Peter Sculthorpe

Peter Sculthorpe New Norcia for brass and percussion In 1846, the Mission of New Norcia was founded in Western Australia by two Spanish Benedictine monks. A strong musical tradition developed there, o...

Peter Sculthorpe New Norcia for brass and percussion In 1846, the Mission of New Norcia was founded in Western Australia by two Spanish Benedictine monks. A strong musical tradition developed there, o...

From Nourlangie, for soprano, viola, ‘cello & piano (1994) In 1989, I made my first visit to Kakadu National Park, in the north of Australia. Looking out across the great floodplains there, I could se...

From Nourlangie, for soprano, viola, ‘cello & piano (1994) In 1989, I made my first visit to Kakadu National Park, in the north of Australia. Looking out across the great floodplains there, I could se...

Instrumentation: perc(1): tam-t/thunder sheet/ch.cym/3 bongos/BD -strings In 1989, I made my first visit to Kakadu National Park, in the north of Australia. Looking out across the great floodplains th...

This work, in its original form, was commissioned by the Darwin Internation Guitar Festival. It was first performed by the Darwin Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Martin Jarvis, with John Williams, so...

From Nourlangie is, like much of Peter Sculthorpe’s work, inspired by the Australian landscape and coastline; the piece is inspired by material from his guitar concerto Nourlangie (1989), which refers...

From Nourlangie is, like much of Peter Sculthorpe’s work, inspired by the Australian landscape and coastline; the piece is inspired by material from his guitar concerto Nourlangie (1989), which refers...

This suite is an arrangement of some of the music written for the film, Burke and Wills (Hoyts/Edgely), directed by Graeme Clifford. One of my objectives in writing this film scores was to fuse my own...