Selected Repertoire
These lists give an overview of the repertoire I have performed. Each heading is subdivided into chronological periods from earliest to present day. Scroll down or click on a specific link above for more details.
WP World premiere AP Australian premiere C commissioned for Jenny
ORATORIO & OPERA HIGHLIGHTS | ||||
RENAISSANCE to BAROQUE | ||||
Bach, J.S. | B minor Mass, Christmas Oratorio, Magnificat, St John Passion, St Matthew Passion | |||
Handel | Messiah, Dixit Dominus | |||
Monteverdi | Messenger in L’Orfeo | buy | ||
Monteverdi | Vespers of the Blessed Virgin 1610 | |||
Pergolesi | Stabat Mater | |||
Pergolesi arr. J.S. Bach | Psalm 51 | |||
Purcell | Dido in Dido & Aeneas | |||
Purcell | Come Ye Sons of Art | |||
Vivaldi | Gloria (SATB and SSAA solo version) | |||
CLASSICAL | ||||
Bach, C.P.E. | Magnificat | |||
Haydn | Stabat Mater, Missa Brevis | |||
Mozart | Requiem, Regina Coeli, Vesperae solennes de Confessore | |||
19TH CENTURY | ||||
Mendelssohn | Elijah | |||
20TH CENTURY | ||||
Bernstein | The Chichester Psalms | |||
Honegger | Le Roi David | |||
Loomes | Mother in The Boat (2003) WP | |||
Tippett | A Child of our Time | |||
Vaughan Williams | Serenade to Music | |||
ORCHESTRAL HIGHLIGHTS | ||||
Britten | Phaedra | |||
Falla | El Amor Brujo | |||
Faure | La Naissance de Venus | listen | buy | |
Gubaidulina | Now Like Snow | |||
CHAMBER MUSIC HIGHLIGHTS | ||||
RENAISSANCE to BAROQUE | ||||
Bach, J.S. | Lamento d'Arianna (from performer's own edition) | |||
Monteverdi | Numerous cantatas including Cantata no. 169: Gott soll allein mein Herze haben and Cantata no. 170: Vergnügte Ruh, beliebte Seelenlust | |||
Works by Handell, Purcell. | ||||
19th CENTURY | ||||
Chausson | Chanson perpetuelle - voice, string quartet and piano | |||
20th CENTURY | ||||
Beamish | Buzz (1993) AP - voice and viola | listen | buy | |
Benjamin | Upon Silence (1991) AP - mezzo and ensemble | |||
Berio | Folksongs (1964) - voice, flute, clarinet, viola, cello, harp and 2 percussion | |||
Berkeley, M. | Winter Fragments (1996) AP - mezzo and ensemble | |||
Boyd | Cycle of Love (1981) WP - mezzo and ensemble | |||
Butterley | Carmina: Four Latin Poems of Spring (1968 rev. 1990) - mezzo and wind quintet | |||
Cage | Forever and Sunsmell (1942) - voice and 2 perc | |||
Crumb | Night of the Four Moons (1969) - mezzo and ensemble | listen | buy | |
Madrigals Books I & II (1965) - mezzo, flute, double bass and percussion | ||||
Edwards | Maninya I (1981 rev. 1985) - voice & cello | listen | buy | |
Erkoreka | Bizitza (1998) AP - mezzo and ensemble | listen | buy | |
Falla | Psyché (1924) - mezzo and ensemble | |||
Feldman | voices and cello (1973) - two voices and cello | |||
Ford | Emithalamium (1991) WP - mezzo and string quartet | |||
Fujikura | Still sweet.... (1998) AP - mezzo, flute and viola | listen | buy | |
Gerhard | Sept Haiku (1922/1958) - mezzo and ensemble | |||
Granados | Tonadillas (1914) - voice and guitar | |||
Hindson | Insect Songs (1998) - mezzo and guitar | |||
Kim | Three Poems in French (1989) - mezzo and string quartet | |||
Larsen | Liebeslied & Do You Know? from Beloved, thou hast brought me many flowers (1994) AP - mezzo, cello and piano | listen | buy | |
Macmillan | Raising Sparks (1999) - mezzo and ensemble | |||
Ravel | Trois poèmes de Stephane Mallarmé (1913) - mezzo and ensemble | |||
Chansons madécasses (1926) - mezzo, flute, cello and piano | ||||
Rodrigo | 3 Canciones Españolas (1951) - voice and guitar, Dos poemas - voice and flute | |||
