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🏆 Winning composition of the 2025 Adelaide Sacred Music Prize.
This piece was originally written for the choirs of Coventry Cathedral (UK), St Peter’s Cathedral (Adelaide), and Pilgrim Uniting Church (Adelaide).
It was awarded First Place in the 2025 Adelaide Sacred Music Composition Competition.
This piece was premiered on Sunday 30 November 2025 by Anthony Hunt and the Choir of St Peter’s Cathedral (Adelaide).
The text is adapted from the 7th-century Latin hymn ‘Conditor alme siderum’ and is best-suited to Advent services.
Written for SATB choir, organ and oboe, elements of the original chant weave their way between fluid vocal lines that reflect the majesty of creation and announces the coming light of Christmas.
The English text is as follows:
Creator of the stars of night,
thy peoples’ everlasting light,
Jesu, Redeemer, save us all
and hear thy servants when they call.Thou cam’st, the Bridegroom of the bride,
as drew the world to evening-tide,
proceeding from a virgin shrine,
the son of man yet all divine.At thy great name, exalted now,
all knees must bend, all hearts must bow,
and things in heaven and earth shall own
that thou art Lord and King alone.To God the Father, God the Son,
and God the Spirit, Three in One,
laud, honour, might and glory be
from age to age eternally.
Amen.
Inspired by the poetry of Lewis Carroll, this quirky set of four short songs for low voices is perfect for a fun nature-themed program.
Suited to both teenage and adult voices, there is ample opportunity for storytelling and theatrical elements while remaining accessible to both performers and audiences.
The set opens with The Seasons which sets the scene, followed by The Crocodile, a fast and cheeky take on text from the original Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.
The Fish provides an spooky contrast as the third movement and the set finishes with a cheerful excerpt of The Little Birds from Through the Looking-Glass.
This set is suitable for a vocal quartet with the exception of The Fish which contains some aleatoric elements.
More information and separate purchases for each movement can be found at the links below:
On November 26 2022, the legendary songwriter Tom Lehrer released his entire body of works into the Public Domain.
In honour of his life and oevre, this arrangement of one of Lehrer’s most popular songs captures his satirical wit and playfulness with music and text.
This arrangement was written in 2026 for the Australian Boys Choir’s premiere changing voice ensemble The Kelly Gang.
The easy listening of this arrangement will suit Soirées or provide a light-hearted departure from a more serious choral program.
While there is a short solo section on top of TTBB singers, this piece is otherwise equally suited to anything from a large choir or vocal quartet.
Lehrer’s text is as follows:
Spring is here, spring is here.
Life is skittles, and life is beer.
I think the loveliest time of the year
Is the spring, I do, don't you? Course you do!
But there's one thing that makes spring complete for me
And makes every Sunday a treat for me:All the world seems in tune
On a spring afternoon
When we’re poisoning pigeons in the park.
Every Sunday you'll see
My sweetheart and me
As we poison the pigeons in the parkWhen they see us coming
The birdies all try an' hide,
But they still go for peanuts
When coated with cyan-hide.
The sun's shining bright,
Everything seems all right
When we're poisoning pigeons in the park.We've gained notoriety
And caused much anxiety
In the Audubon Society
With our games.
They call it impiety
And lack of propriety
And quite a variety of unpleasant names.
But it's not against any religion
To want to dispose of a pigeon.So, if Sunday you're free,
Why don't you come with me,
And we'll poison the pigeons in the park.
And maybe we'll do
In a squirrel or two
While we're poisoning pigeons in the park.We'll murder them all amid laughter and merriment,
Except for the few we take home to experiment.
My pulse will be quickenin'
With each drop of strychnine
We feed to a pigeon
(It just takes a smidgin)
To poison a pigeon in the park.
🏆 Winning composition of the 2026 Delius Singers Prize.
This piece was originally written for the Delius Singers and their conductor Alexander Pott.
It was awarded First Place in the 2026 ‘Nature’s Voice’ Composition Competition hosted by the Delius Singers.
This piece is a direct response to a program featuring Frederick Delius’ ‘An Arabesque’.
The poetry of Emily Dickinson and Gerard Manley Hopkins invites us to hear the natural world in both mystery and majesty.
Dickinson’s ‘A narrow Fellow in the Grass’ provides a fleeting serpentine encounter and leaves us with an intimate and unsettling vision of one of nature’s most notorious characters.
Hopkins’ ‘Pied Beauty’, by contrast, manages to find praise and admiration for the entire natural world—both the weird and the wonderful.
While both Hopkins and Dickinson have explicit and implicit religious voices respectively, this piece should be viewed through a secular lens and reflect on the extraordinary variety and intensity that nature’s voice provides.
On a technical note, this piece has no further divisi than SSAATTBB and is suitable for performance by a vocal octet or chamber choir.
‘A narrow Fellow in the Grass’ – Emily Dickinson (1830-1886):
A narrow Fellow in the Grass
Occasionally rides –
You may have met him? Did you not
His notice instant is –The Grass divides as with a Comb,
A spotted Shaft is seen,
And then it closes at your Feet
And opens further on –He likes a Boggy Acre –
A Floor too cool for Corn –
But when a Boy and Barefoot
I more than once at NoonHave passed I thought a Whip Lash
Unbraiding in the Sun
When stooping to secure it
It wrinkled And was gone –Several of Nature’s People
I know, and they know me
I feel for them a transport
Of CordialityBut never met this Fellow
Attended or alone
Without a tighter Breathing
And Zero at the Bone.
‘Pied Beauty’ – Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889):
Glory be to God for dappled things –
For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow;
For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim;
Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches’ wings;
Landscape plotted and pieced – fold, fallow, and plough;
And áll trádes, their gear and tackle and trim.All things counter, original, spare, strange;
Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?)
With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim;
He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change:
Praise him.