All works marked * are available for purchase from the Australian Music Centre
Orchestral
'Penelope Hymns' – for soprano solo & sinfonietta orchestra, 2015. Premiered April 2015 at Kilbourn Hall, the Eastman School – approx. 12 minutes.
‘Fountain of Steel’ – for sinfonietta orchestra, 2011. Premiered November 2011 at Kilbourn Hall, the Eastman School – approx. 8 minutes (also arranged for classical symphony orchestra, November 2011).
‘Buy A Copy’ (of the Big Issue) – for chamber orchestra and solo percussion, 2009-2010. Premiered in January 2010 at Llewellyn Hall, ANU – approx. 6 minutes
Instrumental
*‘Immigrant Suite’, for piano four hands, 2022. Composed for the pianists Stephanie McCallum & Erin Helyard. Recording of the released on the ABC Classic album, “Aristea Mellos: Preludes & Duets”.
*‘Preludes: Book One’, 12 preludes for piano solo, 2022. Composed for pianist Stephanie McCallum. To be premiered at Verbrugghen Hall, November 26, 2022.
‘Stimmung’, solo guitar, 2021. Composed for the Sydney Bach Society 2021 concert season & premiered by Josinaldo Costa on November 4, 2021 at Christ Church St Laurence approx. 5 minutes
‘Three Studies in a Borrowed Voice’, solo viola, 2021. Composed for the Sydney Bach Society 2021 concert season & premiered by Tim Lee on January 28, 2021 at Christ Church St Laurence approx. 7 minutes
‘Calling You’ - for violin and classical guitar, 2020. Composed for the Sydney Bach Society 2020 concert season - approx. 3 minutes.
‘Musings on Le Dodo’ - for solo harpsichord, 2019. Commissioned by Sideband & premiered by Stephanie McCallum at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, September 17, 2019 – approx. 6 minutes.
*‘Prelude’ - for solo piano, 2019. Premiered at the 2019 Ritsos Project Festival, Karlovasi, Samos Island Greece, on July 14 2019 –
4 minutes.
‘Seascapes’ - for classical guitar and string quartet, 2018/19. Premiered October 2019 at Christ Church Lavender Bay – approx. 9 minutes
*'Dreams in Shadow' - for soprano saxophone solo, 2018. Commissioned by Phil Pierick & premiered at the X Mallorca Saxophone Festival at the Miró Mallorca Fundació, Mallorca Spain, March 2018 – 6 minutes.
*'Tears Stream Through Water' – a quartet for prepared piano, guitar, flute, and alto saxophone, 2016. Composed for Ensemble Ritsos & premiered as a trio in July 2016 in Athens, Greece, and as a quartet in October 2016 at Kent State University (Stark), USA – approx. 4 minutes.
*'Everything Flowing' – for instrumental septet, 2016. Commissioned by Music in the American Wild & performed throughout the US National Parks in 2016 to mark the centenary of their founding – approx. 9 minutes.
'Overture' to SIX SEEDS – a chamber opera for clarinet, bassoon, trumpet, trombone, percussion, violin, and double bass, 2016. Composed for the Deviant Septet for the Warren Benson Forum on Creativity, April 2016, Hatch Recital Hall – approx. 5 minutes.
*'Sonata' – for solo piano, 2016/17. I. We Ate the Stars II. Cardinal Spada's Gallery III. Vanishing Point, Commissioned by the Australia Council and composed for Australian pianist Bernadette Harvey. Premiered at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, Sydney, November, 2017 – approx. 15 minutes.
'Into the Moonlight' – an incidental suite for flute, clarinet, saxophone, guitar, violin, and piano, 2015. Premiered in July 2015 in Karlovasi Samos – approx. 10 minutes.
'Etudes I-IV – four miniatures for solo guitar, 2015/2016. Premiered by Josinaldo Costa in Bihac, Bosnia in June, 2015 –
approx. 5 minutes.
'The Adventures of Billie the Explorer Duck' – ten small pieces for young pianist and narrator, 2014. Premiered in November 2014, Kilbourn Hall – approx. 16 minutes.
'SOMA' – for clarinet, violoncello, and piano, 2014. Premiered in April 2014, Hatch Hall, The Eastman School of Music –
approx. 7 minutes.
