with Erik Bosgraaf & Izhar Elias at the Darwin premiere of "Echoes of the Dunbar".

MY LATEST NEWS!

Karin Schaupp has just released an album of guitar lullabies featuring several of my arrangments of well known lullabies. This has been a special project for Karin since the birth of her own daughter Alexa and these little works are dedicated to her.
Released on the ABC Classics label - "CRADLE SONGS" 273 6981.

"STILL LIFE WITH GUITAR" is a new CD from NZ guitarist Matthew Marshall. It features the duo Marshall/Hohauser in their premiere recording of my Sonata for flute and guitar. The disc also contains works for guitar and strings by NZ composers John Richie and Philip Norman.
(Mr M Productions) - This is now the 3rd recording of this work. For more info www.matthewmarshall.net.nz

My latest commission by the Australasian Mandolin Music Association, "A DAY AT THE CIRCUS" is a four movement suite based on circus acts - "Under the Big Top, Clowns, Flying & Bareback Riders". This was premiered by the American Mandolin & Guitar Orchestra on February 28, 2010 at the Mary Tefft White Cultural Center, Roger Williams University, Bristol Rhode Island USA.
For more info www.mandolinmusic.com.au

The Sydney premiere of "TWO GUITARS DINE OUT" a musical degustasion took place on 13 March at the Independent Theatre Miller St. North Sydney. The work was presented by the Brew Guitar Duo, Bradley Kunda & Matthew Withers in a concert for the Sydney Classical Guitar Society. The duo have just released "Songs & Dances" a new CD featuring classics from Spain, Latin America with two movements from this suite. The full "degustation" will be recorded on their next all-Australian CD to be released later this year; in the meantime enjoy "Something Sweet" & "Tournedos Rossini". For more info or to get the CD - www.brewguitarduo.com

A new work for choir & guitar ensemble was just premiered at the Brisbane Convention Centre by students from St. Laurence's College on 13 November 2009. Titled, THE CAPTAIN'S CLOCKS, the two movt work is based on text from Kenneth Slessor's poem "Five Visions of Captain Cook".

Jane Rayner & Peter Lynch have recently released a disc of all Australian flute & guitar music - "Cloud Eight". As recently heard on Classic FM, this disc has my Sentimental Scenes & Sonata as well as music by Phil Houghton, Colin Brumby, Elena Kats-Chernin, George Dreyfus and Stuart Greenbaum.

Australian publisher "Reed Music" has recently published all 3 of my song cycles - Songs of the Tide, Dust on a Butterfly's Wing & Statues. For more info or to order go to their online store - www.reedmusic.com

The latest CD from the Duo Lenz - "FROM THE SUMMER SOLSTICE" featuring "Nightsongs", my four collected duos. to mark the 400th anniversary of the first recorded contact by Dutch explorers, this disc also features music by Richard Lenz, Paul Svoboda & Peter Sculthorpe. Available through www.duolenz.com

The duo Agostino's new CD, "UNDER THE SAME SKY" features "Romanza", "Spiral Ellipse", "Incantation" and several of Richard's folksong arrangements. The disc also features the first recording of "Wave Radiance" - a masterful sonic event by my friend Phil Houghton. This CD is available through my Orders Page or go to www.agostinomusic.com.au

MY LATEST PUBLICATIONS OF GUITAR MUSIC . . .

"Gipsies & Vagabonds" - for guitar ensemble. (Contains "Inspiration" & "Moorea" by the Gipsy Kings) - intermediate level.

Want to order some music? go to the ORDERS page or just email me.