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        A Unison Mass – Morton Music Exclusive

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        New Release – One of John Rotar’s exclusive digital releases directly through Morton Music – email admin@mortonmusic.com for details.

        A Unison Mass is a sacred piece, suitable for low level choirs and is arranged for unison voices and organ; duration is 7 mins.

        This piece was written for All Saints Wickham Terrace and performed as part of Masses at All Saints in 2024.

        Missa Simplex – Morton Music Exclusive

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        New Release – One of John Rotar’s exclusive digital releases directly through Morton Music – email admin@mortonmusic.com for details.

        Missa Simplex is a sacred piece, suitable for intermediate choirs and is voiced for SATB a cappella; duration is 8 mins.

        This piece was written for All Saints Wickham Terrace and performed as part of Masses at All Saints in September 2024.

         

        Missa di Angelis – Morton Music Exclusive

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        New Release – One of John Rotar’s exclusive digital releases directly through Morton Music – email admin@mortonmusic.com for details.

        Missa di Angelis is suitable for low intermediate choirs and is arranged for SATB a cappella voicing; duration 7 mins.

        This piece was arranged in 2024 for Holy Trinity Fortitude Valley and was the Winner of the Choral Composition Competition in Celebration of the Sesquicentennial of St. Thomas’ Anglican Church, Toronto (Canada) in November 2024. It has also been performed as part of Masses at Holy Trinity Fortitude Valley in March 2025.

        Midsummer Noon – Morton Music Exclusive

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        New Release – One of Stephen Leek’s exclusive digital releases directly through Morton Music – email admin@mortonmusic.com for details.

        Midsummer Noon is a movement from a set of works titled “Voices of a Land”. Originally written for the St Peter Choral of St Peters Lutheran College in Brisbane, the work exists in several voicings and is suitable for high school aged, youth and community choirs. Set to the evocative text by Australian poet Charles Harper, the music captures the stillness of the Australian bush and the freshness and colour of the bush birds and the fluttering of insects.

        Kungala (SSAA) – Morton Music Exclusive

        #MM0965

        New Release – One of Stephen Leek’s exclusive digital releases directly through Morton Music – email admin@mortonmusic.com for details.

        Kungala takes its name from the small settlement in the north of New South Wales. The name also comes from the local Aboriginal meaning of a place “to sing, shout and listen” .  The work is voiced for SATB a cappella and SSAA a cappella.

        There is Music – Morton Music Exclusive

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        New Release – One of Stephen Leek’s exclusive digital releases directly through Morton Music – email admin@mortonmusic.com for details.

        There is Music – A Song Cycle of the Ages is for SATB Choir, solo alto and string quartet. It was commissioned by Graeme Morton and the Brisbane Chamber Choir in 2024.

        “The pathway of life takes many twists and turns, experiencing joys and tragedies. What is a life other than a collection of memories? As one enters the latter years, often memories are the only reminders of the long journey – memories that are triggered by beauty, images, sounds, colours, … and of course, music.”

        Listen to this recording of the piece’s final movement, recorded by the Brisbane Chamber Choir (dir. Graeme Morton) on 25th April 2025 in St John’s Anglican Cathedral, Brisbane.

        Want to learn more about this fascinating piece? Click this link – There is Music – Composer’s Notes  – to read the composer’s full statement, prepared for a pre-concert talk on the night of the piece’s premiere.

        Goolay-yali (SSAB) – Morton Music Exclusive

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        New Release – One of Stephen Leek’s exclusive digital releases directly through Morton Music – email admin@mortonmusic.com for details.

        Goolay-yali is a popular piece for young singers as it captures the images of the clumsy pelican on the land and a graceful bird in flight. This is an excellent piece for bring several choirs together in massed singing. The work is voiced for SA and pianoSSAA and piano, SATB and SSAB and piano.

        Goolay-yali (SATB) – Morton Music Exclusive

        #MM0955

        New Release – One of Stephen Leek’s exclusive digital releases directly through Morton Music – email admin@mortonmusic.com for details.

