Complete Catalogue

Note: the asterix denotes a composition that is available on CD

Large instrumental ensemble

Against the odds, 2008

Landscape, 1981

Restitutio, 1981

Symphony No. 2: A Christmas Symphony in two movements, 2016 (+2222 – 4320 – timp+2 – hp – str)

I pastorale – energico

II moderato – ritornello

duration: 15 minutes

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Opera

 I Am …, 1998 (soloists and orchestra)

John, 1997 (soloists and orchestra)

Ruth, 1996* (soloists and orchestra)

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Chorus and orchestra

Adeste Fideles, 1987* (SATB, SSA, strings, keyboard…also flute and piano)

Angels appear unexpectedly (chorus, harp), 2014

Before the ice, 2010 (SSA, oboe, strings (piano)

Bird of dawning, 2010 (2 flutes, strings (piano)

Bright and joyful is the morn,1981 (SATB)

A carol medley, 2011 (SSA, orchestra, piano)

A child my choice, 1995* (SSA, harp or piano)

A Christmas hymn, 1985* (SATB, orchestra, keyboard)

  1. Sinfonia
  2. As I out rode
  3. No sound was heard
  4. What tidings bringest thou, messenger?
  5. About the field

The cat and the moon, 2014 (chorus, orchestra)

Child of the snows, 2009

The Christ-child, 2006

Christmas at sea, 2009 (SSA, SATB, piano, cello)

Christmas Greeting, 2009 (SSA, 2 flutes, strings (piano)

Ding dong, merrily on high, 2001* (SATB SSA, flute, trumpet, oboe, strings, lute, piano, organ)

Give Thanks Unto the Lord, 2010 (SATB, flute, strings (organ,piano)

Gloomy night embraced the place (SATB)

Gloria, 2011 (SATB, piano (organ)

Good King Wenceslas, 2009 (SSA, SATB, solos, orchestra (piano)

He Is Risen, 2020

Holy Thursday, 2012

In dulci jubilo, 2012 (unison voices, solo, orchestra, piano, lute, banjo, vibraphone, organ…also brass quintet version)

In perfect starlight, 2010 (SATB or SSA, solo, piano, flute)

I saw three ships, 2000* (SSA, SATB, solos, flute, strings (piano)

Joy to the world, 2005* (SSA and SATB, 2 fl, trumpet (oboe), strings, keyboard)

The land of myth, 2014

Laudate omnes gentes, 2009 (SATB piano, recorder, drum)

The Little Vagabond (SSA, piano, cello), 2015

The song my paddle sings (SATB, mezzo soprano solo, flute, violin, cello two percussionists, keyboard), 2015

Mass for the people, 2004  Unison chorus and seven instruments (trumpet, flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, violin, cello)

  1. Kyrie
  2. Gloria
  3. Sanctus
  4. Benedictus
  5. Angus Dei

Memorial Acclamation and Amen, 2004  (unison and organ)

Minstrels, 2008 (SSA, clarinet (flute) piano (harpsichord)

A Narrow Fellow in the Grass, 2009

Nature’s cry, 2009 (versions for solo, SSA, piano trio, lute, guitar)

The night before Christmas, 2014

O Canada SSA

O clap your hands, 1984 (SATB, piano or organ)

O holy night, 2003 (SATB, piano)

An offering of songs, 2011 (SATB, solos, orchestra)

Our lady’s song, 1994* (SATB, SSA, solos, strings, organ)

Out of the cradle endlessly rocking, 1999 (SATB, soloists, woodwind quintet)

Pange lingua, 1986 (SATB, oboe, strings, organ)

Past three a clock, 1990* (SSA, flute, strings, piano, 2 soloists)

Pent Angels/Pentangles/ Pen Tangles, 1990 (2 choirs, soloist, flute, trumpet, piano, harpsichord, organ, percussion)

Poetica, 2011 (chorus and orchestra, incomplete)

  1. A narrow fellow in the grass
  2. This world is not conclusion
  3. The Evening Darkens Over
  4. Bright Star

Psalm 150, 1985

Psalm of Joy (SATB, piano, strings), 2015 

Round from I AM…., 1998

The savior must have been, 2009 (solo, oboe, cello)

