SELECTED WORKS AND WRITINGS


ORCHESTRAL

The Danger of the Refrain [2026]
for saxophone quartet and piano - 10’
New Thread Quartet and Eliana Fishbeyn, The Perch, Lenapehoking/Philadelphia, 25 April 2026

foundation redacted; dispersal [2026]
for orchestra - c.14’
Studio recording, Curtis Institute Orchestra, conducted by Yiran Zaho, Lenapehoking/Philadelphia, 27 February 2026

where things were once conjoined [2025] 
concertino for double bass and orchestra - c.17'
Premiered by the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra with Matthew McGrath (soloist), conducted by Simon Reade, Federation Concert Hall, nipaluna/Hobart, 3 October 2025
AUDIO

<mutinies> [2024] 
for orchestra - 5'
Premiered by the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Luke Dollman, Federation Concert Hall, nipaluna/Hobart, 14 June 2024
SCORE // AUDIO

THE HORROR OF THE AVANT-GARDE(S) [2023]
concerto for piano, percussion and large ensemble - c.38’
Premiered at Chapter House, conducted by Elliott Gyger, Marc Hannaford (piano), Satoshi Takeishi (percussion), Narrm/Melbourne, 17 August 2023
SCORE


you are meadow [2022/23] 
for orchestra - 10'
Premiered by the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Carlo Antonioli, Deakin Edge at Federation Square, Narrm/Melbourne, 28 January 2023
SCORE // VIDEO

Mount Analogue [2017] 
for large ensemble - 9'
Premiered by the Australian Youth Orchestra (Tutor Ensemble), Elder Hall, Adelaide, 20 January 2017
SCORE // AUDIO


CHAMBER / ENSEMBLE

australian music: a so-called anthology [2025]
for vocal sextet - 14’
Premiered by Ekmeles, Rose Recital Hall, Lenapehoking/Philadelphia, 4 April 2025
SCORE // VIDEO

WATER. RUINS. EVERYTHING. (or, the quaking zone) [2023] 
for flute, clarinet, trumpet, trombone, violin, viola, cello - 10'
Premiered by the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, TarraWarra Museum, 7 December 2023
SCORE

Hyperesthesia (IV) [2022]
for trumpet, guitar, contrabass guitar and percussion - 60’
Premiered by Callum G’Froerer, Tom Stewart-Toner, Joseph Franklin, Duré Dara, Ian Potter Centre, Narrm/Melbourne, 15 September 2022
VIDEO

JOUSKA: A Psychodrama In Three Acts [2019]
for mezzo-soprano, flute, trumpet, tenor saxophone, accordion, violin, double bass - 21’
Premiered by The Music Box Project, Bendigo International Festival of Exploratory Music, 7 September 2019
SCORE // VIDEO

The String Quartet Project, I & II [2019]
for string quartet - 11’
Premiered by Flinders Quartet, Library at The Dock, Docklands, Narrm/Melbourne, 22 June 2019
SCORE // VIDEO

The String Quartet Project, III [2019]
for string quartet - 8’
Premiered by Geist Quartet, Jewish Museum, Gadigal/Sydney, 24 September 2019

Romantic Foam [2019]
collaborative work with The Opera Company - 40’
Premiered at 107 Projects, Redfern, Gadigal/Sydney, 19 June 2019

Descent [2017]
for soprano, alto flute, harp, celesta, piano, violin, viola, violoncello - 7’
Premiered at Sydney Conservatorium of Music, Gadigal/Sydney, 2017

The Weathermaker [2016]
for flute, tenor saxophone, trumpet, violin and bass guitar - 6’
Premiered by The Music Box Project, Backstage Music, Gadigal/Sydney, 19 August 2016


SOLO INSTRUMENTAL

an incomplete history of the art of the solo violin [2024]
for solo violin -  c.14’
Commissioned by Australian National Academy of Music (ANAM) for the ANAM Set 2025.
Premiered by Miranda Cuckson, Rose Hall, Lenapehoking/Philadelphia, 9 December 2024

a thousand tiny mutinies [2024]
for solo contrabass guitar and artefacts - 33'
Studio recording, released by Nice Music, 5 March 2024
AUDIO

Study #2 - meadow dog [2024]
for solo contrabass guitar - 5’
SCORE // AUDIO

(A)BIOTIC FORCES [2021]
for solo guitar and foot percussion - 12'
Premiered by Tom Stewart-Toner for the MCM Guitar Perspectives series, Narrm/Melbourne, 10 December 2021
SCORE // VIDEO

Study #1 [2021]
for solo bass guitar - 5’
SCORE

Ataraxia [2019]
for violin and piano - c.12'
Premiered by Kat Tsyrlin (violin) and Danaë Killian (piano), Melbourne Composer's League Elbow Room Concert, Narrm/Melbourne, 10 April 2019
SCORE

Initiations [2015]
for acoustic bass guitar and viola - 18'
Collaborative composition and studio recording with Maya Felixbrodt, Istanbul, TUR, 2015


BALLET

Storm Approaching Wangi and Other Desires [2022]
for two-channel audio, solo contrabass guitar and percussion - c. 50'
Premiered at MAP mima, Lake Macquarie, NSW, 11 November 2022


FILM SOUNDTRACKS

You Can’t See Speed [2025]
film soundtrack - 18’
Premiered at Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, directed by Tina Stefanou

Left / Write / Hook [2023]
feature-length documentary - 90'
Premiered at Melbourne International Film Festival 2024, directed by Shannon Owen.

Mourning Country [2020]
short film - 8'
Directed by Andrew Kaineder

Beyond The Noise [2018], 
feature-length film - 38'
Directed by Andrew Kaineder
VIDEO // AUDIO



INSTALLATION

Tina Stefanou: You Can’t See Speed [2025]
compositions for Tina Stefanou’s solo exhibition ‘You Can’t See Speed’
Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA), Narrm/Melbourne, 4 April—9  June 2025

All Thing Must Fall Into Ruin [2016]
audio-visual installation
Exhibited at Blue House Exhibition, Gadigal/Sydney, 14 July 2016

WRITINGS

Tracing The Drop: composing with an ethics of affirmation [2023]
Masters folio, University of Melbourne 

A concerto, a horror, and the avant-garde. Reflections on a work that I haven't yet heard. [2023]
Article for the Australian Music Centre

(Excerpts from) Blobs, Buzz and Rapid Patterning: Intra-active Tools for Composition, Improvisation and Analysis [2021]
ADSR Zine 013

Blobs, Buzz and Rapid Patterning: Intra-active Tools for Composition, Improvisation and Analysis [2020]
Honours Thesis, University of Melbourne

Between What’s Written and What Actually Is. [2019]
ADSR Zine 003


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