Saariaho | Miranda’s Lament (1997) - mezzo and ensemble | |||
Schafer | Minnelieder (1956) - voice, flute, oboe, clarinet, horn and bassoon | |||
Stravinsky | Three songs from William Shakespeare (1953) - mezzo, flute, clarinet and viola | |||
Sutherland | The Gentle Waterbird (1954) - voice, violin, piano | |||
The Orange Tree (1938) - voice, clarinet, piano | ||||
Whitehead | Bright Forms Return (1980) - mezzo and string quartet | |||
These Isles Your Dream (1983) - mezzo, viola and piano | ||||
Yu | Three Haiku (1987) - mezzo and cello | |||
21st CENTURY | ||||
Abbott | No ordinary traveller (2006) WP C - mezzo and ensemble | |||
Andrew | Fruit Songs (2000) AP - mezzo and guitar | listen | ||
Criosda liom a cadal from Dusk Songs (2006) - mezzo and choir | ||||
Butterley | Mysteria Orphei (2008) WP C - mezzo, soprano and ensemble | listen | ||
Clement | Fracture (2000) AP - mezzo and ensemble | listen | buy | |
Dean | Toy Language, Toy Language 2, Word Spotting (2010) WP C - mezzo, trumpet, piano and electronics | |||
Finnissey | Motet (2005) AP - mezzo & cello | |||
Gifford | Spell Against Sorrow (2003) - mezzo and guitar | |||
Glowicka | Summer’s Day Sonnets (2000 rev. 2004) AP - mezzo and string quartet | |||
Gyger | giving voice (2003) WP C - mezzo and ensemble | |||
Kerry | Goodison Quartet #1: Country Music (2004) AP - mezzo and string quartet | |||
Ligeti | Sippál, Dobbál, Nádihegedüvel (2000) AP - mezzo and percussion quartet | |||
Page | apollinairesongs (2002) WP - mezzo and chamber ensemble | |||
Sitsky | A Feast of Lanterns II: Seven Songs from Chinese Sources (2015) WP C - mezzo and ensemble | Letter from the Trenches (2015) WP C - mezzo and ensemble | ||
VOCAL ENSEMBLE HIGHLIGHTS | ||||
Andrew | luna-cy AP, Halcyon (2004) | |||
Berio | Sinfonia, MPO & The Song Company (2007) | |||
Boyd | Jesus reassures his mother (1995) for soprano, alto, tenor and baritone soloists and double choir | |||
Brahms | Liebeslieder Waltzes - Vocalise (1997) | |||
Edwards | Dance Mantras & Alleluyahs , Halcyon, Four Winds Festival (2008) | |||
Gyger | Petit Testament WP, Halcyon (2009) | listen | buy | |
From the hungry waiting country WP C, Halcyon (2006) | listen | |||
Hair | O Venezia AP, Halcyon (2004) | listen | ||
Hindemith | Six Chansons, Vocalise (1992) | |||
March | Ophélie WP C , Halcyon (2007) | |||
Reich | Daniel Variations AP, Halcyon, Sydney Conservatorium Modern Music Ensemble, 2008 | |||
Know what is above you, Halcyon (2006) | ||||
Tehillim, Halcyon, Ensemble Offspring, Synergy, 2007; Halcyon, Synergy & Four Winds Festival (2008) | ||||
Music for 18 Musicians, Halcyon, Synergy Percussion, Ensemble Offspring et al (2012) | ||||
Saariaho | Grammaire des Rêves AP, Halcyon (2002) | |||
Nuits, Adieux, Halcyon & austraLYSIS (2010) | ||||
Nuits, Adieux, Halcyon & VOX (2012) | ||||
Whitehead | Nga Haerenga WP, Voiceworks, cond. Francis Greep 2001; Halcyon (2006) | |||
Wishart | VOX II, Halcyon & austraLYSIS (2010) | |||
Ung | Aura AP, Halcyon, Aurora Festival (2008) | |||
Vocal duets by Lassus, Purcell, Handel For further Halcyon repertoire for voice/s and ensemble please go to the Halcyon website. | ||||
CHORAL HIGHLIGHTS | ||||
Adams | On the Transmigration of Souls WP, Cantillation & SSO (2004) | |||
Harmonium, Cantillation & SSO (2001) | ||||
Bach arr. Ward Swingle | Little Organ Fugue, Cantillation, Symphony at the Movies | |||
Debussy | Nocturnes, Contemporary Singers & SSO (1999) | |||
