To worship naked in the rain: an English hymnary
after texts by Christopher Smart
for mixed choir or twelve solo voices with organ ad libitum
Duration: 15 minutes
Commissioned by South German Radio, recording SDR choir, conductor: John Poole, Stuttgart 1998
This worldes joye
for mixed choir and organ or piano 2014
Duration: ca. 7 minutes
Ordo Paschalis
A re-composition for six voices SMMTTB of the Klosterneuburg Easter Play of 1204
Duration: ca. 45 minutes
First performance: Vokalensemble NOVA, Colin Mason, Stift Klosterneuburg April 2006
Extended version for nine voices SMMTTTTBB, Festival musica sacra, Linz 2008
Recorded by Lore Lixenberg, Gregory Rose and Andy Morton, London 2009
For Ein österreichisches Mysterienspiel in sechs Gesprächen, conversations between the psychiatrist Leo Navratil and his patient Hans Grausam, for soprano, speaker, video, and electronics
First performance: Loré Lixenberg, Mark Webber, Norbert Math, Johann Leutgeb
Schloss Wolkersdorf September 2010
Planctus Mariae
A re-composition for SAAT of the fourteenth century planctus mariae from Cividale
Duration: ca. 10 minutes
First performance: Vokalensemble NOVA, Stift Klosterneuburg, April 2007
Dramatised version, (dir. Loré Lixenberg), Durham University UK, February 2008
Version for play-back and solo voice, in collaboration with Kelcey Swain (electronics)
First performance: COMA festival Doncaster UK July 2008
Missa si-sol-ut
For mixed choir and organ or upper voices and organ
Duration: ca. 14 minutes
First performance (version for soprano, mezzosoprano and organ): Evangelische Kirche
Klosterneuburg, Marelize Gerber, Maida Karisik, Yi-Ting Wu-Mittermayer, October 2012
Laudate Dominum de Coelis
for choir SATB
Duration: ca. 8 minutes
First performance: Escorial Choir, conducted by Christopher Duarte
St. Lawrence’s Centre, South Walsham UK, July 2005
Excitabo auroram
verses from psalms 108 & 150 for mixed choir and organ
Duration: ca. 6 minutes
First performance (part two): Nonesuch Singers, cond. John Mason, Trunch Norfolk, 2005
Six Settings of William Blake
for mixed choir/vocal ensemble
Duration: ca. 14 minutes
Two Settings of William Blake
For mixed choir/vocal ensemble
SSAATTBB a cappella, or SATB with organ
First performance, version for voices and organ: Ensemble fEinklang, Klosterneuburg October 2018
a cappella version: Ensemble Interpunkt, Lazaristenkirche Vienna, October 2023
Sicut malus
Medieval plainchant settings of the Song of Solomon, re-composed for four women’s voices
Recording: Loré Lixenberg, London 2008, performances Schloss Wolkersdorf NÖ
Filmcasino Vienna, The Sage Gateshead, Richmix London 2010, Alte Schmiede Vienna, May 2016
The viol upon a stone
Ballad for upper voices and harp
Duration: ca. 7 minutes
First performance, version for two solo voices and harp:
Violetta Kowal, Clarisse Jaehn, Judith Crow, Villa Wertheimstein Vienna, September 2016
Backwards rung
inscriptions on church bells for upper choir and piano
Duration: ca. 5 minutes
First performance, version for two solo voices and piano: Violetta Kowal, Clarisse Jaehn,
Barbara Rektenwald, Villa Wertheimstein Vienna, September 2016
The Grey Selchie of Sule Skerry
Ballad for upper voices, piano and percussion
Duration: ca. 12 minutes
First performance: choir of Graz Music University, cond. Franz Herzog, Festival Steirischer
Herbst Jugendmusikfest Deutschlandsberg 1999
sang seven sad springs
Tongue twisters for upper voices, harp and flute, or upper voices and piano
Duration: ca. 8 minutes
First performance: Vokalensemble der Musikschule Klosterneuburg, cond. Brigitte Berger-Görlich, Evangelische Kirche Klosterneuburg, November 2015
Slugsongs
for vocal quintet SMATB
Duration: ca. 7 minutes
First performance: Ensemble Spinario, cond. Rupert Huber, Festival Ade-Vantegarde, Munich 1991
An Old Wives’ Tale
Libretto for eight speakers
Duration: ca. 60 Minuten; short version: ca. 10 minutes
Workshop performance, Music Theatre Group of the City University London, 1989