multiple cultural identities alongside Christian faith. Home is also described as 'not yet' and 'now'; an...

This piece was written as a tone poem based on Miriam Wei Wei Lo's poem "A Few Thoughts on Multiple Identity". Miriam describes the struggle with having multiple cultural identities as two rivers. As you can see in the poem that follows, there are two poems describing two rivers and...

St Paul in his epistle to Galatians mentions nine character traits as fruits of the spirit, i.e. love, joy, peace etc. The Orchard is a series of contemplative piano pieces based on these fruit of the spirit paired with biblical poetry and stunning footage. Visit http://contemplativecadences.com Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgFE2XrhjQG0y_r1FLy5rOg Youtube channel...

Written for the Flinders Quartet as a response to Beethoven's Grosse Fugue, this quartet integrates two themes of Beethoven's. The first is the opening theme from his Grosse Fugue fragmented into its pairs of semitones (which I've called the fractured theme) and the second is the melody from the prayer...

This choral work, based on the text of Romans 15:7, 5&6, was suggested to me by Philip Nicholls including the order of verses. The thing that struck me about these verses when writing this piece is that the simple act of welcoming someone, (like Jesus' mention of giving someone a...