Shout for joy, 2013 (SATB strings, trumpets timpani)

Silent night, 2000*

Scarf and Mittens, 2016 (SATB, orchestra)

Stille nacht, 1990* (SSA and SATB, flute, strings, piano…also English version)

Sweet cedar lullaby, 2012 (mezzo soprano & baritone solos, SATB chorus, youth chorus, recorder (oboe), koto, rainstick, strings)

Then since our charms have sped, 1994

These are Thy glorious works, 1984 (SATB, baritone solo, orchestra)

To his coy mistress, 2011 (solo, SATB chorus, 2 alto recorder, treble & bass instrstruments, FX, koto, piano)

Wassail song  (SSA, flute, trumpet, piano)

The twinkling moon, 2012 (SSA, piano)

The unfortunate lover, 2012 (arranged for mixed chorus, youth chorus, 3 soloists)

Vivamus, mea Lesbia, 2011 (TTB, piano)

Wassail song, 1991*

Where is this stupendous stranger?, 2014 (SATB rock organ (orchestra)

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Youth chorus 

A song about myself….(unison with solos), 2013 

The cat and the moon, 2013 (unison, solos, flute, piano)

The Christ-Child, 2006  (SATB, soloists, 2 recorders, flute, trumpet, violin, piano, drums)

A child’s vision, 2010 (soloist and SA chorus)

  1. Little Boy Blue
  2. Wynken, Blynken, and Nod
  3. Seven Times One

At Christmas Time, 2012 (SA, solo, piano)

Awake were they only, 1981

Greetings to the world, 2012 (SSA, piano)

He shall be great,1983 (SATB)

I Keep Six Honest…, 2012 (unison and optional SSA)

The evening sun, 2015  (SSA, solo, piano)

The Land of myth, 2013 (SSA, solos, flute, piano)

Making a man, 2011 (solo or choral)

The Night Before Christmas, 2014 (unison, piano)

Our World, 2010 (unison and optional SA)

  1. Who Hath a Book
  2. The Owl
  3. The Fly
  4. Count that day lost
  5. Get a transfer

Scarf and mittens, 2010 (unison voices or solo, piano, strings)

Seven Sharpes, 2012

  1. My Superstitious Grandma
  2. Massie the cockerel
  3. The Land of Myth
  4. Goosie Lucie
  5. The Spider
  6. Mike the Mountain Goat
  7. The pig named Porky

Sick song suite, 2010

  1. I Love School
  2. Please, Miss, Let Me Go Home!
  3. I don’t feel at all healthy today
  4. A Big Pill
  5. We have to do a test at school
  6. They say I’m sick
  7. Catch a cold and pass it on
  8. Love Bug

Snow-flakes, 2011 (SSA piano)

Snowflakes fall softly, 2013

A Song About Myself, 2013

Three Short Poems of Emily Bronte, 2014 (oboe, clarinet, piano)

  1. Lonely at her window
  2. Twas one of those dark and cloudy days
  3. There are two trees

Thumbelina, 2015 (SA, flute, cello, music box (piano)

The traveler, 2010 (SSA, piano, strings)

Welcome Yule!, 1990* (piano, flute, oboe, strings)

  1. Welcome
  2. There is no Rose
  3. Adam lay Ibounden
  4. O my dear heart
  5. Welcome (Reprise)

What Cheer? 1989  (SATB and organ)

The world we make (S or SSA, piano, strings), 2016

Words (SSA, piano, strings), 2016 

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Chamber orchestra and soloist

