Upcoming Events:
October 5th 2025: Premiere of as I cry out, across, this whispering garden, new work for Ensemble Semblance (FR) Royaumont. Asnières-sur-Oise, France
October 20th 2025: Premiere of Relief : Erosion (2023/24) for Percussion, Harp and Double Bass by the ELISION ensemble. Melbourne, Australia
2026: these hidden wetlands (working title), part two of the 2023 APRA Art Music Fund Commission to be premiered by Sinfonia Smith Square. London, United Kingdom. More Info
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Past Events:
17/08/2025: Second performance of this rising tide, these former wetlands (2024/25) for orchestra by the Dunedin Symphony Orchestra. Kings and Queens Performing Arts Centre: Ōtepoti, Aotearoa (Dunedin, New Zealand). A commission supported by the APRA Art Music Fund.
16/8/2025: Premiere of this rising tide, these former wetlands (2024/25) for orchestra by the Dunedin Symphony Orchestra. Kings and Queens Performing Arts Centre: Ōtepoti, Aotearoa (Dunedin, New Zealand). A commission supported by the APRA Art Music Fund.
06/02/2025: Premiere of these searching tendrils performed by Masanori Oishi, Ryoko Egawa, Yuko Tomioka, and Takuya Tanaka as part of the 2025 Asian Composers League Festival. Kawasaki, Japan
15/08/2024: Premiere of Phytoplankton performed at ELISION @ Tempo Rubato by Eliza Shephard (Flute), and Anna Rabinowicz (Bass Flute)
24/7/2023: Echoes of Former Wetlands performed at the University of Canterbury Recital Hall. Ōtautahi, Aotearoa. (Christchurch, New Zealand).
16/7/2023: Premiere of Echoes of Former Wetlands, 40 minute dramatic music work. Athenaeum Theatre, Ōtepoti, Aotearoa. (Dunedin, New Zealand).
30/6/2023: Premiere of the convergence of oceans, new work for orchestra written as the 2023 New Zealand Symphony Orchestra National Youth Orchestra Composer in Residence. Wellington, New Zealand
1/7/2023: Performance of the convergence of oceans, new work for orchestra written as the 2023 New Zealand Symphony Orchestra National Youth Orchestra Composer in Residence, Auckland, New Zealand
21/10/2022: World Premiere of Whale Fall for chamber orchestra (Sydney, Australia)
04/09/2022 – Mycelium premiered by Marie Ythier and ensemble ICTUS as part of the 2022 Royaumont Voix Nouvelles Programme
06/03/2022 – Exhibition Quartet performed music by Leonie Holmes, Peter Adams and the world premiere of Anthony Ritchie’s String Quartet No. 1. Also in the programme is Okuru for Violin and Piano by Gillian Whitehead performed by Nathaniel Otley and John Van Buskirk. For more information click here
30/09/2020 – Biome performed by Barbara Paterson, Leah Thomas, Gabriel Baird, Gabriela Glapska, Mark Menzies and Charley Davenport at the 2020 Nelson Composers Workshop Closing Concert
11/08/2020 – Performance of Murmurs, whispers performed by Mark Menzies and Nathaniel Otley the Dunedin Public Art Gallery
13/08/2020 – Premiere of Drowned Valley for Violin and Electronics performed by Nathaniel Otley at Dunedin Public Art Gallery
22/03/2020 – Murmurs, whispers for Violin and Viola performed by Mark Menzies and Nathaniel Otley as part of the University of Canterbury’s Violin/Viola mini-festival.
21/10/2019 – …dimension of loss performed by NZ Trio as part of their Impetus composition competition winners concert
30/09/2019 – Lassitude performed by Mark Menzies at the Dunedin Public Art Gallery
28/09/2019 – biosphere degradation workshopped and performed by the NZSO as part of the TODD Young Composers Award
07/09/2019 – Impasto for Violin, Cello, Bass Clarinet and Guitar performed by the Argonaut Ensemble as part of the Bendigo International Festival of Exploratory Music (BIFEM)
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