        Goolay-yali is a popular piece for young singers as it captures the images of the clumsy pelican on the land and a graceful bird in flight. This is an excellent piece for bring several choirs together in massed singing. The work is voiced for SA and piano, SSAA and piano, SATB and SSAB and piano.

        Goolay-yali (SSAA) – Morton Music Exclusive

        #MM0954

        New Release – One of Stephen Leek’s exclusive digital releases directly through Morton Music – email admin@mortonmusic.com for details.

        Goolay-yali is a popular piece for young singers as it captures the images of the clumsy pelican on the land and a graceful bird in flight. This is an excellent piece for bring several choirs together in massed singing. The work is voiced for SA and piano, SSAA and piano, SATB and SSAB and piano.

        Goolay-yali (SA) – Morton Music Exclusive

        #MM0953

        New Release – One of Stephen Leek’s exclusive digital releases directly through Morton Music – email admin@mortonmusic.com for details.

        Goolay-yali is a popular piece for young singers as it captures the images of the clumsy pelican on the land and a graceful bird in flight. This is an excellent piece for bring several choirs together in massed singing. The work is voiced for SA and piano, SSAA and piano, SATB and SSAB and piano.

        Black Swan Song – Morton Music Exclusive

        #MM0936

        New Release – One of Stephen Leek’s exclusive digital releases directly through Morton Music – email admin@mortonmusic.com for details.

        Black Swan Song is from a set of short fun pieces for young singers. Each of the works in the set introduces a small, yet achievable challenge for the singers.  All the works are settings of Australian Nursery Rhymes by Australian wordsmith, Kel Richards.

        A Gibber Plains Noel – Morton Music Exclusive

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        New Release – One of Stephen Leek’s exclusive digital releases directly through Morton Music – email admin@mortonmusic.com for details.

        A Gibber Plains Noel was written in 1991 for my friends Monica Christian and the Alice Springs Junior Singers after spending a wonderfully enriching time together of workshops and rehearsals out in the Red Centre of Australia. The text by the Langford Family, who were on that journey, uniquely captures of the sun-drenched, parched landscape and the vivid wildlife – flashing, shimmering with explosions of colour in a celebration of Christmas in the outback.

         

        White Horses (TBarB) – Morton Music Exclusive

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        New Release – One of Stephen Leek’s exclusive digital releases directly through Morton Music – email admin@mortonmusic.com for details.

        White Horses was written as the set piece for the Hong Kong Schools Choral Competition and as such offers some challenges to the choir. Singers will enjoy the mixed metres and brisk tempo of the galloping horses.  It is voiced for SATB and piano, SA and piano and TBarB and piano.

        White Horses (SA) – Morton Music Exclusive

        #MM0961

        New Release – One of Stephen Leek’s exclusive digital releases directly through Morton Music – email admin@mortonmusic.com for details.

        White Horses was written as the set piece for the Hong Kong Schools Choral Competition and as such offers some challenges to the choir. Singers will enjoy the mixed metres and brisk tempo of the galloping horses.  It is voiced for SATB and piano, SA and piano and TBarB and piano.

        White Horses (SATB) – Morton Music Exclusive

        #MM0960

        New Release – One of Stephen Leek’s exclusive digital releases directly through Morton Music – email admin@mortonmusic.com for details.

        White Horses was written as the set piece for the Hong Kong Schools Choral Competition and as such offers some challenges to the choir. Singers will enjoy the mixed metres and brisk tempo of the galloping horses.  It is voiced for SATB and piano, SA and piano and TBarB and piano.

        Tunggare (SSAA) – Morton Music Exclusive

        #MM0959

        New Release – One of Stephen Leek’s exclusive digital releases directly through Morton Music – email admin@mortonmusic.com for details.

        Tunggare is a popular and accessible work that captures the joy of “welcome”, suitable for high school and community choirs and is arranged for SATB and SSAA. There is one easily overcome challenge where singers are face with five beats every four bars. This can provide much mirth to the choir when someone gets it wrong.