A song about myself, 2021

By the roadside, 2015

The City, 2021

Concert etude for trumpet and orchestra, 1987 

The creature’s call, 2020

Down Ampney (2 trumpets, soprano, continuo), 1980 

Eight Poems of William Blake, 2020

Elegies for the 21st Century, 2017

Elemental, 2018

Four Romantic Songs, 2021

Four songs for voice, violin, cello from poems by Emily Bronte, 2020

Green, 2018

The Horizon, 2021

How are Thy servants blessed, 0 Lord, 1981 

The human seasons, 2021

I’ll come when thou art saddest, 2021

Lies, 2021

Meditation on Bethlehem, 1981 

The night before Christmas, 2014

Not everything that breaks is broken, 2021

The poet sings of Ruth, 2009

Reflection: Four poems by Emily Bronte, 2021

Seeker, 2016

Three autumnal settings, 1978 

Vow, 2018

What tidings bringest thou, messenger?, 1994* 

When I’m lost and when I’m weary, 2020

Where is this stupendous stranger, 2014

The wild waters, 2021

The woman beside the lake, 2016

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Unaccompanied chorus

Alleluia, pro Virgine Maria, 1989* (SATB, solo…also SSA and strings)

Angels appear unexpectedly, 2014 (soloist and unison chorus, harp)

A child of the snows, 2009 (SSA and SSATB, strings (piano)

Come, thou long expected Jesus, 1990 (SATB, organ)

Gloomy night, 1983

God save the Queen, 1994 (SSA)

The golden mean, 2015

Infant Joy, 2014 (SSA)

0 Canada, 1994

Psalm 13, 1977

Rejoice today with one accord, 2019 (chorus, piano)

Snowflakes fall softly, 2013 (chorus, piano) 

Three anthems for Advent, 1990

The traveler, 2010

What cheer?, 1989

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Cantatas

Christmas Cantata, 1981

Shepherds’ Play, 1982

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Chamber orchestra

Cana (The wedding at Cana), 1998*

Dance, 2013

Dans cette etable, 2020

Dance interlude from Ruth*

Dance suite from John, 1997*

The First Nowell, 2020

God rest ye merry, 2004

Mediation on O come, o come Emmanuel, 2020

Mit freuden zart, 2007

The praise of Christmas, 2007

Three advent trios, 2007

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String orchestra/quartet 

Chaconne, 1988

Coquina Suite, 2015

Havoc, 2021

Joy, 2020

Lobt Gott, 2020

Lo, how a Rose e’er blooming, 2020

Mit freuden zart, 1986

Mit Freuden Zart, 2020

Mixolydian quartet for string quartet, 1982

Nativity, 2020

Nature’s Cry, 2021

Resignation, 2004

Sing lullaby, 2019

The Praise of Christmas, 2007

Three German Carols for strings, 2020

Waiting and waiting, 2020

Wir Danken Dir, 2020

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Chamber music

Bass clarinet trio, 1982

Brass quartet (Gaudeamus), 1985

  1. Fanfare
  2. Ground
  3. Laudamus (after Parry)

Chorale and fugue for brass quintet, 1977

Down Ampney (oboe and keyboard), 1980

Elegy for violin, cello, and piano, 2004

Fantasia (after Bach) for four instruments, 1985*

Four ostinati, 1978

Giocoso for winds and piano, 1982

The lonely barton, 2010

Mixolydian Quartet  for piano duet (four hands), 1982

Ode for a new day, 2004 (violin and piano or guitar)

Passacaglia for flute and piano, 2014

Polyhymnia, Daughter of Memory, 1982 (flute and piano)

Sonata for clarinet and bass clarinet, 2004

  1. Allegro Giocoso
  2. Chaconne (After Handel)
  3. Lickity Split (After Wallace)

Sonata for oboe and piano, 1979*

Sonata for two bass clarinets, 1985

Sonata for violin and piano, 1979

Song 46 (after Gibbons) (flute and organ), 1980

Three pieces from childhood (memories of ’68) arranged for woodwind quintet, 2004

  1. Bourree in C
  2. Waltz
  3. Hymn of hope

Thy kingdom come (string quartet), 2004

Trio for flute, clarinet, and horn, 1986*

  1. andante
  2. allegretto
  3. allegro-andante maestoso

Trio for violin, cello, and piano, 2009

Two impressions for flute and organ, 1984

Visione cosmico (flute and piano), 1980

Woodwind trio, 1976

Woodwind quintet, 1985*

  1. allegretto
  2. andante
  3. scherzo: canon in palindrome
  4. allegro

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Choir and organ

Aaronic Blessing, 1990 (SATB, solo, organ)

