Raise You Up / Just Be
Performed by the Melbourne Rainbow Band. Based in Melbourne, Australia, the band provides a place for LGBTQIA+ members and allies to be part of a community of enthusiastic musicians. They perform throughout the year in a range of settings, including two major concerts, pride festivals and marches, and an annual christmas gala.
Raise You Up/Just Be is the spectacular finale to the musical, Kinky Boots. This arrangement was written for the Rainbow Band to close off their Spectacular Spectacular concert.
The Stellar Nursery
World premiere performance by the Sydney University Wind Orchestra at Verbrugghen Hall.
This piece was written to celebrate the 20th Anniversary of the ensemble. The music was inspired by images taken by the James Webb Space Telescope, evoking the sense of vast emptiness interspersed with flourishing activity within distant nebulae.
Darlington Fanfare
World premiere performance by the Sydney University Wind Orchestra at Verbrugghen Hall.
This piece was written to celebrate the collaboration between the Sydney University Wind Orchestra and the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, forming a new ensemble within the conservatorium aimed at all students at the university, including those not majoring in music performance.
Darlington Fanfare
Performed by the City of Wollongong Wind Band as part of the Australian National Online Festival of Bands.
The festival was started in 2021 in response to the COVID-19 lockdowns restricting bands from gathering and performing together. The festival allows bands from all over the world to submit videos of their ensemble playing a range of music, with a focus on music by Australian composers, to be streamed around the world.
Sainte-Chapelle
Sainte-Chapelle (by Eric Whitacre, arranged for Brass Band), performed by Glenferrie Brass at the 2024 Australian National Band Championships in Adelaide.
This piece is an ambitious contest selection as it greatly deviates from the traditional Brass Band hymn setting, and features many exposed parts across all sections, as well as the classic dissonant harmonies often associated with Whitacre.
Special thanks to the team at Brassbanned for filming the event.
This arrangement was written by permission of Boosey & Hawkes Publishers Ltd. - for performance material/requests, please contact me via Facebook.