        Tunggare (SATB) – Morton Music Exclusive

        #MM0958

        New Release – One of Stephen Leek’s exclusive digital releases directly through Morton Music – email admin@mortonmusic.com for details.

        Tunggare is a popular and accessible work that captures the joy of “welcome”, suitable for high school and community choirs and is arranged for SATB and SSAA. There is one easily overcome challenge where singers are face with five beats every four bars. This can provide much mirth to the choir when someone gets it wrong.

        Raintree – Morton Music Exclusive

        #MM0957

        New Release – One of Stephen Leek’s exclusive digital releases directly through Morton Music – email admin@mortonmusic.com for details.

        Suitable for SAB and piano, Raintree was written for the students of the school whilst the composer was In Residence. Hanging heavily over The Cathedral School of St Anne and St James in Townsville, Australia, a gigantic raintree spreads its tentacles offering shade from the searing heat. The limbs of the trees are so large and heavy that they are supported by timber structures that piece the bitumen of the playground.

        Tintinara – Morton Music Exclusive

        #MM0949

        New Release – One of Stephen Leek’s exclusive digital releases directly through Morton Music – email admin@mortonmusic.com for details.

        Tintinara is for a medium choir of any age voiced fo SA and piano. This unusual piece employs some more unusual choral techniques to capture the calls of the bush reflected in the ringing of bells.

        Sanctus (SSAA) – Morton Music Exclusive

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        New Release – One of Stephen Leek’s exclusive digital releases directly through Morton Music – email admin@mortonmusic.com for details.

        Sanctus is for SATB a cappella and SSAA a cappella, and can be paired with Leek’s “Agnus Dei” or sung as a stand-alone work. This highly energetic offering is suitable for community and adult choir and pairs the traditional ideas of the Sanctus with more holistic ideas of the sentiments through texts by Australian write, Michael Doneman.

        Sanctus (SATB) – Morton Music Exclusive

        #MM0943

        New Release – One of Stephen Leek’s exclusive digital releases directly through Morton Music – email admin@mortonmusic.com for details.

        Sanctus is for SATB a cappella and SSAA a cappella, and can be paired with Leek’s “Agnus Dei” or sung as a stand-alone work. This highly energetic offering is suitable for community and adult choir and pairs the traditional ideas of the Sanctus with more holistic ideas of the sentiments through texts by Australian write, Michael Doneman.

        Simple Gifts (SSATB) – Morton Music Exclusive

        #MM0947

        New Release – One of Stephen Leek’s exclusive digital releases directly through Morton Music – email admin@mortonmusic.com for details.

        Simple Gifts is a four-part arrangement for treble voices of the traditional American folk song that concludes with the most magical and ethereal sounds!   Leek takes this very well known melody and weaves his own unique magic around it. Suitable for choirs of any age and level and is arranged for SATB and piano, SSAA and piano and SSATB a cappella.

        Simple Gifts (SSAA) – Morton Music Exclusive

        #MM0946

        New Release – One of Stephen Leek’s exclusive digital releases directly through Morton Music – email admin@mortonmusic.com for details.

        Simple Gifts is a four-part arrangement for treble voices of the traditional American folk song that concludes with the most magical and ethereal sounds!   Leek takes this very well known melody and weaves his own unique magic around it. Suitable for choirs of any age and level and is arranged for SATB and piano, SSAA and piano and SSATB a cappella.

        Simple Gifts (SATB) – Morton Music Exclusive

        #MM0945

        New Release – One of Stephen Leek’s exclusive digital releases directly through Morton Music – email admin@mortonmusic.com for details.

        Simple Gifts is a four-part arrangement for treble voices of the traditional American folk song that concludes with the most magical and ethereal sounds!   Leek takes this very well known melody and weaves his own unique magic around it. Suitable for choirs of any age and level and is arranged for SATB and piano, SSAA and piano and SSATB a cappella.