For all the saints (For all the love), 2012 (SATB, keyboard)

Great prayer of thanksgiving, 2012 (SATB, organ)

Sanctus and Benedictus, 2004 (unison and organ (piano)

Three anthems for advent, 1982

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Songs and Song Cycles

Adam talks to temptation, 2012

Alleluia, 2004

And the child grew, 2019

The burning babe, 2013

By the roadside (Walt Whitman) (solo and string orchestra) , 2015

  1. A farm picture
  2. A child’s amaze
  3. Beautiful women
  4. The runner

The creatures’ call (orchestrated), 2015

  1. Animals
  2. The Lamb
  3. The Black-Faced Honey Creeper
  4. The monkey speaks his mind
  5. A bird came down the walk

D’abord argent, puis invisible, 2020

Doppelgänger, 2021

The evening sun, 2015

The Faeries, 2015 (SSA or unison) (solos, cello, music box (piano)

First Silver, Then Invisible, 2020

Five Poems of Emily Brontë, 2021

  1. Tell me, tell me, smiling child
  2. A little budding rose
  3. Still beside the dreary water
  4. I’ll come when thou art saddest
  5. The evening sun

Four Poems of Lauren Peat, 2021

  1. Sublunar
  2. Elemental
  3. What passes through
  4. Green

Four songs for voice, violin, and cello from poems by Emily Brontë, 2020

  1. Love and Friendship
  2. O Evening
  3. She dried her tears
  4. The soft unclouded blue of air

Go heart, 1983

The human seasons, 2021

The Golden Mean, 2014 (solo, cello, harpsichord)

I love to think that Jesus saw, 2021

In freezing winter night, 1989*

In the carpenter shop, 2016 

Judas to Jesus, 2011

Cradle Song- Ere the moon begins to rise, 2008

Lies, 2016 

My God, why has thou forsaken me (duet), 2021

My Letter to the world, 2020

  1. This is my letter to the world
  2. The sky is low
  3. I never saw a moor

Naomi, you shall not call me (from Ruth), 1996

Nature’s Cry (wordless) (solo voice and piano/chamber orchestra), 2014

A NOISELESS, patient spider, 2014

Oh cross of stars, 2021

O give thanks, 2021

Poems by A.E.Housman, 2014 (incomplete)

  1. With rue my heart is laden

Poems by John Keats, 2015 (incomplete)

  1. On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer
  2. A song about myself
  3. To one who has been long in city pent

Poems of serenity and contemplation of Lydia Sharpe, 2021

  1. Not everything that breaks is broken
  2. Swan Lake
  3. Seeker
  4. Solitude
  5. The Horizon
  6. Serenity

Prayer of St. Francis, 2012

Psalm 47, 2004

Psalm 150, 2015 

Psalm 150, 2021

Reading Gaol, 2008

The record of John, 1982

Reflection: Three Poems by Emily Bronte, 2012 (piano with clarinet, oboe)

  1. The sun has set
  2.  Fall, leaves, fall
  3. The sun has set

Seeker (solo, recorder, cello, piano), 2016

Serenity, 2014

A shepherd band, 1982*

Sick song suite, 2011

  1. I love school
  2. Please Miss, Let Me Go Home!
  3. I don’t feel at all healthy today
  4. A Big Pill
  5. We have to do a test at school
  6. They say I’m sick
  7. Catch a cold and pass it on
  8. Love Bug

Snow flakes fall softly, 2013

Song of Thanks, 2012

Songs of fracture, 2019

  1. I was not permitted
  2. The sound surrounds
  3. If he stays
  4. I look for the cold

Spring, 2013 

Tell me, tell me, smiling child, 2015 (SSA, solo, piano)