Edwards | Symphony no 4, Cantillation & SSO (2004) | |||
Fauré | Requiem, Cantillation (2000) | listen | buy | |
Handel | Messiah, Cantillation (2002) | listen | buy | |
Janacek | Rikadla, MPO & the Song Company (2007) | |||
Scelsi | Yliam, Cantillation and SSO (2006) | |||
Webern | Das Augenlicht, Cantillation (2005) | |||
SOLO SONG HIGHLIGHTS | ||||
RENAISSANCE to BAROQUE | ||||
Selected songs by Caccini, G., Campion, Danyel, D'India, Dowland, Frescobaldi, Lambert, Machaut, Purcell, Rosseter and Scarlatti | ||||
CLASSICAL | ||||
Selected songs by J.C. Bach, Haydn and Mozart | ||||
19TH CENTURY | ||||
Berlioz | Nuits d'Ete | |||
Canteloube | selected Chants d'Auvergne | |||
Dvorak | Biblical songs, Gipsy songs | |||
Debussy | Trois chansons de Bilitis (1897-98) | |||
Fauré | La Bonne Chanson | |||
Gounod | Chanson de Printemps | |||
Mahler | Rückert lieder | |||
Schumann | Frauenliebe und Leben, Maria Stuart lieder | |||
Selected songs by Brahms, Chausson, Duparc, Fauré, Gounod, Hahn, Mahler, Saint-Saens, Schubert, Schumann and Wolf | ||||
20TH CENTURY | ||||
Barber | Hermit Song (1953) | |||
Beeson | Two Poems of Edna St Vincent Millay (1992) | |||
Berg | Seven early songs (1908) | |||
Bernstein | I Hate Music (1943) | |||
Butterley | To the Evening Star from Six Blake Songs (1956 rev. 1996) | |||
Cage | The year begins to be ripe - solo for voice 49 (1970) | |||
Carter | Voyage (1943) | |||
Debussy | Trois Chansons de France, Trois Chansons de Tristan l'Hermite (1904-10) | |||
Le Promenoir des Deux Amants (1910) | ||||
Falla | Siete canciones populares españolas (1914) | |||
Trois Chansons (1909) | ||||
Edwards | The Hermit of Green Light (1979) | |||
Maninya V (1985) | ||||
Fauré | Le jardin clos (1914) | |||
Glynn | Love in absence, The hour of the parting from Love’s Coming (1986) | |||
Grainger | Died for Love, Early One Morning (1906) | |||
Granados | Tonadillas (1914) | |||
Gubaidulina | Aus den Visionen der Hidegard von Bingen (1994) | |||
Harris | Wild Daisies from Wild Daisies (1995) | |||
...inside the rainbow air... (2002) | listen | buy | ||
Harvey | Lullaby for the unsleeping (1982) | listen | buy | |
Hill, A. | Love’s coming, Song be delicate | |||
Hill, M. | Song be delicate (1945) | |||
Hui | Three Longfellow songs (1985-88)AP | |||
Leeuw | Song I & III from Songs and Interludes for voice and piano (1963) | |||
Montsalvatge | Canciones para Niños (1953) | |||
Poulenc | La Bestiare (1918) | |||
Trois Chansons de Federico Garcia-Lorca (1947) | ||||
La Courte Paille (1960) | ||||
Quilter | (arr. trad) Ye banks and braes | |||
Routley | Like Snow (1997) | |||
Satie | Quatre petites melodies (1920) | |||
Trois Mélodies (1916) | ||||
Ludions (1923) | ||||
Schoenberg | Saget mir, auf welchen Pfade from Das Buch der hangenden Garten (1908-1909) | |||
Sutherland | 5 songs (1936) | |||
Judith Wright settings (1967) | ||||
Tippett | Songs for Ariel (1962) | |||
Tregaskis | Shaw Neilson songs | |||
Turina | Poema en forma de canciones (1923) | |||
Webern | 3 songs (1899) | |||
White | Song (Amores I) (1998) | |||
Selected songs by Barber, Britten, Debussy, Ives, Mahler, Mompou Poulenc, Rorem, and Satie | ||||
21ST CENTURY | ||||
Dunleavy | To the person who left a note on my windshield (2013) WP | |||
Edwards | Five Senses (2012) WP | |||
Gyger | giving voice (2012) WP C | |||
Jordan | Pastime, Echo from Memory (2001) WP | |||
Maclean | Distance (2013) WP | |||
Sitsky | 4 songs from A feast of lanterns (2013) WP C |