        Queenscliff – Morton Music Exclusive

        #MM0942

        New Release – One of Stephen Leek’s exclusive digital releases directly through Morton Music – email admin@mortonmusic.com for details.

        Queenscliff is a popular song for more advanced primary-aged choir with words written by the students of the Eltham East Primary School Choir. Experience the ferry journey across the bay as the wind howls and the seas swell. The work is voiced for SA and piano.

        Ngana (TTBarB) – Morton Music Exclusive

        #MM0941

        New Release – One of Stephen Leek’s exclusive digital releases directly through Morton Music – email admin@mortonmusic.com for details.

        Ngana is perhaps the most famous of Leek’s compositions and is sung across the globe. Ngana is a traditional word for shark and the textures and images of this highly energetic work capture the rippling colours of the Great Barrier Reef and all that live in the waters there. The work is voiced for the following – SATB a cappellaSSAA a cappella, SSA a cappella and TTbarB a cappella.

        Ngana (SSA) – Morton Music Exclusive

        #MM0940

        New Release – One of Stephen Leek’s exclusive digital releases directly through Morton Music – email admin@mortonmusic.com for details.

        Ngana is perhaps the most famous of Leek’s compositions and is sung across the globe. Ngana is a traditional word for shark and the textures and images of this highly energetic work capture the rippling colours of the Great Barrier Reef and all that live in the waters there. The work is voiced for the following – SATB a cappella, SSAA a cappella, SSA a cappella and TTbarB a cappella.

        Naga (SSAA) – Morton Music Exclusive

        #MM0939

        New Release – One of Stephen Leek’s exclusive digital releases directly through Morton Music – email admin@mortonmusic.com for details.

        Ngana is perhaps the most famous of Leek’s compositions and is sung across the globe. Ngana is a traditional word for shark and the textures and images of this highly energetic work capture the rippling colours of the Great Barrier Reef and all that live in the waters there. The work is voiced for the following – SATB a cappella, SSAA a cappella, SSA a cappella and TTbarB a cappella.

        Look, There are Dark Hands – Morton Music Exclusive

        #MM0937

        New Release – One of Stephen Leek’s exclusive digital releases directly through Morton Music – email admin@mortonmusic.com for details.

        Look, There are Dark Hands is an exciting work for medium to advanced high school aged SATB a cappella choirs. From the set of works called “Once on a Mountain”, this award-winning piece was composed for the infamous St Peters Lutheran College Chorale for their first tour of Tasmania, Australia’s most southern state. Here, spectacularly beautiful landscapes are paired with the markings of the original owners of the land through paintings that have survived in hidden caves. This work features some of the first ever inclusions of harmonic-overtone singing in Australian compositions and rapid and complex time signature changes.

        Living Shells (SAA and handbells) – Morton Music Exclusive

        #MM0935

        New Release – One of Stephen Leek’s exclusive digital releases directly through Morton Music – email admin@mortonmusic.com for details.

        Living Shells is a peaceful work for high-school-aged and community choirs that exists in multiple voicings – SSA and pianoSAB and pianoSSATB and piano, SSATB a cappella and uniquely, for SAA and handbells choir. Experience the joy and serenity of a stroll along a sun-drenched golden beach and rock pools, and discover all the small creatures that bask in the warmth of the Australian coastline.

        Living Shells (SSATB a cappella) – Morton Music Exclusive

        #MM0934

        New Release – One of Stephen Leek’s exclusive digital releases directly through Morton Music – email admin@mortonmusic.com for details.

        Living Shells is a peaceful work for high-school-aged and community choirs that exists in multiple voicings – SSA and pianoSAB and piano, SSATB and piano, SSATB a cappella and uniquely, for SAA and handbells choir. Experience the joy and serenity of a stroll along a sun-drenched golden beach and rock pools, and discover all the small creatures that bask in the warmth of the Australian coastline.

        Living Shells (SSATB and piano) – Morton Music Exclusive

        #MM0933

        New Release – One of Stephen Leek’s exclusive digital releases directly through Morton Music – email admin@mortonmusic.com for details.