Three Christmas songs,1982

Three inscriptions by Walt Whitman, 2015

  1. Beginning my studies
  2. A clear midnight
  3. Animals

Three Short Poems by Emily Brontë, 2014 

  1. Lonely at her window
  2. Twas one of those dark and cloudy days
  3. There are two trees

Three songs for baritone, cello, piano, 2016

  1. Annabel Lee
  2. Mild the mist
  3. The sun has set

Three spiritual poems of Nick Peros, 2021

  1. Sweet is the scent of sacred pine
  2. The crystal water of endless life
  3. Time is sleeping

Time is sleeping, 2014

The Tyger, 2012

Villanelle, 2013

When Mary goes walking, 2016 

Your God shall be my God (from Ruth), 1996

Zechariah, do not fear (from John), 1997

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Five Poems of Emily Dickinson, 2013 

  1. I taste liquor
  2. Hope
  3. So set its sun in thee
  4. A drop fell on the apple tree
  5. A bird came down the walk

Four Romantic Songs, 2008

  1. When I was one-and-twenty
  2. Ozymandias
  3. When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer
  4. So, we’ll go no more a-roving

I’m Nobody – Three poems by Emily Dickinson, 2008

  1. I’m nobody! Who are you?
  2. WILL there really be a morning?
  3. If I can stop one heart from breaking

A man young and old, 2011

  1. No Second Troy
  2. On being asked for a War Poem
  3. That Crazed Girl
  4. My fiftieth year

Poems by William Blake, 2013 (choral SSA-unison or solo)

  1. The Tyger
  2. The Lamb
  3. Holy Thursday (1)
  4. Spring
  5. The poison tree
  6. London (1)
  7. London (2)
  8. Holy Thursday (2)
  9. The Little Vagabond

Reflection: Four Poems by Emily Bronte,

  1. Mild the mist
  2. Fall, leaves, fall
  3. The Sun Has Set 1
  4. The Sun Has Set 2

The Seasons: Four Poems of Emily Dickinson, 2006

  1. Winter: There’s a certain slant of light
  2. Spring: A light exists in spring
  3. Summer: It will be Summer-eventually
  4. Autumn: Besides the autumn poets sing  

Songs of the spirit, 2011

  1. What if?
  2. Sailing to Byzantium
  3. Who is this?
  4. This quiet dust
  5. To see the world in a grain of sand

Three Latin poems of Catullus, 2001

  1. I hate and I love
  2. Atalanta picks up the apples
  3. To Diana

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Organ

Bunessan, 1982

Child in a manger, 1981

Da Jesus An Dem Kreuze Stund, 1984

Divinum mysterium, 1982

Fantasia (from a fragment by J.S. Bach), 1985

Fantasia on lasst uns erfreuen, 1982

Gonfalon royal, 1984

Hyfrydol(2), 1982

Irish (Prelude), 1982

Irish (Trio), 2004

Langran, 1986

Lobt Gott, ihr Christen allzugleich, 1986

Melita, 1983

Mit freuden zart, 1986

Noel angevin, 1983

Nun Komm Der Heiden Heiland, 1983

Prelude on Divinum Mysterium, 1982

A recessional fanfare, 1987

Richmond, 1986

Six chorale preludes, 1984

Variations on Andernach, 1984

Variations on St. Leonard, 1983

Veni creator spiritus, 1982

Wir Danken Dir, Herr Jesu Christ,1984

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Piano and harpsichord

44, 2013

Boca melody, 2005

A Christmas lullaby, 2010

A desolate wandering, 1983

Epilogue, 2001*

Fantasy on O Sanctissima, 2016

Harpsichord suite, 1982

Image (solo piano), 1982

Joy, 2011

Meditation on Langran, 2021

Mixolydian suite, 1983*

My dancing day, 2020

Nativity, 2014

Octatonic Suite, 2002*

  1. Prelude
  2. Hornpipe
  3. Sarabande
  4. Gavotte
  5. Bourree
  6. Minuet
  7. Gigue

Octatonic Suite No. 2, 2021

Ode for a new day, 2004

Piano sonata, 1980

Romanze, 2004

Springtime, 2004

Song of February, 2006

Three ancient hymns, 1982

Three short pieces for piano, 1983*

  1. Recollection in A
  2. Scherzo
  3. Oboe tune

Toccata for solo piano, 2004 

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Solo instrument

A woodland walk, 2017

Fabula palliata (solo clarinet), 1979

Pentahedron (solo flute), 1978

Variations for clarinet, 1979

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