‘An American Rapture’ – for organ and amplified harpsichord, 2011. Premiered September 2011 at Christ Church, Rochester NY – approx. 6.5 minutes.
‘Dip It’ – for the Cuong-Vu Trio, 2011. Premiered in March 2011 in Hatch Recital Hall, Rochester NY – approx. 10 minutes.
‘Meditation’ – solo flute, 2010. Premiered by Emlyn Johnson in October 2010 in Kilbourn Hall, the Eastman School – approx. 4 minutes.
‘Tempus’ – for solo piano, 2010. Premiered by Stephen Whale in June 2010 – broadcast by 2MBS FM Sydney – approx. 5 minutes.
Vocal
‘Three Haikus’ 2023 - for soprano and piano accordion, approx. 4 minutes. Premiered in the Morgan-Archiv Gallery, Chemnitz, Germany September 26 2023.
*‘Nineteen to the Dozen’ - a new work for The Song Company. Premiered by the Song Company, Sydney Opera House, October 22, 2019 – approx. 2 minutes.
*‘Songs of Resignation: Four Settings of C.P. Cavafy’, 2019 - for soprano & piano. Premiered by Helen Zhibing Huang, soprano & Ada Arumeh Kim Lowery, piano at SCEGGS Darlinghurst, Sydney October 2019 – approx. 15 minutes.
*‘Et Exultavit’, 2019 - for mezzo-soprano, chamber organ & cello. Premiered by Anna Dowsley, mezo-soprano; James Doig, chamber organ; & Chris Bennett, cello, Christ Church St Laurence, Sydney, March 2019 – approx. 3 minutes.
* 'Subway Songs' - for baritone & alto flute, 2017. Premiered by Isaac Assor, baritone & Caroline Sonett, alto flute, Kilbourn Hall, October 2017 – approx 12 minutes.
*'The Lynx Project Songbook' - for mezzo soprano & piano, 2017. Premiered by Megan Moore, mezzo-soprano & Matthew Umphreys, piano, Mason Middle School, OH, October 2017 – approx. 5 minutes. (Includes Adages: 5 Motivational Musings)
*'La Tessitrice' – for soprano and piano, 2016. Premiered by Paulina Swierczek, soprano & Daniel Baer, piano, Kilbourn Hall, September 2016 – approx. 4 minutes
* 'Wonder' – for baritone and piano, 2014. Broadcast by ABC Classic FM on April 25, 2015 - approx. 4 minutes
* 'Songs for a Day: Three Settings of Yannis Ritsos' – for soprano, piano, violoncello, and flute, 2014. I. Suddenly was premiered in July at the Megaron, Athens. The complete cycle received its premiere in December 2014 at Kilbourn Hall, The Eastman School of Music – approx. 10 minutes.
*'Louriana Lourilee' – for tenor and piano, 2014. Premiered on March 27 in Hatch Hall, the Eastman School of Music – approx. 7 minutes (also arranged for soprano).
'Athena' – for tenor, violoncello, and piano, 2013. Premiered in June 2013 at the Orpheum Annex, Vancouver – approx. 6 minutes (also arranged for soprano)
*'Seasonal Flocking' – for soprano and percussion, 2012. Premiered in April 2012 at Kilbourn Hall, the Eastman School –
approx. 10 minutes.
‘Aubade’ – song cycle for mezzo-soprano and piano, 2011. Premiered September 2011 at Kilbourn Hall, the Eastman School –
approx. 28 minutes.
CHORAL
‘Song’ 2020 - for SATB divisi choir, approx. 3 minutes.
‘Girl Swinging’ 2019 - for SSA choir, string orchestra, organ, percussion, oboe, and two trumpets. Commissioned by SCEGGS Darlinghurst for their 150th Anniversary - approx. 4 minutes.
‘Spider on the Snow’ – for SSA choir and piano, 2007. Premiered in June 2009 at the City of Sydney Eisteddfod by the SCEGGS Darlinghurst Madrigal choir – approx. 4 minutes
Theatrical
Incidental music for Yannis Ritsos's Moonlight Sonata – for flute, clarinet, saxophone, guitar, violin, and piano, 2015, (premiered in Karlovasi Samos on August 1 2015, and performed in English again at The Eastman School of Music on February 16, 2016)