        Living Shells is a peaceful work for high-school-aged and community choirs that exists in multiple voicings – SSA and piano, SAB and piano, SSATB and piano, SSATB a cappella and uniquely, for SAA and handbells choir. Experience the joy and serenity of a stroll along a sun-drenched golden beach and rock pools, and discover all the small creatures that bask in the warmth of the Australian coastline.

        Living Shells (SAB) – Morton Music Exclusive

        #MM0932

        New Release – One of Stephen Leek’s exclusive digital releases directly through Morton Music – email admin@mortonmusic.com for details.

        Living Shells is a peaceful work for high-school-aged and community choirs that exists in multiple voicings – SSA and piano, SAB and piano, SSATB and piano, SSATB a cappella and uniquely, for SAA and handbells choir. Experience the joy and serenity of a stroll along a sun-drenched golden beach and rock pools, and discover all the small creatures that bask in the warmth of the Australian coastline.

        Living Shells (SSA) – Morton Music Exclusive

        #MM0931

        New Release – One of Stephen Leek’s exclusive digital releases directly through Morton Music – email admin@mortonmusic.com for details.

        Living Shells is a peaceful work for high-school-aged and community choirs that exists in multiple voicings – SSA and piano, SAB and piano, SSATB and piano, SSATB a cappella and uniquely, for SAA and handbells choir. Experience the joy and serenity of a stroll along a sun-drenched golden beach and rock pools, and discover all the small creatures that bask in the warmth of the Australian coastline.

        High Places (TTBB) – Morton Music Exclusive

        #MM0928

        New Release – One of Stephen Leek’s exclusive digital releases directly through Morton Music – email admin@mortonmusic.com for details.

        High Places draws on the well-known text by Australian poet legend, Dorothea McKeller. In three different voicings SATB a cappella, SSAA a cappella and TTBB a cappella. This beautiful setting captures in a homophonic way the exquisite colours of the Australian hills and valleys.

        High Places (SSAA) – Morton Music Exclusive

        #MM0927

        New Release – One of Stephen Leek’s exclusive digital releases directly through Morton Music – email admin@mortonmusic.com for details.

        High Places draws on the well-known text by Australian poet legend, Dorothea McKeller. In three different voicings SATB a cappella, SSAA a cappella and TTBB a cappella. This beautiful setting captures in a homophonic way the exquisite colours of the Australian hills and valleys.

        High Places (SATB) – Morton Music Exclusive

        #MM0926

        New Release – One of Stephen Leek’s exclusive digital releases directly through Morton Music – email admin@mortonmusic.com for details.

        High Places draws on the well-known text by Australian poet legend, Dorothea McKeller. In three different voicings SATB a cappella, SSAA a cappella and TTBB a cappella. This beautiful setting captures in a homophonic way the exquisite colours of the Australian hills and valleys.

        Coonawrin (TTBB) – Morton Music Exclusive

        #MM0925

        New Release – One of Stephen Leek’s exclusive digital releases directly through Morton Music – email admin@mortonmusic.com for details.

        Coonawrin is for high-school aged and community choirs in SATB and TTBB voicings. This exciting and energetic work tells the traditional story of the creation of the iconic Glasshouse Mountains, along the Queensland coast.

        Coonawrin (SATB) – Morton Music Exclusive

        #MM0924

        New Release – One of Stephen Leek’s exclusive digital releases directly through Morton Music – email admin@mortonmusic.com for details.

        Coonawrin is for high-school aged and community choirs in SATB and TTBB voicings. This exciting and energetic work tells the traditional story of the creation of the iconic Glasshouse Mountains, along the Queensland coast.

        Beyond the Black Stump – Morton Music Exclusive

        #MM0923

        New Release – One of Stephen Leek’s exclusive digital releases directly through Morton Music – email admin@mortonmusic.com for details.

        Beyond the Black Stump is a popular song for primary-aged choir with words written by the students of the Eltham East Primary School Choir. A fun piece that explores the challenges of the Australian outback.