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Thu 27 November 2025
I'm hard at work on Part 2 of Mark Illuminated, having presented the whole of Part 1 to over 200 people in August this year. I'm long past the point of saying that this is the biggest composition project I've ever undertaken! But as challenging as it has been to write something on this scale, it continues to be a hugely rewarding project to bring to life. I look forward to being able to share Part 2 in 2026 – and then to compose something completely different for a while!
Thu 12 June 2025
If it looks a little quiet on here, that's because most of my composition efforts this year have been devoted to Mark Illuminated (which is 41% complete as I write this!). But earlier this year I also completed another musical 'landscape' piece, this time about a river. It's called Windy River (pronounced both ways!) and it's being premiered this month as part of the Australian Combined Schools Music Festival. Writing that piece gave me an excuse to hike the length of Sturt River / Warripari...
Sun 22 December 2024
I'm here to announce that I've embarked on my biggest (and already most difficult) project yet. It's so big that I've made a separate website for it: Mark Illuminated. Please check it out! That will certainly be the more relevant website for what I'm currently working on, at least for the next few months...
This project has been many years in the planning, but perhaps the biggest hurdle has been plucking up the courage to give it a go. It's a very different kind of composing to anything I've done before, and no one is commissioning it (yet!).

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