I've been playing guitar since I was a teenager and I started composing during the 1990s when I wrote my first instrumental guitar pieces and songs. I fell in love with classical guitar at that time and released a CD of original solo classical guitar pieces - Innocent Dreams - in 1999.
In 2004 Adelaide Greenaway and I formed a duo - Zanthii Blue and in December 2006 we released a CD - These Places.
I released my latest CD of original classical guitar music - Fine Light - in September 2013.
I'm honoured to have been awarded second prize in the Matt Withers Australian Music Composition Competition in 2018 for my piece "Storming" for classical guitar and string quartet. Storming has been performed by Matt Withers and Acacia Quartet in Canberra, Sydney and Melbourne and released on their Imaginations album by ABC Classics.
From 2017 to 2021 I was a member of the Victorian Guitar Orchestra. My piece "Jade" was played by the orchestra in 2018. I arranged "Storming" for guitar orchestra and soloist and this was played by the orchestra in 2024.
From 2020 I've been releasing singles on the streaming plaforms. Since then I've released 21 tracks. Four of these are duets with Melbourne guitarist Daniel Nistico and one is a duet I recorded in 2005 with my late cousin Grant Alexander.
In 2025 and 2026 my string quartets "Quantum Suite" and "Karekare Beach" were performed by a quartet at Graz University of Music and Performing Arts in Austria. The videos are on my YouTube channel (see below).
In 2025 "Storming" was voted into Limelight magazine's 25 in 25 playlist. Limelight's 25 in 25 Playlist
I enjoy writing, recording and performing solo and ensemble music. For a compilation of links to my music please see my Linktree site: Link tree. My YouTube channel is: YouTube. And my Spotify page is: Spotify.
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